Wrath89

[quote who="cyberpunkdreams" reply="425" id="3036964"]I'm always confused about why games tend towards big ships == better though? Home World 2 Complex (great game!) is the same. Real military experience shows that the opposite is true. Navies are tending more and more towards light ships carrying lots of missiles and point defence equipment. The age of the battleship is long gone.[/quote] Indeed. The age of the battleship is over. And in its place, what are the capital ships of m

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[quote who="SlammerIV" reply="44" id="3036287"]Now, without even seeing the amount of content in Rebellion, you are complaining about the price.[/quote] We have seen the amount of content in Rebellion in descriptions from the devs / PR. For those of us who have been playing Sins for a long time, we aren't getting all that much new content (significant, yes, but not a while lot). On the other hand, those who haven't played Sins before are getting a ton of new

[quote who="sporemaster" reply="14" id="3036227"]Personally i find the TEC as the best but they need some more strong stuff. I know that the LRM's are really powerfull but the cap ships for TEC frankly suck. So i think they should bet better abbilities or stonger lasers and stuff[/quote] Well (in competitive games at least), Embargo can be devastating early-game against an opponent who isn't prepared for it... and the Sova being able to drop what are essentially temporary LRM

[quote who="gamerlamb" reply="12" id="3036168"]4 Advent SB with Maxed Weapons, 2 w/maxed Meteor, 2 w/maxed mass disorient and then the rest of the points in Health really ought to be able to utterly annihilate thousands of command pts worth of ships...[/quote] That only works if you can get the enemy to attack your starbases in the star's gravity well...but even so, a single upgraded starbase on a friendly planet can also fight off hordes of attackers if you have frigate and struc

[quote who="N3rull" reply="11" id="3036166"]Solution: Each shield upgrade receives "+x% phase missile block on capital ships". Fixed. Advent are most screwed my PMs because they're so shield-heavy, but they also have the biggest number of shield upgrades so it will even up.[/quote] Great idea. Sounds fine to me. [quote]Frankly, I have never understood why LRFs deal so much damage to caps. LRF damage vs caps should be nerfbatted over the head with a sequoia.[/quote]</

I'm with Sanchezz, take all the time you need. As long as you guys remember to keep working on making ICO more usable/accessable! :)

A simple reduction to researchable shield negation would be sufficient, I think.

[quote who="RiddleKing" reply="6" id="3036012"]50% effectiveness instead of 75% against a new Capital Ship Armor?[/quote] The problem is not the base percentage damage modifier, the problem is the results of "+5% shield negation" every time a PM upgrade is researched - every time a PM upgrade is researched, an enemy capital ship will take about 15% more damage from Phase Missiles. So at just tier 3 PM research you can have basically increased Assailant and Sentinel damage vs. caps by

[quote quoting="post"]VASARI- THE ALPHA & OMEGA ----They are best in the game--- I've played countless games on lan and ai and i can truly say the game is amazing because of the Vasari.[/quote] If they are conclusively "the best" (which I agree with) then they probably deserve a nerf for balance's sake. Or the other factions need buffing. [quote]Superior repair systems[/quote] Only on very large targets. Vasari has the weakest fleet-wide rep

[quote who="The-TEC-Empire" reply="121" id="3035832"]wrath im starting to think you are a heathen to the sins forum. get out. look at my screaming serious face, and get out.[/quote] Right about now I'm really really tempted to completely skewer you for being a new player who clearly doesn't know what he's talking about... but I won't do that. Yet. Sins is not Homeworld for a reason.

