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[quote who="JinglyGoo" reply="21" id="3384715"]More or less agree apart from the point where in your opinion TEC> advent early game.[/quote] ...but TEC is better in early game. Early game is all about being the guy with the most money so you can actually afford a fleet. Nobody does that faster than TEC. Advent will research faster, but that doesn't mean much if you have no money to pay for the research. Also, phase missles are pretty awe

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="13" id="3384508"] People, that person has a point. If you don't see the starbase in time, then you have no time to destroy it and even if you do, you'll lose half your fleet. Basically, it's game over already and you have hardly even started the game. [/quote] Nobody is debating that point. I think the issue here is that you need to keep an eye on what is going on at various worlds. If you at least have a han

[quote who="Exterminatus89" reply="7" id="3383338"] Yep that mechanic is just to imbalanced i mean right of the start the guy just builds a freaken starbase at the edge of my capital planet which is bullshit so while my fleet is fight to get a planet my capital is getting fucked by a starbase built in couple of seconds i regret buying this game it seemed pretty fun at the beginning but multiplayer is just big mess from boring clusterfuck to imbalanced race advantage no fun at all.

I got one. - The ability to sell/give military hardware to other players the same way I would resources/credits.

While you don't have to micro-manage early, it becomes more critical late in the game as abilities and fleet sizes(imagine having 200+ ships on each side in the same gravity well) ramp up (especially with the titans) and you have to be more creative with how you destroy ships. A problem with the UI is that when you start getting in to massive battles, it becomes difficult to issue bulk orders to groups to destroy other groups of a certain type of ship. Contrary to what t

[quote who="DarthRico" reply="54" id="3368579"] Pretty sure he knew that and was just making a joke. But just to be clear, your statement is inaccurate. You are trying to say that I am the one trolling when in fact this is my thread and you are here trolling me. Simply pointing out your trolling behavior does not in turn make me a troll. Sorry to burst your bubble...I know you like to believe in the universes magical ability to distort reality to

[quote who="DarthRico" reply="48" id="3368557"] hmmm lets see...you came into MY thread and clearly want to argue back and forth (apparently for the rest of our lives) about why changes were made to a game and how stupid I apparently am for not agreeing with you when I don't care if the changes where made or not. I simply would have like the simple option of whether to allow/accept the update or continue to play my single player game without changes that were made for other peo

[quote who="crisaron" reply="43" id="3368551"] I am stuck there man... Pot meets Kettle... stoner tea? [/quote] It's a play on "The pot calling the kettle black" which is a pretty common expression. It means you're doing the very thing you're accusing the other person of.

[quote who="DarthRico" reply="38" id="3368545"] 1.) the "severe balance issues" is an opinion that you have made clear already...but it is still just that ...and opinion. And not one that is shared by everyone. [/quote] No, it's a fact. One that is backed up by many players, and one the devs seem to agree with since they listened to the community. [quote who="DarthRico" reply="38" id="3368545"] 2.) as I stated I have only played THIS VERSION o

[quote who="DarthRico" reply="34" id="3368538"] As with everything...there is always better and there is always worse. Pointing out the "worse" does not excuse simple oversites by the devs of this game that could have easily been avoided.[/quote] The problem with this is you don't know the conditions under which the devs made the change. You can't instantly assume that your idea of how things should work is even viable when you have no idea how

[quote who="DarthRico" reply="31" id="3368533"] And what you describe as "game breaking"...that being, a game play style that you didn't like is not in fact "game breaking"....forcing without notification an update to the game on people that results in.."your saved games are not BROKE and you can't finish them"...IS "game breaking".[/quote] Breaking a few savegames is a small price to pay for fixing severe balance issues. I find it hard to unde

[quote who="DarthRico" reply="28" id="3368527"] There you go making assumptions again...LOL. And by the way...when you come out of the gate being rude...you give up your right then and there about calling anyone else rude.[/quote] Hm, looking at the post history, I'd say you were already out of the gate by the time I got there. It might be time to take your own advice. If you're looking for some retraction on my original "rude stat

[quote who="Jrla21" reply="4" id="3368241"] Give this a shot and write back, I'm very curious to see if your issue is the same as mine. Yes it did, oddly enough. And it's funny because this only affects my computers with Windows 8. My Vista Desktop was immune from the plague. Oh well, it's been fixed. Moving on...[/quote] Fantastic. I had already filed a bug report regarding it, and this helps confirm

[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="25" id="3368519"] Quoting DarthRico, reply 18That all may be true but my main point here is that messages posted on a website and or forum should not be assumed will be read by people who do not play multiplayer and game breaking aspects needs to be included as a notification during install. This is not something that would require months of development...I am a developer and I can tell you this could have been done in under five mins time.<br

[quote who="DarthRico" reply="22" id="3368515"] Wrong again...you are the only one making any assumptions or becoming hostile. And if pointing out that a simple text notification to players about a game breaking aspect of the game needs to be added to the installation process is (which is just plain common sense) is what you call "making demands"...so be it. But thanks for trolling the thread anyway.[/quote] Assumption: [quote who="D

[quote who="DarthRico" reply="23" id="3368517"] Quoting caffinate, reply 20Even in a single player context, with mobile phase jumping starbases, I can win on the hardest possible difficulty level in single player mode just by defending long enough to get my first fully upgraded starbase. then it's not even fun, it's just a process of assault with starbase, build new starbase, upgrade planet I just got, rinse repeat. There's no deep strategy involved in this tactic, and

[quote who="HLT" reply="10" id="3368332"] >>>GoaFan77: as ever the diplomat, but I think you miss my main point, which is that the tone of the response was inappropriate. If the goal is to chase away all new players, then Caffinate's strategery was right on target. My comment was intended to let Darth Rico know that we don't all have Asperger's, however. That way perhaps he'll keep coming back to ask questions, offer comments,

[quote who="HLT" reply="8" id="3368323"] Quoting caffinate, reply 7Quit your whining. His objection is completely reasonable, and your response is inappropriate. This is a case where a change made to benefit a small community (the multiplayers) may have been unnecessary or even counterproductive from the perspective the vast majority of the Sins community who just enjoy or only have time to play vs. the AI. It is what it is, but you have no reason to be

[quote who="DarthRico" reply="2" id="3368242"] well this crap blows....I just fracking bought this game...find a game play that I enjoy and oops nope you can't play that way...thanks for your money. un fracking believable!!!![/quote] Uh, this is a good change. The vasari were way over the top before that, and a lot of people asked for re-balancing as a result. Quit your whining.

Let me guess, running it through steam? If so I had a similar issue and I solved it by disabling the steam in-game community support. 1. Locate Sins: rebellion in your library 2. Right click on it, select "properties" 3. Uncheck "enable steam community in-game" 4. Click close Give this a shot and write back, I'm very curious to see if your issue is the same as mine.

I actually nuked everything where the settings were stored to reset it to its defaults, and performed a completely clean installation of the game. It now defaults to the highest non-windowed resolution (which is desirable) but the game still crashes on a resolution change. Given that this is a completely clean installation with no mods at all, I'm thinking this is some kind of game related bug.

Title says it all. Game starts fine, but in 1024x768. Any attempted change in resolution crashes the game. This is the steam version, and I recently purchased the new DLC pack. I was not having this issue prior. Using the GeForce GTX 285 with the 320.18 drivers on a core i7 920 with 12gb of ram running windows 8. Couldn't figure out how to attach the minidump, so I have it hosted here: <a href="http://boxedtool.com/Sins-Rebellion%20v1.5-2013