[quote who="ab-" reply="10" id="1761203"]You can play the music in winamp directly from the \Sound directory.[/quote] VLC can also play .OGG files directly (Upbeat 3 I find particular fun; it plays whenever you're doing a beatdown on the opposition).
I have seen in addition to the standard SINS a Game Of The Year Edition (specifically at Best Buy); what difference is there from the standard and Collectors' Editions at retail? The reason I am asking is because it's the same price as the standard edition and if the GOTY also includes additional features, I'd certainly recommend it over the *standard edition.
[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="5" id="2234598"]You can easily mod the game to make it faster etc. In the Gameplay.constants file you can change research speed, culture speed, ship speed and many other things. In the (map name).galaxy files you can set your starting values for credits, metal, crystal. If you want a reall big map you can also change the number of planets. Here's a thought: do all of the above in a huge map, giving yourself loads of resources, s
[quote who="mwdowns" reply="6" id="2156435"] Quoting Calbrenar, reply 5 This seems awfully out of date to be stickied. Doesn't the Dark Fleet / RA cost money now? I saw a bunch of other inconsistiencies as well. Maybe update for entrenchment too? Was wondering about this as well. Seems the OP is about a year old now, but there are no replay links in the post. I'd be interested in seei
[quote who="UrWorstFear" reply="4" id="2128810"]I don't play online since my internet really stinks, but I have found that getting the economy up early is very useful (obviously) but I didn't realize just how useful until yesterday when I was playing against a hard AI. Basically, they slaughtered my fleet after I assaulted their homeworld (not realizing that they had massed about 70 ships there), and I realized how weak I was and what a potential threat they were. Then I turned my entire
