dang, did u just post right after i answered my own qn? sigh.. sorry about that.. but i thot that what Infinitevoid said was right, it is rate of culture spread, not distance. Rate is not distance right? I'm like totally confused now.. [e digicons]8(|[/e]
How do pirates choose their targets? Well, they like rich planets of course :D Trade ships, lots of built up installations, etc are all attractive to pirates. If there is an asteroid between this "rich" planet and the pirates, and there is a big bounty on you, chances are high the pirates will just jump through your asteroid to get to your rich planet. Maybe the pirate targetting theory should be restated as "Nearest settlement to their base that is worth their effort (size of attacki
[quote]Only solution to carrier problem is to bring equal number or more carriers.[/quote] Ok Capt, so what do you think is a reasonable fighter/bomber ratio if you spam carriers to tackle: 1. Other carrier spam 2. Other mixed fleets And just curious, how does carrier spam strat stack up against the marza? seems like a good whack against a whole bunch of carriers to me..
Apologies.. I answered my own question.. [e digicons]:blush:[/e]
[quote who="Zubaz" reply="21" id="1969460"] There. Is. No. Patch. [/quote] I think he meant if you have time and access to these forums already, what's the biggie in using Impulse to update your already installed copy of Sins :) Or did I misunderstand him instead? :D But, for those who are still looking for the stand alone patch/upgrade installers - just remember - there is no spoon! If you truly, truly, and I mean really <span style="text-decorati
[quote]But out of the 1 million that play the game (just throwing out numbers for arguments sake), what percentage paid for it?[/quote] I think specifically in SOASE's case, the number is pretty high. 1) There are torrents online for SOASE up to 1.05, but beyond that, none. 2) I don't think the pirates rate Sins "high enough" on their priority list to target it (much).. Just look at the scene war over GTA IV.. Now that's a real fun read.. So, on the whole, I think the majority of Sins
I just wanted to point out something about the pirate bidding that doesn't get mentioned much for newbies.. The length/strength/intensity of the pirate attack is directly porportional to the amount that was bidded. For example, if there are 1000 credits against you versus 250, the pirates will attack with a bigger force for longer. Now, consider if you enter a bidding war against the enemy, and the bounty sky rokects. And you lose the bidding war - oops... Conversely, note also, that was was
[quote]Or. . just use impulse to grab what is current. It's ALWAYS current. [/quote] Which is true. But I meant an FAQ specifically for those who do not have good Internet access and/or wish to reduce their download bandwidth. "Q: How can I keep my patches and updates to my SOASE so I do not have to download them all over again if I needed to re-install SOASE on my PC for some reason in the future?" A: First, run Impulse to update your installation of SOASE to the la
[quote]Also, why is SoaSE gone when I uninstall Impulse??[/quote] Is it possible you did a "Download and Archive" but did not actually install? :) I use this to grab the full SOASE download from archive to DVD in my office, but don't necessarily want to install it on lab PCs :) Shh... don't tell my boss.. :)
[quote]There is no update (as such) to save, because when you update Impulse simply does a differential between your file versions and those on the server, and downloads the updated ones. You can, however, archive the entire install once you're up-to-date and copy that off to a DVD, etc.[/quote] Sigh, kryo, you guys are gonna have to put this in some very obvious FAQ somewhere. If you have upgraded Sins to the latest patch version and want to make sure that you do not re-download the
Aside from the idea that more staff means more people-management issues, from a software development perspective, it really starts to get complex. SVN starts requireing serious check-in rules/policies, test and debug complexity increases, chances of missing a development issue gets higher, code review becomes more critical, etc etc. Just look at the complexity of softare development at Microsoft or Linux Kernels and you can see that the proces
Doggone double post.. Sorry..
