Sokar468

Looks really cool, but the inclusion of surface battles doesn't appeal to me. I wouldn't want to spend the time placing structures on the surface then assaulting the surface with ground troops--I like Sins' space-only focus. Still, it seems like it's worth a try. I'll keep reading into it and keep an open mind about it.

[quote who="Hack78" reply="8" id="2174604"]I have seen games where there are HEAPS of hoshikos - the players you played with probably didn't understand their true value....[/quote] Every player understands their value. They either simply weren't necessary, session didn't last long enough for there to be many of them, or crystal was short.

[quote who="N3rull" reply="8" id="2169625"]Chuck Norris completed Go Big or Go Home, Fear of Icebergs, No Exhaust Port Found and Best Defense is Good Offense achievements... ... in one game.[/quote] Hahaha! That's great. [quote who="Deceiver_0" reply="17" id="2170449"] Chuck Norris is why there are dead asteroids. [/quote] Awesome! Chuck Norris makes Advent popular culture <em

[quote who="Hack78" reply="6" id="2174415"] If you aren't good enough to stop this combination, a player will not need to bring out something more advanced to kill you. If I can kill someone will a gun, why do I need a tank? If I can kill them with a tank, why use a nuke? It is this reason you probably saw this. That plus the fact that you engage in combat so soon that you don't have time to research HCs and support etc... before you engage. If you play with the best players a

Your suggestion for pirates to conduct mayhem than rather large strikes is a good idea. What if pirates could appear suddenly in gravity wells like the Insurgency research can--small strikes to wreak havoc where players aren't expecting them. If pirates enter a gravity well in this way, they would prioritize destruction of trade ports, refineries, and extractors first rather than military structures or research labs (leave that to the big guns of the mercs). <p

[quote who="mbaron888" reply="1" id="2174287"]I am hoping for an expansion that adds one or two additional races or factions of existing races with different tech mixes.[/quote] Adding new races and technology trees I feel is more appropriate for a full-scale expansion, not a micro-expansion. I would love to see story campaigns, but again, those may be best suited for a full expansion. Let's see: with defense and diplomacy c

The cost to downgrade fleet supply should be minimal, like one-tenth of the cost to have upgraded that level. But Sawakaki offers a good point. To return to the fleet supply level that you downgraded from, the cost should increase by 25% or something like that. Rez's point also makes sense, that logically re-upgrading should be cheaper. But if the developers wanted fleet supply to be a choice of impact in the game, I feel the decisions to downgrade and

[quote who="TheRezonator" reply="2" id="2174242"] and well done to you sokar for actually trying it. i admit i had the same fears, and now ill definitly think twice before wasting my time doing MP thanks for the info[/quote] I wouldn't exactly call it a waste of time. You learn some things about the game that you wouldn't otherwise, such as rapid expansion and taking a minimalist approach to defeating opponents. Whether or not you use t

[quote who="TheRezonator" reply="11" id="2171403"]im not sure about most of the ideas here, to be honest the numbers are hurting my brain at 4:31 in the morning i just have 1 thing id like to put forward id like a way to drop your fleet supply level. for instance, if you have 600 fleet supply in a fleet (arbitrary number) and you are getting steamrolled and dont have the time or the ability to re-use those slots, (i.e. the enemy is destroying your ships faster than

[quote who="TohKlidan" reply="8" id="2172709"]I hope we will get a new Forge Tools version for this patch.[/quote] YES!!! In addition to TohKlidan's suggestions, I want a Galaxy Forge with a copy/paste feature, undo feature, snap-to-grid feature, and more, MOAR! And map conversion seems to be a big issue. I love map making, but I refuse to do so with Sins due to Galaxy Forge's user-unfriendliness.

I've always been critical of multiplayer without ever having played a single game, so I decided it was time to educate myself and give it a go. I must say, multiplayer turned out to be what I feared it to be: a race to kill other players using the same combination of units. For Advent, that is Progenitor mothership with Illuminators and Drone Hosts; for TEC, Marza and LOTS of LRMs; Vasari, colony cap ship (I don't know the names of any of the Vasari caps) and LOTS

[quote who="crashmatusow" reply="9" id="2170346"]afaik, all SB's have 4 banks +1 with the high level defense research. yeah psionic surge is the ultra slow kool looking attack which happens to be the only missile like attack the advent have.[/quote] As cool as the Psionic Surge attack is, it's unfortunate that it is a unique weapon that doesn't benefit from any weapon upgrades (AKAIK).

