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[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="11" id="3226925"]In my opinion, the core of the issue is that Advent have 50-50 shields while TEC and Vasari have 60-40[/quote] That's part of it, but there are 2 other main parts: 1). Advent have no widely available hull repair, so every hull damage they take they are pretty much stuck with 2). Their capitalships have less total hull+shields. it's not just the hull:shields ratio, the total points of damage Advent

[quote who="RiddleKing" reply="7" id="3226773"] Quoting SpardaSon21, reply 6I think at this point you're the only one saying Advent are competitive late game against the Vasari. Add that to your known trolling habits and everyone should just be ignoring you when you say something like this. How does repulse from Guardians not grant you immunity from damage? [/quote] Because the single most important source of late game single target damage-Bombe

[quote quoting="Twilight_Storm"] Okay, I'll admit this game has had some trouble in the past, but it seems like now there's always something people are complaining about. I'm wondering if maybe most of the so called balance issues are just coming up from people who are losing games because they THINK the game should work their way. Take jumping Starbases for example. They probably do need a little tweaking, I haven't actually played with them so I

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="1" id="3226351"]clung to a single asteroid and managed to produce a Titan on that alone while all this other shit is going down on his team... One of those comedy of errors games with a few good fights thrown in...[/quote] Very interesting. I had always assumed it was the opposite and as a result didn't even bother trying it or checking the reference files. Funny how sometimes via confidence our pe

Neither gets disabled. The Disable only happens If YOU own two starbases in a given well. Other player's starbases do not cause the "two starbases in a well" clause to come into play- It's just a restriction to keep the Vasari Rebel player from having multiple starbases active in a single well- After all, having 2 starbases active in a given well is the TEC loyalist's most gamechanging tech- wouldn't be remotely balanced if Vas Rebels got that capability in additio

What you're observing isn't unique to unity Mass. Against capitalships in long fight, pretty much all damage is mitigated by 65-88% before being dealt to the target ship. The main causes are: 1). Shield mitigation- as ships take damage their shield mitigation rises(you can see it's current value on the infocard). Capitalships can generally have a shield mitigation of 70% or higher. 70% shield mitigation means they onl

[quote who="Emplear" reply="3" id="2926883"]Secondly a collective conciesness is a hive mind.[/quote] Incorrect. The difference is this: members of a hivemind ONLY have a collective consciousness. The Unity collective consciousness is in ADDITION to their normal individual thinking/reasoning capacity. See the difference? In the case of the hivemind you can't very well disobey or disagree with the collective

[quote who="kencomer2005" reply="17" id="3225771"]My problems are definitely idiosyncratic. I had already said that I had it working on an old machine, so the problem is almost certainly RELATED to my installed software or my cheap Acer computer. That said, it doesn't matter what caused the problem I am having with Steam. The problem I am having has already claimed hours of my time trying to get around it, and it seems intractable. Also, trying other Steam products is not appea

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="10" id="3225760"] Quoting bilun, reply 9but I'm getting sidetracked, Goa's point was merely that phase missiles more or less bypass the battleball's trademark resilience. The new phase block techs aren't really enough to change that. I think you mean Aries. [/quote] Point, In my hasty scan I misinterpreted the Nested quotations. [quote] Shield restoration is not the only thing at the battleball's dispo

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="15" id="3225758"] Quoting bilun, reply 14 Between me and a few friend I live with we've bought and played hundreds of games on steam spanning 9-10 computers over the years between the three of us, and none of us have ever had a single problem caused by steam. by contrast the people who hate steam seem to miraculously hit problems caused by steam 50% or more of the time as it's often told. That seems a pretty tough set of statistics to swallow- Hard to

[quote who="ReD-RubY" reply="8" id="3225749"] Quoting ARESIV, reply 6 Quoting GoaFan77, reply 3 Quoting ARESIV, reply 1One single word. Vasari Loyalist. Vasari Rebel can also be pretty good at hit and run, but yeah Vasari Loyalists are the only ones who can do scorched Earth. Small armies, I dislike having lots of research because in my mind alot of research means you need to do alot of research in order for y

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="13" id="3225732"] Quoting bilun, reply 12 Query: how exactly do you know steam is causing the problem? How can you be sure it's not some problem between your bopx and Rebellion rather then your box and steam? He said it has happened with two games. Its hard to say without knowing what the other one is, but it seems to be a likely it is steam. Or perhaps more likely steam not setting up some of the other software it is supposed too, l

