Drexion

Jinx, just give up...I have =p. Leave people with their misconceptions, eventually they will lose to people without them enough times that they get broken anyway. Soulassadr, advent does fine once you have high level caps, have time to tech up to crusaders, etc...however, if your playing against good players, you'll need to fight WAY before you have the time to tech up that high. Have I won with advent? Of course. Does that mean advent aren't handicapped? No, I just beat up on people wh

The original expectation was that 1.1 would come out by the end of April (from a Stardock employee I spoke to on IRC)... This was not a hard deadline of course, so give a couple of extra weeks to that estimate and you will probably be close.

I definitely wish we could have a faster game mode, *specially* for the first 5-10min of any game... I'm always twiddling my thumb alot of the time during that game-period... Would be nice to be 50% faster for first 5-10min and then back to normal fast speed =p.

Cykur, how often do you go past the simple TEC trade-port technology on their empire tree? Sure, in multi-star systems you'll probably go all the way to pervasive economy...in which case your whole tidbit about getting the refinery tech for cargo-expansion is true... However, in many many situations, you never go beyond simple trade ports... You know why :) It already takes so long to get the trade port tech and some trade-ports up, you generally need to hurry into army production/tech

One of the problems with refineries, relative to trade-posts, which you don't address here is the amortization cost of the research per refinery/trade-post built. Once I research trade-posts, I can put them everywhere...and they just improve with my planet-chain-length... The whole thing about refineries is that you need to find good placements for them, so how many do you actually build? 1, 2, 3? Compare this with 10+ tradeports and the research cost is significantly higher. Throw in t

Not only that, it is my opinion that these tournaments would actually help the developers find that elusive "balance'... Look at the replays of the winning teams, the obvious working strategies will be amply displayed.

I know Jinx and I work... Jinx is PST I believe, so I don't know if he can make it before like 7pm EST on any given workday... I know he broke a few laws making the last game at 7:30 with your guys =p. I can probably make it anytime after 5pm EST on any given day, given some warning time... Weekends i'm available pretty much anytime, given advance warning.

Hey Jinx, remember to update our member list on the thread. ehtom and cykur I believe it was?

I just heard frogboy say that SC/IC will be hosting a summer MP tournament with prizes/etc. Teams and single-player brackets... Depending on the team sizes, both clan X and clan GE should be hosting multiple teams, right? Lets see how they do =D. By the way, if some GE guys could come on the official sins IRC location (irc.stardock.com port 6667 channel #sins), it would make things alot easier for scheduling games/etc hehe... We are also always looking for more non-noob players for our

The answer would be yes, Brad =).

Third, i'm not much for flaming... As I said, without a replay theres no way to prove it one way or another...Even the save file, unless things were very very uneven, isn't conclusive. So a rematch is needed...Fine. I gotta say though, there sure are alot of coincidences here, hehe. First the minidump, fine it happens...but no working save file, nobody has a replay? ok weird phenomenom.. But you also just happened to delete the single save file (even if it was single-player bugged) wit

ThirdProphecy, you are right that getting 9-10 gates is hard in that amount of time... Which is why I kept hearing huntingX going "Give me more!!" on ventrilo, hehe. Astax especially fed him alot that game, but Jinx did as well. Regardless, the fact is nobody will admit a win/loss when there is no replay. Although you say you didn't minidump? Can ya post us the save file then? I remember you saying it was saved as single player and thats why they could not restart... Thats FINE! We can

I wasn't in the game, but I was listening to them on Ventrilo. I beg to differ, ThirdProphecy, but HuntingX did have 9-10 phase gates at the time of the crash :). I heard him saying that before the crash happened.

Got a tear in my eye.

Ron Lugge, I'm also a member of Clan X (formally eZ). Follow this link: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/306755 I believe at the moment we have 8-9 people... We *are* looking for more, but we have a very tight quality control for recruiting so that could be why you don't see us posting recruit messages on the forum. Personally, I don't quite understand why 8-9 *active* people are not worthy of recognition while a 10-member clan who play much less frequently is recognized.

Its certainly true that seekers beat LRM in a straight up fight on a cost-for-cost basis. Of course, LRM can do lots of things while seekers can do very few things in a battle. I've beaten people doing LRM-spam with seekers in a "non competitive" game, but I would have won with many other tactics in those games...heh. The fact is, defense vessels have better DPS against LRM than seekers (due to 3 guns) and they are better tanks, and they kill strikecraft...So their still superi

People have posted game replays on the forum. I'd suggest you look over some of the replays HuntingX posted and watch them. Look at what he does, what he researches, etc.

Personally, I don't even bother to post in the "true" negative threads...Why bump them? Let them die an ugly death. I love the game. I've been a Stardock supporter since 2003 (Due to their stance on DRM, community involvement, etc) so I suppose I could be considered a fanboy...hehe. Regardless, I can love the game and still have suggestions on balance, etc. I disliked many 1.03 changes and said so on the forums :). Hopefully in a constructive manner, hehe. Yet I had no doubts that you

Tumbler, i'd like to thank you for your ceaseless efforts in this whole fighter/bomber discussion. Frankly, i've given up convincing people that carrier cruisers are useless. Alot of people just don't want to be convinced, heh. Point out how in a straight up fight they lose, then they say of course! Carriers aren't made for a straight up fight...fine fine... Then we point out that if a fleet (ANY composition you want) with 30-40% supply/cost in carrier cruisers will *always* lose to an

You can also get it to work via Hamachi, but yes, you cannot use ICO with both computers at the *same* time. You can always log in with *either* computer at any given time though.

Don't forget the other two weaknesses: high resource cost and high supply cost relative to the units compared above (LRM, assailant)

If the enemy focuses on my flak (and keeps their strikecraft away till flak dies)...Thats fine, the flak are great tanks! By the time most of the flak is dead, the enemy fleet has been decimated...Flak is also very easy to remake and spam ;).

By throwing all these equal units on both sides, you are simply introducing "noise" into the experiment.

90%+ of games I play as vasari, the resource I am strained for is crystal. I don't know about you but I seem to find many more metal neutral extractors than crystal, although that could be untrue and I just "perceive" it that way since I am strapped for crystal. Also keep in mind, your starting planet has 2 metal Extractors, 1 crystal.

80% LRM, 20% flak will demolish any equivalent supply/cost force of light frigates (add as many carriers as ya want there too, keeping supply/cost the same for both forces). Sure, regen bay and repair cloud HELP...not enough though, not nearly enough. You can micro all you want :) Just keep the flak by the LRM to provide coverage. Flak also beats LRM, so if the opponent has LRM (likely) their very useful there. Even if the opponent does NOT have LRM, flak are great tanks...And