mriguy

Since Diplomacy will be the last microexpansion, how about letting your modders fill in the gap while you work on the next project (abeit an expansion or Sins-2) 1. Design Contest Hold a competition for the next two races. Of course you guys would have to handle the balancing issues. But at least allow modders to submit their ship designs. Designs would have to contain elements to support their function and similiar design themes to suggest one race. You can s

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="6" id="2408197"] This is actually false. While they don't technically conduct trade, their existance adds credit income to their originating trade port. If they are destroyed, that income per second is gone until a new one is spawned. It used to be that you only got credits when they reached their destinations, however it was changed to credits per second while the trade ship is alive to have a clearer representation in the economy.[/quote] That's an

It's ashamed. I would be very happy paying for microexpansions that continue to affect gameplay and improve the product. I just don't know if a software company could prosper on micro transactions alone. My fear is if they stop doing microexpansions and start to work on a Sins-2 there may be a long delay before we see a product. During this delay, many people will move on to other products and Ironclad may have some strong competition in the RTS space genre when Sins-2 finally comes out (ie Home

All these postings are great suggestions. My favorite RTS of all time was Empire Earth 1 and 2. It was a great sandbox RTS with a massive tech tree. I am not sure how active the mutilplayer is after they shut down the original servers but the single player campaigns were pretty good. I remember one where you had to secretly build an army while the warlords in the area kept extrorting money. They would patrol your area and if they spotted any military units they declared war and wiped you out

[quote]We depend on Impulse and Impulse alone to activate, download, update the game. [/quote] As a gamer I am getting concerned about these clients that will be needed to simply enjoy your game. We have Steam, Impulse, Blizzard's TBA, MS Windows Live, etc.. Each service is boasting their benefits to the users. I am sitting at my desk looking at several hundreds of dollars of games in two boxes. Occasionally I pull one out of the box