I see this and think of the experimentals in the original supcom... the original Galactic Colossus was slow, and had no AA defense, but it had to be undefended to be destroyed. A super-ship is a cool idea in concept, but i think the game's current units should be balanced before anymore are added, especially one that has the potential to (completely) break the game. Edit: Looks like UE stole my idea...
[quote who="Cykur" reply="118" id="2362619"] Illuminator spam is the problem. Exactly, it is an Illuminator balance problem. That they choose to spam it is not the problem. When you complain about spam, it is a vague complaint, because in my experience, most games of Multiplayer Sins from the day it came out had spam. Redirect your complaint specifically to Illuminators. At one time or another I've had attackers spam me with Scouts, Disciples
[quote who="ManSh00ter" reply="244" id="2361317"] Wait, no augmented sonic resonance devices which turn people into boneless goo? I think that fits the dolphin theme just fine, and is less cliche than mind control rays... that's so fifties! [/quote] They're bloodthirst... they want us to kill each other rather than turn us into goo...
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[quote who="Darvin3" reply="4" id="2361650"]This ability would be insane if it affected strike craft. It's still one of the best (if not THE best) passive auras in the game and the Halcyon's telekinetic push is a massive boon to your strike craft, allowing for supremacy. [/quote] There is already an advent ability that affects strikecraft damage output, with the halcyon's ability and that one... damm...
What astrath said. Sins is a great game and it deserves a great campaign and not a tacked on experience. IC didn't have the time/resources/whatever to do it right, so they didn't do it at all, good choice in my opinion
[quote who="Filthgrinder" reply="44" id="2361175"]Well, lets hope in Sin2 that they get it right this time....solar systems instead of planets. The game looks pretty damn stupid with 40 planets around a sun, and with several planets in line with eachother..sheeesh. [/quote] So you have to take over systems instead of planets? I'm in...
Looks pretty good, but 2 gtx 275s will beat a 295 also, maybe even the Xfire configuration, but i can't find any benchamarks of this. The 4890s are cheaper, but nvidia has physx and Cuda and all that other stuff. Overall, looks good. If you have the money, add another SSD and put it in Raid with the other one...
[quote who="ManSh00ter" reply="242" id="2360868"] With lazer beams attached to their heads? [/quote] No, mind control rays... The lazers are for the sharks
[quote who="kyogre12" reply="240" id="2359403"] Quoting ManSh00ter, reply 239 Quoting CaptainAanderson, reply 238 There's no coming back from the inside of a star, when the sun goes nova, the planet goes bye bye That's due in some four to five billion years, a lot longer than it took for us to evolve from fish. So if we're not flying around in spaceships by then I say we deserve to be slowly roasted. <b
A player can go around the turrets, or kill them with bombers or anti module cruisers. An AI will head straight towards them cause it likes pain. Turrets are not complete crap, but remember that they are confined to the well they were built in, turrets are a passive defense, a fleet is an active defense.
[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="110" id="2359843"] I dunno if I'm there, but hell, the mod will be WAY closer than the current balance. Right up until someone figures out which unit is 'god' and spams it [/quote] Exactly, spam is easy and quick, if winning is the only satisfaction you get from the game then contracting illumspamitis and TARS (Traumatic Abusive Repulse Syndrome) is the best way to get there. Building a fleet that is completely bal
All bow to N3rull, you get it. Having an MP component is like taking the game through a stress test, any weak point WILL be discovered. The devs play the game like it was intended, the players play the game to win. I would spam pink hippos for 20 hours if it was the only way to win, and sadly, the days of a balanced fleet beating spam are over...
[quote who="TheRezonator" reply="135" id="2359234"] Quoting Raging Amish, reply 132 What about guys who are young but have been accused of being 30-50? (Everyone on teamspeak puts me at ~35 yrs old until I tell them 21) the real question would be do people actually ask if you are Amish, and if so, why do you have a computer? =P [/quote] He's on a reaaaalllly long rumspringa....
