arknor

[quote]See pirates are usually some of the most clever people in the gaming world. I know quite a few that play many online games including WC3 and World or Warcraf and Guild Wars, you name it. Without paying a dime.[/quote] with WOW they arent playing on blizzards servers with the paying customers though , theyre playing on private servers that are run with the stolen server code of blizzards , you dont get thousands of people on the same server because they dont have the hardware for it, i

[quote]Some of the networks in the USA are putting shows on-line but they restrict viewing to local markets only and most of them inject ads into the show. So for those of us outside of the USA torren[/quote] people outside of the usa could always just use an american proxy

[quote]I don't see TV shows as "piracy". If it aired on TV it should be completely free for download. It' stupid to try to restrict its availability after it got aired for the whole world to see.[/quote]i dont know about in america but in the UK nearly all the terrestial channels put there TV shows online for viewers to watch at the times they want to these days. i guess it better that they get the traffic to there websites than some torrent site as they will get more revenue from there

[quote]And nobody believes me when I say that piracy is an over exaggerated myth.[/quote] people complain so much about piracy because they compare pc sales to console ones but they get there sales figures from an organization that doesnt count purchases of direct download copys. did you know iron lore entertainment closed its doors recently? youve probably never heard of them but there the people who did titan quest and they were doing soulstorm the warcraft3 expansion. <b

maybe just try nuking C:\Documents and Settings\[B]YOURWINDOWSUSERNAME[/B]\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games

[quote]AI-wise they don't put enough bounty on anyone.Midgame the AI is putting 1500 credit bounties on each other - I'm putting 20,000 credit bounties.[/quote] my reply was based around FFA multiplayer with real people. pirates will always attack the base of the person with bounty that is nearest to them them, so the place getting attacked can play a huge part of the decision of wether its worth it, will it make the guy bring his fleet half way across the map leaving his other worl

i always use bounty as a way to stop someone beeing able to attack me , like if i have 2 neighbours , i will place bounty on one and attack the other. early game when people have small fleets they wont get many pirates attacking them but it can still be useful for slowing people down from colonising planets quick if u can get a nice cheap pirate raid on them

[quote]Well, there's still the issue that those that want to quit would choose that "Save and Continue Later" option and the game would still end...they would just delete the save or never come back to it.And requiring all players to agree first? I'm not so sure that being "held hostage" in a game you don't want to continue (for any reason, selfish or not) is such a good idea. I imagine that some players run into playing too late, must leave for a reason as simple as Must Sleep, and quit.I don

[quote]alright noted, but would that explain the fact the game makes my computer lag even when i have exited the game?[/quote] try turning down the games settings so it uses less memory, you dont need planets , ships and structures at there highest settings unless you zoom in on them to admire there glorious textures all the time, just keep ship effects up high.

heres the answer i got when i said i wouldnt give my cdkey to them but they could contact stardock with my email address if they wanted to make sure i had a legit copy of the game. [quote]orry Luke, I was only trying to expedite the process. If I can't get the cdkey from you it will take another day to verify your address with Stardock (they are closed atm). We didn't care about cdkeys until we realized that a good portion of our support was going to helping people who h

so ive been sending all my minidumps to [email protected] and today i got this reply [quote] Sorry about your problem. Please zip up your gameinfo folder and send it to me so I can look into this further. Please include your cdkey as well :) Thanks, Josie :) Technical Support Ironclad Games www.ironcladgames.com [/quote] im curious why someone wanting to fix my game liking to crash on maps with more than one star would require my cd

if you use debugging tools for windows (which you can download on the MS site somewhere just google search) , click open > crash dump once its loaded and the dump file info loads type "!analyze -V" in the text field without the qoutes. most of it probably is memory related issues but you can get lucky and it will just be your soundcard or graphics card drivers causing the problem.

longshot but try https://www.stardock.com/support/ enter the email address you used when ordering in the box and you might get an email with the serial number to the games if the order really went through .if you did download https://www.stardock.com/products/sdcentral/ goto tools> settings > games choose sins of a solar empire and enter the email address you ordered with and the serial key, you can now download the game on the "games" section of that program.

your serial number should have been on the reciept page, goto https://www.stardock.com/support/ enter the email address you used when ordering in the box and you will get an email with the serial numbers to any games you have ordered from them. now download https://www.stardock.com/products/sdcentral/ goto tools> settings > games choose sins of a solar empire and enter the email address you ordered with and the serial key, you can now download the game on the "games" section of that program.<br/

heres how they look if you dont have the symbol files, there not exactly impossible to guess what went wrong without the symbol files, im using "debugging tools for windows" [code]FAULTING_IP: +fffffffff842daa0 f842daa0 ?? ??? EXCEPTION_RECORD: ffffffff -- (.exr ffffffffffffffff) ExceptionAddress: f842daa0 ExceptionCode: c0000005 [B](Access violation)[/B] ExceptionFlags: 00000000 NumberParameters: 2 Parameter[0]: 00000000 Pa

i can host games fine and i often do but when im not hosting the migrating crap never works

[quote] just lame a whopping 4% mitigation isnt doing much Math is your friend. [/quote] meaning? 4% is the difference the game shows if u look at a ships info pop up when its not in your culture and when it is

TEC superweapon is just pure win i had 5 of them on gateway in an MP game the other day i just set them to auto fire enabled and sat back with a huge grin on my face :) advent one is just lame a whopping 4% mitigation isnt doing much and if u build 4 of them and constantly bomb planets it would take forever for them to fall. vasari one only seems good for pirate bases

[quote]as well as planetary bonuses and (maybe? I haven't found one, but I'm assuming) an artifact or two.[/quote] some of the asteroid's have a 20% trade bonus and theres a couple ive had with 50% bonus to metal extraction or crystal. sometimes you get the trade bonus aswell as the mining bonus on the same asteroid

click on a ship in the area of effect and the buff stats should be listed at the bottom of the info popup

in civ4 anyone could take over your race if you dropped out but you could password your race to stop anyone else taking over aswell. already made a thread suggesting it https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=406&aid=176008

dunno why people seem so addicted to culture, ive tried playing advent and culture bombing but it doesnt really alter the fact that if someone has a bigger fleet than yours they can kill your fleet and then proceed to whipe out all of your planets without you beeing able to stop them. the culture bomb superweapon is complete and utter crap compared to the other super weapons aswell. i had like 4 of them the other day and they barely made any difference at all , maybe if you kept lob

i get it to but i bet its because my router is set so it doesnt respont to ping requests

migrating never worked for me so i just host my own games now if i have to leave the game for any reason i will just surrender and hit "watch game" or whatever the option is so i continue to host. obviously i will tell the other players i need to go but i will carry on as the host

any software firewalls? antivirus? if you do try adding the sins executable file onto there trusted zones/exclusion list and see if that helps.