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Reply to Four Economic Technologies that Need (major) Help and What to Do About Them! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Cost effectiveness is a turtler's delight. Without any sort of diminishing returns on economy boosters like refineries and colony pods, a turtler's economy can grow exponently if an opponent fails to inflict any significant eco damage during the early phase of the game. Its a significant problem that plaqued strategy games when economic mastery stomps the stragetic parts out of the game.

Reply to Four Economic Technologies that Need (major) Help and What to Do About Them! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well thought out post but I disagree. Economic boosters should never be cost effective otherwise the game will become "Sins of a bland empire". [e digicons]:zzz:[/e]

Reply to Capship balance list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Idea 1: All we know newly build caps are relatively less ueful during lategame... What if we could train them more? - Caps max trainable level increased to 4 (from 3) - Caps max trainable level after upgrade increased to 5 (from 4) Absolutely not a good idea. Some of the abilities are murdurous when maxed out and makes it easy for the capitals to enable their level 6 abilities.

[FIXED] Problems updateing to version 1.055 in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

I can not update the game to the 1.055 version on Impulse because it give me an error that the product kezs do not match. Anzone else having this problem? *EDIT* Seems to cleared itself up after restarting Impulse.

Reply to So... ? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Remember the Battle of Midway.....Launch fighters...no wait, launch bombers......no wait, lets go with fighters.....nah, bombers should launch......&$*#, should have gone with fight(BOOOM!)

Reply to Capship balance list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="N3rull" reply="80" id="2522823"] Cap's guns are doing nothing compared to even a small pack of LRFs. In fact, I laugh at anyone who thinks any cap's DPS great at higher levels. Cap DPS at high levels is irrelevant to the extreme, the only exception being Vulkoras attacking starbases with Assault Spec. Capital's DPS is only important in the beginning of the game, where a stronger cap (Kol, Marza) can eliminate rebel frigates in 25 seconds while those more crappy ones (mo

Reply to This HAS to GO! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

While the huge turn radius is annoying, it is very important that the ship DO NOT turn before accelerating. The primary reason is that in a line of battle, the capship does not have much room to turn as there are dozens of frigates on both sides blocking the turn which could be critical if you see some cap killing hurt comming at you. I rather keep them moving while turning as it takes a while for a capship to turn 30 degerees which gives the enemy enough time to get into range an

Reply to Capship balance list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

You do know that increasing HP for battleships may get you 6000 HP at level 3 and maximum HP research? Good luck killing that when LRF kills any LF trying to stop the bombing of your homeworld.

Reply to NEW Patch Stat Changes Forums [NEW TOPIC: CAPITAL SHIPS!! 1/2/10] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Why HC should not be defeated by a Tier 0 unit? The light frigates already have a 50% damage penalty to the HC and if there is decent strikecraft coverage, the HC will be the prime unit of choice as bombers will not reach it and the LRFs will die quickly under the combined barrage of HC and strikecraft. However, the test may be much more different if the time limit was reduced to 15 mintes as the ship count will be 45 disciples to 16 Kodiaks. While the odds were still 3 to 1

Reply to NEW Patch Stat Changes Forums [NEW TOPIC: CAPITAL SHIPS!! 1/2/10] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

You could build 11 disciples for every 4 Kodiaks so that leaves 90 discples vs 32 Kodiaks at the end of 30 minutes. Even without the replay, I'm going to guess the hoshikos were rendered useless since 58 disciples were unmolested and free to kill support cruisers then your Kodiaks died as they were just pathetically out-numbered.

Reply to New Player Looking for Advice and Maybe a Match Or Two in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

I think the problem is where you were placing your repair bays. They would not be much good if they were spread out among your rescource extractors but they are much better if they were grouped as to overlap each other. A smaller fleet can defeat a larger pirate fleet by staying in the concentrated repair area, especially if you use a bait to lure them into that area. You mentioned stalling your economy so I have to ask, are you upgrading your population developments on yo

Reply to It's 2012...What does Sins 2 graphics look like? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I preict that in Sins 2, the Vasari will finally reveal that they had X-ray vision technology all along and Vasari players will be gettting cozy with Advent more often.

