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Reply to Some good strategy questions (experts welcome) in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]so if it isnt the exploring or the combat visuals, is the stratagy realy the thing that is pulling people in?[/quote] The combat visuals are, in my opinion, great - the sheer scale of big battles makes them awesome to look at (depending, of course, on what graphical settings your PC can handle). Hell, I even love watching a huge fleet form up and perform a phase jump. ;) Also, while there are a limited number of planet types, exploring is absolutely critical, especially in th

Reply to different replays of flaks vs LRM and then mixed fleet vs lrm only in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]It doesn't change the fact that light frigate cannot attack while turning while flaks can. You can probably run away from flaks with light/medium frigates, but you definitely cannot out maneuver them and win a fight with micro. People keep suggesting that medium frigate is a reasonable counter to flaks. But the fact is, they suffer from the same limited attack angle as LRMs, and thus are very susceptible to flaks which are micro'd. [/quote] I'm afraid I don't understand how you can ke

Reply to different replays of flaks vs LRM and then mixed fleet vs lrm only in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]How come light frigs can't attack while turning, but flaks can?[/quote] I think what he means is that flaks can fire in all four arcs, while light frigates can only fire in the forward arc. They can and do fire while turning.

Reply to Vasari Abilities in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]I really don't see the use of that, either. Ooh no, my structures build a tiny bit slower. Whatever shall I do? I don't usually find myself with more money than I can spend, so slowing production a tiny bit isn't an issue for me, as I don't notice it when I can't afford stuff anyway. If this STOPPED all production it would be awsome. As it is, I never put any points into it.[/quote] Fair enough. Personally, I find the 'recon' component quite handy (it lasts 5 minutes even at the lowes

Reply to Empire List, how to make it auto-collapse the planets? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

D'oh! Just realised there are hotkeys to collapse or expand all the planets on the empire window - [b];[/b] and [b]CTRL+;[/b]

Reply to Empire List, how to make it auto-collapse the planets? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yeah, the default seems to be to have the planets expanded and fleets collapsed - quite often I'd like to be able to reverse that. Is there any way to do it?

Reply to different replays of flaks vs LRM and then mixed fleet vs lrm only in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]I do consider flaks slightly overpowered as they are the only kind of non-capital ships that can be easily micro'd to gain a significant advantage in a fight; due to their 360 degree attacking angle, you can just make them circle your enemies while they hopelessly turn around and around till they are dead. Your enemy could, of course, try to spread their ships in the gravity well, but then one can always counter by taking the opposing ships 1 by 1.This greatly hinders the flaks' supposed

Reply to Vasari Phase stabilizers(gates) reduce trade income in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]I have discovered a benefit to using the phase stabilizers for trade. The trade ships dont go through all those uncolonizable systems, ya know the ones where enemy fleets usually sit and pick off your trade ships. So they actually make trade safer. So you lose a couple points of income, who cares?. You get a perfectly safe trade route.[/quote] Yes, it makes your trade ships much safer, and as far as I can tell, it doesn't cost you any trade income. [quote]but Im not sure if

Reply to Quick question for the unity in Strategy Sins Forums

I don't know off-hand, sorry, but ships show the effects they're currently under on their info cards, so it shouldn't be too hard to try it and see...

Reply to Ship/ships trying to leave combat on there own? in Technical Sins Forums

Hmm. Never had this. What type of ship is trying to jump out? Any chance they're part of a fleet that's in another system?

Reply to Possible solution to phase stabilizer imbalance in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]It might not be that much more powerful than other endgame abilities, but it is better than everything up until endgame. You could get a multitude of stabilizers and the tech near the beginning of the game when everyone else can't even research ships that stand a chance. While everyone else has to extensively research and build economy in order to build a substantial fleet, the Vasari only need an extremely small economy and one line of research to build and sustain a more than substantia

Reply to Vasari Abilities in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]on Auto it places siege platforms too far out from planets to fire.[/quote] Erm, not for me. Or maybe I've just not noticed - it definitely doesn't put them out of range all the time, as I've seen auto-placed ones firing on planets.

Reply to arrogance in the threads. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Why do some members insist on making themselves look so stupid and pompous.[/quote] [link="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19"]This is why[/link]. ;)

Reply to Vasari Abilities in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Desolator: siege platform is range bugged. Useless unless microed[/quote] Erm, I can't remember ever triggering this manually, but I've had no problems with it on 'auto'. What exactly is the bug?

