I had a feeling that despite your immense knowledge on how to get the game to work, technically-speaking, that you may not be as seasoned on the playing aspect of it. I'm pretty-much a noob but have always been great at strategy games. I have one or two other personal friends that will probably play with in a week or so. First game will be a friendly one with us against some AI's. You are more than welcome to join. Mark
lmao @ Ohio Mike. Hilarious.
Just wanted to 'publicly' display my thanks to Monk for helping me and a gaming buddy of mine rectify a situation where my buddy couldn't get into my room for an MP game on ICO. Monk provided us with a link to his guidebook as well as helpful in-chat technical advice. I don't think there wa anything wrong on my end regarding my router, NAT settings, security settings (made sure to leave Sins as allowed) but there was somethign wrong with my buddy's set-up which he later rectified and
I dl'd it but apparently I dont have the right program to run it? What do you guys use to view it?
Are thre still a good amount of people that play it online?
lmao!
I have one suggestion for your battleship. We all know in real-life, they are about redundancy in systems and firepower. What do you think about turning the engine nacelles or outlets horizontal rather than vertically and make a pair of them- one up top and the other, of course, below. Very-much like how you have the command cruiser's (stacked, basically.) Your battleship looks so mean and muscular that the very thin part of the ships connecting the nacelles the rest of th
...because Stargate didn't have as many cool and uniquely dinstinguishable ships as the epic Star Trek did. (I'm also a big fan of Stargate as well)
Why don't you guys just use ICO online to play? What is the advantage of xfire?
I still have the game and got into some MP action with a friend of mine using Hamachi. However, unlike Sins, the game was incredibly buggy and there was no after market or in-house support from the developers / producers which is a damn shame because the game coulda been nearly perfect. My friend and I got into some huge battles but the games always crashed. We lost interest and haven't played it since. I called him up and said we should limit the fleets to be no more than about 50 ship
All of those ships looks absolutely gorgeous or. uh, handsome if you want to put it hat way. Well-done. I love symetry so even though I like the TEC ships, many of the larger ones are lop-sided. I always wanted a human Capital ship to have a more traditional shape like that of a raised supercenter or fo'castle just like the new battleship you have proposed. Great work.
What are these 'balance issues' you speak of?
I went on ICO for the first time and there were 82 people online with 3 people in the lobby. They eventually left but one guy had a record of 41-1!!!! Yikes! I believe his screen name was [EC] Third Prophecy. He's probably on these boards. *scared*
I'll give that a try, Monk. Thank you, sir.
Chip. I very much thought about purchasing this game because it looked great but for some reason I never got it. I love the idea that in MP, some people can pilot aircraft, while others man defenses and others navigate ships (and maybe have buddies online in control of different parts of the ship?) I just bought Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 and I am sorely \disappointed so I think I will return it and pick this game up. Have you played it at all. How do you like it? Has anyone played it
I just wish some people could make another epic Star Trek strategy / tactics game. Like a Birth of the Federation 2. The whole reason I bought SoSE was because I was in search of a contemporary sci-fi tactics / strat game. Even though I enjoy it very much, I would give my left nut to get a BOTF 2 that was well-made and had the support like that of this game.
I believe that I successfully logged on to ICO but the players list is empty. Is this common. Are there no games available or is there a possibility that I have somethign wrong in my system set-up that prevents me from seeing the game lobbies. There are no warnings or error messages. I log-in and the game box is empty. No one appears to be in there or no new games are available.
Understandable. Really understandable if it starts to mess with your computer. I think that the next mod, the developers should tone it down some. Not sure how. Maybe reduce the number of ships in a fleet that can do the ability or make it less intrusive.
Red, Since you changed the background lighting, I am about 99% that those are the effects / ability that I am speaking of. Thanks. During the battle, I saw a few of the winged space craft flying around so they would be hard to hit and get rid of these orbs. Can you suggest a counter if I am playing as the TEC. Would the Cobalt frig. Reactor Sabotage work any?
Thank you everyone for your rsponces. Redmaw, I don't believe that they were using Shield Projection. As described in your picture, it looks different to what i saw. I am also playing SP, mind you. Anyways, the aura-like ball is very distinct. You can actually trace the ball's outer edges unlike the picture that you posted, it doesn't really look like a ball but like a haze with edges that go out and come in towards the center. What I saw were a bunch of, actually, crystal balls indicat
Hello? Anyone?
Broadcast stations will increase the loyalty to the planet it based in as well as nearby planets correct? Does this lead to more income? As for the refinery, I read the description but how does it work? Do these vessels get resources within it's own system or do they have to leave the system and find neutral collectors?
Hey All. Noob to the forums but far from being a noob when it comes to strategy / tactical games (Star Wars Rebellion; Star Trek: BoTF; Rise of Nations; Starcraft etc etc). Overall, I have taken a liking to the game and overall I am doing pretty well at it until I came up against the Advent using this in-battle abioity which creates a humongous crystal ball-like aura around the immediate battlefield. I still manage to detroy a few of their heavy ships but overall, this auro ca
