CaptainAanderson

Sins isn't dead, it's just terminally ill with illumspamitis and in critical need of rebalance bypass surgery

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="5" id="2341587"]Honestly, nothing is in the same league as the illum/guardian/progen combo right now. Not even missile barrage; lest anyone forget, a mid-game Advent fleet can tank missile barrage, easily. I only ever beat a mature Advent fleet in one of three ways: significantly outnumber them (more than 2:1) with a (well upgraded) starbase with my own fleet of Advent units I'm not surprised that people are banning Ad

There was already a thread on refineries adn the way i see it is: only use them if you absolutely NEED to increase the resource income of your already established worlds, because as N3rull says, they sucks. The TEC and Advent start weak and gain power, the TEC fairly quickly, and the Advent more slowly. The Vasari start strong and lose power, late-game their fleets are just not as capable as TEC and Advent ones are, but they have bonuses in other areas. A well balanced

The government should set guidelines; it should not, however, offer a plan of its own. The Federal government is innefficient, i for one do not want a bureaucrat deciding the limits of my health care. I would rather deal with a profit-seeking vampyric corporation, at least i know where that will let me down; rather than the government that may decide halfway through my treatment to stop supporting me. Insurance companies are all or nothing, the government doesn't know where it is goin

Ok king, we get it. You think you're hot shit. moving on...

[quote who="lich1989" reply="19" id="2341251"]This caused their capital ship to chase a single scout around the grav well. The AI would also build a lot of LF, but would was obsessed with my scout [/quote] The AI makes me laugh... [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

It is impossible to make everyone happy, everything is going to offend someone in some way. The dialogue was probably meant to be humorous, if there was no mention (or joking) of the protagonist being a female, what's the point of having a female main character? Feminism is not inherently bad, but the premise is flawed. It starts with the base assumption that men, all men, have more rights and privleges than every woman. In the U.S. there are laws in place that protect th

[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="42" id="2340869"]Autocannons are just REALLY big automatic weapons. In space. [/quote] In a 1000+ years, the best we can do... no wonder the TEC is getting pwned in the sins story

[quote who="GeneralEtrius" reply="6" id="2340968"]Some of the songs on Slipknot's All Hope is Gone album. Slipknot has really begun to slow down the pace of their music, which is a bummer. [/quote] Their last tour is over... even good bands die. Now if the stones would just do that... Leader of Men by Nickelback

[quote who="TheRezonator" reply="38" id="2340808"]By the way, do people generally agree with the explanation for AutoCannons? I honestly thought they were Mass Drivers like railguns... then i remembered the Improved Cartrige Propellants upgrade, which made me think maybe the name is much more literal than most people think So, whats the verdict? are they Mass Drivers or large caliber Automatic Cannons? [/quote] I say both, the projectile is expelled via mass

[quote who="Exterm123" reply="29" id="2340559"] With phase missles being the only Vasari weapon that actually (for sure; pulse guns may or may not have a tangible ammo) requires materials for each round used, it makes sense that they'd be more expensive to use. That and having to house the munitions on-board would take up a lot of space. [/quote] Except when you conisder the vasari nanite tech, the missles could be constructed right inside the ships from matter that is

There is going to be a firestorm after a write this if there are any feminists here... Men treat women differently than they treat men because women ARE different than men. In her article, she talks about women's roles as mothers and the act of reproduction, us being here depends on the ladies... so exuse me if I'm a little nicer to them. If everytime I opened a door for a woman i said "I am not doing this because you are woman" that would be creepy. And her article me

Artillery cruisers are great, thanks for the models darvin. Does anybody know how to make those? I think repulse needs to have a smaller range though, otherwise the advent could push anything trying to flank the fleet right back into the line of fire. I was also thinking about abilites, with caps like the marza, you would want to keep it out of the middle of the fight and thus most of the enemies would be out of range of its abilities, i am not sure how to fix this since

