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[quote who="IamMirezNL" reply="13" id="3148125"]It makes no sense it keeps it's exp though, in lategame you can just que up another titan and turtle until he's done.[/quote] That sounds like a "just" type of situation to you? I don't feel so at all. It's a VERY grave situation that must be countered immediately after you get the Titan back, or you probably loose. The opponent's fleet that was able to kill your Titan will have proceeded to either tak

[quote who="Teun-A-Roonius" reply="14" id="3147239"] Quoting Fyrstar2002, reply 13I say go a step further. Make the occupation planet an actual AI player on Cruel difficulty level that can't leave it's star system.Thats would be a difficult thing to program, though it could lead to more interesting games when implemented.[/quote] It sounds very easy to me. They already have AI like that, all you'd need to do is throw out some code that has the AI choose targets

If you loose your Titan, you have to pay its large cost to rebuild it, plus of course you don't have its firepower or abilities available for the entire duration it takes to rebuild it, which puts your planets and fleet at a large risk - subsequent losses almost guaranteed. This is almost not a recoverable situation in PvP already. I don't see why people want to punish the loss of a Titan even more.

Wail may be slightly too strong if the Advent player is sitting in a choke point with its capitals (especially carriers) and wail. It's a really hard-to-overcome obstacle and may lead to a fleet loss the Advent player can exploit massively. On the other hand, TEC's economic advantage also is quite extreme. Wail probably does not put _enough_ of a dent into a TEC player's fleets on larger maps to even partly offset a TEC player's stronger economy and ship

[quote who="davidabc66" reply="18" id="3128844"] Any situation where you can delay an expense with no consequence creates an opportunity in the form of spending that money on something else that will further your goals. Obviously, like you said you're not going to want to spend all of it, as that may delay your construction if you don't earn enough back in time, but some of it? Absolutely. It's not something that most people bother with all that much, but when you

[quote who="CarighanMaconar" reply="14" id="3127679"]If it were one step, I could only start it 3 minutes later, since Id have to first wait until I hogged 8000 resources.[/quote] Sure. But if the last step simply took 3 minutes less, it'd all be the same, really. You still need to pay in full and you still cannot afford to do only half as-is now, as you get absolutely nothing for doing only half.

[quote who="CarighanMaconar" reply="11" id="3127646"]The techs also help to make the Titan easier to fund. If you had to pay the combined amount once, for some "supertech", you would need substantially longer until you could even start working on the Titan. This way you can take sort-of babysteps.[/quote] That is an indicative that the wrong approach was taken. Bottom line is: You need to push ALL four research buttons before the Titan does anything at all. If you take "baby s

[quote who="davidabc66" reply="10" id="3127564"]But for normal settings, the only merit of having it this way is that slight bit of room for players to capitalize on efficiency by not queuing things up in advance.[/quote] You "capitalize" on the efficiency gained just... how? You don't have enough time to re-earn the investment until the next Titan stage is due. And stalling the Titan research / construction mid-way into the whole affair isn't an option now, is it?

[quote who="bilun" reply="6" id="3127415"]Adds more rewards for players that can micro well. Plat it well and you can finish the research periods around the time you actually need them rather then tying up resources by researching them long in advance.[/quote] Have you even tried this? Assuming you're on normal / quick research, it doesn't even really matter right now. The research completes quickly relative to how slow the Titan builds anyways. And if re

[quote who="Rovert10" reply="2" id="3127336"]The four techs are there so you can't just rush for it at the very beginning of the game but while still making a viable early to mid game strategy.[/quote] The very first planet can have four tech buildings. Easily so if you add the asteroid nearby. The limiting factor is cost, not tech buildings. [quote who="jurgensdl" reply="1" id="3127335"]Just remember, the Titan will continue to build up to the point where you have th

I do not believe there is a point to having 4 techs to build titans as-is now. It seems like a handicap for people bad at basic arithmetic, and a boring chore for the rest of us. Why? Having an un-built Titan locks up a large amount of resources for no gain, so there simply is no point starting to build a Titan unless you know you have/will it all funded... at which point you will start the Titan construction and Techs 2 through 4 more or less simultaneously. There's no re

Months spent on getting over the 2GB memory limit on 32 bit? I'm a bit surprised that this is worth the effort vs. just creating a 64-bit release. I'd think the time saved could be spent with great effect on some additional mod features. Maybe support for huge research trees and more complex ship construction menus (lists) that can handle many times the current number of ships? Or maybe some multi-threading.

