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[quote who="worldstrider" reply="12" id="3043991"]That's kind of the point. At fast speeds against experienced players, new players DON'T have a chance--to learn anything or to survive.[/quote] If they watch the replays and are capable of learning, they will learn to make a decent attempt to survive after their first few games. If they are terminally retarded though (of which there are unfortunately one or two on ICO), nothing can be done... [quote who

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="5" id="3043369"]Just don't give them any. Then they'll get bored, sabotage a few games, leave a dramatic "Why-I-Am-Leaving-Forever" and "The-Game-Sucks-Now" forum post and then go play the latest new game hoping they can become top gun there and get noticed again.[/quote] Try telling that to Star Player.[quote who="Sinperium" reply="8" id="3043893"]In honesty, I have no issue with someone playing with a diff name because they are very skilled and

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="10" id="3044203"]I'd say shoot for dealing with unfairs in a FFA...hard AIs is probably not enough of a trainer for ICO....[/quote] FFA is a bit uncertain, especially with AI players... I remember back in the days when I was playing the AI in FFA locked teams, I found it extremely easy to turtle/trade up in my little corner of the map, without being aggressive, and the other AIs would rarely attack me - until I had acquired a ton of funds and wa

[quote who="Quiet_Man" reply="4" id="3044169"]Depends what game you play? At diplomacy the developers added two "purple" (Cruel & Vicious) AI levels where the AI does not "play" the game anymore but follows scripted events. if you record a game and watch the AI you can acutally see the difference most simply at research. On the lower (red) levels the AI will have a research queue and you can watch the progress just like the player. It can also research only according the availa

Yeah, I also rarely build more than one cap as Advent for the same reason... which helps me to not be at a humongous disadvantage to phase missiles. Something else that might work late-game would be to have Repulsion to push enemy frigates away from your caps when they start being fired upon. You might have to have top-tier micro though.

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="267" id="3043825"]To be honest, if it weren't for those damn phase missiles Advent would probably have the best late-game fleet hands down against both TEC and Vasari...[/quote] I think so too. Repulsion is simply amazing, and Illuminator swarms are quite scary. And the phase missile advantage can be partially negated - if you can get the enemy to use their Assailants and Sentinels to fire on your frigates, rather than on your capital ships, t

[quote who="Quiet_Man" reply="2" id="3043807"]I don't play the higher difficulty levels as the AI is not actually playing on this levels. Instead a script is running spawning ships and other stuff. It gets research completed in bunches without even building research centers. It is not really about being realistic, I just think about how to motivate new ways of playing the game. But you are right that sins already has it's problem with large fleets. Reducing their speed when

[quote quoting="post"]1. Have the AI build capital ships (lots, not just 2 or 3)[/quote] On the higher difficulties (Cruel and Vicious) I have often seen the AI build batches of 8-10-12 capital ships in the very late game. [quote]3. Have smaller fleets Item 3, it sounds weired that I want more ships but smaller fleets. The point is that I like to enforce more intelligent use of fleets. Currently you can put all ships into a big fleet and if your enemy does the same you

[quote who="ArchadianMilitia" reply="265" id="3043764"]umm i was playing as the TEc and i obliterated two allied Advent fleets at the same time in the same gravity well by my self so no the advent do not have that much of a fleet[/quote] A late-game Advent fleet, properly managed , can provide an excellent defense. The AI has no idea how to manage its ships/fleets/abilities. Human players do (usually). If you wan

[quote who="Pbhead" reply="3" id="3042874"]i suggust you still with your vanilla version for now, (you wont prolly ever get any online games though), and then pick up rebellion when it comes out, that way you dont end up buying entrench and diplo twice.[/quote] You can't play Diplomacy or Entrenchment through Rebellion though. [quote who="Reaper1729" reply="6" id="3042887"]Nope, i live up in the great white north of Canada lol. Unfortunately i come from a long history of p

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="2" id="3042877"]When the player counts were low, smurfing was insulting because the few insisted on ruining everyone's game so they could have theirs--even at the expense of driving away most new players when we already had very few. With the Steam players on now smurfs are irrelevant. You can play whenever and wherever you want and just find other players if smurfs are in their own little party room. Have fun.[/quote] Unfo

I wonder if https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/414406/ was in response to this thread...

Please do not necro threads, Rovakag. This thread was more than two years old before your reply; make a new thread if you want, but don't bump this one. The information here is horribly outdated.

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/forum/412

Multithreading would be useful for Sins if users often used low-end dual+ core CPUs / bad graphics cards... but those interested in playing intensive games like this one usually have computers relatively capable of running it on a single core.

[quote who="SemazRalan" reply="8" id="3042154"]If they haven't announced work on the SOASE II engine yet, it's most likely not in progress so we are all stuck with the same fundamental engine for diplomacy. I particularly hate diplomacy for the simple reason that when you have 4v4 with locked teams the *(^&*% AI teammates at some point in the game decide to F* you off when an enemy is attacking your planet. By "F* you off" I mean they refuse to attack them o

[quote who="boshimi336" reply="50" id="3042143"]sign up and see their 'contact us' section. That is likely your best bet at contacting them.[/quote] Their web page is dead.

[quote who="ImperatorPavel" reply="48" id="3042123"]I fugure I'm probably necroing this thread, but, who cares. I would like to join Aura of Honor.[/quote] Look at the post above yours by DirtySanchezz. The "clan" is long dead.

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="506" id="3041817"]NP--I was watching grandson and changing diapers while playing with the worst headache I've had in10 years..but I understand...you wimp. [/quote] Grandson? Wow you're older than I'dve thought. Didn't know this sort of thing had such wide appeal.

[quote who="Qu4r" reply="152" id="3040684"]and now two things i definitly dont want to see (votes for no) 11 19[/quote] Agree with those no votes for 11 and 19, as well as no votes for 10, 14, 16.

A few scouts and a few flak frigates will clear any number of mines as fast as you can move your ships through the minefield, clearing them as you go.

[quote who="SlammerIV" reply="1" id="3040290"]1) I have heard that a regular game in Rebellion starts with the player as a vanilla facion (TEC, Advent, or Vasari) and at some point must (or should, to remain competative perhaps) choose to become the Rebel or Loyalist subfactions, which have access to the unique Titans. What triggers this decision? Is is time based, or is there a balance between choosing early or later? (Perhaps choosing the Rebel/Loyal subfaction too early hurts your eco

[quote who="DGB246" reply="145" id="3040073"]Hi Wrath and Draakjacht, thanks for responding to my post - I'll try to respond to all your points although I can't see the quote button so I will copy and paste Wrath wrote: "All of the AIs are very "weak and exploitable" to a multitude of strategies used by a human player. Starbases and bomber spam are the two most common. They're AIs. They're horrible at strategic decisions. If you want to play a decent oppo

[quote who="Kain12309" reply="4" id="3039880"]Is 5v5 the only game people want to play? I think I'd enjoy the smaller games more... 5v5 sounds like it'd get really laggy... [/quote] It does get laggy indeed... and I do much prefer smaller games, but most prefer team games as large as possible, up to 5v5, if there are enough players for it. But if you host a 2s or a 3s and people join you may be able to get a game going anyway.

Diplomacy seems to be down yet again. [quote who="DonDanni" reply="21" id="3039868"]again can't log. btw, why does this regularly go down?[/quote] A question I would like answered as well...