quantumdragon

myeh maybe I am wrong, It probably depends which fleets are versus which, I was playing advent vs a freinds vasari fighter fleet just to see what happened. I won, but it I think I might have been in my culture so my carriers were able to recharge their antimatter which helps too. And even though vasari are more powerful they can only shoot at one thing per a pass and have fewer fighters per squadron, and if you add the fact that advent get that extra is 5 or 7 f

After playing the .09 beta I thought the same thing which is why I started working on this mod below Emphasize capital carrier/fighter roles, Mainly to eliminate support carriers and make capital ship carriers actually worth it. You don't see present day navies having little micro aircraft carriers running all over the place. Now I agree you should be a good player and be prepared to balance your fleet, but the p

[quote who="Cataclysm2000" reply="4" id="1956879"]That bugs me to no end. I want to go through the star because that path doesnt take me through enemy territory, pirate bases, ect. I also noticed that when i tell my units to go somewhere they will choose the shortest path, which is cool, except when that path takes them through a pirate base. There should be limits on the path finiding AI like not taking routes through pirate bases.[/quote] Does the old holding sh

[quote who="CobraA1" reply="2" id="1956730"] Sooo . . . we work on making better demos? Truth be known, demos aren't really meant to be complete games themselves. If they were, they would take demand away from the real game. So the big question is - where is the best place to draw the line between a demo and a full game?[/quote] I would say people at that point should find an online gaming reveiw site or gaming magazine that has reviewers that have similar tastes

[quote who="CobraA1" reply="24" id="1956387"] I have disabled disk caching completly and it works great. Which cache? Completely disabling the OS disk cache would mean that any application that writes to disk will pause while the write is taking place. It would be painfully slow. I'm guessing you just turned off SuperFetch. I don't think you completely disabled caching. [/quote] I did not mean I disabled superfetch, although I do have that disabled as well, but that

[quote who="Craig Fraser" reply="20" id="1953515"]Magic glowing dice will now materialize during every battle. Furthermore, we've decided to narrate each battle with text in real-time at the top left. In order to optimize we've also removed ship movement - opting for a cool stop motion style scenes that cut in and out. The level of suspense will be increased dramatically as players plan their moves in between frames.[/quote] This is great! (Looks at matri

I love having the 8 GB RAM. I can currently run an editor for oblivion, that essentially loads the entire games contents into memory, load and play the game while the editor is running (having to quite to save changes of course). On top of that, have internet explorer downloading a new 100mb mod, while listening to streaming music over the internet while all the while defragging one of the harddrives im not using. I have disabled disk caching completly and it works great. I ca

The following if for psychoak and is only intended for you to see my point of view on what you said not

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="20" id="1953186"] This is what Impulse Reactor is being designed to do. Developer simply includes ImpulseReactor.dll and voila. They get access to cloud multiplayer, cloud space, authentification and a ton of other features. No "start up" programs needed. [/quote] First off, awsome and kudos for doing that! I must say that I am really impressed that you guys are working on that already. [quote who="Frogboy" reply="20" id="19

I can agree with watertown but I also agree with Craig Fraser. Thats what the demos are for. I usually have a enough friends where they have a game I don't have as of yet or I have one they don't, and we will got to each others house to try it out .If I like it, I buy it, if it sux I don't. I don't play the whole game mind you, my friend would eventually get ticked or my GF would wonder why I haven't been home for the last 16 hours. Thats how I discovered Sins and Supreme Commander, f

[quote]I'm pretty confident I can get 64 bit drivers for the laptop because of how new it is.[/quote] I checked for you since you said it was an xps 1730, and yes there are 64 bit Vista drivers for it so your all set. The video drivers are not hosted on the dell site, but Nvidia driver installer is universal, unlike ATIs so your good to go. What I would do first however before you install 64 bit is download all your drivers and put them on a thumb/flash/USB drive,

[quote who="Haree78" reply="12" id="1952456"]This may sound like a stupid question but surely I'm not the only one who doesn't know. How would one upgrade to 64 bit Vista if they wanted to? I'm currently running 32 Vista (Home I think), do I need to buy a 64 bit version? Can I buy an upgrade? If I have 2 partitions, 1 with the OS and data/installed programs etc and 1 partition with the restore directory that came with the Laptop (I'm guessing to install Vista

