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[quote who="Darvin3" reply="94" id="2370562"] A capital ship doesn't need to be level 10 to be effective. In fact, many capital ships fulfill their basic role well enough at level 1 and are rock solid by level 5. Really I find capital ship improvement to be mostly superficial after level 7. If you look at my discussions of other capital ships, I rarely even mention their ultimates; as far as I'm concerned a cap needs to stand on its own in the level 1-4 range, where it

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="2" id="2370633"]I am using one on an oc'ed to 3.8ghz q9550 w 8gb ddr2 1066 kingston, and in an hour long occt test temps hit a peak of 59 celsius and the system is stable(btwbthe ambient temp was 22 C) harpo [/quote] So you have a freezer 7? That's good to know. I was thinking about getting a Xigmatek S1283, but i won't fit in my current case.

I have an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro on a core 2 quad q6700, it is OCed to 3.33ghz and it stays fairly cool. Will the Cooler be enough for a q9550 at stock? and what about OCed to ~3.4ghz? I can't find anything that would say no, but i can't find anything that would say yes either. Thanks in advance

Support cruisers, the advent dominator is good, but it needs to be researched. More importantly, the progenitor has Shield Restore, which is arguably the best ability in the game. Park it in the middle of your fleet and spam that ability whenever you take heavy damage and you should be able to tank any fleet, assuming yours is the standard lrf, flak composition.

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="1" id="2370136"] There are only three reasons you should build heavy defenses on one planet. The first is if it's late game and you have lots of money to spare. The second is if you have an effective choke point that the enemy must bypass to attack you, then it makes sense putting up a blockade there. The third is if the enemy is overrunning your empire and you're preparing for a last stand (team games only; this is considered very bad manner

[quote who="Blair Fraser" reply="19" id="2369872"]Siege frigates and Heavy Fallout are changed in 1.04 Entrenchment. We haven't decided if they will change in Sins 1.18 though. [/quote] Ooh, have to look out for those changes, but why not change them in vanilla sins as well?

The advent society is based around empathic connections, it makes sense then that their ships would be able to synergize with each other, but the power of these synergies breaks the game. The vasari especially have ahrd time with this because they cannot uber spam ships against the advent like the TEC can.

Asteroids.. those damm rocks get me every time..

If its late game, and you have already started to win (assuming you have the ship slots and resources) you could go with both. 2-3 caps is easy to get (and the advent usually have them anyway) and add in ~5 siege frigates and planets die like they caught swine flu

[quote who="Mooster" reply="111" id="2365393"]Not sure if it is already posted...When will the next part be posted!!!!! [/quote] After Volt and the rezonator settle the dispute over hard science and poetic license... they both like to argue so right about the time sins2 comes out and screws up all the 'facts'

[quote who="Phalnax811" reply="16" id="2367346"] they probably took the ideas of expansion 3 and 4 4? [/quote] Three micro expansions were planned, if those did well i'm sure there would be a full size expansion. Maybe #4 got moved up because the micro expansions weren't working out like planned (just like all the attempts at episodic gaming, half life anyone?)

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="87" id="2366290"] Quoting Beric01, reply 86 The only ability I still don't understand is Malice. It burns antimatter like crazy, but what does it do? What does "damage propagation" mean? For any ship affected by the buff, a percentage of all the damage done to it gets calculated for while it's affected by the buff. When the buff ends, ships around it get hit for that much damage. [/quote] The best way to use malice is

[quote who="Proletari" reply="22" id="2366443"]I am too lazy to argue with you about anything....all you are writing is more of a theorycraft then game itself [/quote] What you have been spewing is theorycraft, i play online almost everyday, darvin probably does too, most of the active (and helpful) forum-goers play the game almost entirely MP. If you jump into a grav well and your opponent has a starbase surrounded by turrets and repair bays, what do you do? If y

Three races: Supreme Commander (vanilla), Sins, Starcraft, Age of Mythology (pre-The titans), C&C, + tons more. Very few companies have the time and resources to properly balance more than two races without making them carbon-copies of each other (blizzard aside, obviously). Sins has hit this very common RTS pothole, that has become a sinkhole, let's hope it can claw its way out...

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="84" id="2365322"] the Vasari in general need a boost to their ships in terms of price:performance. Another forumer did the breakdown a while ago, and quite frankly Vasari in general stink in this respect. I fully agree. [/quote] Especially the enforcer... The high fleet points cost is also unnecessary, they get FTL transmisions research, but they are forced to up their fleet research earlier to keep up... usually des

Do you play online, or SP? Cause if you just play SP, then you are right. If you play MP, then you are losing... badly...

[quote who="Flipkik" reply="15" id="2363683"]Ya the thing bout RA is that you want a really vast econ or a really good feeder if you want to relly on it. Cause you'll want to have allot of fleet suply research done which slows your economy down. Grtz, Flipkik [/quote] You can't really rely on it, as vasari you need to have pretty much won the game by this point (especially against advent) or you are doomed

The most annoying cap in the world to fight: Kostura Cannon shot Recharge AM (on self) Novalith Shot Colonize

The real problem with RTS games is the standard three races, almost all modern strategy games (COH aside) have three playable races. It is fine to have one light/quick/weak race and balance it against a slow/powerful race, but trying to go in between the two extremes is very hard. Look at supreme commander, all the races have essentially the same units and the game is still horribly balanced. Sins will always be unbalanced to some degree, the armor/counter system makes that much sure.

[quote who="N3rull" reply="16" id="2363678"] Situational, depends on what they are doing and how far away they are. Scout them, if they are going military you have to too, if they are going eco and have some neutrals around or a nice thick curtain of militia around, eco is a must or they will roll over you in about half an hour. I notice an inconsistency here. If enemy goes war you have to go war as well, otherwise you lose. If he goes econ you have to go econ, o

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="9" id="2364046"] There's a strange dogma around that turrets arent worth to be built This is because, unless you're against an AI, no one will stray into range of your turret cluster. They're going to destroy it from far away and never give it a chance to fire. This is compounded by their cost (250 credits is reasonable, it's the metal/crystal and tactical slots that are the real cost here). Turrets work great against the AI,

Before you touch anything, get a new PSU, it sounds like it was the one that came with the case... those are terrible for componets and is possibly the reason your card got fried...

[quote who="cszolee" reply="6" id="2365161"]This is business. They can get a lot more money with a new (2.0) game If it is reasonably priced and contains more, interesting content, it may very well worth it. But we'll see, I guess. [/quote] Designing a new game also takes more time and resources. I expect that they have a full expansion planned (they do NOT want a repeat of the left 4 dead riot with the sins community after all) but w

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="10" id="2362804"] How about this novalith cannon? is it worth pursuing in research? I may try it out for curiousity reasons. Usually I only research and build them once I already have reached the maximum fleet cap. They're good, but 90% of the time making your fleet bigger is the better choice. [/quote] The novalith is good for speeding up bombardment, building one is a good choice if you have the extra resources

[quote who="Proletari" reply="6" id="2362968"]well...with all upgrades and bonuses advent turret dps can reach 40+.....which means 3 turrets cover basic sb.9 turrets around a sb double its effectiveness and just slaughter noobs.There's a strange dogma around that turrets arent worth to be built - good for me :> [/quote] An advent HC can reach those DPS levels too... and it can MOVE. If turrets work for you, use them, just stop preaching it please. This thread isn't even about