[quote]Do you know how to spell people? Are you a moron for playing online?There is always going to be "morons" online. Get over it and play with friends.[/quote] this guy kind of proves your point
[quote] I figured this for a few reasons. Where resources are short, wars will ensue. .[/quote] While logical in one sense, not always true, as it happens. The biggest wars are often over territories with lots of resources - it's called the curse of resources, (right now, for example, the curse of oil). If resources are there, everyone wants them, so battles, exploitation ensue; poverty often follows. Not always the case, there are many factors, but the Middle East is largely a
It strikes me that if you want pretty ships, go advent; if you want mean looking ships, go vasari, and if you want rugged industrial ships, go TEC. I think the TEC ships are excellent; functional, brutal, weighty - feels very battlestar galactica to me... solid gritty ships have their own aesthetic value.
Oh - this is a surprise to me and explains a lot - why does the game not automatically tell your fighters to leave alone ships from a faction with whom you have a non-aggression pact?
It strikes me that the whole game is designed to keep things moving - ebbs, flows, surges, retreats. You could set things up with stronger defenses etc (some mods have them) and that may be an equally fun game, but it is a different game, with a different rhythm. But why not try some of the mods out there?
So, after a few rounds I am doing ok - I am roughly even with my AI normal level opponents, a least, I have 3 planets, they all have 3 planets, on an 8 player game - when most of my allies abandon me, and my enemies all send enormous fleets at me, with all their capital ships. Question is, what made me galactic enemy number one? So much that every other AI player wants to send their capital ships and entire war machine at me? It makes no sense... are they doing nothing elsewhere on the ma
[quote]@ acid boyit took me a long while to find where the mod path was.C:Documents and Settings/User Name/LocalSettings/AppilcationData/Ironclad Games/ModsYour Local Settings may be under the effect of a hidden file, like mine. you just have to play around with the settings until the folder appears.Hey - I seem to have the same issue - under C:Documents and Settings/User Name I can find no Local Settings folder... how do I make that folder appear? Thanks![/quote] aha - under tool, fol
[quote]@ acid boyit took me a long while to find where the mod path was.C:Documents and Settings/User Name/LocalSettings/AppilcationData/Ironclad Games/ModsYour Local Settings may be under the effect of a hidden file, like mine. you just have to play around with the settings until the folder appears.[/quote] Hey - I seem to have the same issue - under C:Documents and Settings/User Name I can find no Local Settings folder... how do I make that folder appear? Thanks!
anyone?
Is there any command which, upon selecting a ship, allows you to watch the action from that ship's perspective? I woudl love to follow one of my fighters or bombers, as they strafe their targets, but find it difficult right now... Thanks!
I saw one comment that decribed the Vasari as tough but fewer and expensive; the advent as buffers/debuffers with shields (ie vasari can bypass em) and the TEX as a jack of all trades, economy focused. That gives me some sense of the difference... but I would love it if someone could direct me to a really good thread or website which explains the strength and weakness of each faction - and what that means for strategy/tactics. Thanks!
I'll get over it... but I was genuinely surprised. I thought it was a 2x2 game... So, in reality, 2x2 is FFA, just that you start with an ally? Does the same apply to mp? And seeing as there seems to be no downside to ending an alliance, what's the actual difference? Any guidance much appreciated. (Loving this game, but ak - it's bad for my sleep life!)
They tell to pay credits.. I pay some and - zip. They tell me to kill enemy structures... I do and - nada. Then I fail the missions, and at least two of them (in a 4 player game) all come with their entire force at me (including a capitalship) before I can even get beyond basic frigates. Does the Ai cheat... it really strikes me - even on easy, I head off with a ship to a system very early on in the game and I find teh place swarming with a dozen frigates. How on earth... I simp
Still finding my way but have played a couple of small maps... and it seems that I almost never use cruisers. I bulk up on frigates, and when I can afford it, build capital ships - and this does the job well. By the time I reserach cruisers, I could have laid waste to half the map. Do cruisers only really come into their own in a longer game/larger map? Or am I missing something?
[quote]1. Then you didn't buy/download it through Stardock? The manual.pdf is (I believe) right there in the game folder.[/quote] aha! i see it now - doh! thanks - that helps a lot
i) I downloaded this game, would love to download a manual, but can't for the life of me find one ii) I have read about the basic differences between races, but don't really understand what they mean strategy-wise - does one favour turtling, while another favours zerging, for example? iii) a small thought, but this game would be hugely improved for me - in terms of atmosphere, rather than gameplay - if there were small movies or whatever demonstrating a planet's inhabitants cowerin
