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Reply to Pirates! ARG! in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Vozlov" reply="5" id="2997878"](TEC) I now have a fleet of a Capital main battle ship, 6 frigates and some heavy close range cruisers. I'm in the process of making a second one of these fleets as it seems pretty effective at beating down their main force. My second fleet is the long range support one, made up of mostly missile frigates, undecided on a capital ship for it. My last fleet has a Capital spacecraft carrier and a few smaller carriers, kept way at the back. I also ha

Reply to Pirates! ARG! in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"]The problem I have though is that once I've taken over a neutral planet and wiped out the resistance I immidiately start getting pirate convoys launching off to come attack my planet. I need A.) Weapons to deal with them. They have no shields yet nothing I have seems to put a dent in some of them. B.) More ships. I've taken over one or maybe two planets and they are assaulting me with a force of over 12 ships! Do I need to be bui

Reply to New feature request - Auto Ship Replacement in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

This would be interesting, but personally there are a whole lot of other improvements I'd prefer to see in Rebellion instead.

Reply to The Carrier Capital Ship - SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BUFFED! in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote who="Ghost1-_" reply="166" id="2997547"]My number's 3.5[/quote] ICO handle? OK, but so?

Reply to The Carrier Capital Ship - SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BUFFED! in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Now that I think about it, it would be quite interesting to see what would happen if LF were buffed so they had an 85% or 100% damage modifier against capital ships (instead of 50%), while at the same time the LRF damage-vs-cap modifier was reduced from 75% to 50% or so so that caps wouldn't be made even more (relatively) fragile by much. At the moment LRF are the general-purpose offensive unit when there are close nearby enemies, and because so many players spam a whole lot of LRF as soo

Reply to The Carrier Capital Ship - SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BUFFED! in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="145" id="2997137"]1. give the other races something long range that can stop the Sova in it's tracks/stop embargo 2. buff LF from 50% damage against capitals to 100% or something. This could throw balance out the window in other regards, but it honestly might not since LF still get shredded by LRF. (That, and I've always wondered how the thing that is made to take down heavy armor is less effective against heavier armor than som

Replays are sometimes not recorded properly (desync?) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I was playing a small 2v2 comp stomp the other day. We had the upper hand but were unable to finish the game, stopping after about a couple hours. I then looked at the replay to see if there was anything that me or my partner could have improved on. The beginning of the game was completely normal, but after about 45 minutes in, something very weird started happening. In the original game, the AIs were almost completely focusing on attacking my partner, while I was saving up funds. But in the

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity/Diplomacy v1.3 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="MelissaJae" reply="146" id="2996223"]Does the AI build Capital Ship Factories once their first is destroyed? Are the entity files modifiable in their current state? I will not get the patch until I know for sure. That, and I have an issue with Impulse. Maybe I just need to re-download it. I'd appreciate a quick response. Solar Panels[/quote] This person is a spammer copying old posts from other threads and then adding an advertisement link to the end. Reported.

Reply to The Carrier Capital Ship - SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BUFFED! in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="133" id="2995858"]In regards to the Radiance, I once made a mod that causes all ships affected by Animosity to take 5/10/15 DPS. It's not much, but if you made SC sensitive to it... You'd make enemy SC die in droves, meaning that all the Sova would be doing is sitting there stealing some of your income. The main thing after all that prevents strategies isn't the counter itself. It's the threat of the counter. If people

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

[quote who="AdolfBinStalin" reply="7" id="2995266"]Against a strategy where my opponent is spamming LRFs-in early games, I tend to use a reasonable amount of LRFs, mixed in with support cruisers (that can heal/disable- depending on faction), flak frigates and maybe a carrier capital ship. Later on (if my opponent continues to spam LRFs), I would mix in heavy cruisers, and possibly build more carrier capital ships without neglecting my own armada of LRFs. A mixed navy usually proves superior t

Reply to Sins Website Gets an Update! in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote who="sbradfor" reply="66" id="2995275"]I'm getting some sort of annoying/weird problem with sub messages shrinking in size when I mouse over. Any way to fix that? it's annoying.[/quote] I wish there was. At the moment the only think I can say is to try using a different browser when coming here.

Reply to The Carrier Capital Ship - SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BUFFED! in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="119" id="2994461"]you know, you could increase the level required.. Increase it by one level. That would make it more difficult to get it early on... It's not ideal, but...[/quote] I think the fix should be something which doesn't require making the Sova an exception to all the other caps (of requiring the Sova to be level 4 to get level 2 Embargo).

Reply to You know you play this game too much when... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="boshimi336" reply="4" id="2994452"]... mine is 6.2 GB Is there a way to turn off game recording? I can only imagine it would speed up everything.[/quote] Yes. Go to the menu (ingame), go to Record, uncheck"Auto Record".