Reply to NEW Patch Stat Changes Forums [NEW TOPIC: CAPITAL SHIPS!! 1/2/10] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Disagree, 1200 to 1800 credits only is not that expensive compared to a squad of LRF that can die within seconds in battle.

Reply to I've just been reminded why I didn't play Sins for about half a year.. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

There should be an option for pinning starbase in the options menu.

Reply to Structures in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="ice27828" reply="7" id="2507065"]Wow you people acutally use the Shift+r for retreat, I usually just click my ships but how do you mistake the shift s with shift r they aren't evne on the same row let alone beside each other[/quote] My ring finger tends to rebel.

Reply to Structures in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I recommend you change it so you do not accidently self-destruct your level 6 capship when using shift + R to retreat.

Reply to Known Smurf List in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Your plan is foiled, I will have cold beer on standby when they come.

Reply to NEW Patch Stat Changes Forums [NEW TOPIC: CAPITAL SHIPS!! 1/2/10] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The problem with your idea is that Illums are suppose to charge into the fray to be able to use all three beam attacks.

Reply to NEW Patch Stat Changes Forums [NEW TOPIC: CAPITAL SHIPS!! 1/2/10] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="DesConnor" reply="595" id="2506018"]It doesn't make sense to me to have LRF counter both LF and capitals. If the LF-LRF balance were adjusted so that LF countered LRF and LRF countered flak and carriers, then LF would become proper escorts for capital ships, and the LRF problem would be solved. Fighters and scouts just aren't the solution to LRF and should be left to fulfil their more natural roles. Better one proper counter than two half-counters.[/quote] <

Reply to Capships vs. illums/lrm/assailants in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="60" id="2504029"]@Everyone: We all agree that the Illum bug needs fixing. Also, we agree that capital ships need to survive longer. What if... What if... We nerfed them. Now, before you all blow up, listen. We nerf their initial stats, but dramatically increase their boost per level and then also make the first level upgrade cheaper or faster. In this way, they would cross over with the power levels of current ships a

Reply to NEW Patch Stat Changes Forums [NEW TOPIC: CAPITAL SHIPS!! 1/2/10] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If the shield mitigation are going to be raised, there must be some sort of penalty. If you want to have battleships stay longer on the line with 90% mitigation, they must lower their speed down to at least 75% to keep them from running away when the battle is going bad. It will be bad enough if battleships or any other cap can kill twice their worth in frigates and cruisers before going down.

Reply to Capships vs. illums/lrm/assailants in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="DesConnor" reply="51" id="2503222"]With the mitigation method the early game will become a walk over for caps, thats too much of a change after three years. You want somethings that applies directly to the number of ships firing. An accuracy based method would leave the game mostly unchanged.[/quote] Only way to do that is to make capships cheaper in order to make a grand fleet.

Reply to Tips on how to use envoy cruisers? in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

You have to send them to your allies or enemies planets in order to boost relations with that empire. It is advisable to secure a cease fire before sending any envoy cruisers over to your enemies planets.

Reply to Capships vs. illums/lrm/assailants in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="mbaron888" reply="29" id="2501751"]The problem seems to be the caps them selves. One of the main online strategies has been build your one cap ship then scuttle the cap ship factory. Has that changed recently?[/quote] While this stragety is still viable, there are more online games that are cap heavy which carrier caps uasually the first built to prevent being rushed by scouts.

Reply to Kol and other battleships in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Arthanis" reply="60" id="2501696"]Damage: 1000/2000/3000 (from 325/650/975, but overall DPS is lower - and don't forget it is still affected by shield mitigation and armor)[/quote] Extremely overpowered as the TEC eco advantage helps them get 2 Kols early on and get them up to level 3. THe combined firepower of this will kill any capships withen 10 seconds.