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If you want to challenge yourself, you could try taking planets faster instead of just increasing the number of neutral frigates. For instance, try getting 5 planets by 8 minutes. If you give yourself a speed requirement, it's definitely a difficulty increase. 5 by 8 sometimes isn't possible, but 5 by 9 or 10 normally is. Not saying that this is something you should do, but it's an interesting and challenging exercise... and is very useful pract

If you're new to the game and don't mind being cheap, beeline for choke point(s) (if you see a great choke point, move your ships directly there without capturing anything in between except if it only takes a few seconds to take care of the important militia) and set up starbases and repair platforms. Unless you're playing against Cruel or Vicious, they should take care of nearly any AI fleet. Once your starbases are good, build as many logistics structures as possibl

You could also try turning the "Effects" off, which do nothing but look pretty. Having lots of strikecraft late game can cause large amounts of lag as well - if you have 50+ squads (which isn't that uncommon), every time they automatically retarget there's a significant clip in the game. You could also try playing with smaller fleet sizes.

I'm pretty sure that map format is identical for all versions of Sins, so you have nothing to worry about.

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="8" id="2985525"]So many people have clamored for this, I hope the can figure out a way to do it "their way". Maybe if it felt like it had the story-telling aspect of an RPG while remaining a 4x-RTS. I do wonder, though, what exactly are people hoping to get from a campaign? People seemed to like Civilization and Alpha Centauri without their having campaigns. If you want a science fiction story, go read some good sci-fi, which will

[quote who="atomantxxx" reply="11" id="2984184"]Did you ever get it to work ?[/quote] This is a pretty old thread. Are you having the same problem?

If anyone's interested in multiplayer but wants to play without being horribly massacred by the more expert players on ICO or on nonstandard settings or maps, feel free to PM me if you want to set something up. I'm decent (I think) and can give tips even though I haven't played that many games.

[quote who="-Ue_Carbon" reply="27" id="2985745"]If there are alot of LRF around LF dont last too long, in recent patches the got a buff vs LRF so they do alright. I wouldnt make a fleet of LF alone, but with in a mixed fleet. LF bring alot of support, damage and ability wise. Their speed is great to catch carriers hanging out near the edge of a battle or gravity well. Also when in fleet battles if your enemy (or AI) isnt focus firing on your caps, LRF naturaly

I generally turn off auto-attack for those support cruisers because they do little damage and (for Advent and Vasari) they have to orient towards their targets before repairing them. But with auto-attack off, they still do use their abilities: but, depending on engagement range, they may not allow themselves to move in order to do so.

[quote who="romromrom" reply="24" id="2985667"]When you start a game is it always best to fast track to two miltary labs to get the LRF?[/quote] I've found that it really depends how far you are from the first enemy. In a 1v1, there's always at least 4 jumps between your HW and your opponent's HW, often more like 6 or 7: in that case, being able to colonize key planets is pretty important, so I always build 2 civic labs initially so I can get terran population upgrades and

[quote who="Jierr" reply="6" id="2985629"]Did u notice how many ppl play this game, surely it could be a minor issue, since u can always create new ICO accounts.[/quote] There's a difference between your ICO account (connected to your CD key) and the "player" (or handle) you use online. Are you saying that what you saw was only referring to the handles? [quote who="Jierr" reply="6" id="2985629"]The password and User will only be found, if specifically looked for them.[/quo

[quote who="Jierr" reply="4" id="2985562"]Well i sniffed just some packets, it seems neither the Login to ICO nor the chatmessages are encrypted...[/quote] Really? The login is not encrypted? That would seem to be a very serious security problem. If someone happens to log on to ICO while on a public wifi network (which I assume isn't all that rare) it sounds like someone would be able to sniff out information one would like to keep private (like username/password). It woul

[quote who="romromrom" reply="21" id="2985539"]I noticed a lot of hype for the long range frigate but what about the light frigate is that even useful ? [/quote] The light frigate is the most cost-effective unit for fighting enemy ships with heavy armor: the flak frigate, offensive/defensive support cruisers, and carrier cruisers. The LRF is often preferred because it's significantly more difficult to counter and does good amounts of damage against nearly any ship typ

[quote who="romromrom" reply="19" id="2985259"]I have some planets in another star system which have low allegiance 50% even with a broadcast tower in orbit my question is how do i improve the allegience of the planets if i can only have one home world ?[/quote] Be Advent. Upgrade max allegiance via research. Or relocate your HW. Those are the only ways. [quote who="romromrom" reply="19" id="2985259"]Is it possible to disrupt the enemy phase of a fleet in a gravit