[quote who="kencomer2005" reply="11" id="3225705"]When Steam works, it's not bad. I used to have it on old machines. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on this one. Installations complete one step per restart of the installation up to the point where it goes to compare the key at the en of the process, then it simply won't complete. When I say, "it doesn't work", I mean, "it's broken in a way to maximize inconvenience and hope, then it invalidates the purchase

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="99" id="3225465"]Heavy cruisers will also go down to wail if a planet is involved. As far as I know, Wail doesn't have to go through shield mitigation and might not be affected by armor.[/quote] This is entirely incorrent. Wail is affected by both armor and shield mitigation. It's damage jus thappens to be high enough that a large planet can generally instagib frigates regardless of shield mitigation. &

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="161" id="3225138"]unfortunatly, with the previous sins & expansions the pattern was if it patches, then the saves ARE BORKED, but the updates were not FORCED by a third party always running piece of SPYWARE CRAP(is sublimated ICE). harpo [/quote] Aye, I understand why people are annoyed- merely noting an exaggeration.

[quote who="cantthinkof_1" reply="158" id="3224393"]loving the game but i hate losing all my save games every update. also minidump sucks. i get it quite often[/quote] Actually of the 2 patches and several hotfixes so far the most recent patch is the only update since launch to break saves. So "every update" is a bit of an exaggeration.

In general it depends what you want in a race. The TEC are all about their economy. Their overarching strategy is that they try to force their enemies into a war of attrition where both sides suffer casualties- but due to their strong economy, they can replace losses far easier then the other factions. One of their most notable units is the Ogrov Torpedo Cruiser- Which is utterly devastating to enemy orbital structures, allowing even very

[quote who="Teun-A-Roonius" reply="75" id="3224142"]Bilun, I stand corrected. Thanks for explaining it in an understandable reply rather than rubbing your superior knowledge in my face in an insulting manner, like some other people would have done without a doubt. [/quote] Glad to do do so- heck I'm always thrilled to talk numbers with anyone who is willing to put up with my tendency towards rather long posts. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] [quote] I also noticed

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="11" id="3220503"]I, from the bottom of my heart, believe this is a serious topic... As a recent example for why this is important, consider Ekko_Tek's thread that was meant to help new players get mentoring....troll's like Radioactive (Nightraid3r) and Fallen_One (Chris) pretended like they needed to find a mentor....Ekko and I of course called them out as being trolls, ha ha ha, no harm done right? But newer players involved in that thre

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="73" id="3224055"]My comment about MP players not knowing anything was mainly directed at people like RiddleKing who like to bash us modders as n00bs since we don't play MP, nothing at you, bilun. Keep making modified files and eventually you'll become assimilated into the Collective. As to your second part, your quote is screwed up so I'm assuming you're replying to Teun-A-Roonius.[/quote] Ahh, glad to he

First off, I'd like to say I'm thrilled to see this influx of new voices. I was about to lose my sanity arguing with Riddle. [e digicons]-_-[/e] [quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="64" id="3223818"]The MP crowd is going to hate me for this, but have any modders delved into how shield bypassing works as part of their ongoing edits of Sins of a Solar Empire? No offense to you MP players, but knowing how the nuts and bolts work is something we modder

[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="20" id="3223255"]So all this time nightraider was really brotherbulger??? [/quote] Nope, he's actually a dolphin.

[quote who="wbino" reply="85" id="3223260"]1. Titans come out way to early....8 military labs. 2. Titans need to level up at a MUCH slower rate. 3. Titans need to lose all xp when they die.[/quote] And hey, the chances of that happening are very slightly higher then the chances of everyone who reads this post spontaneously turning into Geese! [e digicons];)[/e] But in all seriousness, we've basically been told Tit

[quote who="Kaun2" reply="83" id="3223252"]i have killed a titan several times during a game. has been when it was a level 1 though. had 5 cap ships lots of lrm frigs and carrier cruisers against titan , 3 cap ships and various other ships. you can always hynt it down if u know a titan has just been bulit.[/quote] Yeah, the problem is more once it ceases being level 1... The game is regarded as too Titan centric largely because once a Titan levels

Oh yeah,forgot to add to the end of my previous post(though I suppose it was already plenty long [e digicons]:blush:[/e] ): I do agree with you on the topic of removing Corvettes from all Titan AoE damage ability's target filters. Honestly It felt like corvettes were supposed to be a titan counter from the start- Like capitalships titans deal only 25% damage to very light armor;corvette damage does a very respectable 70% to Titan armor as well. And of course titans&nbs