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Reply to How to use wormholes? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yep, they just need to be near the center and should go through automatically :)

Reply to Idea for a new mod -- Seeking a "Don't Gang Up On Me" mod to keep more than two AI from ganging up on you. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Also note there is a bug which "they" say will be fixed in 1.04 where the AI gangs up on the top player[/quote] This isn't correct. AI ganging up on the top player is not a bug but an intentional design. The bug commonly referred to is game options (namely, locked teams) not applying properly when loading games, so a game that started on locked teams will become unlocked on load, unless the player accepts the locked team option again.

Reply to Modders I need your input in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yeah, well, you know what? [quote]Just doing my Duty[/quote] So there :P

Reply to Unacceptable Experience in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]mmm.... that's the wrong question. Since the drivers were around BEFORE the game I have to question if Ironclad came up against this problem and, if so, why Stardock have KNOWINGLY release a buggy game that affects so many people?Cheers,[/quote] No, *that's* the wrong question. Ironclad can use the framework that's provided by DirectX. They, however, don't have control over how video card drivers interact with DirectX and the cards. Ergo, the issue isn't anything Ironclad could e

Reply to How to use wormholes? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

You don't need to click on the selectable wormhole itself, just near it - although right clicking should give them a move order also. Once you discover the exit point (by going through it once), you'll be able to see a thick white line between them that shows the link.

Reply to Save games not tranferring?? Help please D: in Technical Sins Forums

Unfortunately there's no way to update the save file so it works with the latest version :(

Reply to Bad Diplomacy = Flawed Game = Bad Value in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

That's the bug Blair mentioned. Locked teams is part of the custom game options that don't properly load on their own, but there is a pre-1.04 fix if you're still playing it - just re-accept the options before you click Start on game load.

Reply to Cogent vs Telia peering dispute in Technical Sins Forums

Wow. That's a pretty bad thing for them to do :(

Reply to Unacceptable Experience in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I believe Yarlen mentioned once that they were getting a lot of support requests from people with pirated copies - so even though it's pretty stupid, people do it :P

Reply to Modders I need your input in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I'll agree with Uzii also. A list of non-obvious changed files (meaning, if the patch notes say some ship was changed, obviously the entity file is), and the reference data right along (or closely following) the patch release would be great. As a slight aside not directly related to converting - but the ability to make comments in the files that the game would skip over when loading/reading the file would be all kinds of awesome. Right now any typo or blank space causes pretty

Reply to Modding the AI / Planet and ship name list in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Expanding a little on what Uzii said: gameplay.constants is the file that has weighting values for what the AI focuses on building for its various personalities, that's the only thing about it we can change

Reply to Bad Diplomacy = Flawed Game = Bad Value in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

While the diplomacy system isn't as robust as turn-based games, it's not impossible - and usually it's pretty easy to maintain at least a cease fire with 1-2 AIs once you get used to how it works. The AI does gang up on the strongest player - which isn't always you, it can be other AI, that's a normal mechanic. In an FFA, everyone's trying to win themselves, so the strongest is the biggest threat and they try to curb it a bit. If they succeed, they break off their own alliances and star

Reply to frustrated in Technical Sins Forums

[quote]Why have I not received any correspondence from IC support concerning the mini-dumps I submitted? [/quote] Considering IC is all of 9 people, and it probably wouldn't be far off to guess they get thousands of emails, they really shouldn't be expected to answer every single one. Even in beta when we were a much smaller group, sometimes it took a long time to get a reply from support, but the majority of the time we still didn't get anything back - doesn't mean they didn'

Reply to Mods? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Notepad! And read those tutorials, they do explain how stuff works :P

Reply to Mod Idea for AI pirates in Sins Modding Sins Forums

All of what you said is possible to change :P

Reply to Colonizing Capital Ships in Strategy Sins Forums

Colonizers allow you to expand faster, but other capitals either bring more survivability or abilities that can be more helpful earlier on instead of the ones on colonizers. A lot of it depends on the map, it's not always necessary to be able to expand really quickly :P

Reply to Question about the MapMaker...(Galaxy Forge) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]What about some sections in some maps where there is just asteroids to in habit, same concept?[/quote] Not exactly sure what you mean.. some maps are made with some randomness, some aren't. Are you talking about the neutral extractors to capture? If so, those are also created by the game itself, not the map file. [quote]Is it possible to do test battles. Say you want to pit 70 LRMs up against 40 Illuminators. Is this possible with Galaxy Forge?[/quote] Nope, i

Reply to Question about the MapMaker...(Galaxy Forge) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Those aren't placed in Galaxy Forge - they are properties of the planets themselves, so when you put down a planet it'll assign the appropriate number of resource asteroids based on the planet's .entity file in GameInfo.

Reply to Colonizing Capital Ships in Strategy Sins Forums

The top row is for capitals, the bottom is for overall fleet capacity :)

Reply to Mod Idea for AI pirates in Sins Modding Sins Forums

There is a playerpirate.entity file, and I'm pretty sure it has a line "canColonize FALSE" (the playables are set to true). However, given that pirates don't really have AI in the same sense as actual computer opponents, whether or not that's useful I don't know. It's possible that you could stick some colony ships in their raid make-up, and if the canColonize flag works after they manage to destroy a planet, the colony ships might snag it. But again, the game may not be designed to han

Reply to Yay, getting Sins in a few days! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I remember back in beta when the AI barely did anything, someone left the game running overnight while they went to sleep. :LOL: I should've saved the resource count screenshot..

Reply to saved files in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Which already exists if you go to Options > Manage Files in-game :)

Reply to REAL Quick Question on increasing Supply Cap Ships allowed in Sins Modding Sins Forums

As far as I know, nobody's been successful at editing saves to change any data :P

Reply to How the DRM works? in Technical Sins Forums

[quote]By the way, every DRM vendor says their copy protection are the least intrusive, convenient, invisible, etc... I prefer to make my own opinion based on a clear explanation of how it works.[/quote] But on the fundamental level, online activation/auth is not copy protection - there's never anything preventing anyone from copying the Sins disc, or running Sins without the disc in the drive, or ever being unable to play it. Stardock's philosophy is that instead of trying to

Reply to How do you start a new empire? in Single Player Sins Forums

I'm not sure what you're asking :P Start a new game?