pedal2000

[quote who="acare84" reply="8" id="3107612"]Any news for slow performance and lag problems? I hope they will solve that quickly, because they are making the game (beta) unplayable.[/quote] I imagine that is one of the last things they'll address because it's an optimization thing at that point. Personally my computer chugs through games of 7 AI's and me at 2x speed with no issues. That said, obviously that doesn't help you - but Sin's has always been grea

Starbase with the bombardment upgrade in the gravity well negates this almost entirely.

Yeah, the AI seems out of whack pretty badly.

Steam in and of itself never requires a permanent internet connection. They have an offline mode that's pretty handy. I agree steam'll advertise the crap out of it whenever it goes on sale! As for the requiring steam for Multiplayer, Steamworks doesn't really involve multiplayer. The multiplayer system could be identical to the original Sins - all that would be gained (or lost?) is that you'd be able to shift-tab to have the steam overlay/chat on (to tal

Steamworks usually implies steam exclusive. Well, more, you can usually buy the game anywhere but it requires steam to run as it makes your saves available anywhere. You'll likely need steam to run the game though - nothing bad about that.

DG-3409294 = Used. Thanks Ralsar!

[quote who="Ryld" reply="8" id="2091458"]I use hamachi over ico for host complications. Its easer then portforwarding and my university blocks my connection so its far less illigal then tunneling threw there firewalls.[/quote] This is actually a plausible reason. I use hamachi to play with my friends (both legit and illegit) copies for this reason. Universities are notorious pirating areas, but there are several reasons for that. When I am on camp

[quote who="CreditSuisse" reply="7" id="2067662"]Your logic is pretty [censored] up. Go read these lists of logical fallacies. I bet if you took the LSATs now you would epic fail. List of fallacies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/quote] You just used an ad hominem. He didn't. He didn't insult the playing skills of other people at all. He said there are strategies which can be used (but aren't) by players

I perhaps should have just asked how to create a double install then without an explanation, but I'm not paying the ten dollars for Entrenchment unless I can have it both ways; playing online with people who win about minor balance issues doesn't appeal. @Kyro, we don't play regularly. We play for a few days once a year or so in the summer, before they get bored and it's over. I can reinstall each time, which is what I've been doing to date, but I have enough room

[quote who="love9sick" reply="7" id="2082243"] Quoting pedal2000, reply 8 You're an idiot. You can pirate any game on Steam, and play it multiplayer. L4D, Orange Box, TF2, DoW2, even the newest releases are pirated Day 0. (Dawn of War 2 was actually literally out the same time as the retail release) I'm an idiot? You have cheap friends who can't afford a 20 dollar game. What is even more funny is people like you will pay for a over priced beer or c

Heya all, Since my friends are not as much fans of the game as I am, I am in the position where they play illegal versions and I have bought the game. Since I deeply enjoy the patches and would love to buy Entrenchment and give it a whirl while not limiting my ability to play with my friends I was wondering if anyone had an idea how to create a double install of Sins, one that I could run 1.05 as and the other as an Entrenchment copy? Any ideas? Thanks

[quote who="Calania" reply="25" id="2084513"]Oh boy....a list of games that has disapointed me. Well, here goes. Medievil 2 Total War Sword of the Stars All Dawn of Wars Oblivion Total War : Rome Europa Universallis w/ expansions Newest version of Axis and Allies (The RTS version) Galactic Civilizations Civilization 4 (I mean seriously...all you do is hit the end tur

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="23" id="2081739"] Personally, I can't wait until Internet connectivity is a 24/7 non-issue for people so that I can start making games that require always-on net connections because then I can make all kinds of cool stuff (like having extremely advanced computer AI that plays the games via a dedicated server cluster). Of course, that would pretty much be the end of piracy on those games too. Pity.[/quote] If they were a

[quote who="love9sick" reply="3" id="2080468"]Funny, uselly people who pirate games complain more about this...why because they can't pirate the game. You can't get anything on steam illegally that needs steam to run. You need an acount. haha. suckers. Buy the game, it isn't that expensive for what you get and the work that went into making it. This is why Impulse is a good idea, but you can actually run sins with out it. Which I think isn't a g

Why might I end up Pirating Entrenchment despite having a legal copy of Sins? It's pretty simple. I want to play with my friends. I don't want to go online, I just want to game with people I know, at their house or mine. Most of them aren't interested enough in the Genre to pay for Sins, (One is into FPS's the other RPG's) so in general while I buy RTS's, they buy only those games they really want to own. Thus, in order to get them to play Sins, it has to be free to them. If t

[quote] If anyone disagrees then please post a realistic storyline. [/quote] [img]http://iflashe.com/images/pics/pacman.jpg[/img]

Not a read-me; put that near the top of the initial post. He has dozens of weblinks and a ton of text there, if someone wants to just (as I did) grab the mods because they saw it in PCGamer and then test it out, that sort of list is far easier to get through than a lengthy post with dozens of links and colours :p no matter how on topic it is. Thank you Darkstar! Appreciated.

Any chance you could just create a section of the post dedicated to installs/links? IE: "Install steps: Install "MOD #1" (Make it a url/DL link) Install "MOD #2" etc and so on. I went to the site but there are 4-5 mods for download, including patches. Are those incremental, or just need the latest one?

No offense, but the tutorials don't cover fleet logistic research at all. I was playing two friends and I had found it myself - but they had gone through the tutorials. They knew fancy crap like the "Move as group" Command but I knew fleet logistical increases - it's a very valid question given the lack (and yet nice shortness) of the tutorials.

Singleplayer wise a balance is good. Getting Hanger D is pretty much essential - Depending on how many AI and planets there are, aim for the 'average' number and then fortify. The AI gets worse the longer time goes on. I tend to be a bit more of a Civilian techie man myself, but after getting a few 'key' techs (For example, the "Invasive Economy" tech as TEC - swap to military and ignore all the 'useless' techs in the Civi tree.

I'd suggest finding a friend and having a 'newb game' - that's what me and my friend did when we first picked the game up. Basically, neither of you know what or how to do anything and it becomes a race to learn new stuff. It actually is quite entertaining, and more motivation to learn than some boring tutorial - For example, I found out how to research long before him, but he found out increased fleet size well before I did. I took the win in the end because I had more planets and he couldn't f