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Reply to Yarlen, Further Tweaks Recommended On Relations in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="DesConnor" reply="40" id="3006818"]Sometimes I wonder how much unspent income the Vicious AIs have, it might be useful to know. I can spam starbases now, but I don't doubt that they have been able to for some time, yet not only do they very rarely use starbases when attacking, they have also failed to fill any of the available space in terms of plasma storms, asteroid belts and stars, when it is very much to their advantage to do so, especially on multistars.&n

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity/Diplomacy v1.32 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Yarlen" reply="75" id="3006680"]Apologies to our French and German Sins players. We're still waiting on translation updates from Kalypso. I will probably try and set aside some time with Google Translate to speed this along for everyone.[/quote] Lol. That's an unfortunate tactic to have to resort to. :(

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Serious initial bugs made it next to impossible for Sins multiplayer to get off the ground, which resulted in very low initial player counts. But now that the game is old, the low player counts online are reinforced by the very high learning curve... those playing online have mainly been playing for years. It just isn't fun for a newbie to play and lose 30 games in a row before you start to understand what the heck's going on in a multiplayer game. And those with attit

Reply to How does Universal Negotiations, Overtures, and Xeno Influences work? in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Online, usually the only "diplomacy"-related features used are those needed to "feed" (give credits/etc), and rarely, envoys + pacts. With Locked Teams, there isn't usually much room for actual "diplomacy".

Reply to How many light frigates to build when there are lots of enemy LRF? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="GJDriessen" reply="35" id="3006318"]Interesting discussion. I am thinking of returning to the game. Where can I find the latest ship damage statistics (LF vs LRF etc) after all the patches and expansions of the last couple of years?[/quote] https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/379562 It is up-to-date as of the current patch version. Thinking of playing multiplayer?

Reply to How many light frigates to build when there are lots of enemy LRF? in Strategy Sins Forums

I've played a decent amount of multiplayer and am pretty sure that building fighters to counter LRM is too time-consuming and too easy to counter with flak... it might take 3 minutes to get carriers researched and to get one built, and then you have to build up a decent number of squads... and even then, your fighters can be easily rendered useless with a few flak. On the (carrier) capital ship they'd work decently (initially) because of the instant builds and 0 AM requirement

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If/when you're thinking about trying out ICO, feel free to talk to me, it's really difficult making it up the high learning curve in a reasonable length of time without help.

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[quote who="Howdidudothat" reply="98" id="3006263"]I'm not a stickler for 50 games. Heck, kbroke sucks and he's played 2,000+ games. My point is that low game numbers are usually an indication of low skill or smurf. That's all. I'd argue skill requires probably 500+ games.[/quote] Howthe, are you interested in allowing the online community to grow? (Or, to not die due to inactivity?) I hope the fact that there are rarely more than 50 players onl

Reply to Beam Defense Platforms - Too Many? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="gamerlamb" reply="12" id="3006240"]Pirates and AI will try to attack the civ structures but have to fight off the guns to do it.[/quote] Don't they automatically target the combat structures, no matter where they are in the gravity well? (Except for the pirate types which go after trade ships) That's what I've seen on Diplomacy, at least.

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The exclusivity of ICO due to the players is part of the problem... but that problem is caused by low player counts (and of course, the attitudes of some players)... and Sins has always had surprisingly low player counts, from what I'm aware. Even before "smurf" terminology there were very low numbers of people online. I'm pretty sure this problem wouldn't exist if playing online had been made a little more accessible to newbies, if it was actually advertised (and if, for

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[quote who="gamerlamb" reply="36" id="3006218"]Progen+Skirantra is a highly effective 2 capship opener combo. Skir provides repair and SC and Progen provides Cap ship sniping & Colonize. Kanrak is the earliest LRM to hit the map needing only 1 Mil Lab. I usually skip LF and go straight for a Kanrak + Scout early fleet to compliment my opening Cap Ship. This combo of scouts to soak up damage and kanrak for heavy hitting easily clears even fortified desert and terran worlds.[/quote] <p

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[quote who="ManOWar2" reply="33" id="3006101"]After this game I'm gonna switch to entranchment, I feel ready for it. I've pass the learning curve. Now I understand what to build and when, just need to improve![/quote] Entrenchment and Diplomacy are actually much, much easier than original Sins if you don't artificially gimp yourself... play Entrenchment and find out how the AI handles starbases. :) [quote who="ManOWar2" reply="33" id="3006101"]I can

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[quote who="Sinperium" reply="92" id="3006154"]This isn't a good example because in light of smurfing I can totally understand it but last night I logged into a game that stated "skilled-no smurfs". When I came in someone said, "no smurfs". I answered "I'm not" and then they replied, "Not skilled then" and kicked me out of the game with not another word. So put yourself in the shoes of a new player who just wants to play the darn game--it's like, "Who do I h

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Or if you don't care for saving the originals you could just overwrite the "Vasari #" files in your main Sound directory. I use custom sounds. I first copied the original Sound directory to have a backup copy, and then just manually overwrote (some of) the stuff in the Sound directory with my customs.

