zenchronus

My best friend and I love to Sin together, but we only play coop comp-stomps. I know, I know, we should be playing online, but we can only manage to throw together 2 or 3 hours every couple of weeks to Sin (we both work full time and go to school full time, and I have a PT job on top of that.) We don't want to spend that time getting schooled in multiplayer. However, we've become good enough over time that we can beat the AI pretty handily. It's always a little crazy towards the begin

Yeah, I checked out the sticky. The issue is that while suggesting that I'm not interested in downloading IRC, and they didn't actually provide an e-mail for the devs. Also, that sticky was aimed at game-breaking exploits. This was more of a minor issue... which I tried to emphasize. As for the use of autocasting in large groups, I think you might have misunderstood me. Autocast is GREAT. It's essential. I'm just irritated by the fact that if I have 2 cap ships of the same type in a con

Well regardless of how they fix it, it needs to be fixed. People get so riled up about suggestions. Head over to the WoW suggestions forum sometime. Everyone acts as if each suggestion is a command to the developers. Lighten up, people! -zenchronus

Alright, I'm posting this because there's an issue with Returning Armada/Dark Armada that people should know about. It's not incredibly serious, but it definitely gives an edge to a power that's already pretty unbalanced. I'm probably shooting myself in the foot since I play Vasari, but then again I feel guilty for using it. My apologies if this has already been posted. So basically the exploit involves going WAY over your unit cap wih free units from the RA. Here's how it's done

You actually can hotkey the phase stabs. Just grab one and create a control group, ie-Ctrl+9. Then hit 9 and shift+click another phase stab. Ctrl+9 again. This should be old hat for anyone who's ever played an RTS. Then you can hit 9 to pull up the group of stabs and just tab through. I believe "Q" summons the fleet, so you can just hit tab, Q, tab, Q, tab, Q, etc. This will summon up a crap-ton of reinforcements. It's also a great way to go through and disable or enable auto-cast. When I'm dest

Oh come on, give credit where credit is due. They may not have stolen it, but they got beaten to the punch by at least 2 years. Strategic Zoom was one of the best features of SupCom. The first time I used it, I immediately thought "Any RTS from now on that doesn't have this will be crippled." It's like when RTS games started using selection boxes and allowing queuing of multiple units at buildings. (I could be way off base, but I think Red Alert for the former, and Age of Empires for the latter.

It's called strategic zoom. I love it. I don't want to disable the zoom to mouse feature. It's lifted from SupCom, which came up with it, and it's brilliant. The problem is that when you're zooming in, your focus will shift to a unit near your cursor. Which means that if you're watching a battle and you zoom in on a unit that's about to jump out, suddenly your viewpoint is being whisked away to another well. It's irritating. As for the strategy, thanks for the praise. I definitely went

As an addition, my friend Jeff just saw this post and told me that I had not actually trapped his whole fleet in my little sneaky attack, but I had in fact only caught about 2/3 of it. The other 1/3 was at that moment circling around to the other side of the empire to perform a diversionary attack on one of my core worlds, drawing away my fleet for his own attack in the neighborhood where I laid my trap. All of his flak was with the small fleet because he knew that my worlds were defended with H

First of all, I apologize if there are any typos. I'm writing this at a hospital's e-cafe, and these "sanitary keyboards" are the most godawful thing ever invented. I have to slam every freaking key down. Ok, so yesterday my friend and I played a LAN on a medium map with one solar system, 20 or so planets, and pirates. I played Advent, he played TEC. The game went pretty well... lots of bidding wars with the pirates as we teched up and expanded. Towards the end we both had pretty

See, but what I'm saying is that I like the zoom to cursor function. I do NOT like the auto focus function. They're two separate things. I'm fine with zooming in on a unit if my cursor is over it. But a.)I don't want to track that unit and follow it, and b.)it seems like it's not only when my cursor is over it. If my cursor is anywhere near it, it tracks. Or maybe it's just that there are so many fighters flying around. I'm always tracking one of them. I don't think I'm wrong about ther

Yeah, but that's the strategic zoom option. I WANT it to zoom to my cursor. That center of the screen stuff is so 2006. Strategic zoom is great. I just don't want it to auto-focus on a unit when I zoom in. -zenchronus

Thought of one more I would like to see. Someone else has stated this one as well, but it'd be nice to start out neutral with all factions in an unlocked game. Nothing worse than doing an early mission to gain some rep only to have your automated defenses blast their scout into smithereens, destroying the rep you just spent 1000 credits to earn. -zenchronus

I only really have two complaints with this brilliant, brilliant, brilliant game is one that should be easy to fix. Heck, maybe there is a solution and I just don't see it. Basically I think there should be a research queue manager of some sort. In other words, if I have 15 or 20 research items queued up, it's very irritating to suddenly realize I need a specific item (let's say that my enemy has switched to a fighter heavy strategy and I need def. frigates NOW) and then have to go through and i

If you're jonesing for a carrier heavy strategy, you may be tempted to play Advent. I would advise against it. If you really want to put some hurt on an enemy, play as TEC. Go for a very carrier heavy strategy. More importantly, let your enemy KNOW you're doing it. Let them build Flak to their heart's content. Then make 2 or 3 of the Carrier Cap Ships for the TEC (the name escapes me), buy a few upgrade levels/put them in a few battles, and then during your big assault use the Manufactu