Reply to The Carrier Capital Ship - SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BUFFED! in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Reverie can turn an enemy capital ship from a dangerous ability-user into a useless brick for the duration of the battle and even longer, if Reverie is L3 (which it should be if you're using the Revelation, the other abilities aren't worth prioritizing). Doesn't that sound useful? If an enemy fleet is retreating and you have a lot of antimatter left on your Revelation, use Reverie on an enemy cap, turn your fleet's auto-attack off, and manually attack the remaining ret

Reply to The Carrier Capital Ship - SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BUFFED! in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="107" id="2994147"]Also, while we're on the subject of useless abilities... Reverie. Why the heck would this ever be used? DAM deals damage and interrupts. I really don't see why that would ever be useful.[/quote] You're being sarcastic, right? Both of those can be quite useful, although DAM is more of a niche ability. (stopping Marza's missiles)

Reply to The Carrier Capital Ship - SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BUFFED! in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote who="Howdidudothat" reply="103" id="2994104"]I've thought about embargo and I think I have the answer that allows it to not be OP early game, but still useful late game. Basically, I think it should be empire based and not planet based, and then reduce the embargo to levels around 10%-30%. This way, it doesn't kill you early game, and as the game advances, it's value increases. Perahps there would also be away to scale it based on the value of the planet c

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

[quote who="BearishMouse" reply="4" id="2993631"]I'm not sure about this; the usual counter to something like this is a few big ships with a lot of defense, but in the early game I know I don't have the cash for that kind of approach. Research for shields and armor might help you frigates last longer in a protracted fight but I think my stategy would be to lure the enemy fleet into a ridiculous number of defenses and while they are chewing on the hardened platforms sniper them with my

Reply to New to MP, need practice buddy. in Multiplayer Organizer Sins Forums

I've been playing multiplayer off and on for about a month and have become pretty decent at it, I think. Some of the players online don't seem to be all that friendly to newbies, unfortunately (most of the others have been playing for years), but I'd love to play and share the tips I've learned! It can be hard just getting started when nearly everyone you play is leagues better than you. Best way to reach me is by PM, I check often.

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

[quote quoting="post"]To give an example: if the enemy comes at me with a cap, 30 LRM, 5 Hoshikos and a few flak, I would counter with my own cap, maybe 20 LRM, a few Hoshikos, and then 10ish LF, while sending in reinforcements of probably all LRM once my units start to die.[/quote] Now that I think about this particular example a bit more I'm feeling more unsure about it. After the first minute or two, the enemy Hoshikos should all be dead, but so will my LF, and it'll be my

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

I posted this in another thread and wanted to give it a bit more attention to see what others think of it. If your enemy has a whole lot of LRF in the early-middle game (100+ supply worth, which isn't uncommon), is it still worth building any LF if they'll only survive for a few seconds each on the battlefield? Or, so that they would survive long enough to deal some damage against enemy heavy armor frigates, would it be worth building more than a few, meaning that a greater pr

Reply to Stalemate TEC vs Vasari in Strategy Sins Forums

If the AI is focusing mainly on heavy cruisers, capital ships, and carriers, you might want to focus on mostly carriers with bombers, plus flak. As long as you make sure your bombers don't run into Phasic Trap, taking down the AI's fleet shouldn't be that difficult. It'd be easiest if you can get to fight the AI in a neutral or friendly gravity well, where your carriers can just perch on the edge and bomb the enemy's HCs and caps with inpunity. The AI just doesn't know

Reply to Scout Rush Replaced By Corvette Rush? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Astax" reply="3" id="2992156"]construction frigates, which had no shields and did not regenerate hull.[/quote] And still don't, on both counts, I'm pretty sure.

Reply to The Carrier Capital Ship - SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BUFFED! in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Given the current balance (unbalance?) of relative faction strength, I don't think TEC should be buffed, even in an area they're relatively weak in, such as late-game. If they haven't beaten or sufficiently suppressed their opponent(s) by then, then the TEC player deserves to play at a significant disadvantage in exchange for the advantage they had at the beginning of the game.

Reply to Sins Website Gets an Update! in Sins News Sins Forums

Hmm. Have an updated version, disabled all my extensions, but the problems are still there.

Reply to Sins Website Gets an Update! in Sins News Sins Forums

Ever since the website update, every page is taking 5 to 10 seconds to load in Chrome. As in 5 to 10 seconds at 100% CPU. It was pretty bad before (took a few seconds) but is horrendous now. For some reason Firefox doesn't have this problem. I have heard that the problem is related to a bug Chrome has with Webkit and the background image, but unfortunately Chrome Adblock cannot block background images. Also, when I mouse over a reply in the forum, CPU usage goes to