Reply to Beam Defense Platforms - Too Many? in Strategy Sins Forums

If you're ready to build frigates, build scouts. They're the best for killing siege frigate militia, which are the only ships you REALLY need to kill. If you're planning on fighting pirates, I highly suggest building turrets (and repair structures) instead of stationing frigates there: turrets do a whole lot more damage and have tons of hull and armor, although they don't have shield mitigation. Unless I have a huge mass of frigates defending (impractical in the early-

Reply to Pre-order Discount for Sins: Rebellion Ends this Month in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote who="-Ue_Carbon" reply="116" id="3005922"]My take on his point of view is he is one who vaules his time in a way where gaming should be a relaxing experence. Why should someone have to deal with the trolls, griffers, etc etc etc when they dont have too? Simply majority of players dont want to waste their time dealing with what could be a 13 year old kid, being totaly disrepectful b/c they can. (I use this as an example, not saying everyone online is a kid)&nbs

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[quote who="hank1893" reply="30" id="3005926"]I'm starting up another campaign as Vasari ... I really like their ships ... the design that is. I'll find out how well I like their capabilities soon.[/quote] Starbasing enemy homeworlds is always a fun tactic.

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[quote who="knownalien" reply="7" id="3005912"]"trim your empire tree." how?[/quote] Select a "pinned" object (usually: capital ships, your own planets, your starbases) and press the icon that looks like a pin at the top left of the screen. You can also hover over that icon to see which units in your empire tree are currently "pinned". Pressing the button pins or unpins the selected object(s).

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[quote who="Gormoth1" reply="110" id="3005564"]Either that, or the target audience of the game (not surprisingly) are mature people with jobs/college/kids that just don't like the hectic pace and different mindset of multiplayer, myself included. Bear in mind that this game is considered a Stardock game (even though it's made by Ironclad), and most of Stardock's fanbase prefer long (even days-long), thought-provoking, stress-relieving

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[quote who="ManOWar2" reply="28" id="3005545"]I'm now winning my current game, invaded the homeworld of my ennemy, the advent. They had 3 capital ship, and I had 4 in fight, I managed to lose 2 and almost lost a third before my Dunov support arrived with a small fleet to finish the job. at the end of the fight I still had around 40 operationnal frigate with 4 carrier cruiser and 3 capital ship.[/quote] One possibility is to keep your capital ships (and the rest of your

Reply to Beam Defense Platforms - Too Many? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="KthuthratepKhan" reply="7" id="3005579"]And correct, they are not arriving from the Phase Lanes... either that or these Phase Lanes must have a very Wide field of entry... if, looking at my Planet and its Gravity Well as though it were a Clock... Then I have a Phase Lane at about 3 minutes past 3 O'clock, and one at around 9 O'Clock... The Pirates are arriving at the point that would correspond with 1 O'Clock... According to my Map, they are based

Reply to How many light frigates to build when there are lots of enemy LRF? in Strategy Sins Forums

Well, this was geared primarily towards early-game. Later in the game this would just turn into a general-optimal-battle-strategy discussion, which could take years. Subverters are out. Subjugators are too (and even if they were used they'd probably be pretty horrible). Fighters are ridiculously easily countered with a few flak that early in the game. Using Repulse plus short-ranged units doesn't sound too nice either. Starbases are easily evaded by humans. I'm not seeing

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[quote who="Island Dog" reply="18" id="3005413"]There's no date set yet. Trust me, when it's known it won't be hard to find. [/quote] At least when I pre-ordered a bit ago, the proposed release timeline was "Q4 2011". Is this still on? If so, it sounds like they really need to release the Beta pretty soon if they want to have enough time to fix things. Or the release date needs to be (or has been) pushed back.

Reply to Beam Defense Platforms - Too Many? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="silverghost1" reply="4" id="3005433"]ok did i understand you right, NOT from the phase lane????? It sounds like Vasrii pirates, I hope not.....IAnd i thought i had the newest version] I hope you are mistaken.[/quote] Vasari pirates do not exist. All "pirates" are from the neutral Pirate faction. KthuthratepKha, I strongly suggest turning Pirates off until you're relatively skilled at the game. Pirates are quite difficult to fight o

Reply to Pirates! ARG! in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="silverghost1" reply="24" id="3005434"]ok the easyest way to get rid of pirates is too get them to attack other people, call me a noob but it works! [/quote] It works. It costs a bunch, especially if you're playing against the harder AIs, but it works. :)