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Reply to I must be missing something ... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Disclaimer: I have never used the original GalCiv II engine. I played the campaign in the Twilight engine. "An Unexpected Visitor" was the first map I ever played. I took your 'single planet' statement a bit too literally, so I had assumed you had wasted your colony ship. Personally I colonized just like you and wondered basically the same thing. I took the time to power through select parts of the limited tech tree and figure out the game a bit before trading some of those advances for

Reply to A couple of observations I would like to get you guys ideas on in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]5) Declare war on people. They only get ships upon declaring war on races (note, not getting declared war ON, you must be the aggressor).[/quote] Are you sure about this? I just declared war on the Drengin, and they certainly had a fleet of Super Dominators arrive at their planet the next turn.

Trade Issues in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

In the last game I played, I noticed some strange behavior involving trades. 1) Toxic Atmosphere Reducer and Advanced Toxic Atmosphere Reducer. I was playing as the Korath. In the beginning of the game, I noticed that no AI would even give me a single BC for these techs. That made sense as there were no toxic planets on the map. However, after I conquered most of the map with spore ships, the AI was still unwilling to give anything for these techs. I finally reduced the map to one

Reply to I must be missing something ... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Everyone starts out with one planet. You are the only race that starts with a colony ship. How did you get beat so bad at colonization? At this point, you can either attempt to trade for a planet from the Altarians or just launch an assault from your homeworld since there's unlimited range on that map.

Reply to What I wish this game had (Warning: Knitpicker here) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Threads about the lack of detail compared to HW2 come up several times a day. They are immediately responded to with assertions about how modern hardware can't handle all the details that they did 5 years ago for that game. [quote]When Ironclad and Stardock were working on Sins, we made a conscious decision that the game would not require potential gamers to upgrade their systems. That meant we couldn't have things like moving turrets or whatever but it means that the size of the market

Reply to Culture Boosts Your Allies! in Strategy Sins Forums

Advent get 6 levels of culture upgrades. The other races get 4. If a Vasari received equivalent Vasari bonuses in maxed out Advent culture, they would get a 22.5% increase in damage as opposed to a max of 15% in their own culture. That wouldn't make sense, and it would strongly discourage any non-Advent players from researching culture as they would get better bonuses while in Advent culture anyway. It would seem to me that your teammates should get their races' bonuses, but on

Reply to Vasari Abilities in Strategy Sins Forums

The siege platform takes 40 seconds to build. Seeing as the Desolator has to be within 2600 units of a planet to cast it, and the siege platform can hit a planet from 3000 units away, I'm guessing it's this delay that makes it seem non-functional.

Reply to Learnuing to play Vasari Need Help in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

There is also already a pretty good discussion [link="https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=404&aid=300545"]here[/link]

Reply to Learnuing to play Vasari Need Help in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

It's the marauder, and it's awesome

Reply to Does Culture need slight expanding? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]so if the end benefit is increased credits, how does this really differ from the TEC's trade focus?[/quote] I agree. We should give the Advent a unique cultural ability. Maybe something like gaining vision where their culture spreads. We should call it "Eyes of the Converted" Btw, I'm pretty sure that planet flipping is in the game. I won my last game vs AI without launching a single attack against their home planet. :D

Reply to Modding AI in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote] playerAISharedDef table-Aggressive BuildShip 10 BuildModuleTactical 2 BuildModuleCivilian 1 BuildModuleResearch 1 UpgradeResearch 2 UpgradePlanetArtifactLevel 1 UpgradePlanetPopulation 1 UpgradePlanetInfastructure 1 MaxBountyBidCount 5 table-Defensive BuildShip 5 BuildModuleTactical 5 BuildModuleCivilian 1 BuildModuleResearch 1 UpgradeResearch 2 UpgradePlanetArtifactL

Reply to Beginner - Basics - what to build in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Thanks.By reviewing (Studying the differences) the statistics of the game I played against the PC I found tips very similar to what you are Suggesting Cabezone.[/quote] I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but replays of every game are automatically saved. You can review them to see exactly what everyone was doing at any point in time, including their opening build orders.

Reply to What vs What? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=452&aid=177602

Reply to Vasari returning fleet research in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote] spawnShips minFleetPoints 25.000000 maxFleetPoints 30.000000 requiredShipCount 0 randomShipCount 5 randomShip type "FrigatePhaseLight" weight 2 randomShip type "FrigatePhaseLongRange" weight 6 randomShip type "FrigatePhaseHeavy" weight 6 randomShip type "FrigatePhaseAntiFighter" weight 3 randomShip type "FrigatePhaseCarrier" weight 5 spawnShips minFleetPoints 40.000000<br

Reply to Pirates - A way too easy win in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]I just ignore them, let them take out my planet or whatever, then they go away. I can use the 5,000 credits I spend bountying on something more worthwhile.[/quote] like rebuilding a planet ;p

Reply to "Borderline exploit", true or false in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]You hold down the shift key while right clicking where you want to go to[/quote] Wouldn't recursive imply creating a loop as opposed to simply adding to the queue that hopefully everyone knows about?

Reply to Balance/Builds Analysis: Attempt to raise the level of the community in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Vasari: NOT VIABLE 1v1 on most maps.[/quote] one day later... [quote]So I played as Vasari 1v1 for the first time today[/quote] It's great to start discussions about potential balance problems, but there's no need to act as if you are the definitive master of the game

Reply to A Game Trainer in Sins Modding Sins Forums

If I had max resources, instant upgrades, and "an insane cap on my planet structures" I'd have Novaliths raining down death within 10 minutes. There's no way I could possibly go 10 hours with that. That's an extraordinarily long power trip.

Reply to SinsMOD 0.01 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

C:\Users\[YourUserName]\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods\ is a Vista path C:\Documents and Settings\[YourUserName]\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods\ is the equivalent on earlier versions of Windows