[quote who="Nakor" reply="11" id="3035841"]I can't speak to the error that Impulse is throwing. If it's an error coming from Impulse, that's not something Stardock can help with anymore. FWIW, I've looked at your account information and it all seems cool. As you have Sins, Entrenchment, and Diplomacy, I have added a Sins - Trinity registration to your Stardock account. You can redownload the whole bundle from the My Downloads link on https://store.stardock.com. Thou

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="20" id="3035790"] Quoting Wrath89, reply 19Not at all. One colony frigate can easily be used for taking one of the asteroids, alone, and can then warp to the other asteroid (alone) once its hull has repaired enough. There's no other limitation. AM is a huge limitation....the nearest planet that could have a frigate factory is 3-4 jumps away, and if your opponent arrives even remotely close to the same time you do, you can't afford to sit a

[quote]Well, that colony cap is going to be essential in grabbing those 3 planets in the center...without a colony cap, it's going to be rough...if you just used colony frigates, the asteroids will be a bit easier because you can send a colony frigate to the star for the AM regen bonus, but that still is a pain (and only helps for one of the asteroids)...[/quote] Not at all. One colony frigate can easily be used for taking one of the asteroids, alone, and can then warp to the othe

I'm looking for someone named Xatik I played earlier, he said he was on the forums but the search function turned up nothing, and usernames are organized by some ID number rather than by name. You out there, Xatik? (Don't say anything, just reply so I can find your user page! :) )

[quote who="SteelFin" reply="16" id="3035763"]I will say one thing I wish was changed is the almost endless supply of fighters and pilots carriers seem to have stored away however I completely understand why it is that way. It does kill some of the immersion or at least make me not really care at all about the survival of fighters or bombers.[/quote] They require antimatter to manufacture. In competitive games, this limitation matters a ton.

[quote who="SgtHydra" reply="14" id="3035751"]All of this stuff is very interesting from a lore point of view, but becomes pointless micromanagement when brought into gameplay.[/quote] Pretty much.

[quote who="The-TEC-Empire" reply="119" id="3035722"]ok fleet formations youve all covered, one other thing i want is that 3d movement. in homeworld there was truly a 3d movement, in sins they all try to balance themselves on the same plane. thats not how space battles are! (although fictional) i wouldnt send in a bunch of ships in a straight line! id have them coming in like the "Claw" formation in homeorld and in differnt spots as well![/quote] No, Sins is fine as is. Given

There's also the issue that someone mentioned that Rebellion coming out around Christmas could make it appear more overshadowed by other games, than were it released at a more strategic time... but still, $40 is a bit much. For those who have bought the previous 3 versions as well, at least.

If you (or anyone else) is having trouble starting in multiplayer like nearly everyone did, feel free to talk or PM me. While I'm not a pro yet, I have experience and can help significantly reduce your the initial learning curve, especially if you're experienced with RTS in the past. (It isn't fun to lose your first 10 online games in a row with no idea of how to improve)

[quote who="MiniBeas1" reply="35" id="3033015"]People who are complaining about Rebellion being to expensive, the way i look at this game is it is a directors cut of Sins of a Solar Empire. It's got all of the original content and more. Honestly it is not that bad of a deal. [/quote] For those of us who already have all of the original content, plus Entrenchment and Diplomacy, we aren't getting that many new features (maybe an expansion or two expansion's worth) but a

There is 3d movement, but the fact remains that Sins remains at its core a 2D game, which is the way it should remain, IMO.

[quote quoting="post"]The single thing that frustrates me most is my constant fight with the left-hand scroll. The one where planets and groups are listed. Late game when it is longer than my vertical screen size it is CONSTANTLY scrolling down to the bottom when I want to be watching the top. I wish the game would STOP scrolling it! I want to be the only one that scrolls it. The way it is now I must scroll up like 80 times a minute. Maddening![/quote] Users ha

[quote who="Teun-A-Roonius" reply="1" id="3035546"]You do know that this article is nearly a month old, right?[/quote] And there are multiple threads on it already... Unfortunately RiddleKing seems to love doing that sort of stuff (and necroing), but whether it's intentional trolling or not I'm not sure...

Unless you're playing on the insane difficulties, it should take hours (at least one, likely a lot longer) for the AI to start building superweapons... especially if you aren't on Faster speeds. And even when they start firing, they shouldn't be hard at all to defend against, if you have some idea of what you're doing. :) For the TEC superweapon, build a SB and upgrade with planet protection, for the Advent superweapon you can probably just ignore it, fo