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Sins: Diplomacy is giving me MiniDumps when it tries to start - where do I send them?

I'm liking the camera changes :). It's nice being able to get a closeup of even the smallest ships now! I don't play multiplayer much, but I'm kinda liking the carrier slowdown; it means my carriers aren't sitting in front of the battles as often anymore. One of the bad habits the AI seems to have with the carriers is the tendency to pull them to the front lines along with all of the other capital ships. Problem is, that kinda kills the reason why I build carriers in the f

Frankly, I'm wondering what the big deal is with people sticking to IE6. Why not upgrade to IE7?? [quote]Flat out, I don't have the money to spend to try games.[/quote] Then don't try the games. [quote]After two weeks, I’m still trying to figure out some issues with Sins and Galaxy Forge.[/quote] Are you trying it with Entrenchment? I don't think it's compatible with Entrenchment yet.

[quote]Diablo (Original) could spawn multiplayer (LAN only) clients, you could join but not host.[/quote]Yeah - Yeah - I sorta wondered what happened to that concept. Seemed to make sense at the time - why didn't it catch on?

[quote]If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. -- Exodus 21:23[/quote] [quote]In more modern understanding they're effectively the same; they're both the concept of an injured party taking revenge on the offender--the hebrews just condoned (even required) it legally.[/quote] The difference between revenge and justice is that justice usuall

[quote]That is a Tangible lose, Not a Virtual implied lose.[/quote] The developers get paid real money to really work on real software so you can have your nice "virtual" experience. [quote]If your counting on people who will never pay for a product to begin with you are a moron.[/quote] . . . and if people who never pay for products expect to be supported by the companies who create said products, they are morons as well. The companies are under no obligation to give

[quote]\Application Data\[/quote] Sigh . . . I shake my head when stuff intended for users gets sent there . . . . . . it is a hidden folder, intended for application use, not for user files.

Sounds like a hardware conflict, then. Firebird - try updating the sound drivers?

Relax, t0nedude - your email probably just got corrupted or something weird like that. Just follow T-Man's directions and you should be fine. Stardock has great support. . . . and be nice to the frog. He runs this place . . .

I'd agree with Frogboy: Diplomacy. In particular, do something about those one-sided missions AIs like to give you. I'd like to be able to give the AIs missions as well. Sometimes it's annoying when they give you missions against a specific enemy, but you've got bigger fish to fry and don't have the resources. It would be nice to make a counter-proposal or even outright say "no." My opinion? Revamp the mission system. Mak

Vista 64 bit, Sins runs fine with iTunes. Sorry, can't reproduce the problem. BUT - if you're running XP, then the comparison is poor because they rewrote the audio stack in Vista. What OS are you running?

[quote]Yuk - C++. About as ugly as Java, but not quite.[/quote] In all honesty, that's the language most games are created in. Gamers are quite picky about performance, and C++ is closer to the machine than most other languages and can really deliver that performance. The APIs for DirectX are also pretty much built assuming they'll be used with C++ (and were likely written in C++ themselves). Ugly? Maybe, but it's the best tool for the job, and that's what counts.

Looks like there's a workaround and Skype is aware of the issue . . . . and it's a problem wiith using fullscreen games in general, I just noticed it in Sins first.

[quote]This whole jumping on a bandwagon with other sci-fi shows is a bad argument, since sins is based on many other shows / books.[/quote] The fallacy holds: There is no "law" forcing Ironclad to include it if they don't want to include it. [quote]You have people arguing that early gameplay would be affect, how?[/quote] You fail to understand what I have typed. I am asking if it would improve gameplay. If it does, then it would make sense. But if it's

[quote] Is it like Steam? [/quote] Kinda. [quote]If I purchase a game via impulse (so no physical copy) and I uninstall it, will I be able to reinstall it later on?[/quote] Yes. Everything you buy is tied to your Impulse account and can be re-downloaded later.

[quote]Both I and two other posters immediately replied that in Star Trek they have the equivilent of Flak because their main phaser arrays can target enemy fighters.[/quote] You're comparing a specifically anti-fighter munitions based system with a general-purpose laser based system? [quote]Also there is Flak in Star Trek, look up the Voyegar Episode with the Malon.[/quote] Hence "almost no" instead of "no" flak. . . . but that's all beside the point. They're

CreditSuisse: I'm not a terribly big fan of the "it's in a lot of sci-fi shows, therefore EVERYBODY must do it!" type of logic. If that's your biggest argument, forget it. . . . and I find it amusing that you have a pic of Star Trek, a sci-fi show that has almost no flak anywhere [e digicons]:fuzzy:[/e] .

[quote]I feel vista is way overrated, but Windows 7 looks promising..... [/quote] With all of the criticism it gets, I'd say it's very much underrated. [quote]well, on my core duo, I can tell the bios to recognize the 2 cores as one, logical cpu.[/quote] I do not recommend that - that will hurt performance for everything. If you wish to limit how many cores for particular applications, I recommend setting the affinity instead. You can find it by right clicking

It seems that Sins conflicts with the latest version of Skype. I don't know if it's possible to fix, since Skype may be forcing the issue, but whenever I have Skype open, Sins keeps minimizing every time I try to switch to it. The workaround is to use windowed mode, but I've always preferred my games full screen.

[quote]How to effectively counter mines[/quote] Grab a dozen carriers and play a game of "Pearl Harbor?"

[quote]I am paying money and thus not free-loading. Where the money ends up is of no consequence.[/quote] It's plenty consequence. If you buy a stereo at Wal-Mart, don't expect to be able to return it to Best Buy for a refund. [quote]I've never heard of download sites charging publishers for hosting files.[/quote] You mean those ad-filled sites where every other page screams "PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP AVAILABLE!" and has hour-long waits in a queue before downloading the file?

[quote]I don't like mines. They just bog the game down. The computer goes crazy with them makes 1/2 a planet system filled up with them. If you do include mines in the final version I suggest you add an option to disable/remove them from the game.[/quote] Or just limit how many of them you can have around a single planet. Started a new game, working on seeing how well it plays.

[quote]Is it really true that when you buy SoaSE and link your CD-key to an account, they stay together forever and thus screw over anyone unfortunate enough to buy a used copy containing that CD-key?[/quote] Basically, although I would not use those exact words. I personally like this a lot better than EA's invasive copy protection system. Maybe someday a transfer system can be put into place, but right now yes it is permanently tied to your account. Whether we like i

Yup, I loved Homeword and Homeworld 2 :). I liked the story, loved the sheer scale of the ships, and loved the way they managed to make 3D navigation simple. [quote]a) disable UAC disable DEP (data execution prevention) manually with command line[/quote] I just create an exception in DEP. No need to diable it. Shouldn't need to disable UAC, either. Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced System Settings -> Advanced (tab) -> Performance /

[quote]3. Impulse. Sins is Linux compatible. Impulse isn't. You aren't going to bother with making Impulse Linux-compatible. That means that the people wth Linux will have to get their patches and micro-expansions some other way. Like through piracy. Dumb move.[/quote] For one thing, I don't see Linux as being offictially supported - a quick glance at the system requirements, and I don't see Linux listed anywhere. I would say that the compatibility is more accidental and not so