Fishbreath

[quote]If that's not why you want to do this, but because not everyone has a spiffy g-card, then add the lower res textures to the lower video settings. IIRC, there are several texture resolution settings, so just stick the lower res textures in one of those settings, problem solved.[/quote] It's my understanding that this isn't possible. Lower texture resolution settings aren't often separate textures in the game files, they're just downscaled from the maximum-resolution file when

How about we avoid nerfing the Advent and you just take some time to learn how to play to your Vasari's strengths?

[quote who="dfalken" reply="15" id="2063502"]How about the carriers use antimatter to replace downed strike craft?/quote] Isn't this how it already works?

*cough* Any ideas? It's not a big problem, but it's one of those things that really gets on my nerves. >.>

I usually have one around for Clairvoyance.

Ron hit the nail on the head. You're really far /far/ better off just putting defenses in orbit.

If you order from Impulse in any way, you get access to the downloadable goodies, including the music CD.

Ordering via Impulse download gets you the Collector's Edition goodies in downloadable form. Ordering via Impulse and getting a box gets you a Collector's Edition box (unless things have changed, or maybe if they've run out), whatever that contains. It strikes me as fairly likely that they're out of CE boxes at this point.

I thought I remembered seeing that this had been fixed--whenever I get a whisper from an AI ally (say), or the 'Planet acquired' message, or anything else in the chat text area at the top of the screen, my framerate drops drastically. Using the 181.22 GeForce drivers and an 8500GT. Dxdiag available on request--I don't like to pack it into the first post in a thread. I fiddled around with graphics settings today. It seems much worse on the Non-maskable antialiasing

It already does.

You owe a lot to the mob, and you need to repay 'em by carrying out a hit on somebody.

Halo's a pretty good place to get into singleplayer shooters, at least. I'd actually recommend TF2 as a decent place to start multiplayer-wise: heavy is a very straightforward shooter experience, and from there he can branch out.

[quote who="wbino" reply="7" id="1910791"]Is there a cockpit on this thing? I don't see one, or is it robotic?[/quote] Ships in Sins are on a massive scale, IIRC. LRM Frigates are something like a hundred meters long.

I want an Ironclad t-shirt.

Nobody else gets to speak in this thread until they've read this .

Illusion illuminators (illusionators?) or Vasari ships spawned by the carrier, perchance?

[quote]That way, only 3 planets e,g homeworld and two other chokepoints of your choice can be heavily fortified in this way.[/quote] Ick. Don't limit me because you wanted to buff defenses well past the bounds of balance. Defenses are the way they are. Anything else leads to turtling (which isn't a bad thing on its own) and stalemates (which are). I heard an argument earlier in this thread that strong defenses add to strategy--au contraire. Strong defenses rob players like me o

FoePa: what does the debug exe say income is for Unfair AIs? If it's 20 at game start, you've proved your point. On the other hand, it's possible that the income rate is modified after it's rendered to the debug boxes--sounds silly at first, but on the other hand, income rates happened well after release, and I can see developers forgetting to update at which point the debug information is output. Hard-AI-gets-bonuses people: why do you trust in the endgame charts so blindly? If the sce

It's been discussed before, and unless there's been a major shift in the opinions of the developers, it's staying the way it is. The justification is that it allows a bit more competition even if you lag behind on fleet size research, because you can rebuild faster. The lore justification is that ship upgrade costs are negligible--it's the military bureaucracy you're building that costs more.

Are there chat messages from the other players at the top of the screen during the battles? That caused problems in the past. It still does, for me, actually. OTherwise, I dunno.

I have one, but it was dropped recently, and the power supply is no longer uninterruptable.

Honestly, I think this is a fairly cool bug. Why not give colony ships an additional 'construct mine' ability for 250cr and leave scuttling the way it is?

I avoid gameplay mods that aren't total conversions as a general rule--the only one I've ever come across that has enhanced the original game is Tabletop Roundup for Dawn of War, and that's only because the balance issues are overshadowed by the over-the-topness. I'm thinking of grabbing one of the enhanced effects mods (Bailknight's videos are [I]fantastically[/I] pretty), though, but I suppose I'll wait until 1.1 for that. What can I say? I'm not very mod happy.

You know, in my most recent game with 1.05 I've noticed the whisper slowdown as well.

2. 'Pin' puts the selected thing onto the empire tree, or takes it off it it's already there. Default settings pin pretty much everything, though. 4. It can help. As TEC, there are two technologies that are absolutely essential: trade ports and Javelis LRM frigates. Trade ports because the TEC endgame is a combination of a wonderful superweapon and outproduction of enemies, and LRM frigates because those will end up being the backbone of your fleet. 5. For your initial expansio