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Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

q for biggles: let's say you have an awesome passive sensor. for fun, let's say it detects infrared only, though obviously you could make it detect anything you want. wouldn't the fact that your infrared (or other) radiation only travels at c mean that a ship at a reasonably long range would have quite a difficult time accurately predicting the path of the giant blob of heat? certainly you can see it, but if the thing's a decent ways away they can't be reasonably tracked, which

Reply to Neutral Civilizations in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]I've never seen a Neutral Civ before. When I encounter one, will I know it?[/quote] They have structures and such, so definitely.

Reply to game hard freeze in Technical Sins Forums

Never trust a company with a [link="http://www.jeantech.com/"]website like this[/link]. Really, I'm not sure this is hardware related, but hard freeze is not something software does often. It's gotta be a really, really messy crash to cause this sort of thing rather than just not responding. What other games is it *not* locking up in? The 8500GT does not grab a lot of amperage but really you should have been told never to use a PSU that comes with a case!

You'll Always Be Weighting in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I think there might be a bit of an issue with how random ships are spawned in Insurgency as well as in Phase Gate, etc.. Basically, anything with a "weight" option. It seems that while it's easily possible to give weight to certain classes of ships to spawn in, the number that spawn in total seems to be highly random and quite small (between 1-4 ships). This has some impact on my mod(s). Could I get a clarification of how exactly this works? Is there a random # of ship limit hard-

Reply to Neutral Civilizations in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Local militia and neutral civs are not the same thing. The latter are relatively rare and have bases, the former are in every star system. OP, check Galaxyscenariodef. You might be able to 1. remove all the ships or 2. set them to Weight 0 so they don't spawn.

Reply to game hard freeze in Technical Sins Forums

Blargh. I am stupid. The 6000 comes at 3ghz out of the box. Too used to Intels. What model is the PSU exactly?

Reply to What is "Bump"? in Technical Sins Forums

[quote]groovy[/quote] Literally!

Reply to game hard freeze in Technical Sins Forums

[quote]also my cpu's are running at 3gig, forgot to mention that too.[/quote] Bingo. Hard freeze is [B]almost always indicative of a unstable overclock[/B]. Your other games may not hit the CPU hard enough but Sins does a hell of a lot of unit logic. Next time, run Prime95 longer. :)

Reply to Need Mod Help? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

C:\Documents and Settings\Hikako\My Documents\SinsModPackageIncomplete\ConvertXSI >convertXSI ussrconst.xsi ussrconst.mesh ERROR : XSIParser::ReadDotXSIHeader ERROR : CXSIParser::Open Failed to Open ussrconst.xsi. what does this mean and how do I fix it Used 3dsmax 9 to export to XSI via Crosswalk.

Reply to What is "Bump"? in Technical Sins Forums

Bump is when all your vertices get fly and funky fresh is fully in effect. You bump with the best, you grind with the rest, then you get down. Alternatively, bump mapping makes flat things look less flat - it makes relatively basic models look like they have complex geometry.

Reply to Official modding tools? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

read the stickies

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Please explain to me how you intend to detect electromagnetic waves before they reach you. Avoid using the term "spidey sense" in your response.-Bigglesworth[/quote] of course you can't actively detect them when did i claim you could [quote]You can't dodge it, and you can't see it coming[/quote] in this case i was referring to the first, not the second propostion edit: u could also use ur spidey sense tho

Reply to Ships made from Battleships Forever Question in Sins Modding Sins Forums

the answer to this question is always "no"

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]You can't dodge it, and you can't see it coming. In this case it's about whoever pushes the button first.[/quote] of course you can, at a sufficient distance of course reasonable engagement ranges you can't - but really, in space everything is artillery

Reply to PROJECT IN WORKS: Spaceship Mesh Generator for SINS in Sins Modding Sins Forums

well if you can meld 50 shapes into a single shape you might want to pick a different example. those saucers are basically just a distorted cylinder and two cones, and even a basic modeler could easily reproduce them in a few minutes i'm not saying the idea isn't unsound: certainly we need more people in this community for it to prosper. but i think the direction is the wrong way to be taking it. instead of computer-generating basic meshes, people should be writing tutorials on how to m

Reply to I'm not one who believes PC gaming is dying...HOWEVER... in PC Gaming Sins Forums

regardless of your opinions on piracy the fact that it alone is cracking these DRM schemes along with the above post should tell you a lot about where the industry should be going

Reply to How to properly harass an opponent in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

i dunno but man when I played a 3v3 game and was about to colonize a planet and then some guy sent a few ships and his cap across both the planets and then kept warping them around that was pretty effective

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote] Price increase of crude oil from speculative pressure$20 [/quote] Interested in where you got these figures because speculation is pretty commonly accepted as a scapegoat when it doesn't take physical reserves off the market.

Reply to Future politics, what do think it will be like when we can colinize other planets and fight space battles. in Everything Else Sins Forums

The population problem will take care of itself. Japan, Europe and other "first-world" or developed nations/regions have such declining birth rates compared to Africa/India/etc that it should balance out.

Reply to PROJECT IN WORKS: Spaceship Mesh Generator for SINS in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Am I the only one that thinks this is a solution in desperate need of a problem? It's quite easy to make a basic ship mesh in any modeling program. It's much harder to make one that's optimized, UV map it, and skin it. This would simply flood the community with unskinned, buggy models, when what it really needs is people that know how to do it by hand, skin, and properly export these models. It would also encourage the worrying trend of model replacement mods over gameplay cha

Reply to Win An ATI Radeon 4870 Video Card! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

AMD has made a lot of improvements to the CPU industry as a whole: they were essentially the savior back in the Pentium 4 days, and Intel is moving towards the replacement of the antiquated front side bus which AMD has been heralding. However, AMD's made quite a few missteps along the way, for example the botched Phenom launch. If you could go back and change one thing (realistically of course) to make AMD more successful in today's market, whether in your department of marketing or even pricing

Reply to HARDCODED LIMITS - by DANMAN in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Hey, what about this: [23:58:29] randomShipCount exceeds the maximum allowed. 6 requested but only 5 allowed. If a larger number is needed bug a programmer!

Was the embargo planet drain status effect fixed at some point? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

see title: 1.05, 1.09, whatever

Reply to HARDCODED LIMITS - by DANMAN in Sins Modding Sins Forums

reminder that if your mod is not using existing assets its a matter of tidyness to get rid of all the old stuff. can improve stability and make troubleshooting a lot easier

Reply to The Balance Theory in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote] As the classic critique goes, it doesn't make any testable predictions and only serves to generate a heap of PhD theses.[/quote] it's like the 'create your own ship' feature in GalCiv II except with more branes and a doctorate at the end customize your own string theory variant! win fabulous prizes and grant money!