Sorceresse

WOW ... thats a lengthy & detailed OP ! (from a « software dev » no less) ... its odd that it did not attract a lot of reactions : reply #1 was posted 2½ days after the OP !? ... as a defensive noobette, i agree that the defence of the gravity well is too difficult, especially against skilled human killers, who will simply bypass the cannons and approach the planet from a weaker spot, beyond the limited range of those cannons ...

:p ... i dont care one way or the other : im Canadian ... ;p

[quote] "Good American Values" involves bombarding those who offend us with cruise missiles. [/quote] ... pleaze : no radical, un-American, commie propaganda on a game forum ...

... ahhh, ok ... the title's thread has been modified ... that was fast ...

... on other threads, stardock & ironclad guys have frimly declared that the AI players did not receive any cheat resource bonuses ... if so, it makes solving the OP's enigma even more difficult ...

[quote]Please, dont use word "Official" when its not. It confuses people.[/quote] yea ... i jumped right in, believing that it was THE official Ironclad/Stardock 1.03 changelog ... i hope that a mod will modify that thread's title ... im sooooo con-fused ...

from a Stardock guy : [quote] [B]I do recall those that sell me out or betray me and yes I do what I can to get revenge.[/B] [/quote] :SURPRISED: from « some other dude I don't recall » : [quote] You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.[/quote] i had hoped that Stardock would have promoted go

... but how would the ICO registration process know that ?!! 1. my dad got one specific serial # associated with his digital download on SDC ... he created his ICO account with that #. 2. suppose i open the box we received by mail 3 weeks later ... it is factory sealed : nobody can then link the serial # inside with my dad ... i install the game at home on our 2nd machine, and then, i go to ICO and create my account with this serial # that was sealed inside the box ... [I]

my dad, at home, owns ALL space empire games ever published for DOS and Windows ... and what those games call « galaxy » rarely contains more than 300 stars ... which is very far from the hundreds of millions youre talking about ... u must be one of the very rare gamers, then, who take the word « galaxy » in a literal sense ... ... game designers use this big word (galaxy) to designate what really is a tiny sector of a galaxy ... there u are >>> replace « galaxy »

[B]New question [/B]: our main home computer is running Sins with the serial # associated with the SDC digital download, and my dad used that # to create his ICO account. could I use the (since received by mail) DVD's serial # (the DVD and the SDC download representing one purchase, a June pre-order) to create another ICO account, from our 2nd home computer ? that would mean that one single purchase (in June) could create 2 different installations, on 2 home computers,

... i was supposing that he meant « PCI Express », not the pre-AGP « PCI » ...

the X1300 & X1550 are quite low on the totem pole ... don't take my word for it ... examine the totem pole yourself : [link="http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/04/best_cards_february_2008/page7.html#summary"]Videocard Totem Pole February 2008[/link] don't go below a X1650 PRO ... which is not expensive ... if u get a cheap card, you'll be limited to the cheapest graphical settings ...

one thing i forgot : my dad turns off AA ... the game still is quite beautiful ... on other threads, some people have had less problems with AA disabled ...

merci, [B]kryo[/B] & [B]GG[/B] !

in his last sentence he does say that he can log in (so he does have an ICO account and he does use it) and see how many people are in the lobby : his problem, then, is that he has trouble joining a game all i can say to him, spontaneously, is this : 1. forget about this forum for a minute ... your ICO account name seems to be [B]bihajdin[/B] 2. once you are logged in that ICO account, u must select a "player" that u have created (it can be any name that is not alread

[quote] SC does limit how many computers the game can be installed on and still recieve updates, but it is based on the OS. I am not totally sure how that system works, perhaps a IC/SD employee could answer that. [/quote] yea ... [B]kryo[/B] : would u pleaze answer that ? my dad bought the pre-order in June, he downloaded the game from SDC at the beginning of February, and we got the boxed CE by mail around the 21th : the downloaded digital version is now installed & p

isnt it a big problem if « clan guys » show up in a pseudo FFA with the preconceived intent & plan to manipulate & crush non-clan participants ?

im using my dad's computer : he has a 6800 and he uses the nvidia 169.21 drivers...he and i have played for dozens of hours this month and the game has not crashed once... the only thing i can do is tell u is my dad's setup : 1. he turned off V Synch in the desktop nvidia control panel 2. he runs the game in a 1360 X 768 window on his 1440 X 900 desktop 3. even though he set the visual quality of many stuff to « highest », he turned off : bloom elevat

« jeez bob » : uve become [B]The Star[/B] of this thread ! :CONGRAT:

its P2P all right ... on another thread, some high-tech mech declared that the host only synchronizes the data and that the game is really at the mercy of the slowest player in the game

Amazon Canada is offering both editions, but (today), they have not a single copy in stock : already all sold out ?!!

[quote] [B]What happened to you is you made up your own "fair rules" and somehow expect random people to not only know them, but to follow them[/B] [/quote] bull's eye !!! in too many posts, on this whole forum, self appointed thought policemen patrol the threads, calling people « noobs », or « trolls », or « off topic », or even worse (suc as « moron »), if they judge that a poster does not conform to their petty, bossy & busy-body rulebook (of which they are the sole experts)

[quote] I can play Sins on a laptop with a 64 MB onboard Intel card. [/quote] ... if u say so ...

[quote]I'm having some problems with group and fleet [/quote] with all the identical threads u have just generated on the forum, i believe u : u do have some problems with group & fleet (lets hope a mod will clean that up...not that i mind in the least)

[quote] Ok, i want to get this game but my graphics card is slightly lower than necissary [/quote] slightly ?!!! ... a GF 6100 is NOT meant for any serious PC gaming : its a low-budget card meant for ordinary business apps & middle of the road games ([I]Sins[/I] is not that!) 512 MB of RAM is the minimum if u have Win XP...with your Vista, the minimum would be 1024 MB of RAM (your 896 MB w/ Vista is really not enough to play recent 3D games) ... « minimum » is just tha