GenKnight

The pace of the game is great for me. Being a little older, I don't necessarily want to get in a click fest to acomplish what I'd like to do. And if you get absorbed in a battle, you will find that things (either pleasantly or unpleasantly) have moved along somewhat. This game does have depth and all of it is not strategy but sometimes in graphics and game mechanics. As far as the orignal poster - if you didn't care about what someone said about yo

Mine is called Amber after Zelazny's novels [I]Nine Princes of Amber[/I] series.....

Lock teams, no pirates, upgrade infrastructure (check credits window to find red negatives), more fleet than research at first then research to build fleet, research economic techs - and have fun! :)

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Pausing the game when you are new is a lifesaver... I used it a lot my first 3-4 games...

I've got a QC6600 with a 8800GTS w/320m with 4 Gigs of Ram and my setup runs great. On my last game of Sins, I pushed the RAM use past 2 gigs so get all the RAM you can afford. :) I vote Nvidia by the way - GPU plus mb processor. Also Win XP...

I have discovered that all computer cases and motherboards are not created equal... :) If I get another one it will be bare bones (MB in case). So I guess I vote custom. I've had Dell and they are good if you don't want to tweak much (at least they used to be).. I am using XP on my latest setup (Nvidia i680, CQ6600). I have Vista and I've got a partition ready for it....

What he says. Virtual Memory is a windows setting which I usually set to be 1.0 to 1.5 times that of RAM. Lower number = upper It was a nice discourse of video cards though dudes... :)

You should play to build viable fleets not to expand your planets. True enough your will expand your planets in time but it becomes a mindset. This consists of plotting to get your favored warships to accomplish what you want. When first starting out, it doesn't take as much infrastructure to take that asteroid but the volcanic planets with 2-3 Kodiaks is a different matter. The progression would be just enough civil labs to expand resource gathering, culture, intel t

[quote]I am going on seventy and I am not what the younger generation calls a "Geek". It's a shame that you can't go to the site by typing it's location Must I delete the game and then reintall it to get it to go to the free bonus Theme site?[/quote] Congrats on staying young my friend! Good for you!

Only one other thing - why does everyone discount stealth so readily? If you use today's thinking as a basis I see it but no one 60 years ago would of though you could reduce the RCS and heat signatures the way it is being done today. Stealth could be as easy as blocking a sensor...or as in today's world feeding back the wrong information saying nothing is there.

^^^ A few paragraphs are your friend. :) Listening to the good old Science cable channel, I heard a scientist make an interesting statement (to paraphrase): "The problem with a lot of our scientific community is that they assume they know all there is to know about physics on our earth. I am willing to assume there are principles in physcis that we haven't discovered yet and those may make the rest of what we know obsolete.." The element of surprise will

A Planet Logistic upgrade is necessary - green button opening screen. You can overfill your slots as they are limited but I doubt that was your case with only three planets. Conquering larger planets will give you more slots to play with. Original Poster - congrats on getting into the fray man. I used pause a lot when I first started and actually searched these forums for specific answers at times (how to capture a capturable asteriod eg.) Take your time and enjoy th

When I first started (not all that long ago :) ) I paused the game A LOT! So much to learn it seemed and there was. Locked teams, no pirates... Congrats on the win!

Lots of nice changes and that is exciting. Congrats SD and Ironclad dudes. Carriers now appear to have a larger usefulness. I like Impulse and I am actually using it as a launch platform. Upgrade have always been through the Internet so if you don't have the Interent you've always had problems upgrading?? A lot of people just like to complain me thinks...

I like the idea of ships "advancing" to like maybe a Rookie, Seasoned, Veteran Status with corresponding upgrades to their performance. Maybe SOASE can incorporate like some planet upgrade areas that could be called, for lack of something better, TBD. Could be used for Tactical or Logistics. In this way you coud customize a planet to be more one or the other rather than all one or the other. An all logistical planet would not be the problem whereas an All-Tactical one would. Talk ab

Perhaps a mobile anti-matter producing ship, like the Supply wagon concept in Rise of Nations?

As long as everyone brings their own booze they are ok...... ;)

Perfect actually... :)

I think the basics of today's air warfare still would come into play - 1) camoflouge/avoid being detected 2) speed/manuverability 3) killing power at both a distance or closer. 4) Frame strength/armor/shielding. You would think that sensors could see in what we now call an over-the-horizen mode but that would all be predicated on the enemies ability to mask himself in some manner. The ability to kill at closer range is direclty proportional to this. I

Learned something from that Wiki article. I had no idea only a percentage of resources were mine based on the planet's allegiance. Yikes! (:(

Life was grand when you could get a 1200 baud connection at a board instead of a 300 baud one.... :) Thanks for revealing part of the Frogboy's and you'alls past...

I shall reluctantly vote for McCain. I am a life-long Conservative (I voted for Richard Nixon my first time.) Obama is bringing an old Jimmy Car-tah agenda that didn't work then and sure won't work now. What really might work is clean out all politicians on both sides and start over but that is just a fancy. I am starting to believe in term limits...

Posting anything about Indiana is great! :)

Firefly yes. Dresden Files yes. The winner would be a series based on Roger Zelazny's books on The Nine Princes of Amber. Amber is the real world were the occupents of a chosen blood line can manipulate "shadow." Earth and every other place you can time exists in shadow and these folks have the ability to get there as well as create stuff. There is a story of sibling struggles (nice aliteration eh?) plus just ooodles of good stuff. It would sell big as a mov