The pros are probably quite skilled in all of the races (in regular Sins) despite most preferring one or two over the other. On the other hand I wouldn't be surprised if some or most of the modders were only somewhat comfortable with one race... if you see where I'm going.
(1) play in single-star maps until you're halfway decent at fleet-to-fleet combat (2) come onto ICO where you can meet and play with hundreds of other newbies
The "add players" option is the option to add a "player" for yourself to use when playing online. Once you create an ICO account (which you have already done) you need to then choose a name or a few to use online using "Add Player" - then, pick one of the names you created to use and you'll be able to select "Use Player" and then go into the main Sins lobby, where you'll see lots of other people online.
If you're a newer player I highly highly HIGHLY recommend turning off pirates. Even experienced ICO players hate dealing with them - they're extremely random/annoying and hard to deal with if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
I've found that turrets can actually do quite a lot of damage against pirates. 3 or 4 turrets combined with a repair bay or two should hold off most pirate raids. That said, I strongly recommend disabling pirates. [quote]2. guass defences cannons ARE worthless. stop building them. Only tatical structure worth building is the repair bay. and you dont need many.[/quote] Turrets have their uses, even with Pirates off - both in single-player against AIs where the
This thread is more than 3 years old. Check the post dates before posting. [quote who="PhantomZ3r0" reply="5" id="3028345"]Vasari are constantly on the offensive, if you aren't building a starbase in every system as part of your assault doctrine you are doing it wrong.[/quote] Starbases are extremely expensive investments. It's often a good idea to invest primarily in Assailants/flak/bombers instead, because they can be used in more than one gravity well while having a
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[quote who="Zeta1127" reply="21" id="3028329"]I was trying to say, that each slot upgrade isn't always divisible by four, as GoaFan77 said, many of the slot upgrades give something like plus six, or 1.5 structures, something I found a little annoying, so I think it would be a good idea to standardize them to numbers divisible by four, but still support the same number of structures.[/quote] Agreed.
Also, full-size planets require the first 2 civilian infrastructure upgrades to be purchased in order for the planet to stop losing credits to underdevelopment.
[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="4" id="3028205"]Well... it's kind of a boring forum structure wise. I didn't see where images could be included in forum posts[/quote] Use [ IMG]URL[ /IMG] tags?
[quote who="master1a" reply="20" id="3027906"]The fact is that in the past year before the launch of sins on steam ~85% of the new accounts where smurfs, of which about half to a third claimed to be noobs (or claim to be less skilled then they actually where). Because of this the majority of the non-smurfers would rather play with recognized accounts, in a way they win either way, either the smurf unmasks or you aren't forced to play with a lousy player. You might think I'm
I seriously doubt that it can be carried over to Steam given that the preorder is from Stardock itself. Although (I think) it's very likely that Rebellion will eventually be released on Steam, you'd have to wait for Steam to be selling it in order to get it via Steam.
[quote who="KrdaxDrkrun" reply="16" id="3027860"]Smurfing is bad. Got booted from a game for "smurfing" with my forum username: KrdaxDrkrun ????[/quote] That's... very bad. There are tons of newer players around nowadays anyway, no one should be kicking players for "smurfing" unless they have a really good reason. Kicking those with fewer games nowadays is simply inviting Sins to regress back to the days of almost null player counts.
There's already an almost overwhelming amount of stuff to do (in competitive games at least) without another feature like this one.
[quote who="SageWon" reply="31" id="3027736"]Why fighters? Or did you mean bombers?[/quote] Fighters help negate enemy strike craft - the enemy'll probably also warp in a carrier cap. Or, if they don't, your fighters can be effective taking out enemy Assailants. If you build bombers instead of fighters and the enemy warps in a carrier cap with fighters. your strike craft become useless very quickly. That said, if you have 2 carrier caps already, it could
Have you created an ICO account yet? (Your ICO account is created only though the game and is separate from your Stardock/Steam accounts and emails)
Indeed. I did put significant thought into saying "somewhat close by" instead of just "close by". If the Vasari can be attacked immediately, they're in trouble, but if there are a few gravity wells in between and they can start building up good numbers of Assailants and get SB tech, then they're on the path to winning. That said... I think 2 or 3 turrets will do a great job of protecting your HW frigate factory, buying you time to build more units/tech/Migrator (but also of co
[quote who="SithLordAJ" reply="75" id="3027489"]there would still be complaints from the times that you unintentionally end up in positions which are not exactly fair.[/quote] ? [quote]And then theres the AI. If the AI can do it, why can't you?[/quote] The AI can't do it. I don't see what the problem is.
[quote who="PhantomZ3r0" reply="25" id="3027450"]Vasari is really cheesy, I'm having trouble at the moment dealing with Vasari that will rush to build a starbase in your home planet, and using the carrier and health regen it is almost impossible to destroy before it gets built. Is there anything early game that can stop them from getting built or blow them up?[/quote] You're talking about when people use that strategy against you in the really cramped online games,
[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="100" id="3027343"]Yeah, unfortunately we have too many pros already, with Auqia, Quar and master1a we have perhaps 7 pros interested to play in 4 slots.[/quote] Auqia is master1a. And I think Greg said he'd give up his spot for Auqia, so that just leaves Quar... but the pros already have 4.
You should be aiming to have 5 planets or more 7 to 15 minutes into the game - then build up a moderate trade chain, and then spam long range frigates and attack. That alone should be enough to take out the lower-level AIs (Unfair and below)... except when you get significantly later in the game, in which case you can start building lots of carriers/bombers. Static defenses are expensive and usually aren't needed, except if you're fighting Cruel or Vicious and absolutely need
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Or they could remove all channels except for the main lobby. Which would be a good idea IMO.
Be aware that games online ("Faster" speed) also often seem to go by much more quickly than ("Faster") single-player games off of ICO. Described here: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/410484 So if you're thinking about playing multiplayer (which I highly recommend) but are still fighting AIs you might want to practice on ICO instead of in the Single-Player mode to help you get used to speed and lag issues soon
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[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="4" id="3027301"]Maybe Riddleking hacked Swiss Knights forum login?[/quote] Sounds like it.
You could use the Character Map? Or copy/paste of the @ symbol?
[quote who="SemazRalan" reply="70" id="3027180"]I want a game engine that can handle dual/quad cores and just runs better. forget bells and whistles, work on the engine instead of the paint job and accessories or some other company will put out a better engine that does what we want with even better visuals and neat crap.[/quote][quote who="boshimi336" reply="71" id="3027194"]I want the Z-axis to be fixed ...[/quote] This.
