Frost

Frost

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Changing Starting Planet in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Hello all, I've been picking through the different GameInfo files and I've been unable to find a line dictating which planet type the player starts with. I thought it would be in PlayerTech, maybe under galaxyGeneratorInfo but its not. Nor is it in GalaxySetup. I've gone through every file I think it could be in and read all the lines. It seems to me all TEC factions start with PLANET_TERRANHOME as their starting planet and there's no way to change it. I hope thats not so. <br/

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Reply to is it possible (now) to modify the flagship? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

*puts on rubber glove* ok bend..... when saving the new file using notepad save it like this "CAPITALSHIP_TECHBATTLESHIP.entity" using the quotes will force it to be named just as you have typed it... ** thus endith the lesson <img onload="setImageSize_onLoad

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Reply to is it possible (now) to modify the flagship? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Modding Hints: 1. If you want to change the ship you start with, look in the Player files. 2. If you want to create a brand new ship that you can modify without affecting any other ships, start by copying and pasting another ship and modifying it. 3. Get a tool that allows you to 'find in files' for certain strings in a directory. Ok I know this should be fairly simple but

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Reply to What is your favorite map and play style? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

20 or 100 Planets, 4 Stars, 9 Artifacts, Flagships Off, Pirates On Max # A.I.s, No teams, Unlocked Build 10 scout frigates and take the asteroid planet that usually is connected to my Terran planet. Expand the other direction till I find a planet that controls access to my other planets and has more than two phase space lanes. Fortify it and level up all the planets I hold. Grab another planet or two if possible. Once I've built every trade-port I can then I start looking to expand

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Reply to Sins Beta 1 - Gameplay Feedback - *Post Here* in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I would like to be able to customize the number of planets per star. I just recently played a game where all players started in the same system. I eventually managed to get my ships off to other stars, in hopes of finding unclaimed riches. Instead, I found approx. 5 stars per system. I found this extremely disappointing, because I was expecting the number of stars to be around that of the staring system. Another thing. So far, it neve

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Reply to Sins Beta 1 - Gameplay Feedback - *Post Here* in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

With the help of some posters here I found the group phase jumping button (right click to toggle the move button). However on several occasions the group I ordered to jump together moved to the edge of the gravity well...and sat there for ten minutes until I gave up and changed the movement order back to the default setting. There were no other units in system they could have been waiting for. What I think might have happened was that not all the units in the group had the gro

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Reply to The benefits of Pirates in this game.... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

My current game , they seem to have a deathwish for me, I've been fending off waves of 3-4 ships every 5 minutes... Weird, the pirates in my games just defend the uncolonized planets and get pwned by my first capital ship with scout frigate screen. I'd like to see these more aggressive pirates. I'm playing on Hard so I wonder how I'd get them? lordkosc would you tell me about your current game?

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Reply to Sins Beta 1 - Gameplay Feedback - *Post Here* in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

As Ch0Arrim mentioned before: When I've grouped a number of ships with ctrl+# it would be nice if they waited for each other before jumping. As it is the ships (even when they are all at the edge of the gravity well) kind of straggle into phase space and arrive at the enemy planet in detail. Also for the repair modules/stations. It would be nice to see an indication of their range, as it is I'm unsure when placing it if it will cover my defenses. Perhaps a simple circle indica

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Reply to Sins Beta 1 - Gameplay Feedback - *Post Here* in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

An issue I found: Ok my ally has a planet and the crystal and metal mines associated with it. The planet is invaded and bombarded till it reverts to neutral. I retake the system and colonize the planet. However, my allies old mines are still there so I can't use those resources. And it doesn't appear they are using them either. So those resources are lost to everyone until and enemy AI invades and destroys them. (Teams were locked so I couldn't just back stab them and take the

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Reply to Initial Impressions in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I agree that it would be nice to be able to say "These ships are in fleet 1" and then get a perm "Fleet 1" selector in the list as well. As with most other RTS games, you can just press Ctrl+Number once you have a group selected. Then press the number alone to recall that selection. When you do create a grouping by ctrl+# it isn't easy to see which units are in

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Reply to Maintainance in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

This whole culture aspect of the game is nice... And I think the maintenance is just about right. I want to know if its possible to reclaim buildings/turrets that you no longer want? I don't see a way to do it. Look at the center and bottom of the screen. There's a button there that gives a scuttle option.

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Reply to Sins Beta 1 - Gameplay Feedback - *Post Here* in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I too would like to see options for: 1. Slower/Faster phase space jumps 2. Slower/Faster research times 3. Higher/Lower upkeep costs (limiting or raising the unit cap basically) 4. Enable/Disable Phase space disruptor (currently sometimes I really DO want the enemy to leave and have to scuttle my inhibitor) 5. And this is really out there, but I would like an option to put all of a ship's power to its shields and engines. That way I can have a valuable capita

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Reply to Maintainance in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I built a fleet of one of each capital ship type, level 10 and by the end I had 73%. The trade stations didn't really help all that much. And I agree, a maintenance reducing tech would be lovely.

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Reply to good dl time in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I know and I'm on a 1000mb dsl line so go figure... 1000mb dsl? are ya sure you don't mean Kbps? 1000Mb dsl is faster than my office of 8000 employee's has at its disposal, lol... Err yeah lol 1000k

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