[quote quoting="post"] I'd wish to write a script, which simulates the chatclient like everyone is used to, when connected to ICO. I dont want to open the the whole recource heavy SINS process and want to be notified, if someone has entered the Lobby. Lately there were only about 5 - 10 ppl online, so its quite a bit annoying to keep looking if someone is there, if i could have used my time better. The problem, I dont know what protocol the Server us

I would be very in favor of a good campaign, but I don't think that the setting should be with the Vasari and the darkness, because of (among other things) balance issues and believability issues. Remember that the Vasari tried to fight them a long time ago by sending their whole fleet to fight the darkness but only 1 ship returned or something, so they packed up and started fleeing. If the campaign had something to do with this it'd kind of be pointless because the outcome is

[quote who="Ryat" reply="1" id="2984520"]And no, no cap exists.[/quote] Was just setting up a testbed and saw this: However, I tested this using 200 squads to move over 5 Vasari hangars, and all but 10 of them were completely frozen by Phasic Trap. The *real* cap, if there is one, seems to be much higher than 20 SC freeze per activation. I don't get it.

[quote who="ImperatorPavel" reply="8" id="2984886"]Yes, that's what I was trying to get at. An ultimate, blow - everything - up race that would take the combined might of the TEC, Advent, and Vasari to defeat. The TEC and Advent would team up as a delaying force, and assault the race at its core while the Vasari player spams Kosaturas and then proceeds to blow the hell out of the Darkness, as what I'm calling it, race. And with nothing to run from, the Vasari could f

[quote who="dbkita" reply="4" id="2984562"]Understood. To be honest while the traps protect the SB from your strikecraft, if he stays put (as you said he did) then he he doomed to ogrov focus fire. Period. Even if the SB is upgraded and assuming you have armor upgrades on your ogrovs, and even if he has multiple repair platforms which you may have to take some out first; 20+ ogrovs will shred an undefended (even max) orkulus let alone one being also hit by some LRF. Maybe so

[quote who="dbkita" reply="2" id="2984527"]But ... maneuver your fleet to an edge of the grav well to lure the SB away from the hangars.[/quote] Any opponent worth his salt is smart enough to have the starbase hold position or local area, which mine did, so the SB couldn't be lured away far enough. [quote who="dbkita" reply="2" id="2984527"]Have your bombers / fighters on hold position over your fleet (you can usually safely navigate them). Put the ogrovs behind the fleet

So, as TEC, I was just playing someone (1v1) who, as Vasari, built a completely upgraded Orkulus on one of his worlds. I built something like 50 bomber squadrons in response in preparation for killing it, but he quickly put 4 or 5 hangars around it with phasic trap. (I wasn't able to kill the builder). With almost all of my fleet supply used on carriers, capital ships, and LRM, I went up one more supply level and tried using Ogrovs (like 15 of them) to take down the hangars, but the SB ju

[quote who="Itharus" reply="34" id="2984264"]Also, if this happens with upgraded vasari ships - it's normal. 6-8 level 10 Vasari ships w/ the influence tech rickroll culture better than the Advent super weapon, lol.[/quote] Capital ships only repel enemy culture, they can't create culture. The best they could do is push the enemy culture away from the phase lanes and then away from the enemy planet to allow for friendly culture to advance towards th

IMO the Advent seem to be the most bloodthirsty: TEC is just trying to survive and hold its borders and would probably be the most interested in a truce instead of the extermination of their enemies.

[quote quoting="post"]Hey, I'm a pretty experienced single-player, and I'm looking to start getting into ICO.[/quote] Be prepared for a bruising... like all of us when starting MP initially. [quote]I play most of the time as TEC. I build an Akkan, swarms of Cobalts, and expand. Once I've gotten as far as I can without serious resistance, I build Argonevs, phase inhibitors, and mines. I turtle up and build a huge economy, while researching and maxing my fleet supply

One way to check to see if the tooltip simply isn't updating the numbers or if the research doesn't take effect until a new structure is built is to use dev.exe to have 2 players build culture structures on adjacent planets, watch for the point of equilibrium between the two cultures, and see if that point changes after the culture upgrade is researched (for only one of the players, obviously). However, I strongly suspect that the the true numbers simply aren't updated properly on