Hopelass

Won my first Advent game on Hard vs Vasari. Did, however, turn off the damn Pirates. Follow up questions: 1. Deceptive Illusion - thoughts? Also, what's the advantage to "snaking" Illuminators? 2. What are the precise advantages for fighting in friendly culture? 3. On that note - is culture any better post Entrenchment, assuming it fixes battlelines a little more? 4. Allegiance is capped based on distance from capital regardle

Thank you very much, Darvin3!

If I could jump in? I'm a soon-to-be new parent whose gaming time is strictly limited and will only get more so. I've spent the last year or so working through the Civ IV mods (turn-based is usually my speed), and am interested in returning to Sins, which I played a little bit when it first came out - I never got good at it, but was much better than I am now. Now, I'm really, really bad, and don't have enough time to enjoy trial and error. This thread has been quite

Hello, all: So I'm brand new to the game. I won a couple easy SP games yesterday, with and without pirates, and I've been playing the Advent since I love their theme. I think I love their abilities as well, but it's hard to tell... I really miss my Alpha Centauri fold out tech tree that let me compare everything. Clans of Sin is helping out a lot, but I really need everything in strict parallel and with ship stat numbers to boot. So, here's my take on Advent gamep

I'm very new to the game, but I believe the tech you're looking for is Research Focus (and later, Enhanced Focus), which gives your Trade Posts the selectable ability to aid Resource gathering.