I would like the AI in Entrenchment to know what it takes to destroy an enemy starbase. If you place a well-upgraded starbase in a gravity well with neutral extractors, the AI becomes obsessed with taking it down, except it doesn't know how to. The AI always attacks with too small a force and I tire of seeing the AI throw away fleet after fleet without making any progress. It really takes much of the challenge out of the game. EDIT: Spelling.

Gikane, I like the idea of being able to become an "ally" (to whatever extent you could consider pirates an ally). I believe a lot of possibilities could open up if pirates were no longer called pirates and simply called "Mercenaries." I would get rid of the bidding wars as they are right now. You should also be able to give the mercenaries orders like you can AI allies, though with a price of course. Opponents can then bid against the order to convince the

I will agree with TheRezonator, the fastest way for me is to look at the empire tree where your squads are, then hold ALT and select a bomber from the empire tree (left click, any one will do). This will select all bombers in the region. Then hold SHIFT and ALT + left click again on fighters to select all bombers and fighters in the region. Sorry, Sawakaki, I do not recommend binding strikecraft to the number keys. Reserve your numbers for you

4) Bombing planets may be their only purpose, but it is a very dangerous and threatening purpose. There's a reaosn why such fragile ships require 14 supply each. Wiping out a player's planet (providing it's developed) is an epic loss in terms of both resources and time. While capital ships can perform this role, they are limited in availability and may need to be elsewhere for fleet support. Having a handful of siege frigates nearby to wreck enemy planets is a great as

[quote who="SageWon" reply="13" id="2167572"] Congrats for almost getting 100%, from someone who has. [/quote] Any advice for the Military- and Civilian-exclusive research achievements? I feel like I would have to create a custom map to achieve these, because without military research, you are stuck with Capital ships and light frigates, and without civilian research you can't colonize volcanic and ice planets.

[quote who="Swordsalmon" reply="23" id="2167511"] I feel guilty using Advent because the Seeker Vessel sounds like a little girl, which then will blow up. [/quote] Hahaha! I never thought of it that way, but when you have a bunch of girls who are hell-bent on revenge and exterminating heatthens as PR pointed out, I think it's hard to feel guilty about them dying. Maybe it's more tragic for members of the Unity to die because, due to their

[quote who="DeadlyShoe" reply="8" id="2168498"] I'm sure that if SINS ever gets singleplayer we'll have hero admirals and such (like the guy in the intro). They'll be necessary for telling the game story.[/quote] Yeah, I must say that until Ironclad develops single player story campaigns, there isn't much reason for heroes right now because there would be no context for their existence. Capital ships already have plenty of abilities, and adding heroes would c

Quick question: For the achievement where you are only allowed to build capital ships, are you not allowed to build scouts? How do you scout then? Does Quick Start ruin your chances of this achievement because you start with two scouts? Just figured I ask before learning the hard way, thanks. [e digicons]-_-[/e]

[quote who="mbaron888" reply="14" id="2163738"] I couldn't imagine playing on all settings slow, and the prospect of a 100+ hour game is frightening... Ha. It was madding at times. I wanted the extra time to be able to think and stratigize but I don't think I will play on slow again. Especially research.[/quote] As an Advent player, I feel like culture spread rate of slow would be the worst of them all. [e digicons]-_-[/e]

[quote who="Howdidudothat" reply="20" id="2164727"]/smoking 3 packs a day "This Eyea Nevar Clozezzz" *cough* *hack* *cough* "I will inveszztigate" [/quote] Haha, I also find Vasari voices to sound like they've been burning though too many packs a day. There are only a few smokes away from the cancer kazoo.

[quote who="jjandrah" reply="4" id="2164779"]There was a dev post (that escapes me at the moment) that talks about doing it that way, where you paid upkeep for the units you have. They decided to ax it because it wasn't fun. People keep bringing it up, too.[/quote] I don't get the "wasn't fun" part. To me it just makes plain sense for fleet upkeep to scale. As for the "judgement call" aspect, I agree it raises some decision making

Although by the time you've reached the point where the income info card wouldn't show the income rate, you shouldn't really need to worry about it all that much. Metal and crystal also increase in smaller numbers easy enough to count each second (just watch your totals).

[quote who="Tamren" reply="1" id="2154165"]Heh not so long ago I saw a thread by a guy who only played Advent because he found the voices to be hot. [/quote] Now that you mention it, the Rapture Battlecruiser's voice is awfully cute and not as psychotically hell-bent on revenge as the other capital ships. And every time a Seeker asks "What needs revealing?" or says "All shall be revealed"... If the Advent are as good looking as their voices suggest, the