[quote who="dmantione" reply="11" id="1951689"]Let's focus on another issue: Affordability. As I have a good salary, I can afford to buy the games I play. As I can buy on-line I can get them even cheaper, I can simply buy in a U.S. webshop like Impulse and get the benefits of the strong euro. As I hardly feel the costs, I can simply do a few mouse clicks and have a game on my computer an hour later. Piracy isn't even worth the effort it takes. But now imagine a

You know for us casual gamers we need to have a "Married Man no Freetime Clan" where a few of us can get together once or twice a week to play for an hour or so, save, then continue on next time we set a time to play, lol. I like the singleplayer expereince but it gets repetive cause I know whats coming and I know I will win. I would like to play with a few other casual gamers and just have a good time watching the explosions and playing a good game where I might recieve or deliver

[quote]Don't see much piracy on World of Warcraft.[/quote] I agree you do not see much, but a lot of people aren't happy about 30 dollars a month, even though they pay it...heheh. You do see private servers around, but again they don't have the constant updates and the cool changes in the enviroment reflecting the seasons (IE christmas time and halloween).

I apologize for my ignorance but is there a section on the lore of Sins or a collection of short stories somwhere where people contribute? If so I that would be nice to know for me to catch up on the story of sins. Thanks, Quantum_Dragon

[quote]Its fear of wasting 2 or 3 or more hours of my life just to find someone disconnects or indeed that i need to spend 5 hours more just to finish single game...[/quote] Lol I couldn't agree more. So many people when you get just a little bit of an upper hand disconnect it drives me insane. I haven' played sims online, but every other RTS out there people quit quite often. Generals was a really bad one, 70% of the time someone in a 4 player game quit after like 10-2

[quote who="Shadow_of_Light" reply="2" id="1950855"] to date, there are so many company's that use DRM to try and prevent people from pirating it, like EA on most of it's new games it has a function that only allows you to install the game 3 times, after that the disk is useless unless u contact EA support[/quote] Any one here remember star force copy protection? LOL in case you haven't heres a link, and go the bottom

Just wanted to let people know I have this mostly accomplished on the 1.09, once done it will only be a matter of copying over a few stat changes to 1.1 and it will be ready to download. Its just simple edit of a few entity files so didn't take too long.

[quote who="Craig Fraser" reply="7" id="1950489"]Busterzperson, the funds are only deducted when it is released. Its likely you're looking at something else. Sorry we don't have a date for the beta release. We aren't going to give quite as much advanced warning this time due to the negative feedback when we had to push it ahead last time.[/quote] You could do what I always do when my girlfreind asks when I will be done playing games. Say "Soon" or "

Iamcatfu I was thinking the same thing, but if that doesn't work, you could use the idea of replacing new fighter entities using frigates info, then it wouldn't even take up any cap at all, but use up the maximum number of spawnable squads its "carrier unit" has. Which in the entity files is refered too as command points. So each command point gives you a squad. This would be better so at least then people couldn't keep spawning frigates in a system over and over, and your defense frigates fo

I know theres like a gazilion mods, and maybe this has been done before but this mod just tweaks a few things in the game. I will list the tweaks and the reasons why, if you have any suggestions, ideas, comments let me know. Making cap ships uses a little less cap, to promote building them more in mulitplayer. Lowering the number of sqaudrons for TEC and Vasari support carrier but making their fighters stronger, (this would leave the advent with the drone swarm,

[quote who="Teal" reply="11" id="1946668"] Actually what you are proposing is exactly, i believe, what Entrenchment does. So if you wait just a bit, you can get a developer made entity that does exactly that. But much more professional than some little home made mini mod by me. [/quote] I thought about that, but I am still not exactly sure what is being added in entrenchment, and my understanding was that starbases can't build cap shi

Well I was thinkin you could create an ability similar to the research, I am sure there must be some way. OR an ability to spawn pirates would work too, but you have to make sure that balances out and that pirate ships use unit cap, otherwise it would be massively unbalanced in that you could just swarm the enemy with limitless pirate ships.

Hey guys I was thinking of something to go along with the mobile defense and ships that build ships. I am new to the modding community here so please forgive my ignorance. Would it be possible to have one constructor ships who's special abilities would be to spawn the capital ship facility and the frigate facility? However to keep from spamming a hundred facilities the constructor ship would actually be spawning a variation of those facilities that take up a small amoun