That's just insane!!   I thought that my times of 15 hours were impressive, but that blows mine out of the water! I only ever play the huge multistar random map, and my games almost always last 10+ hours. How big was the map you were playing on?

We had a thread going about a build-your-own-ship function for Sins, but then a Stardock employee (don't remember who, Kyro, maybe?) posted and said that it would probably never happen, and we shouldn't get are hopes up.

My personal dream would be a program that isn't just for Sins, but can be used for many games. It comes with many parts, weapons, etc, that you can mix+match, similar to the ship builder in GalCivII. And you can texture things as you build, or they are pre-textured, so that you don't have to mess around with UV mapping, etc (this would be a great feature). If you want to, you can design your own ships/ship peices, just like a normal 3d modelling program, but again, you have the ability to texture as you go. You can upload your peices/ships to an online database, so that anyone can download and use your custom stuff. Then, when everything is done, you can export it into a ton of different formats, depending on what game you want to use it for.

It will probably never happen (its probably not even a feasable idea), but if I ever start my own software company, this is probably going to be the first thing I make.

Well the map had 8 stars each with 30 planets and all of the game settings were set to slow as I think that makes it more realistic . On the other subject that seems to have appeared in this thread ship customisation would be epic but hard to fit in without mucking the rest of the game up 

But I want it to be more than just a 3d modeling program. Something that is easy to use, like the GalCivII ship designer. You have to admit that most of the software that is out there isn't exactly "user-friendly"

I want it to be something that can be used by default with a lot of games, without doing a bunch of extra work to do so. For example, with Sins, you can use just about any modeling program, but you have to use XSI for the final steps, then you have to use a bizarre command prompt program to actually make the model usable with Sins. I want a program where you don't have to use any other programs to make it ready for being put in a game.

And how many modeling programs come with a bunch of ship pieces already made for you?

Additionally, I want the user to be able to "paint" the ship in the program. No messing around with UV maps or other programs like photoshop/gimp. Just grab the paint brush tool and start "coloring" your ship. Or you can select pre-made textures to apply to certain parts of the ship.

Wait, how many hours did you play in that week.

I'm just getting finished with a game as TEC against 4 hard AI on a random map that is almost 12 hours. This is the first time I've ever had almost everything researched and all the cap ship and fleet maxed out.

I tell you those Vasari have almost magical abilities late game. And other threads would have you believe the Mazra missile barage is an unstoppable, automatic game winner. It isn't. I fought long and hard replacing many HCs, Hoshikos, and LFs to win.

All settings were on slow. I wanted an epic game.

Ha. It was madding at times. I wanted the extra time to be able to think and stratigize but I don't think I will play on slow again. Especially research.

I'm working on a 200+ planet custom map against 5 hard AI's.  Every player has their own start system to start with.  I've got almost 6 hours into the game, with all the settings on fast and the game speed doubled, and I've only just gotten out of my home star system.  I've easily got another 30 or so hours left.

I can't imagine playing on slow settings.

I play 9 hours but not straight (all stats at normal) of course but when I got the time I would play more hours this game is the Best strategy game I ever played. Well coming back to the post It was a 5 start level 4 players....I got allied with one and we destroyed the other two. I play allways with the TEC...I dont really try the others,....wow I read an 36 hour non stop well that s a lot....

About 9 years ago there was a RTS game called Earth 2150 in which you only researched techs for modules, you had to use these modules for creating your units.

But yeah, it wouldn't fit right into this game.

I have that game.  The campaign kinda sucked, but they did do a good job with build customizable units.  I agree that style wouldn't work in Sins.

Dude I have played the Star trek mod for 2 months straight 3-4 hours a day and still not done yet, given that I have lost like 2 dozen or so fleets I don't think I am even close to finish that game, try 9 insane AI all on aggressive.