Q1 > Did it work well before this morning ? Q2 > Have you patched the game to version 1.03 ? Depending on how you will answer those two Qs, I might have other questions before I make suggestions.
[link="https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/304161"]Stardock CEO post #15[/link] Excerpt from reply #15, posted by [B]Frogboy[/B] : [color="#FF0000"] Some people have explicitly said that the hard core multiplayer players are the heart of the community and must be made top priority. And that's something I can't accept. Our goal has to remain to make sure as many people as possible enjoy the game. [/color] /end of story
From ([B]Stardock CEO[/B]) Frogboy's reply #15 : [color="#FF0000"] Some people have explicitly said that the hard core multiplayer players are the heart of the community and must be made top priority. And that's something I can't accept. Our goal has to remain to make sure as many people as possible enjoy the game. [/color] To the [I]tiny[/I] 0.1% « competitive elite » : Is that clear enough for you non-noob, non-moron, non-stupid guys ?!
[quote] [size="1"]Sorcereress, it's not 'elite multiplayer issues'.[/size] [/quote] [size="1"]I was merely quoting Frogboy himself, when [I]he[/I] mentioned, in his reply #5, « elite level multiplayer issues ». My tiny contribution was simply to offer, as support, that I agreed with his statement on the relative lack of importance of those type of elitist issues.[/size]
[quote] Sadly, properly programming an AI is quite beyond most developers. Short of giving the AI significant advantages in order to overcome its stupidity, not much else can be done. [/quote] Stardock's [I]Galactic Civilization 2[/I] A.I. is possibly the very best programming achievement in TBS games. Stardock is the very involved producer of SINS, it is not the developer : Ironclad is ... so, the latter remains solely responsible for the coding of the SINS A.I.
you have to [B]research[/B] a higher level of fleet supply points in one of the three [B]research[/B] sectors
From reply #5, very recently posted by Frogboy : [color="#2E8B57"] I don't agree that elite level multiplayer issues are going to take precedence over, for instance, improving the computer AI or getting AI players to replace dropped players or making it easier to join multiplayer games. [/color] I 100% agree with that position ... without repeating the arguments I have recently posted on other threads in favour of that type of non-elitist, more inclusive position. "Eli
great thread idea ... some really have excessive & extreme titles which distract from the real issues ... (i'm alluding to this thread's former title, before it was very recently changed, for the better, by Frogboy)
Thanxxx a lot for your Saturday-afternoon zeal ! It's a great forum, for a great game : lots of info & debates to digest.
Saturday 06:30 PM (Eastern Canada/USA) > 1. Yesterday, it was very difficult to get into the main SINS forum. 2. This morning, it took me 2½ hours to get in at all. 3. Then, I lost it again, but I had no problem getting in by switching to the Stardock-forums version. 4. After a break, I could not get back into the Stardock entry-point... 5. and now, it was easy to get in the darker SINS version (but not the Stardock-forums version).
i dont know where the OP got the idea that 1.03 would provide (to quote the OP) a « vastly improved AI » ! ... let me quote the official changelog for 1.03, in what concerns the A.I. changes : [color="#9ACD32"] -AI now knows how to surrender (based on time elapsed, relative economy, relative fleet value, resource reserves, and allied strength). Also, an AI player will not surrender if he has a human ally. -AI is now smarter about retreating and is willing to commit local su
CLICK THIS LINK : [link="https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/303642"]Official 1.03 changelog[/link] (The changelog for 1.02 remains stickied, but the log for 1.03 does not seem to have been stickied !)
we experienced the very same problem at home, Friday evening & Saturday morning ... even though all other websites worked fast & fine ... and even though we had previously accessed the SINS forum with NO problem whatsoever since June 2007 ! did IC reduce their forum servers traffic-handling capacity ? i finally got back in late Saturday morning, after 2½ hours of unsuccessful attempts (i did not test your SD link trick) ...
[quote] [...] Ironclad doesn't want people coming up with an optimum strategy every patch, and then players going online and finding that that strategy is all that gets used. I can understand that, seeing a glorious game reduced to a calculated number of mouse clicks every single game [...] If indeed Ironclad is worried about gamers ripping the fun out of the game by playing only to win [...] [/quote] Already, on other threads, you have self-glorified, « high-level competitive
u could temporarily run the game in a window (as set in the game's visual options), and then revert back to full screen ...
... at last! ... someone edited the thread's abusive title and the abusive content of the OP ... my eyeballs feel better already ...
[quote] [...T]he argument is that by making such remarks as "CASUAL gamers who whine when they cannot defeat simple and bad strategies", take note on the "casual" name, you are immediately sending a bad message, by sounding like the other person is a moron who should keep his mouth shut simply because he is not a "competitive" player. [...S]ome people start using terms like noobs, idiots, stupid, whiners, which are really insulting. [...] Many players here have to simply step down from
[quote] I am even more amazed by the [B]retards[/B] in this forum who aren't voicing the issue to the developers! Are you [B]freaking douches[/B] just playing singleplayer or 1v1s? Or are you just that [B]god damn daft[/B][?...] STOP ACTING LIKE [B]SHEEP[/B] [/quote] :SNIFF!:
AGREE 100% with Reply 1035 !
in a few days ... version 1.03 will come out : do it then, u must ! Stardock patches are rarely minor fixes : they are big events, with a lot of new, major stuff ... do it ! (u wont have to patch to 1.01 & 1.02 : version 1.03 will be cumulative & complete)
[quote] Thanks god this game doesn't appeal to Starcraft-type players [/quote] ... and when [B]Starcrack 2[/B] is released ... no way they're going to hang around this forum or ICO ...
[quote] I just take off the side plates (yes, both sides) to my computer and point a fan into it turned on high. [/quote] my dad keeps the 2 side plates ... his reasoning is that the fan cools one side plate (the one near the CPU & videocard) and that this cold somewhat transmits itself to the nearby components ... his objections to your approach are that u risk blowing in dust + the too direct wind force of the fan might disrupt some components what do u think ? <
i have not tried to play on ICO yet suppose i do not do any port forwarding on our home router (my dad doesnt want me to change the router's secure setup for any reason) : would i still be able to JOIN (only) games on ICO ? (do u absolutely have to configure your router to join ?)
... check out this thread if you want to follow a heated debate amongst elitist, hyper-competitive players : [link="https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=404&aid=302588"]arMADa[/link] ... as a n00b(ette), i really enjoyed reading that whole thread : very informative & educative ... but i would not want to become like them ... i agree with [B]1Spartan[/B] (reply #12) : theres a « simple dichotomy », and i wish to remain on the relaxed n00b side of it ... <b
... you British Columbia colonists are late ... the April issue of PC Gamer was out here (in Quebec), retail ... 9 days ago ... ;p
