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The Vasari voices are infinitely more annoying than the Advent.

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[quote who="-Ue_Carbon" reply="30" id="3180440"]Quoting DaxxTrias, reply 27About 2hours in, the slowdown hit. Hiccups every minute for 5s, constant 15fps zoomed out with all lowest settings (3.7ghz here, so not a horrible processor) I bet around that time there were 100's of trade ships doing their thing. Its something alot of people forget about, tradeships. Gotta remember them and Strike craft squads are the biggest creators of later game la

[quote who="AceXMachine" reply="44" id="3180289"]I'm done. Trolls can't be reasoned with even when you beat them over the head with it. [/quote] trolls can not be beaten in the regular way. anyone who has played dungeons & dragons will remember that trolls have profound regenerative capabilities and will continue to be trolls no matter how hard you hit them. as i recall, when faced with a troll one needs to kill it with acid or fire. try

[quote who="DaxxTrias" reply="27" id="3180002"]Tonight I was showing 3 prospective buyer friends the game, they wanted me to stream the game. About 2hours in, the slowdown hit. Hiccups every minute for 5s, constant 15fps zoomed out with all lowest settings (3.7ghz here, so not a horrible processor) They've all walked away and have zero interest in playing. "Well whats the point in having super large maps, if you just simply can't play it? and if it's just sma

They took that out? Man, I loved that one when I played as the Advent. Seemed very heavenly.

That makes me sad. I knew that would be the answer, but I still harbored a tiny shred of hope.

You've heard it all before, and we all know how Sins gets slower and slower the bigger the map is and the longer you play it. The one dark cloud that hangs over Sins, an otherwise (in my opinion) perfect game, is the fact that even with a modern gaming rig I can't play medium-large, large, or huge maps for longer than a few hours before the entire match slows to an intolerable crawl and becomes impossible to finish. My vast interstellar empire building

That was awesome. The only thing missing was the Vorastra Titan and some epic titan or starbase explosions.

[quote who="ls612" reply="11" id="3177023"]I've noticed generally in the betas and in release that the only AIs that actually build a good fleet are the Aggressors. The Fortifiers do some fleet work, and the Economists and Researchers are rofl-stomped as they have only a 200-400 supply fleet late game.[/quote] Fortifier is the best AI to play against, in my experience. They build massive fleets mid-to-late game, but give you time to get started in the begi

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="3" id="3176601"]If you're unhappy with the quality of the AI, have you considered playing it in online multiplayer against human opponents (who are capable of actual strategic thought)?[/quote] He's probably like the majority of people who play this game, who like to take their time and empire build. Why play online where that's impossible? Boooooooooooring.

They don't use them in battle though.

This was something I noticed in Trinity as well, where sometimes the AI (regardless of faction or game settings) will build what seems to be hundreds of scouts and then fly them around as if it's using them as part of its fleet. Only, it will keep them out of battle like it normally would do with scouts, so the whole situation puts the AI in a comically handicapped position. Is there a reason for this mass scout-building behavior? It cuts down on the amount of

This was something I noticed in Trinity as well, where sometimes the AI (regardless of faction or game settings) will build what seems to be hundreds of scouts and then fly them around as if it's using them as part of its fleet. Only, it will keep them out of battle like it normally would do with scouts, so the whole situation puts the AI in a comically handicapped position. Is there a reason for this mass scout-building behavior? It cuts down on the amount of

please this. i hope this is in the final release tomorrow.

Can't wait.

If you've ever explored the Orion's Arm universe, you're probably awash with a lot of ideas that could fit within Sins as far as galactic super-dangers are concerned: ( www.orionsarm.com ) Space is just filled with things that could force your civilization into extinction, and asteroid and comet impacts are not some of them, being only planetary-scale disasters. When you consider how large the Vasari race probably is, and how much larger it was

When we were playing with the early release of Rebellion and the only playable faction was the TEC, it wasn't as noticeable. Now that we have all three factions though, I'm struck by how small the Ankylon titan looks. I remember it being small-looking to begin with, but toe to toe with the other titans, especially the non-TEC, it doesn't just look small anymore, it looks tiny . Like a small and cute turtle, would be my wife's description. </

[quote who="bilun" reply="4" id="3166479"]But you can manually give attack orders?[/quote] This is true, but in the essence of realism your fleet captains should be smarter than that. In your absence they should have better attack priorities than trade ships.

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="3" id="3166484"]I used to think that playing only against AI and not human players was pretty pathetic, but this may be a new low![/quote] You're pretty sad.

[quote who="Ryat" reply="4390" id="2906152"]What game settings are you using? Map size, AI numbers, etc. [/quote] Let's say as an example I would start up a game on Systems of War. or Dopplegangers, which are two of my most commonly played maps. Settings would include 3 hard or unfair AI opponents, max speed research, economy, etc. small fleet sizes, and all graphics settings are maxed. I also use the awesome music and stuff in the second

I wish I knew more about modding and coding and stuff so I could diagnose why I cant play Distant Stars. I've been having crash problems with it since the day I started using it. I can't get past 10 minutes into a singleplayer game before it dies and sends me to the desktop. I've got all the latest video and audio drivers, windows updates, and am running the latest versions of sins and DS, yet on both a laptop and a desktop, one with a Geforce GTX 260M and the other w

Thank you... thank you so much guys. I have been waiting to play a big game without slowdown for so long. This will not be forgotten.

fat chance. they've moved on.

Not much to add except that I'm surprised we haven't seen a developer or something pop in here with some comments.