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Congratulations to Stardock and Ironclad. Also, SoaSE got into the top 30 games of EDGE magazine. Took the 13th spot.

Personally, I can't really care for what Gamespot chooses. After all the rap they took last time, plus their new selections for Special Achievements (MGS4 beats Crysis Warhead in Technical Graphics department, they say), this is really not the best site to get an honor from. Although another "Best of 2008" badge on Sins of a Solar Empire wouldn't hurt, even if it is from something as bogus as Gamespot.

IGN also forgot to mention that it cost less than $1 million to develop, took on a totally new idea and name (didn't have a franchise to lean to), and yet earned them a good share. It didn't have DRM, and neither did it whine about piracy. All that in a year where everyone argued PC gaming is crap? For those achievements alone, it deserves being the PC Game of the Year. The little company that could? More like the little company that DID. Congrats Ironcl

So that's why the Vasari can reinforce their fleets in minutes. In the words of EviliroN, DAMN. Truthfully, I could care less about the costs - reinforcements coming from nowhere is worth all the money put into it as long as it saves my frontline from the enemy. Imagine the losses you incur from losing the planet to the enemy, plus the amount you invest just to take it back. Seriously, I gotta try Vasari next time. That is o

Really? Because I seem to remember logging in just a few hours ago after patching and I did see Howdidudothat playing with 7 other players on a full game.

When it comes to Atari, I take the boxed versions. Where I'm from, they come with premium discounts. Heck, you sometimes get another Atari game free.

[quote who="Solam" reply="7" id="1968321"] Quoting XxTKDwarriorxX, reply 6The only good way to die is an apocolypse becasue if there is any sort of afterlife people are prob gonna be like "so how did u die?" and there would be ur basic, "o i got hit by a car" or " o i drank the glass of water on the table that actually tuned out to be peroxide" but then you can school everyone and be like " i died in the freaking apocolypse" That's just the best response I've

Interesting. I'd like to give this a go, but I'm not sure how to achieve the conditions that might bring about the divergence. I can't tell if my market values are already incorrect. Are these logged in the sync log as well?

Love the Marza Dreadnought banner. But I really could do with a Vasari Carrier or the TEC Battleship. Kol Battleship. This shall be our finest hour. Sins of a Solar Empire. Perfect. Simply perfect.

Gah. I should have searched the forums for this before emailing Stardock Support. I feel so ashamed now. On that note, I can agree with WhiteShadowOZ. The Collectors Edition looks even better than the stock image Stardock uses. What a beaut!

[quote]but shouldnt stardock be able to provide me with a new cdkey ? I even took a photo of my receipt with the retail box, manual and cd all showing and included it in my email to them. It seems extremely unreasonable that they wont help me. I was polite and everything[/quote] Well, that's kinda hard to ask of them. First, it isn't Stardock that published the boxed retail version that you bought from EB Games. All that was handled by a third-party publisher and distributor. St

That being tagged as a Pirate's welcome doormat is a good thing?

So that was a bounty indicator? Nice. Even more visual cues without needing to review all the messages I missed after listening to battle chatter. Too bad it'll clutter already small screen real estates of those playing at 1024 x 768.

Aww...does someone need a hug?

Hmmm...tempting. I guess I have a lot of ideas in store, but I'm not sure if an expansion is the great plate that these changes would be best served in. I'm more happy if it came as a sequel. I'll just plop in what's at the top of my head right now. I'm taking into account Sins of a Solar Empire's selling point ("Real-time strategy. Unrivalled scale.") so this list may appear way too ambitious. I'm sorry if it could offend some. For ships, ship combat, defenses: 1. mov

I'll say that was a lucky streak indeed. Lady Luck always manages to get those stray bullets attracted to the spot smack dab in-between my eyes. Oh, and you said rifles twice. Must have been a lot of Kar98s, eh?

Yeah I do own it, but the problem is it isn't identical to the one that originally started out with Sins. It's like -=way lower=- in specs.

Is it possible that I can install my copy of Sins on another PC and install the Beta patch on that one? I'd like to get a full comparison from 1.05 and 1.09B if that's alright with you guys?

Thanks a bunch. Ordering now. ^_^

[quote]The theme is a separate download via MyColors no matter how you came to get access to it; it's not included directly in any boxes. Direct purchases are the same Collector's Edition as is available in some stores (if you opt for no box, you can get the extras as downloads) until we run out, which we haven't yet. These include the tech tree poster, soundtrack, etc, directly.[/quote] So from what you're saying, if I do order the download + retail box version of the CE, that already

Okay let me get this straight: if I order the Download + Retail Box edition, that counts as the Collector's Edition, right? But according to your post, it doesn't hold all the Collector's Edition contents as advertised. Instead, you offer it as a separate download after you purchased the CE (DL + Retail Box), right? From what I understand, a DVD sale version for preorders came out with all these CE content packaged inside. I could be mistaken, though. It's hard to process all the news I