Rilian43

My installation of Entrenchment killed Sins, although not with the dll or wrong directory problems others have reported. I'm getting messages about 'activation failure' and Sins bails out just after the splash screens. I've been discussing with stardock support, but their help has been less than helpful so far. I'm wondering if a full, complete cleanup of Impulse and all impulse related games might help. I don't want to download it all again and find I didn't clean enough, though!

Alright, I admit it - the AI is consistently beating me with diplomacy. Help! I've had a few tries playing a random medium map (as TEC) against three 'normal' AI players. Each time I do very well for a while but soon end up with all three against me, and over several hours they gradually wear me down until my position is hopeless. Three giant 'blobs' of ships at once are too much! The real problem is my inability to stay friends with even one. Does gifting resources help at all

In contrast, I like jumping 'through' a well, and would like to suggest one change that will get more people in tune with this feature. The change is to show people in advance, in the tutorial. If it comes as a surprise people _will_ be unhappy, the game looks 2D enough that it's unexpected. If, in a tutorial, an enemy scout does this to the player, and the popup tutorial box says to guard the entry point close, or build inhibitors, that would be fine. The reason it's great is

I like it the way it is, with Z-axis acknowledged but not explicit. For example, although it's 2-D, I've seen a ship fly 'over' a small asteroid. More importantly there's the ability to exit on any side of the gravity well and fly 'over' the star system to the next system. I really like this now I've thought a little, it gives a great feel and strategic implication of 3D, while retaining the simplicity of 2D.