I agree with the OP completely. Everyone who doesn't play this game exactly the way I play it suck massively. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that people who don't play this game on dual monitors in their PJ's with a glass of scotch next them (just like I do!) also suck. Jeeze, it's a tactic, get over it.
Cap ships push it back regardless. However, if your going for the "no cap ship" achievement like I did the other day, and you happen to be playing those culture-happy Advent... well it took a LOT longer than it should have.
Easy enough to do if you want to JD, just edit the files that I changed. I really like the fact that I don't have to pay ANY attention to the quests if I don't want to. (PS, LOVE the avatar!)
Ralph, just tested out your question... When you start teamed up with AI's you are at 100% with them. You can break Planet Vision, Ship Vision, and Trade Alliance right off the bat if you want to, I didn't see the numbers on how much they liked me drop when I did that. But Cease Fire and Peace Treaty were grayed out and I couldn't break those, not sure why as teams were unlocked. Who knows.
No worries Stog, they're easy enough to find, just sort by date edited. I'm really hoping the ICO team is working on some sort of manifest file to go with the mods that tells what files were and were not modded. As it is if you mod 1 texture file your mod has to include ALL of them in order to work and that's simply no good.
No problem BK, the mod load should take about as long as loading the game the first time did, maybe a little longer.
When you enable any mod the game has to reload from scratch basically. Sometimes this may take a while. Is that what you're experiencing, or is it a crash to desktop?
Carnum, I won't pass up a planet to colonize another one past it for several reasons: 1) No telling what's out there at these early stages in the game. 2) By the time I make it back those passed-up planets may belong to someone else. 3) It takes money to make money. I want to get the income going as fast as possible. 4) I will gladly eat the cost of an underdeveloped planet for a few minutes in order to gain it's possession. I guarantee it will make me that lost money back s
MeyeC, unless I'm missing something with locked teams you would not have gotten ANY diplomacy at all. As far as I've always thought locked teams meant no diplomacy.
So not sure if anyone is playing with this or not. A friend and I put 4 hours tonight into a large game and both of us where using this. Turns out that he couldn't connect to my game without the mod installed and enabled so once we set that up the gameplay went fine. We were able to essentially ignore the quests we didn't want to do or couldn't and not take major penalties from it. Plus the quests didn't come quite so fast. I'm still hoping IC enables an acceptance checkbox fo
Ben, take a look at the Quest Adjustment mod I put up. Link is in my post above this one. It really helps out.
Doh! My bad n003lb. What kind of aircraft?
[link="https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=443&aid=177880"]Try Here[/link] Take a look at some of the changes and adjust if you want.
OK, some good posts in here folks. I agree almost across the board so I've decided to fix things. [link="https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?AID=177880"]WWW Link[/link]
OK, so reading through this thread here: [link="https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=404&aid=177242"]WWW Link[/link] and I find myself in complete agreement, the diplomacy can kill you. So here's my answer, I've created a new mod that tones down and adjusted the parameters for quests as follows: Quests failed lose between 1-3 points depending on some parameters. Quests completed still award the same points as before. Quests now only get awarded every 8 minutes
No doubt, I love it. Someone, somewhere in IronClad set out to take the kinds of games that they USED to make back in the day with today's processor speed and graphics capabilities. They nailed it.
And when I get home tonight, what's awaiting me? WOOT! It's a VERRA pretty package, Stardock did very well.
And lookit here... Literally JUST as I posted my above smarmy reply (it's my superpower I think) I get this in my mailbox... "Your item was shipped on 2/11/2008 via USPS Priority Mail. Please allow 2-3 business days for it to arrive. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance." OK, so now we have something to work with, should be in my hot sweaty little hands before the weekend's over. Coolness!
[quote] not true they are very busy dont forget you not the only one [/quote] Redlab, shall I link you to anyone of DOZENS of programs out there that can query a customer database for any entry in there and generate emails based on the results of that query? All in about 20 seconds at most? Just sayin'.
Still waiting here. I did fire of an email to sales this afternoon asking about it. I'll post the response when I get it.
Yeah, the pirates are pretty evil about that. I had two trading posts on either side of the pirate base and it was a while before I could get in there and clean it up. Of course tons of trade ships went in, none came out. Once I did clean the place out I noticed that the pirates had build six guass guns that were all positioned to kill the traders as they went by. Bastards.
Anyway to control them or stop them from constantly going THROUGH the pirate base? They seem to take the shortest possible path to wherever they're going and damn the torpedoes. Also... when the trade port or refinery builds another one does the new ship cost anything?
ROFL! Not only biased, but sounds like he's not in a Valentine's Day mood at all.
It seems to me that to put the races into MMO or RPG equivalences that the TEC are basically fighters, the Advent are mages/buffers and the Vas are rogues. TEC get hard hitting ships with plenty of money. Some of the hardest hitting (non-tech'ed) ships around belong to this race. They are pretty straight up DPS'ers and their endgame cannon is THE thing for damage. Two shots from it and you can kiss your homeworld adios. Advent's strength comes from ships buffing other ships. He
Glad you were able to solve it noo3lb (does that mean 3 pounds of noob?? :) ) And thanks for the good reports everyone else. At this point I've looked over the modding tools that ICO has released and this mod won't work there (yet). But as soon as it does I'll update it. For now keep on running the .bat file as always. Peace! -Lazy