I played EVE for years and I just kinda suspended it for a while now, mostly due to RL. In my experience, EVE is a good pasttime when you actually WANT to kill time, but not a game you can use well to relax. If you already have a stressful job life and all, this game probably will not work for you. This is because the game rewards you most for playing it as though it was a job, you are best off if you calculate everything, if you can be present whenever you're needed, and you need to

[quote who="DANMAN3712" reply="3800" id="2483150"] Also, I will check to see if we can crank up the download speed as well. Mediafire will not work, as I would need to break up the mod into several parts, and that would create chaos. Since we own the server, this should be able to be done soon and without a big problem. [/quote] If you choose to start a torrent for the mod, I'll help seed.

[quote who="Nacey" reply="1760" id="2478066"] It should be in the Civilian tree under the engineering block, 5 slots in [/quote] TEC has it, but Advent / Vasari do not. Is this really just me?

The story is good, the voice actors are downright amazing, but combat is so-so at most. Still very much worht buying IMO.

I had this issue every time I played with my brother on LAN (problem free connection), in Entrenchment 1.041 and Diplomacy 0.90, with and without the Distant Stars Mod. The game is just out of sync between players, some events like the other playing with a capital ship or producing of some new units or sending resources seem to still be registere on both endsd, but pirates and which ships/planets are alive and whom they belong to all that is horribly wrong between the games. I

I think the tech tree for the planets is messed up in DS Diplomacy 0.61, too. Can't see the colonization tech for urban planets etc.

[quote]Your post is false, simply because I am a 70% Vasari player, 28% TEC player, and 2% Advent player, thus I'v used RA, and several times.[/quote] It is not, 'cause this was a direct response to [quote]it really does seem like most of the people,(note:Most, not all), whom have simply strolled into this thread crying for the removal or alteration, have NEVER ACTUALLY PLAYED AS VASARI AND ARE SEEING THIS ONLY FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE OPPOSING PLAYER[/quote]. Your reading skills l

There doesn't need to be a native Linux version... in fact that's only economically somehow viable for OpenGL based games. For DirectX based games Wine is fine. If Stardock / Ironclad wanted increased Linux compatibility over what they have now, they could hire Codeweavers or Transgaming to do it, or contribute patches to Wine themselves. Oh and not glad to hear you can't afford the game because you're from "down under", so don't take this as me trying to annoy you or something

Maldon: You're wrong. The realization that Vasari RA is overpowered comes from exploiting it, and I have the feeling that at least most of the people who suggested fixes actually did know what they were talking about. (Except the labs based fix, to me seems just as un-viable as destroying gates currently is, without an array of other changes. Disabling scuttle for one would again be a must). Of course, you have no guarantees that we've not only played against bad players (

[quote]Back on topic: does anyone have a link to the mario kart thread??[/quote] [link="https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/304957"]There[/link]. I have the feeling that thread still needs additional contributions. EDIT: 1m10s too late... :D

[quote]On a partly unrelated note: I was of the impression (or guessing, I don't remember) that the "thing" was the Advent.[/quote] No. Read [link="https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/lore.aspx"]the lore[/link] (again). [quote]I think the main issues with 'fixing' the dark fleets is to keep it consistent with the lore and to make it comparable to the other end-civil abilities.[/quote] I don't see an issue with the lore. You can even easily find reasons in it why the sh

Sorry, but only the best players can tell us how to make their strategies harder to imitate and give them weak points that are fun to play with. Otherwise, the game will be, especially for worse players, an endless repetition of some imitation of a "pro's" most efficient simple tactic. Which sucks, especially against AI, cause they have zero chance to actually learn a counter.

[quote]-Edit: I feel guilty asking for an imbalanced strategy to be made more convenient[/quote] IMO, It also should be way more convenient, like any produced ship inheriting the group of the factory / gate it belongs to, and group-casting (shift modifier for all at the same time, single-click for single-ship casts) for marked units of the same type. Stuff like this. Imbalances introduced through usability & clickfests will also only lead to AutoIT-scripters and their kind to h