Nadanova

Its interesting to read that there essay on the cap ships. Made me think, I prefer the Akkan as my starting ship for TEC and always have one in the fleet somewhere as colonise and Ion Bolt can come in pretty handy, the main workhorse of my TEC fleets are normally Marzas and Kols, Kols for their abilities and Marzas for the planet bombing and also the fact that I always max out my missile upgrades. As Advent I normally go for the Progenitor as the shielding on that is spectacular, as a s

The funny thing about SOASE Bloom is that even though I run the game at highest detail, 75hz, 4x anti aliasing, 1440x900 resolution... Bloom lags me down like hell... and I get 40fps with all the other stuff on the highest it can go. But as soon as I add bloom... 15fps. No idea what is happening there...

I marvel at anyone able to use blender because I think it is the most annoying tool ever... Well done on the great model and good luck getting it ingame. plus... any 3ds max 9 tutorials would be kinda useful

[quote]Im also running an AMD processor. An X2 3800+ (Which I think is 2.ghz each). No dual core running here, and im running the latest drivers and optimizer.Still nothing[/quote] I am running the same processor and I experience quite choppy gameplay when I have lots of units on the map, I did check my processor and it was only operating on one core.

The Dawn of Victory mod is working on planetry invasion i think... [link="http://dov.slipstreamproductions.net/towscreens.html"]WWW Link[/link] Look at the images near the bottom... features land armies.

[quote] That's no moon! [/quote] Thats a Melon!

[quote]Many people are frustrated about it - and I hope it will be changed in the future, either by the developers or some "realism" mod. [/quote] Well realisim mods do come up for most games at some point or other... I'm looking forward to one :)

pirates feature in most space RTS games these days such as Star Wars: Empire at war... they can be annoying but I must say they make excellent target practic :D

I'm just downloading Sins just now so when i get it up and running i'll come and join in... bear in mind i'll be dead nooby probably until about 15 minutes into the game :p