NilAthelion

My two cents is that the accuracy restriction seems the most interesting and best of the bunch. It's not DPS rate that we really care about, it's the massive horde of medium tech ships all shooting at a high-tech/high-level ship. An optimal and elegant way to do this is that (as I see it) every attack hits one of a set of nodes on a ship. (This is particularly noticeable on TEC capship shields, when they glow after Advent bomber runs. I'm sure a modder could explain

Thank you, all of you. Thank you very much. Okay, let's see if I have this straight: 1. Distant stars, or DIY mod. Seems kinda extreme, but this is a high-end option. 2a. Entrenchment is a faster game, even with fortification options. Heckle friends into buying it and installing it. 2b. Use quick-start on Entrenchment. 3. Wait for Diplomacy, and heckle my friends into getting that too. 4. Play more

So recently I have found that a number of my friends have Sins installed on their computers. Being a (non-rts) strategy game lover, and an avid player of SoaSE, I invited my friends to play against me via LAN. In the same room, actually. First game against friend A, I mopped the floor with him. Mostly through scouting him out and countering his fleet. All my reading on the forum here came in handy. Subsequent games went similarly, though he

[quote who="Smidlee" reply="13" id="2106549"] Quoting NilAthelion, reply 12: "Irony: I was playing a pirated version of Sins for a while (1.02 was the patch when I got it), and just bought the legitimate version via Impulse. Funny you should mention this right now." Piracy for Sins has already done it's damage as except for a few hardcore fans most gamers have moved on to something else. I've noticed the patch for Colonization seem to have remov

[quote who="Jedmonds24" reply="11" id="2106512"]"In a lot of cases it's being found that piracy increases exposure, and exposure means that people who wouldn't have bought the game otherwise get a pirated copy, try it, like it, and then go out and buy their own copy." Could you name a couple please?[/quote] Me? [quote who="Jedmonds24" reply="11" id="2106512"]I would like to know why someone would buy something they allready have.[/quote] Because it's mora

[quote who="Smidlee" reply="10" id="2106475"]While I'm sure they are the few who may go out and buy a game after they had a pirate copy yet I seriously doubt the majority would. (this is the same as I returned MMO3 to EB I completely removed it for my PC but I doubt many would do the same. Thus EB had to stop the return policy as they loses profits) More likey they would go and buy a another game that they can't pirate ( like console games) thus

[quote who="Jedmonds24" reply="14" id="2101795"][quote]Because it is stupidly easy. Because you know you'll likely never be caught. IT'S FREE![/quote] To be able to act without consequence is a very powerfull desire for alot if not everyone. If you could do something wrong and get away with it, would you? You probably would.[/quote] Except that "getting away with it" is never absolutely true. There's always some risk/degree of being punished

So I'll probably get jumped for mentioning this here, but I pirated Sins of a Solar Empire. Upgraded it to 1.12, too. Normally, for moral and technological reasons, I only pirate old SNES games: I can't hunt them down without a hideous transaction cost for the benefit, and they run on my computer. Sins is pretty much my only exception to that rule. For it I have a relatively clear argument as to why I did it, and didn't just hash down 40 dollars or s