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="4" id="2339031"] My idea was to make battles more like artillery duels in the start, and then give lfs some usage without changing their stats. One of my ideas was to add a new unit type, an "area of effect" artillery cruiser which would be particularly effective against huge swarms of tightly packed enemies (battleball counter, anyone?). Advent would have the weakest artillery cruiser, Vasari would probably get the strongest, and

Darvin, i was actually thinking about the illum when i wrote that, with side beams they are nearly impossible to flank. I think it could be done if the side beams are made MUCH weaker. Like a marza, they would concentrate most of their firepower straight ahead, with weak side beams. The advent are already near-invincible in the late game (one reason why i play them) and they do not need anymore advantages. My idea was to make battles more like artillery duels in the start, and

A word of advice: Don't argue with veteran players, they will win. But hey, at least they aren't mean about it As far as refineries go, they are useful if you have a good planet with plenty of lanes to other mineral-rich worlds, or becuase they are the only way (other than research) to increase metal and crystal income. If any of you have played supcom, i use refineries like mass storage, to increase income. If there isn't a good place to set up a refinery, i

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="39" id="2338841"] Despite this long nasty trend, people haven't stopped playing the other races, and started spamming only illums. Perhaps not everyone, but I'm seeing a lot more Advent in the game lobbies these days than I should. Sometimes I'll be in a 2v2 and I'll be the only one who is not playing Advent. [/quote] The advent in late game are pretty much unstoppable... a well balanced late game fleet can eat fleets twice

Range in sins is rather unimportant, being in the middle of an enemy fleet is just as bad as being directly in front of an enemy fleet (assuming the same ships are firing at you) So what i have been thinking about is a change to how the combat in sins plays out. I am not a mod-god so i don't know if this is possible, but what about giving weapons both maximum and minimum ranges? This way, two fleets would start far apart and would fire on each other with their long range weapo

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="23" id="2338083"] (I put 'em in black holes too...that might have been excessive) I think so; stylistically they don't look like they should support neutrals, nor do I think they need to. The ultimate map screw would be a one phase lane start that leads to a black hole... Nah, RA's example was worse. At least there would be something else beyond that black hole to colonize, whereas in RA's case your ally

While i am an unwavering intel fanboy, going with an AM3 socket processor (the new AMD CPUs) might be the better option. The intel socket types are getting all mixed up with the i7 and i5 and it is impossible to know right now which socket (1336 or 1156, or maybe even 775... who knows) will provide the best upgrade path, i.e. not having to change the mobo. The AM3, at least from what i've read is a fairly new socket and thus will continue to be supported with high end parts.

Best carrier cap: Halcyon frame Repulse TK push Adept Drone Anima Heavy fighters

[quote who="Raging Amish" reply="21" id="2337987"]I can't speak for Eadtaes or Mindseye, but my mod guarantees neutrals in everything but magnetic clouds. I may tone it down a bit. (I put 'em in black holes too...that might have been excessive). Still, it's a start. [/quote] Black Holes? [e digicons]8C[/e] I have only run in to one of those while playing sins and that was forever ago, i thought they were removed in a patch. The ultimate map screw would be a one ph

Changing the mobo does not always make windows mad, i did it just recently with no problems with the OS at all

Dead asteroids have uses, the TECs devlopment mandate research gives them an economic importance (ok, one trade port isn't exactly a HUGE bonus...). And for the other raes it can be used as a trap. They shouldn't spawn near HWs and not at all on smaller maps, just becuase they are only useful in larger games where you can afford a world that gives you very little economically. I just recently played a game where there were magnetic clouds all over the place (there were 2,

[quote who="123blabla" reply="180" id="2337572"]Starkers, I don't mean to sound rude or anything like that, but you are totaly off topic from the very begining of this thread, so either make a comment about Google Chrome OS or Windows (that's what this thread is all about) or don't comment at all. [/quote] What starkers says (truth btw) is relevant to the OS because if you can't trust google search, gmail, etc... (and you can't) then how are you supposed to trust their OS?