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If you were playing a game without Quickstart and Faster Resources, it might give you an edge to get a couple extra frigates out or an extra lab up. Part of the advantage is you free up a slot on the HW so you can do something like jump straight to 3 weapon labs and Illuminators as Advent, or maybe 2 Civic labs, 1 Weapon labs for Corvettes + colonization techs, etc. -- you get the idea. And this is assuming you don't plan on building more capships anytime soon. It

Sigh....they lowered Torchlight 2 to 9.99. It wasn't my fault.

There are no invulnerable defenses in Sins...if there were, stalemates would be common. Starbases need to be supported by fleets. Besides, the Loyalist ability to have 2 starbases is pretty huge in other ways than just defense. It allows you to have additional capabilities off of the planet like manufacturing and trade as well as the defensive capabilities of a frontline starbase. Novaliths are also very powerful. Even when a planet is protected by a starbase fro

Yeah, some crazy sales today. Skyrim is 50% off, so if you had been tempted to get it but were holding off because it is so expensive, today is the day.

[quote who="baggyx" reply="68" id="3277330"]If Wail is a unsolvable problem for you, than you are not skilled.[/quote] Late game it is perfectly solvable using superweapons, but Wail can be rushed pretty fast and completely counters early game fleets. It means that if the other guy gets one decent world, you have to retreat, but the AR can keep pushing, and if they get another world, you have to retreat again because you can't fight. Wail can be rushed e

Good guide, thanks for putting all this in one place.

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="31" id="3274996"] Quoting Yarlen, reply 30Yar, origin planet is safe (except for the sacrificed population of course). My idea: Wail = Planet lost Wail + Enduring Devotion = Planet lost but 25 % extra damage for Wail. Just a thought. [/quote] Wail is already extraordinarily powerful. If you rush it, you can pretty much neutralize early fleet composition and it can destroy

The original Sins ICO server is probably pretty dead. You can find folks in Rebellion still, mostly in the evenings and on weekends.

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="27" id="3273896"]Well, that's how wail works now, the only thing that happens at the planet where wail was used is the planet is destroyed. All players are safe if they are at this planet in the current implementation. I interpreted that change as meaning that when wail damages ships at all adjacent gravity wells, it will damage all players ships. As it is currently, only enemy ships are damaged by wail.[/quote] Ok, thanks for the clarification.

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="26" id="3273819"] Quoting Howdidudothat, reply 25Also, it appears Wail has been effectively nerfed into oblivion. Not quite sure I agree with the change, and I'm a Vasari player that has been on the wrong end of Wail multiple times. I'm mainly an Advent Rebel player, and I think that's going to be an exaggeration. As long as your fleet is at the planet you trigger wail at it is still perfectly safe to use. Maybe a fully upgraded terran

They just launched an indie venture, The Pit. You must know secrets? Yeah, SOTS2 release was a mess. What is worse, even though the game is fixed finally, I just don't like where they took it. It felt like they unnecessarily added complexity to the UI and the interface. Maybe I'm just not as patient anymore. Too bad, because I'm sure there is a good game in there somewhere.

It is disconnects, though one game did have a minidump last week. I'm not even playing much, it just seems like I can't get through a game without everyone lagging and then half the players getting disconnected. I was just playing a 2v2 that was playing fine for 20 minutes or so, then all of the sudden the lag storm started resulting in 2 players disconnecting. The remaining 2 of us had to deal with terrible lag spikes while we tried to finish and hope it cleared up.

There have been many fabulous games over the years. I could have a much larger list with many other great games, but if I had to boil it down to the games that held my attention for the largest amount of time: DOS Age Vintage: ------------------------- Ultima IV & V Starflight Pirates Civilization Master of Orion Master of Magic Windows Age: ------------------------- Master of Orion 2 Everqu

[quote who="Howdidudothat" reply="844" id="3261658"] Quoting Cykur, reply 842 Step 1: Beg How to update Tier List Step 2: Flame How Step 3: Wait 6 Months Step 4: GoTo Step 1 I'm actually trying to keep this up to date. When you coming back to Sins Cykur?[/quote] Can't really say that I'm back. I have logged in a couple times here and there, but these days it pretty much requires you log

Step 1: Beg How to update Tier List Step 2: Flame How Step 3: Wait 6 Months Step 4: GoTo Step 1

[quote who="dvvdsfasfa" reply="2" id="3255767"]Cykur where you been, come play online[/quote] I played a bunch of games online last week. I wish it was as much fun as it was in the old days, but it isn't.

Rebellion is the newest, it has all of the Trinity content plus Titans & Corvettes and factions, so get Rebellion.

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="14" id="3255706"] Quoting HouseRalan, reply 5What is wrong with Rebellion... everything that was added to Rebellion. Titans, Titan abilities, upgrades, jumping starbases, cannon spam, Titan as homeworld, corvettes, triggers (which don't even work), and the diplomacy (entrenchment imho is best). This is pretty much how I see it. Rebellion is a failure from my perspective. The game was in good shape as of the last Dip

Probably the best way to make MP balanced is to ban every faction except TEC Loyalist. It could be known as the TEC Turtle Slapfight mod.

[quote who="Protoplazm" reply="90" id="3253470"]And Cykur, 'scuse me for making a huge mess of a post, but yeah, my idea was to say that the notion that SINS was ever going to be a 'jump right in" game went out the window long time ago. Anyone who still plays does so because they have figured that out and plays in spite of it. To get new players involved is going to require something we haven't had as yet: a general code of sorts. That's it in a nutshell. But, part of that is

[quote who="Ekko_Tek" reply="62" id="3251928"]I don't disagree but in the absence of changes to MP features/design, stickied posts like his are better than nothing and are at least a player based initiative that may reach some new players. Aside from this, what other options are there? I can only think of yours: not playing at all.[/quote] The convoluted post was the one in this thread, not a stickied post. It was a huge mess of a post that basically said, "be nice

[quote who="Protoplazm" reply="55" id="3251581"]a bare minimum assent of essential edicts must be made resolute.[/quote] While you may contend that the fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves, I would disagree. You have to build the rules into the game or the launcher, because you can't expect new players to know about them, much less read your convoluted post. Sins is by design a game that you CAN play online, but isn't very accessible to just jump int

I'd say the biggest thing that hurt the Sins online MP community is how unfriendly it is towards setting up a game. Just having a simple option to auto-assign player teams based on their win to loss ratio would have done a lot. You can easily spend 20-30 minutes messing around picking teams or waiting for people, just to have someone ditch and force you to start the whole process over again, or have veterans kick the noobs who have been waiting patiently because someone's

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="55" id="3046554"](man--did I just use Cykur and wisdom in the same sentence together?)[/quote] lol, wha????

[quote who="boshimi336" reply="53" id="3046297"]mixed with keeping refineries the same (maybe a touch cheaper) and with getting the trade chain bonus of trade ports down ... can we increase the heights and lows that the black market will rise and fall too? This might prompt more players to go the refinery route is in a certain game items are beginning to become fairly expensive.[/quote] When the game first launched, the black market prices kept going up and up as people