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Yeah I have noticed that it is mostly when you wail on the cap ship in their fleet that they start to retreat. But honestly, I have really yet to see an ai fleet that has more than 3 cap ships, if that. Mostly they are just overloaded with the cobalt light frigate or its version with the other races. I know those are the workhorses of the fleet, but by about 3-4 hours into the game, and I am almost done researching my fleet and cap ship slots, and with the enemy on hard, I would think they wo

Hey all, just want to say kickass game. Me and my buddies ahve been playing it non stop over LAN. We do have a quick question. I have been searching the forums and cant quite find anything that matches what we are wondering about. We have played quite a few games against the computer, varying the difficulty and their behaviors and we still get the same result. No matter what, when we go up against an enemy fleet of equal or even slightly bigger size, they still t

It seems like AI is a priority for you guys, which is awesome. I havent had a chance to experiment with Hard yet, but on Normal Random, I have found that as long as I can defend myself at the beginning, I can become basically unstoppable because I just build enough trade ports and refineries I dwarf the other players resources and I can just pump out units non-stop. I see the enemy maybe building one or somethign per planet but nothing to keep up with my resource rate.

I bought the game via direct to drive from stardock central, and I was wondering if there was any way of installing an older version of the game. I find 1.02 makes my games sluggish and at times unplayable, as with 1.01 I didnt seem to have a problem at all. I have tried messing with the resolution and turned all anti-aliasing off, and it doesnt seem to matter, it just chugs and stutters. Also, I find at random times that the game itself freezes when I try to zoom or switch to something at a

Ahhhh, thats definitely it. Do you have any idea if there is a way to fix this? I have tried the sound mixer and such, but can not find an equilizer or anything to adjust the bass. Headphones sound fine, its just a pain to wear them while playing. Thanks.

I am using my standard speakers that are on my laptop. All the other sounds are fine, and are loud, but its just the engines that sound weak and low.

I was just wondering if anyone is having the problem of the engines sounding either quiet or nonexistant. I have a reltek high definition audio card, with up to date vista drivers. All the other sound in the game is fine, except for the engines. I can zoom all the way in to the back of a cap ship and i can barely hear the sound if i stick my ear up to the speaker. I feel that it is not supposed to be like that, but I have not been able to find anyone else with this problem. Thanks.

I have noticed that there is a very quiet sound when the ships are moving, but barely noticable, especially in the heat of battle. Is that the sound that everyone else experiences for the capital ships? Its basically the same sound I hear from the fighters too.

A couple things I have noticed on the sound front. I basically have all the sounds in the game, soundtrack, weapons effects, etc...but during phase jumping, the sound is very crackly and just sounds low quality. Also I hear no sounds whatsoever for the capital ship engines when they are moving. I am not sure if taht is a bug or the design, but I would think that you would want to hear the powerful engines of one of the big cap ships. Also, I just want to say that I love the game, and these a

I also have noticed that the ESC button no longer works. Whether or not this is a bug, it has changed from 1.01, and if anything, I would like it to be added to the list so that we can at least map the menu to it if we want. Thanks. Also, I have noticed that even in the earlier versions, there is no sound for the capital ship engines when they are travelling. I get all the other sounds, music, weapons effects, and the fighters, but the cap ships make no sound whatsoever, and I would think tha

Hey all, just downloaded the full game now and it rocks. I have quick question though. I read through the manual that came with the download, and it talks about pinging certain areas to get the ai's attention to either attack or defend, etc...anywho, I have tried to do this and have yet to figure out how to get the options in the action panel. I can ping just fine, but all it does is make a planet or whatever i have clicked on flash on the big map, but thats it. I dont have any controls on h

I was wondering if anyone else felt this way, I think the fighter and the bomber models should be switched, or at least have the sizes changed. I think its a little odd that the fighters are a bit bigger than the bombers. The bombers just look like they are faster and more manueverable than the fighters, but thats just my opinion. Also, the missiles they shoot out are just huge compared to their ships. Also, all I have to say is that if this is the type of stuff that I have to compl

Everything disappears. The fighter/bomber model is completely gone. It still shows the icon of the squadron when you are zoomed out, but as you zoom in and the icon goes away and is supposed to be replaced by the actual models, but they arent there. It doesnt let me select them either at this close of zoom, however, I can still issue orders when I am zoomed out far enough to see their icon. I have been noticing, that this occurs just randomly, or havent been able to put my finger on it just y

I know how to zoom in and see them. What I am trying to say is that it shows them launching, flying around and such, but that when I click on the icon, there is no ship there whatsoever wehn I zoom in. I have found that randomly, the fighter models will show back up but then just disappear again at random times...so I have no idea what the deal is, hopefully the can fix this, or I pray its just not my computer.

Hey all, I havent had a chance to play for a while since work has gotten real busy, but I just started a decent size game since I have some free time and I have found some graphic glitches, but I have used teh search option on here and havent found any other posts on it. I am about 3.5hrs into the game, a 4 galaxy battle with around 5 or 6 enemies (I like beign able to build up and then have mass battles), but now when I load the game, all the fighters have disappeared! It still shows their ic

Hey all, I have been searching the forum to see if there is a way to move things up/down in the game? It seems like the ships sometimes do this on their own, but I have no way of controlling it. I would like to be able to build gun enplacements up and down along a flight path, not just on the same level? Am I missing something in the controls?? I went through the tutorial again and it said nothing about moving up or down. Thanks.

I was wondering, in the options menu under graphics, what does the table on the far right represent? The choices are: None, Non-maskable, 2 samples, 4 samples? I have it on 4 but I have no idea what it means. Thanks. Mike

Well I just preordered the game, and let me say, that I think this has the potential to be possibly the best space-based RTS to date. Now being the beta, there are certain to be some problems, and they might be mentioned elsewhere, but I feel that I should just give a complete list of some of the things that I feel need fixing before the next or final version. Here we go: 1. I have read this in another topic about the enemy just jumping to the gravity well of one planet then immediat