Hack78

Hack78

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Reply to [Fixed for Certain Cases]An open letter to Stardock/Ironclad about the number of people being unable to connect to ICO in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]Hack, I was told you are trying to organize a group of players so we can lobby for MP improvements. How do I join this organization?[/quote] Sort of - I'm campaigning for greater transparency for the networking issues so 1) User's can't blame ICO for their stuff ups (i.e. ICO is offline when they actually have a networking issue to resolve on their end). They would know the ICO status from the status web page 2) The user's can resolve their issues with better er

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Reply to Does a "fear" of experienced (or pro) players keep you from playing Sins online? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]I've been playing every night for the past week since i bought sins, and as many times as i checked ironclaid online, i still don't see any servers. but i'm having a great time with single player[/quote] There are no servers per se - Ironclad Online (ICO) is the lobby for meeting people and setting up games. From there, once the game starts all the host does is synchronise the game - all networking is Peer to Peer.. [quote]Dude, that's *EXACTLY* the way

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Reply to [Fixed for Certain Cases]An open letter to Stardock/Ironclad about the number of people being unable to connect to ICO in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]Hosting the Game – I can and do host games at ICO using alloy with little problem. When running the test it says that my IP is hidden. I’ve tried opening TCP ports 6000-7000 with no success. My guess is that it is trying to ping/access my LAN IP rather than the router IP. I would prefer to host the game on one of my systems rather than use alloy. One of the best examples of this is how Supreme Commander implemented their game hosting. A player joining enters my router IP an

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Reply to Angry AI in Strategy Sins Forums

Everyone must always have an enemy to fight, otherwise the game ends. If teams are unlocked, then they must betray you to fight you...

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Reply to online problems in Technical Sins Forums

Try this -adapt as required https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/337545/get;2035180 If this is no good, contact support (ironclad, not stardock)

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Reply to Improving Late Game Performance in Technical Sins Forums

[quote]I have a 3Ghz dual core, Geforce 6800, 2Gigs of RAM and I've never had any slow-downs except at the very beginning of a map for a few seconds.[/quote] That is often the case in MP while other players machines sync up/finish loading

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Reply to Embarassing - need help from a pro in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]But are there really versions of this game hacked to cheat?[/quote] The game would crash surely if they were cheating as it simulates the same thing on ALL machines. So them buying $10K of ships would not work on your machine which thinks they only have $3K and you would be out of sync. So who is this person you are playing? It is very possible that you are playing one of the best players going around under a Smurf account.... A few of the original better player

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Reply to cannot connect to ironclad online in Technical Sins Forums

Check what version of Sins you are running - it needs to be 1.12. Also make sure you have the ports listed in your user.setting file open - I had to open port 7000 on my firewall when I updated from 1.05 to 1.11...

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Reply to [Fixed for Certain Cases]An open letter to Stardock/Ironclad about the number of people being unable to connect to ICO in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]Well, I can agree somewhat on having the status page. However, it's only recently that they've been working on a new ICO version and hardware upgrades and before ~1.1 I can't recall ICO being down for months at a time. If they forsee ICO being wobbly for some length of time, I can see having a status page - but it's rather redundant when it becomes always-on again.[/quote] True, except it means people can't blame ICO for their connection issues if they can see that ICO is up an

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Reply to Intolerable Downtime in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Try this 1) Open Task Manager and get the Sins process ID (you may need to add the column as it often isn't on by default) 2) get a comand window and have "netstat -aon | more" ready to go (the pipe to more allows you to see a screen at a time) 3) Alt-tab back to Sins and select connect to ICO 4) Quickly rush back to the cmd promt and hit enter. Look for the process ID of Sins in the list. You may need to repeat this a few times if timing is off

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Reply to ICO is not responsive in Technical Sins Forums

What version are you running? Have you been onto ICO yet at all? If you are 1.12 and have not, then the issue is probably a networking one on your end - check your firewall isn't blocking the Sins required ports

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