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There are definitely dark ones. They're annoying, too, because it's very hard to see asteroids on a black background.

[quote]making a map isn't modding it if you use the ingame map designer, this is a feature you payed for to play with.[/quote] I don't want to design maps, I want to play Sins of a Solar Empire. As far as I'm concerned anything that didn't come with the original game is a mod, unless it comes from Ironclad.

In the "Turning Off Pirates" post, a lot of people said "just make a map with no pirates" or "just use one of the scenarios that has no pirates." Fair enough. I don't really want to make a map, I bought the game to play it, not mod it. I can't tell from the scenario list which maps have pirates and which don't... maybe someone with more experience can run down the list and let us pirate-haters know which scenarios to avoid?

I'd like an on-off switch: A. Also, unless it's designed to be some sort of big surprise, I'd like some indication on the scenario selection screen as to which maps have pirates and which don't. Pirates may be "fairly integral to the game", but I find that they make it a LOT harder on me just trying to figure out what I'm doing. The learning cliff is tough enough without getting random beatdowns every five minutes. Oh, and if not in gameplay options, It'd be great to h

Thanks for the offer, but I'd rather avoid IRC if it's all the same. :) And thanks for the pointers. How could I have missed that you get a free capital ship right off the bat?! That beats the pants off sending a few frigates that may or may not survive the contact. Okay, any suggestions for which scenario to choose? I avoided the "quick conflict" type scenarios because I want a little time to figure out what I'm doing before I run into the computer player. I looked up the one

I really want to like this game. Homeworld is one of my favorite games, and I love 4X games as well. So far I've played four games. The longest one lasted about 20 minutes. I went through the tutorials, which I honestly didn't find very helpful. The basic information in them was too basic for me, and the more in-depth information seemed like it was just laying out a lot of out-of-context facts. I just can't seem to get a foothold. In my first game was on the small rand