Geez proletari, you couldn't do just one long post? [quote who="Proletari" reply="8" id="2359146"]cobalts.they are good and I love them.ofcourse they die to any dumb LRF spammer,and yes advent disciples are better.but cobalt is really a workhorse of the tec and can succefully counter everything except the LRF.[dont forget the sabotage and other upgrades].work good with scouts and hoshikos. [/quote] NO! Cobalts are useful for clearing the first couple planets, but they are
Sins2 i fear will largely repeat the sins of sins1, sequels have been rather disappointing lately (Monkey Island, anybody?) but what would be arguably worse is a completely new game... a Sins of a solar Empire/supcom2 hybrid. (Yes, i know supcom 2 is not out yet, it is still a different game) They should focus on fixing the combat, adding a race is not a priority with the three we have being so horribly balanced. They should add ships one at a time, making sure that every ship perform
[quote who="InfiniteVoid" reply="3" id="2359204"]RA from my experience never sends Overseers or Subverters, so you'll have to build support ships yourself. [/quote] yup, but when you're getting a ton of hc's every cycle (or constantly if you stagger it on different phase stabilizers) building support ships matters little. What is most annoying is when RA spams carriers at you...[e digicons] RA and repulse are like a dysfunctional family, repulse lets you kill ships
[quote who="Lugh" reply="15" id="2358503"] ATI is like a lamboughini body powered by a volkswagen bug engine... [/quote] More like a corvette with water instead of gas in its tank, greatness would be so close if only the owners gave a f#ck... The gtx 275 is based on a 10.5" PCB, just like all the other 200 series cards, other than the 250 (which is a 9800gtx+ btw) at 9" The cards will fit, just barely like my old ones, and hopefully i'll be ge
[quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="237" id="2358847"] We'll simply evolve beyond any cataclysmic events when the time (or the End) comes our way. [/quote] There's no coming back from the inside of a star, when the sun goes nova, the planet goes bye bye
[quote who="Flipkik" reply="67" id="2358992"]What is funny tho is to go for carriers first as advent against an sb rushing vas... Right I'll go illums you go sb rush... Say hi to the bomber squads. Doesn't always work but... meh... [/quote] Psychological victory right there
[quote who="CenturionJixra" reply="100" id="2359012"] Quoting Tkins, reply 99 I bet their next game will have a far stronger multiplayer. That is if they do something sins related. They'll have more time and experience this time around and you'll see a more complete game (2 or 3 years from now of course). It's possible that it might not have ANY multiplayer at all. The reasoning goes like this. Why spend 20% or whatever of the dev
There is a strategy as TEC that can cripple an enemy's economy very early in the game on a smaller map (3-5 jumps from your homeworld to the enemy's). Instead of a marza, get a sova carrier as your first capital ship and give it the ability embargo, jump the ship to your enemy's Homeworld and use embargo to steal their tax income. It will give you enough credits to buy some resources or ships and keep (one) of your enemy's down for a little while. It is important to note howev
Companies make descisions for financial reasons, they obviously didn't see the possible profit of a third expansion would be large enough to justify using resources on that task instead of others. The good news is that this basically confirms there is something else, i doubt it is sins related, but there's something.
[quote who="Glavius" reply="9" id="2357979"] Also I noticed you only had 2gb's of ram you may serriously want to consider going to 4 or even 8gbs (if you're running an x64 copy of vista or windows 7) as both OS will use nearly 2gbs of ram on a clean install. [/quote] I'm upping to at least 4gb when win7 is released, currenlty I'm using 32-bit xp, but 64 windows 7 as soon as i can. The 2gbs is left over from when i upgraded my mobo a few months ago and had to switch from DDR2
Bombers or ogrovs shouls work, but beware that if the advent starbase has meteor control things might get messy... have some cielos and hohos near your anti structure ships to help. Normally, i would say just go around them, but on such a small map and with a base at every planet you are going to have to kill them eventually. If you have a lot of resources, up fleet supply and use the TEC economy to outproduce your opponent, MB and GRG are your friends...
[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="6" id="2357225"]A quick point, I think you need to have at least one trade port in two gravity wells for them to start working (and moving) [/quote] TRade ports generate credits even if there is only one, but the ships will not move without more than one.
