Azrak_Navarion

Well, you've already pointed out the proper responses: a Kol would take out quite a bunch of bombers in one go, but will most likely take heavy damage doing so. Flaks will take a very long time due to bad damage-ratio against bombers. Fighters are actually your best best, since they reduce the enemy bombers pretty fast, but they're easily countered by flak. Personally, I'd prefer a mix of all that. Always aim for a mix of units. Spamming one type for a limited time is legit, but don't rely on

I wholeheartedly agree with the OP. And why on earth do I have to install dozens of CDs in order to play all the games I like and using various clients, background programs and updaters for it?! On a more serious note: are you really actually crying about the need to install a different download program in order to download/update this game? Grow up..that's like complaining about the need to have multiple contracts to get gas/power/internet/water/telephone/a place to li

Are we talking about locked or unlocked teams here? I might understand if the enginge gets confused when alliances are formed/broken all the time, but seeing pings with locked teams sounds rather serious to me. Anyway, without explanation most pings aren't informative at all, so I guess the issue ain't that important. Still, good to know. Won't ping on crucial spots anymore [e digicons]^_^[/e]

[quote]Then you're doing it wrong. By the time the Advent Battleball is strong enough to work as it should your main unit as TEC or Vasari should be the HC units.[/quote] Uhm...HC wouldn't even reach the guardians due to inferior weaponrange. Definitely not a wise choice to engage a Battleball with HCs...

100% agreed. Edit: Gah, damn reply-bug!

Not much to say, except that I agree 100%. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Nah, posting custom maps is fine. The only problem is the distribution of those maps. Even the most common of them, i.e. Dirty Sanchez' Mappack 1+2, are rarely played because except for the 2 big clans few people downloaded and installed them properly. An automatic download option would be really appreciated...

Seriously? Wow, that's interesting. Do you happen to know in which manner they appear? Is it like every 1000th game where all pings are shown, or is it more like every 1000th ping is shown? What I mean is: does it happen randomly, or does it always happen if some conditions are fulfilled and the rest of the game is "screwed"?

Huh? Only allies can see "pings" on the map, it might've been a misunderstanding and he was talking about your ping/latency, i.e. the time it takes for your computer to receive/send data from the game via internet.

Yeah, pardon my mistake, I got to know that today as well [e digicons]^_^[/e] They're still useful

Halycon reduces the weapon cooldown, that is more effective than a plain damage-percentage increase. E.g. 50% cooldown reduction equals 100% damage increase. The exact dps formula would damage per shot / [(shots per second) * fire-ratio-constant], which would normally be 1, for unmodied. If you reduce that constant by 10% to 0.9 that'd increase the overall damage by it's reciprocal 10/9=1.11111111111, which might be pretty close to 10%, but the margin gets bigger with increasing cooldown redu

Just try sending like 2 dozen LFs against his crucial support cruisers (i.e. hoshis, guardians, subverters). They'll be first crippled and then killed. You'll most likely lose the LFs if they're in the midst of the battle, but most of the time they won't be. Support cruisers die really fast, and after that you send them after his carriers, which are most likely positioned at the edge of the grav well. If his LRFs follow - sure, your LFs will be toast. But that's the purpose of a counter. If y

Just for your information: people with entrenchment can easily play with those who don't have it, it just requires restarting Sins without the Addon..most people are just too lazy for that or want to play with entrenchment no matter what [e digicons]^_^[/e]

[quote who="EadTaes" reply="9" id="2231017"]nesesarai[/quote] I am truly sorry for pointing this out, I really am, but this has got to be the worst spelling ever in human history (including the internet). Actually, I think that such a marvelous word could only have been designed on purpose, or you're a genius when it comes down to humor. Either way, it made me laugh quite hard, and for that I'd like to thank you. Definitely worth some Karma [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="3" id="2230533"]Destras, Kodiaks, and Marauders are all called "heavy cruisers". [/quote] Marauders are (still) one of the vasari capital ships, the vasari HC is the Enforcer. As for the question, I think it has been answered sufficiently. Scout your enemy, be prepared for what he does and know the proper counter.

Kodiaks would've been useful, but carriers? They wouldn't do much against a fleet that consists to almost 80% of light frigates. Still, you're right about the SB thing. But I guess we all agree that LRFs would've been the best choice.

[quote who="Proletari" reply="8" id="2229595"]answer to the topic : illuminators.[/quote] At least read the topic you claim to answer...he had a Marza as well, thus he played TEC, thus your answer isn't exactly an answer at all.

[quote who="Hack78" reply="6" id="2228992"] lots of bombers = bye bye Marza and SB!!![/quote] Well, given that he's already built about 50 ships and due to the fact that a level 4 Marza suggests it's still early game and he doesn't have a good econ the least the SB/PJI defense would to is buy him some time. Still, to counter a fleet consisting mainly of LFs I'd refrain from getting carriers or hoshikos against the few LRMs that are present. Just

Hm, never encountered anything like that myself. Try contacting [email protected] or [email protected]. And make sure that you updated Sins to the newest version via Impulse, otherwise it won't work online.

Sure that it didn't say anything about mesh files? That's a common problem and there's a sticky how to fix it here: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/341480

[quote who="gugabalog" reply="8" id="2228252"]Ive been the forums awhile and only recently updated vanilla to 1.16 and ive foudn the playerbase only has about 10 max on lobby1 at the peaks[/quote] Nah, that's simply exaggerated. At peaks there are about 120-200 people online, and while most of them are ingame there are always games open or new ones pop up. It's far from impossible to get a game going at US/Europe primetimes. Still, everyone is ofcourse welcome to our li

Yup. It's far from useless, but you can't get a free army with it either [e digicons]^_^[/e]

The Skirantra army won't last long, the cloned ships only exist for about 3min I think. Still, it's useful to get some free HC/carrier in a battle.

Just some additions: -at start, build 2-5 scouts, depending on the map-size. Set them on autoscout, but keep an eye on them and disable scouting and make them stop as soon as they pass neutral extractors. Your scouts can occupy those, which is extremely useful and boosts your economy A LOT! -build an imperial lab and a military lab at start. Research assailants (military) and the terran population upgrade (civ tree) -use the

1. Select the ships 2. Press TAB or Shift+TAB until the fleet-leader of your choice is selected 3. Create the fleet Done [e digicons]:digichet:[/e]