Hack78

Hack78

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Reply to Entrenchment Beta 3 Change Log in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

[quote]one player could use carriers, other restricted himself. Even though he controled a far supperior strategic position, his carrier restriction prevented him from winning against the player using carriers[/quote] The test was flawed - he had no units to kill the SC - so they got to pick his fleet apart while he went for the carriers. In keeping with his no SC test, he needed flak as well in his fleet. Plus he didn't know about the hoshikos removing his weapons....

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Reply to A New Idea: The Interceptor Strike Craft - a proposal for the 3rd expansion. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Interceptors will receive a 75% huge penalty received dmg penalty from enemy fighter/interceptors for targetting bombers if in the presence of their own escorts. (If the player micros to target the enemy bombers instead of enemy fighters/Interceptors)[/quote] What defines being within the presence of their own escorts? Same grav well, within X range units??? Not workable. You still have the issue that they stray out of range if it is the second and then the stats change...

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Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire v1.14 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

CreditSuisse - the issue still remains. The people who are not complaining about carriers are the recognised "pros" that everyone talks about. That means they can adaprt/handle it - so the other people are complaining due to a lack of understanding the nuinces of the game

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Reply to A New Idea: The Interceptor Strike Craft - a proposal for the 3rd expansion. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]yes and that is exactly what I'm showing you. the two opponents build interceptors to counter each others fighters and other interceptors. Is there something wrong with that.[/quote] [e digicons]:omg:[/e] You mean - like building fighters to counter the enemy fighters AND bombers??? [e digicons]:O[/e] Maybe spiral does know what he is talking about here....

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Reply to A New Idea: The Interceptor Strike Craft - a proposal for the 3rd expansion. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]I said in the thread topic that Interceptors will auto-target enemy fighters/Interceptors first. Interceptors will only be able to target bombers once the bombers' fighter/interceptor escorts are taken out. I've said this. Interceptors can be countered by other interceptors too in any event. [/quote] That's great for the SP people out there playig AI. What happens when someone is playing MP and the opponent micros the interceptor? Does it ignore the targetting instr

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Reply to Entrenchment Beta 3 Change Log in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

[quote]New Manifest System allows for original Sins and Entrenchment to coexist (see below for great new mod capabilities). -Added quick start game option that starts you w/ all resource extractors, a cap factory, 2 scouts and full population upgrades on your home planet in addition the frigate factory you'd normally get. -Capital planets are now much more valuable and tuned to prevent stalls in the early game. -Capital Planet PlanetUpgrade now grants bonus m

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Reply to Carrier fix is not what you might expect in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Agent of Karma in his recent post just showed everyone how Carrier SPAM is NOT counterable by LF spam. [/quote] And I posted back with the same comment that spiral made - he said he could not defeat a load of fighters, but he didn't build flack to kill them or do anything else. Of course he lost - he played stupid. You can't expect to kill carriers without some air cover/flak to work on the SC, same as it is hard to kill carriers with just fighters. You mix and match your fleet

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Reply to A New Idea: The Interceptor Strike Craft - a proposal for the 3rd expansion. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I have to agree with spiral here. While I understand what you are trying to do, it doesn't fit the current game mechanics. Everyone who is crying that fighters are borken do not understand the game enough. 1) Strike Craft require AM to build. As spiral said, remove that AM with the LF ability, or run it down to 0 and the carrier cannot reproduce a new SC. 2) SC decay once the host dies. So send LF after the carriers. Fighters are not very effective vs them. However they murder

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Reply to Carrier fix is not what you might expect in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]First, do you see aircraft carriers of today turning on a dime and outrunning the rest of the fleet. They are the biggest ships that turn the slowest and move the slowest. I know this game doesn't base itself on what happens in real life, but this would be at least believable[/quote] Ditto what was said above - carriers today are some of the fastest, if not the fastest, ships in the fleet. As for turning on a dime - things like bow thrusters can be used. But at the end of

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Reply to Unit nerfs - BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Light Carriers have more hp and shields than Kiodiaks, etc HCs which are meant to be melee units. They also move just as fast too. Not to mention the HC is higher up in the tech tree by 2 military labs.[/quote] TEC HCs can do micro in system jumps Vassari HCs have a slow down ability

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Reply to An attempt at countering carriers WITHOUT building carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]How are you supposed to actually counter the carrier (with any non-carrier unit) of course if you literally cannot catch them with anything slower than a scout or LF? Carrier actually having to put themselves in DANGER is not using tactics? 3/4 of a grav well STILL GIVES them a lot of range to do their stuff. Just not completely cheesy tactics IMO that is to jump out as soon as some poor cap tries to go after them.[/quote] Phase Jump Inhibitors so they take 700% as long to jump

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Reply to Unit nerfs - BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]All popular science fiction has big ships with AA guns. Battlestar Galactic, Star Wars, etc.[/quote] We count thirty Rebel ships, Lord Vader, but they're so small they're evading our turbolasers." We'll have to destroy them ship to ship. Get the crews to their fighters. First and foremost - there is a general issue with this thread. People are using the term strike craft when they need to distinguish between fighters and bombers. You will

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Reply to Do you really want Steam to be your only option? Are you sure? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote]Heh, wait until Halo Wars sells 5 million copies, then you'll have publishers racing to the bottom to create RTS games we saw 10 years ago on the PC, only made for consoles[/quote] I tried the demo of this the other day - while I enjoyed it as it was Halo, and it had awesome cut scenes, the controls are definately not up there with mouse and keyboard etc... As such, the pace of the game seems a little slower then some PC RTS games I have played in the past.

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Reply to Desync: Unable to complete a single game with friends. Frustrating.... in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]Well what I find compelling is the fact that the OP is having the same problem also running on a Mac. If it were as simple as poor use of a random number generator (from a code perspective) this behavior would likely be seen by many, many people playing multiplayer. My guess is that they are seeding the random number generators in the same way, as to elicit the same sequence of random numbers on each client. Going out on a limb here, but I wonder if its not due t

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