[quote]OFC, seeing a 200+m patch waiting on a very limited bandwidth is just pure agony.[/quote] Sundansyr, it was stated numerous times for this sort of case, you should archive your copy of Sins using Impulse for future re-installation. Refer to my own reply #135 above. The network connection that Impulse makes while restoring an archived game is merely to check/verify your account and serial number. <a id="ctl00__Content__RepeaterReplies_ctl23__Lin
[quote]However, with no dedicated server somone could build with no restrictions on materials because there is no authority of monitoring a players materials.[/quote] OK, I may be wrong, but I think that's also not possible in Sins case. Consider if we have a MP game, and my copy has been hacked to give me 10x more metal, crystal, etc.. A desync would occur pretty quickly if not right away since my starting values in each of the other players in the game would not match. Remember, in
[quote]It means Krunk has a different sync bug or he's using 1.11 or he's playing with people who are using 1.11. I didn't go into the full list of desync situations in my write up, I just highlighted three cases. Believe me, there is much more to sync bugs than what I outlined. W/r to the network issues, I'd have to do another full dev diary to answer just the tip of the iceberg on that topic. [/quote] Ah damn.. I thought with Krunk, 1.12 is actually pretty close! [e digicons]:rolle
Sorry, follow up to my post.. Let me give you an example scenario about what I'm talking about using your deterministic RNG.. Assume very simple 1 x 1 MP.. Init: P1 and P2 RNG seed=1 Time 0: P1 execute action 1.1, RNG seed now at 1 Time 1: P1 -> send sync action 1.1 to P2, waiting for ACK from P2 Time 2: P2 execute action 2.1, RNG seed now at 1 Time 3: P2 -> send sync action 2.1 to P1, waiting for ACK from P1 Time 4: P2 recieve action 1.1
[quote]You need the following conditions to get this sync bug to occur: 1. One player who already played a game of Sins. 2. His original game must have entered one of a few, very rare market states. 3. This player must play someone who he hasn't already played a game with. 4. He must not have restarted Sins. 5. Their new game must also enter the same, very rare market state.[/quote] Hi Blair, I have a question. Since the above con
[quote who="rukiri" reply="6" id="1959274"]sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but i'm just wondering... why is it that one player can't be the "host" for these multiplayer games? to avoid all this sync error business? Isn't that how most games do it? Sure this means that if the host drops, usually the game is hosed (except for a few games, like Age of Empires which could dynamically switch hosts) but I imagine it would save a lot of dev time trying to hunt down these sync bu
[quote]As far as that goes, SD is one of the very few groups with half a brain when it comes to torrent sites -- most sites will actually take the ISO down, if asked.[/quote] Err, no, I was not referring to the ISO of Sins, most of the time, that's out of date patch wise anyway. Adobe CS4 has a pretty smart way of trying to defeat pirates - I must give props to Adobe for thinking that up.. But the pirates have figured it out.. And I'm not referring to using the CS4 method (or any meth
[quote who="jdaniels123" reply="6" id="1955231"]Honestly, who archives installed game files.[/quote] I do. In fact, I specifically use Impulse to "Download and Archive" a copy of Sins when it has been patched/updated (eg 1.11), then this stuff is written to DVD so that one day, I can re-install it quickly and easily. I only need an Internet connection to verify my account with Stardock, restore archive, uninstall Impulse (optional) and bam, ready to play with the latest patches.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="1946231"]It's not like Rsync. If you were to try a byte and byte comparison between what you have on your PC versus what you have on your computer it would take hours to get an update. In fact, when Impulse v1.0 first came out, it was doing some (not a lot but some) byte by byte checking to do a sync lik eyou describe and it took 40 minutes on average to do the comparison ("preparing") which is one of the reasons why so many people here got
[quote who="Blair Fraser" reply="4" id="1945212"]Its pretty easy for me. I just send the latest version the game's files. Stardock/Impulse figures out the rest of it.[/quote] Hi Blair, that's an interesting insight into how Impulse works. Seems like it merely does a glorified rsync.. If so, how does it / software developers like you guys handle things like registry entries/config settings files? What if you need to create a new registry entry/settings? Does impulse do that, or do
Back to topic: [quote quoting="post"] Here come the BIG problems. The game crashes 15 secs after i start it, doesn't matter what i do. I am told to update via Impulse. Impulse itself crashes after about 30 secs, no matter what i do.Why am I forced to pull the update via this crappy piece of software? I remember Neverwinter Nights, where Bioware held updates for every former version to the newest one, e.g. from 1.25678 to 1.5, from 1.25689 to 1.5, etc. Must have been hundrets of s
[quote who="M-5" reply="6" id="1942629"]Well, I uninstalled it and went back to the last stable release. Kudos to Stardock for putting the "don't show beta releases" option in such an obvious place. I ALWAYS click on the company logo when I want to find the options screen. [/quote] Actually, just for clarification, the default in Impulse is to NOT show beta releases. You need to enable to option to be able to see beta releases to be able to download/install
[quote who="jpinks" reply="23" id="1939939"]Kryo there is NO WAY to contact Ironclad for Tech support on there website!!!![/quote] Kryo did say this in reply 14 above, perhaps you missed it.. [quote]Otherwise, the best bet for issues is to contact [email protected][/quote]