Reply to Vasari Abilities in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Battleship - Devastator Power surge - No idea how to use this. Advice would be appriciated.[/quote] It buffs the recharge rate of the Devastator's weapons (greatly improving it's damage output) and its shield regeneration. It's a pretty awesome buff. [quote]Jam Weapons - Disables enemy strike craft in a small radius correct? High or low priority?[/quote] Depends on how many strike craft you're running into. Handy but not that great, in my opinion, as it doesn't actu

Reply to Questions about TEC command cruiser in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]1) Do the abilities stack? For example, if I get 3 cruisers to use embedden or designate target on a particiluar target do I get the benefits from all three ships or just one?[/quote] Honestly, I'm not sure, but it shouldn't be hard to find out. Try it and take a look at the info card of the target ship - it should show you the numbers, so you can see whether the effects stack. [quote]2) It seems like the TEC's abilities are very weak in comparison to the Avent's guardi

Reply to Race...Racials? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Yeah i think i worded it wrong, i was thinking more along the line of race bonuses.[/quote] They exist, but they're either inherent to the race's ships, or defined by what techs the race gets and when. For example, Advent have a racial bonus for shields - their ships tend to have higher base shield ratings than other races, they get shield-increasing techs early, and they're the only race that get shield mitigation bonuses. On the other hand, their armour values tend

Reply to Vasari Phase stabilizers(gates) reduce trade income in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Did you h ave multiple trade ports in a system? That may effect the results when things were recalculated.[/quote] Nope, just one per system for the test. EDIT: Assuming you meant me. ;)

Reply to Sins Counters Update in Sins Developer Journals Sins Forums

[quote][ Squadron Support AKA carriers -> according to manual , Armor type = Medium, plz check ][/quote] I think the manual is wrong - the files say Heavy.

Reply to different replays of flaks vs LRM and then mixed fleet vs lrm only in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]LRMs are meant to be an artillery unit not a basic combat unit so OF COURSE they lost, and anyways gardas at least are already overpowered due to the fact they have huge amounts of armor and HP.[/quote] Erm, how do you figure that they're 'overpowered'? They're next to useless against anything other than VeryLight (fighters) and Light (bombers, scouts, siege frigates, long range frigates) armour. In addition, their Heavy armour is vulnerable to the basic light frigates (which

Reply to Vasari Phase stabilizers(gates) reduce trade income in Strategy Sins Forums

Okay, did another test with a linear layout of planets, and got the same results. Stage 1: All planets have a trade port. 7 planets, longest route = 6. [link="http://img235.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0sh2.jpg"][IMG]http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/416/screenshot0sh2.th.jpg[/IMG][/link] Stage 2: Add phase stabiliser at every planet. 7 planets, longest route = 6. [link="http://img235.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot1oe9.jpg"][IMG]http://img235.i

Reply to Vasari Phase stabilizers(gates) reduce trade income in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]The point is, those stabilizers do alter the longest trade route. This means they can reduce the number of jumps of the longest route. Resulting in the exact same number of jumps(hence, income) may simply be coincidental. The logic is that if the phase stabilzers alter trade routes, they will shorten the longest route.[/quote] Again, not what I found - destroying and rebuilding trade centres caused the route to be recalculated. Phase stabilisers made no difference, and the length of t

Reply to Objectivity in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Sitros, you miss my point. I have seen a ton of posts that say "this game is the greatest ever" and read lots of reviews that seem to sort of say positive things without getting too specific. I am looking for individual people's reasons for loving the game, that's it. I understand the concepts of object and subject-ivity, trust me.BigBad, anything to actually contribute beyond being an awesome forum warrior?[/quote] Not really. Had you called the thread something like 'Why do you li

Reply to How do I add a point in Basic Officer Training? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Basic Officer Training is the first Command rating tech for the TEC (the top row of techs on the Fleet Logistics section of the Technology screen).

Reply to Objectivity in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]I don't need to be convinced, hell, I already paid for the game.[/quote] Erm, so why say, "I am merely asking people to [b]convince me[/b] that Sins is worthy of the praise it seems to be receiving on this board"? (Emphasis mine.) ;) [quote] I just thought an objective discussion might be interesting, though it seems that it just may not be possible.[/quote] Not when you seem to define people who like the game as not being objective.