Gungho1

I appreciate your advice. I just ditched that campaign, as you said, it hit the wall. I ended it with a massive battle where I committed everything I had, including a dozen capitals, against an Advent fleet of about half my numbers - the 16 small carriers they had simply spawned masses of fighters and bombers, and despite completely replacing my fleet 3 times, and feeding the new builds into the battle, I only managed to destroy two of their capital ships, and onl

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Thanks Darvin, that is pretty much what I had found, and confirms it. Reading up on other threads has also confirmed other things that I had found, such as underpowered capital ships. I had been playing around with various battle tactics, but found that it's far too micro-managing. Perhaps the main issue is simply to keep an overall eye on what happens in battles, and manage the special abilities...

I've only just picked up the vanilla game, and working through my first campaign to get the feel for it. I've researched all the way up the tech tree, have virtually unlimited resources, but my issue is with the Advent. I keep getting hammered by Advent fleets with massive numbers of fighters and bombers. Combined with a perception that I'm doing very little actual damage to their ships (it seems to take forever to knock holes in them), it's somewhat frustra

I've been a gamer since the early 1970's - starting off in the hayday of board games, coming over to 'computerisation' back in the days of the Commodore 64 and then into the massive 2 meg RAM days. I've only just started playing on line, and it's not so much daunting from taking on experienced people you don't know, as so much as not wanting to be taken for a fool or getting paid out on. You are the new guy or girl on the block, and no one wants to get taken for a

I have pretty much the same problem as bgilliford...I'll go back to bashing away at Impulse. It's one thing for companies to protect their product by DRM etc, but not at the expense of the end-user-product and satisfaction of the customer. Consumers get walked over all the time, not so much because the initial product is poor, but because the means of protecting it is so restrictive or suckhole that it lessens the value of the product. The companies will b

Okay, I recently bought Sins (basic) via a retail outlet, and went to update - every button on the game intro menu fails to target any website. So I then try to register the game...go through all the Impulse process...can't register there because you can only register Impulse purchased stuff. Tried the Stardock website, same deal. Came to this forum site, same deal. I've checked the tech forums, and apparently this has been an issue for some time (but no solution