Fox451

Chicken and egg scenario. There aren't many gamers on Linux because there's no games. There's no games on Linux because there aren't many gamers. Not to mention that most people who have Linux also have Windows, so it's a hard sell to sell a separate Linux version of a game (though most games that support Linux generally do it at no extra cost). Not to mention that Wine does a pretty good job on a heck of a lot of games. Honestly, I think it would benefit the gaming ind

This game is not a 4x game. To be able to call it so is to have not significantly played any recent RTS games. That said, I knew that before I bought it. I saw the 4x label applied to this game and got interested. I followed along with all the prerelease info, and couldn't find anything in the game that looked like 4x. But I found an interesting RTS game, so I bought it. I then showed it to my friends, all 4x fans as well. I didn't tell them anything about the game, just showed it t

If another one of your cap ships in the area dies that has a level greater than another living cap ship, that cap ship is instantly leveled up to the dieing one's level. Don't think the mothership can be the giver or receiver though. Honestly, I've never actually seen the effect happen. Even when I have multiple high level cap ships, the mothership is so weak, slow, and such a valuable target that it usually is first downed. (or it has used up all its antimatter by the time somethin

The AI is still two much of a coward. It doesn't take into account that you may have all your ships in one fleet, or a weaker empire than the comp, so that it doesn't matter if the comp only severely damages your fleet while losing its own, it can recover and you can't. Pretty lame to be able to take over a computer's larger empire one by one just because the computer won't stand its ground. Also, the computer really needs to learn how to go around defense turrets, and possibly even str

[quote]i am running wine 0.9.56 on gentoo, runnnig on a laptop with Pentium-M 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 64MBI am using the proprietary ati drivers in version 8.455.2-r1I configured wine to run as WinXP, set my resolution to 1400x1050 and allowed the window manager to manage the windows StarDock Central installed without problems, Sins downloaded and installed without problems, and starts without problems.Sins runs a little slow on my machine, which might be due to the introduced