Yeah, sorry, wasn't that kind of a visit.  Headed home in 30 though.

I would enjoy playing DS online, but have the problem of "No Diplomacy".

I can get it very soon though. I could be on at the times mentioned, every so often (my youth allows a much greater freedom). Got an offer from Draakjacht to play DS. Already have it and enjoy it, I just need some tips on playing online. I mod much more than I play. If I got some sort of training or tutoring I would have enough courage to try to play ICO more regularly.

-Syneptus

You don't need any training, most of us suck and we all just play for fun anyway.  Best way to learn though is just get in there and join us.

Update on MP verison:

Next update wont come out till Major Stress releases tweaked SC meshes.

Also doubling the effects planets do. Maybe that will allow where you fight to also matter somewhat.

I was playing against a bunch of Vasari last night and that piece of shit phase gate background noise loop is bugging the hell out of me because it won't go away even after I've blown that little fucker up, so I'm making some changes to see if I can stop the infinite loop effect that's happening.  If I get it to work in a way that isn't noticeably different in the game, I'll send the changes over to you to include.

Edit:

Update.  None of the changes I've made to the BuffPhaseGateModuleSpawnerCaster.entity file seems to make any kind of a difference where the sound loop matters, however, I did discover that if I have the loop playing I can just zoom in right next to the ships that are having a decent sized battle in another gravity well without the phase node activated and the loop after a few seconds stops.  It of course, resumes again if you zoom back into the phase gate, or a planet with it active, but at least I know how to stop it.  Though I'm still going to keep looking for a way to make it stop on it's own since it would suck to be a Vasari player and have the loop never go away because you're creating nodes everywhere.

I can play the entrenchment version of DS on ICO, RIGHT NOW!

I will be on for the next while.

I have no mic, so no teamspeak.

I have to lure someone over to ICO... hmmm...

-edit-

Awful lot of constraints for me. Eh?

Heh.  Teamspeak can be used like a text chat too, so you don't really need a mic.  I've actually been on that for about 12 hours now.  Just turned it all off so I can get some sleep before this evening's game in 4 hours.  It's best to check that because many times someone will be idle in there even if they're not on ICO, even during the week. 

any one going to be on for tonights game?

besides roesh if he gets some sleep

Dang, I am very bad at online. I just played a game and got BEYOND steamrolled. (of course I was playing against kbroke)

I cannot be on tonight. I am busy.

np

Yeah, didn't manage to get any sleep.

There is also a small, but growing community that plays Distant Stars on Comodo Easy Vpn (similar to Hamachi, free and reliable)

If you want to play, join ->

Network : distantstars

Password : ds

There are 4 people that play right now, but we plan to add more players, for more fun of course ->

Masakary

Faq

Caesar

Vasivps

We play everyday, at different hours of the day, so just stay online so you can catch us. So, join us and let's have some epic games :>

Déjà vu.

This has been brought up somewhere before hasn't it?  I don't remember where though.  *Shrug*

Anyway, if you guys play every day at different hours, how come you don't join us for some MP action on our weekly scheduled events?  Typically the Saturday evening game is the one that get's the most attention.

No you have not yourself said it before but there has been others who suggest Hamatici or something along those lines. They said almost exactly like you... 'Hey we play all the time come join us!' And our response we been on ICO this entire time, you join us.

Before we set this topic up with times and such, I can see how finding someone would be hard. Even more so for a mod, but there are at least 1 or 2 who show up almost every night we plan things. Saturday usually brings the most people. The times are always the same now so there is no reason to miss it if your looking for a game.

Okay, before we start strong arming players one way or another, let's just keep in mind that ICO is already built into the game and we do have set times. For some of us, those are the only times we really put aside time for MP. If anyone wants to play outside of those times, the best bet is to either pop into ICO real quick for a look or, better yet, check to see if anyone is on TeamSpeak, where most of us meet beforehand on a Sins of a Solar Empire - Distant Stars channel. For anyone who doesn't want to download additional programs in order to broaden their MP base, that is their choice.

Are we strong arming? Not my intention.

Well, the single thing that's bothering me is that in order to find players on ICO, Sins must be running at all time. That's not the case with comodo, when you can play others games while waiting for players to come online.

I'm not here to say "Use Comodo or i steal your toys" or "Ico is @$@#@!!@", i just wanted to point that there is an alternative to ICO, nothing more

Strong arming?  Way to take an innocent comment and turn it around on us Teal.  Shut the fuck up.

I've spent my whole lunch hour watching RvB and really just needed to say something with the word fuck involved.  Thanks for the assist.

Yeah, that's why we idle on Teamspeak more times then not.  Not that running the game windowed causes much of an issue anyway.

and blame things on Teal

Just noting the similarities of the situation.

douche

anyways... i wont be able to make it saturday, but i might be able to make it sunday, we will see.

It's spelled "Touché."