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[quote who="evilpanda518" reply="10" id="1898259"]...One cannot simply take a RTS game and make it TBS... ...The mechanics behind RTS and TBS games are too very different to be put together... ...Most TBS games...[/quote] Certainly not in the traditional sense of TBS. Most TBS games might be that way, but not all. I am beginning to thing I am the only chap on the internet with an imagination. Nobody is trying to turn SINS into Carcossone. [quote who="evilpanda518" reply="10" i

[quote who="Hack78" reply="2" id="1892846"]That's the whole point of my argument - it is taking the game in a dirrection it was never DESIGNED to go. You design a truck to move large amounts of cargo. You can't then want it to transport the family. Your requirements are contrary to the product's design, hence the product will not (and can not) do what you want, unless there is a major retrofit. And putting seats in the cargo area of a truck would only turn it into an ugly bus... It is a silly

[quote who="Rojonia" reply="21" id="1891948"] Incidentally, I don't think the variant that Horneraa mentioned (where you cannot do anything between pauses) is a viable path to follow. For one thing, there would be a problem with pirates where you have to react within a split second sometimes (you would get murdered). Secondly, it would be more complicated to change, requiring additional software modifications, which may not be trivial. You have to be able to take action at any time in th

They are allied with the attacking fleet. Play a game with locked teams and you'll see that it works.

[quote who="IrregularCape" reply="3" id="1891176"]That might be an idea, you can go in the black market and get the schematics for another faction's capital ship, for an extraordinary price of course. This would be designed for late-game, as the costs are designed to spice things up when you just have loads of revenue lying around. I'd always like to steal one's technology and use it against them . [/quote] Fo sho. Best part of Command & Conquer was getting an eng

[quote]Ask yourself, how would you feel if you had a company and every year somebody broke in and stole 50 000 worth of your stock, you'd do something to protect yourself.[/quote] Thats the issue with pirating... nobody knows the real numbers, because its so hard to find out. There is nothing being stolen with piracy either, its being pirated... so it falls under different laws. You can't really compare the two. Some people even argue that piracy helps the industry. I

[quote]Is even possible to muster such a massive force of bombers that would destroy a carrier (or any other capship) in just one strike run?[quote who="horneraa" reply="1"]I've not seen it, but I'll be damned if I don't try it tonight.[/quote][/quote] Here it is, as promised: Notice that I have 15 Carriers, each sporting 4 bomber sq

[quote]hehe, well u can look at it that way... but then lets look deeper... would u .. as a greenhorn pilot move all alone .. 1 vs 50 to the enemy then the next frigate, and the next.. in a vertical line so they have easy pickings???[/quote] That pilot was asleep at the helm. He died a peaceful death dreaming of last years Galactic Sports Illustrated Spacesuit Edition.

[quote who="Hack78" reply="14" id="1889485"]So which is is horneraa??? The timer is fixed, or it isn't??? In my explanation, you don't have a limited amount of time to make decisions, you can take as long as you need to do so. So I wait until you are ready? "Quoting Hack78, reply 12 So if one person doesn't click next and walks away to get a drink, the game waits? What do the other 9 people do if you have a 10 person game???"<b

I have no options button in the aforementioned locations. I am using v1.00.

Yeah, they definitely focus on fighters. I remember being frustrated with them almost every time I used them because they wouldn't do crap for me, except against carriers (this was before I realized they were for a specific purpose).

[quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="9" id="1889419"] Revisions of books are published too And free of charge for books owners? [/quote] Of course not, I opted not to go into detail because I assumed the reader could infer the obvious, but I am usually wrong when I assume that. When you download a patch for a piece of software, you don't get a brand new copy of the game but with the changes made, you can a little installer that makes the necessary changes. Obv

[quote]Is even possible to muster such a massive force of bombers that would destroy a carrier (or any other capship) in just one strike run?[/quote] I've not seen it, but I'll be damned if I don't try it tonight. [quote]- planet intelligence: The game can alway tell me what and how many ships and structures have been in a gravity well the last time I gathered intelligence. Now if I also have the monitor phase space research (2, or for vasari every jumps) the game should add t

And all the money Stardock and Ironclad got from SINS goes down the drain paying for licenses to use all those ships in the game...

In regards to any bugs that invlove ships moving without being asked, moving to the wrong places, not doing the tasks assigned, or any other possible thing a ship can do wrong... it never bothers me. To me, those add to the realism of SINS. Those ships just have unruly, young-gun pilots in them. They're only human, right? Well... at least I like to thnk so. See, its not a bug, its a feature.

[quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="7" id="1889392"] Software companies write games just like authors write books. Since games are patched and not books, you must concentrate only on the retail version of the game and not on the patched version of the game (after all, your CD contains only the retail version) when using your analogy. [/quote] Revisions of books are published too (you may have heard somebody in a movie bragging about owning a first edition). Ho

Can you be more specific? *crosses fingers for a screenshot* I couldn't find it either. I like having them on, but I definitely could not find the option.

I hobbled together a and AMD Sempron 1800+ with 2GB or RAM and an AMD Radeon 9550 video card. I set the game to 1280x1024. It runs smooth even when I have 150 Illuminator Vessels and 200+ pirates in combat with each other and I zoome in to micro.

[quote]and i wont play the game again if it doesnt get fixed.[/quote] Why does everybody with a bug complaint say this?

[quote who="psychoak" reply="5" id="1889341"]A used game has an opened box, likely in less than perfect condition. The manual has been thumbed through, the pages are curled. The person buying the used game is expecting it to work, but they probably don't give a shit about the condition of the packaging. The person that sells the used game is someone that either didn't like it or doesn't collect, and prefers to recoup part of his costs to purchase other things. Maybe th

[quote who="tristangoodes" reply="3" id="1889327"]Don't blame the developers for this issue, blame pirates for the fact you're not getting what you should.[/quote] So the people that did nothing deserve to be punished because some pirates are making slight cuts into corporate profits?

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="25" id="1889229"] Suddenly I am "renting" the game, not owning. There is something horribly wrong with that. Technically, you are licensing the game, not owning it. If this is news to you, that's your problem.[/quote] Its not news, and its not my problem... Its our problem. It is the consumer's problem.

[quote who="mrakomo" reply="12" id="1888477"] The reason has already been told: transfering the game does not bring any profit to the company. There may be this possibility, but it would require changes in the shopping system. You can not transfer the account, because you may have more licences than the game you want to sell. To modify the whole system would cost money. And someone would had to pay for that. The result would be more expensive games for everyone - even if only few p

[quote who="Hack78" reply="12" id="1889167"] So if one person doesn't click next and walks away to get a drink, the game waits? What do the other 9 people do if you have a 10 person game??? [/quote] Of course not, give the option to set a time limit. Did you really need me to tell you that this is an option? [quote who="Hack78" reply="12" id="1889167"]It was originally claimed the option is a no brainer and will sell more games - I disagree. I think it wil

I am in the camp of people that believe software should be just like books. I can let my friend borrow my book and read it, but I can't copy it and give it away or sell it, but I can sell the original to somebody else if I no longer want it. Why shouldn't software be the same way?