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Reply to Pirate Kamikazi rush. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

This is a serious problem. There is no defense against this. And despite what kyro and the gang keep saying, no, having someone else with a larger bounty doesn't do anything. Marauders send these fleets 90% of the time at the human player, 5% at the players allies, and 5% of the time I see 3-4 marauders attacking my enemy who has 8000 more bounty on them (I see this because my allies keep sending their trade ships to his only remaining planet due to them taking his asteroid) than I have on me

Reply to Pre-Beta 2 Teaser Shot in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

On the whole megaships thing, Designer was being very specific. And Yarlen parhaps was being just as specific. Yarlen never said no megaships, he said no ship that has construction capabilities or can dock frigates. Although because the whole mothership thing was included in Designer's question, I am a bit skeptical.

Reply to Sins BETA Expectations! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I also like how he says he wants to focus on strategy, yet disliked DL/DA's ship builder. Umm, that's kinda a major part of the strategy of that game.

Reply to New ShackNews Interview in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Brian Clair: Yeah, you're definitely going to like this game. In a way, this game has a lot of similarities to Homeworld. Homeworld took place around one system, whereas in Sins, imagine if Homeworld could encompass not just one planet, but dozens of star systems. That's the kind of scale we're talking. You can zoom in and see detailed shots coming out of a carrier, and then zoom out to see dozens of star systems, each with their own solar systems. You could have so m

Reply to Newbie Feedback in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

If you search around on the forums, you'll find answers to many of your complaints. You would also find that this is not the gameplay beta, but only the technical where they are making sure it runs, and that the features work, not that the features are good or fun. Also, the game is not advertised as a military game, it's advertised as an RTS civilization builder, where something like culture would be very important (although in this game it just increases revenue by a bit). Some of your comp

Reply to I want allies in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

You bomb the crap out of a planet, but you don't have a ship to colonize it. But guess who does? That's right, your ally. So while you do the work making the planet colonizable, your ally actually colonizes it. Your ally cannot however colonize a planet that you already colonized. Make sense now?

Reply to Disappearing ships in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

This has happened to me as well. But it happens on every game I play.

Ship icons don't show up in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I am currently playing a 4 system map and have well over 300 ships, possibly over 400, and I've noticed that ship icons are disappearing when I zoom out, I can still see the models when zoomed in, but most of my arcovas don't show up when zoomed out, and although I'm not going to count them, I would imagine other frigate types share this problem. I have also noticed that a few enemy trade ships are not showing up. I'm about to restart the game to see if that works. Also, I've noticed

Reply to population cap? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Confirmed. Even for the non-capital planets, the pop cap doesn't increase for advanced civic design, just the first tier one.

Reply to I want allies in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Ok, so I tried giving myself just 1 ally and sure enough, we started out next to each other. I guess you guys added something to keep a bigger alliance from starting near each other? Although I still get these messages, and they seem to get pissed when my fleet doesn't follow them. EDIT: And by allies, yes, I lock the teams and usually give myself one more ally than the other teams because it's one less faction I have to kill, but I like big games so...

Reply to refinery base in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Are you sure none of the constructors are moving? If you upgrade the planet you get more constructor frigates, so you might just be looking at the wrong one.

Odd AI whispers in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

This is for anyone who gets AI whispers that seem misplaced so the devs can look into them (after all, no one wants the AI telling them evacuate a planet that noone owns). I get this from my allies sometimes: "Just keep your distance from me and we won't have any trouble." After my allie jumps a scout frigate into my capital planet's gravity well: "Umm, why am I here and your aren't?" From my enemies who are besiging one of my planets (lets say p

I want allies in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

The first game since the hotfix I played, I did my usual, 10 players, 4 galaxies, I gave myself 2 allies, and divided the other AIs into 3 other teams minus the rebels who noone likes, they were by themselves. I started the game, and saw that my allies were spread out across 3 galaxies, I figured no big deal. I play the game, find out that I am next to the rebels, cool, they have no team. I also find out that I, and each of my allies, are next to respective teams in each galaxy. I think, wel

Reply to Parallel Research in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Or it means the we know that early rushes will take you out.

Reply to Is the game engine multiplayer friendly? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

I think it would be the opposite, the Human players would band together to kill off the AI players first, and then, probably before the AI was completely dead, they would start squabbling, but it would be too late for the AI.

Reply to Would this work well? in Everything Else Sins Forums

So then all I would have to do is upgrade my video card, that's fine, I can play on lower settings till I get the money for that.

Reply to Space City/Government/Empire in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Taxes and revolts seem a bit much. There's quite enough to do already, and what would be the point of a morale/tax system? People would just tax as heavily as they could without their systems revolting, which is something you might as well automate, so it might as well just be what we have already. . I'm not talking something huge like Gal Civ II where there are pages to scroll through of intelligence report

Reply to game freezing in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Wait, so all those times I hit send, and it told me it sent it, it actually didn't and I had to do it manually?

Reply to Would this work well? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Eh, was posted by the System Admin on the SupCom forums, so I assume he knows what he's talking about. Sure it's not just something else on your computer?

Reply to Would this work well? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Wait, but that doesn't make any sense, the recommended, as in, what you want to play the game well, not just what you need, is lower than what I'm talking about, and your saying it won't work?

Would this work well? in Everything Else Sins Forums

I've been thinking about getting supcom for a while now, but my current PC wouldn't be able to handle it. I've been looking at some new PCs, and was thinking of this: Operating System: * Microsoft® Windows® Vista Home Premium Processor & Memory: * Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6600 at 2.4GHz * 4MB L2 Cache * 1066MHz Front Side Bus * 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz Drives: * 320GB 7200RPM SATA II Hard Drive * Dual Drives: 48x Combo + 16

Reply to Diplomacy... in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

stronger than the other points whats this supposed to mean. I believe it means that he was agreeing with that point more than the other points you made schem. Kind of like on a survey when the say "Agree Strongly => Disagree Strongly."

Reply to Gameplay more RTS or 4X? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Exactly. To me, 4X is about empire building, not war. However, war is required, because it is a part of empire building, and a test of your empire building skills. In this game, it's basically (as of beta 1 mind you) whoever can out perform others militarily, and has nothing to do with real empire building. You colonize a planet, upgrade the planet, research techs, and churn out units. This is Starcraft in a nutshell as well, if you change the word planet to base. But again, I'm st

Reply to Gameplay more RTS or 4X? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Seems more to me like it's almost all RTS, but I'm not complaining because it's just beta 1. I really won't start complaining till gameplay balance comes out, because that's what I enjoy in betas. Technical stage doesn't have varied enough gameplay and is too much start, error, freeze, crash, start, error, freeze, crash, etc. I'm not here to have fun perse (although I always hope) , but when I do the same thing over and over, and have to keep starting over, I lose interest in anything very qu

Reply to 2nd Final Beta 1 Patch - May 16 - v0.66.010 - Thoughts and Feelings in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I didn't play much of it because, at least for me, the patch broke certain things, and irritated me enough (well, actually, just the fighters, and I'm tired) I just flat out hit exit. + Fixed bug where fighters don't use their auto-attack range properly. Don't know exactly what this means, but now fighters don't attack at all. Enemy had a bomber squadron, I had fighters as usual to counter bombers, fighters chased bombers but never fired a single shot. Bombers killed my flags