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Reply to Patching in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]I even visited the Impulse website to see what it's about. For now I'll stick with StarDock though. My patches download automatically, take a few whole entire minutes and they're done.I recommend Impulse greatly for Sins players. I urge you to get used to it now since not only will it have all of your Sins update information, fastest access to the expansions and content updates, but it is going to have very powerful match making tools for all the online play. That and eventually it

Reply to Age of Sinners in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Hi Antracer,I hope to be playing till my dying day though what kind of games we'll all be playing is anybodies guess. Like you I expect we will be playing hooked up to UBER PC's. The PC's may even have their own personalities and play along side us. Maybe we will be in total immersion games either with body suits and VR surround vision or maybe just linked direct with electrodes to our temples, totally handfree! Who knows??.[/quote] [color="#00FF00"]This would be great... because

Reply to What we want in the Expansion Pack in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]1: First off, the dread scroll bar on the left side that moves up and down as ships pop in and out of a planets orbit, that needs to stay still....I can't be the only one who thinks this is broken....[/quote] [color="#00FF00"]You're not. It's also a StarDock thing. In GC2 when you are in the planet and ship construction window it does the same thing, forcing you to constantly have to go back to where you were. Not so much a big deal there, it's just terribly annoying... But when

Reply to Age of Sinners in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]I'm 10, so I guess that makes me the youngest.What's with all the old farts?(just kidding)[/quote] [color="#00FF00"]You'll know when you get old. You digestive system kind of grows a mind of it's own... When you're young, it has the strength to use the upper of it's two release orifices, but as it gets older and wiser, it realizes it's easier to just let it all go downhill. ;p T[/color]

Reply to Patching in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[color="#00FF00"]Hey... thanks for changing the name! I do appreciate it...[/color] [quote]Isn't that what the Patch button on the UI is for? But fair enough. Having an opt-out option in the account I was forced to make would be nice, though.[/quote] [color="#00FF00"]I get one email a month about the latest stuff, and an occasional email from them concerning specific patches. Although I did get one today about 1.05 coming out, which was from May 11th... Hardly being spammed. C

Reply to Is there a easier way to post pictures? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote] there was no need for that comment mr.antracer[/quote] [color="#00FF00"]Um... yes there was. I don't mind being the one who takes the wrap for saying what needs to be said. Even after two additional posts there is still no additional info as to what pictures you are trying to post and where. I am more than happy to assist you in any way I can, but neither I nor anyone else on these forums can decipher your need based on the posts you have made. Pl

Reply to CTD when Zonelab runs in background in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[color="#00FF00"]You are most welcome! Glad to see that it worked out well for you... Now go skin me a Drengin! ;p T[/color]

Reply to Update next week in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[color="#00FF00"]So today it's 95 and muggy as H E double hockey sticks. I come in from having to work outside in it for a few hours, grateful for the 2 hour ride out and back in the old air conditioned van. Fire up the computer and read what is arguably the hottest topic on this forum lately... I know this will come as a surprise to some of you. You think StarDock is just a company. A corporation... A big building with unemployed Keebler elves looking for work because some bean counte

Reply to TotA - Things I miss in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]And please let me demolish race specific structures like charging stalks...Can't they be manually demolished? I know they survive invasion, but during the late beta, they implemented the ability to demolish those indestructible buildings. Central Mine and the Harvesters I know survive invasions but can be destroyed.[/quote] [color="#00FF00"]It's been awhile since I played thanks to EU3 In Nomine, but if they have indeed fixed it that is excellent news!!! Thanks for the heads up

Reply to TotA - Things I miss in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[color="#00FF00"]I'd like to see a choice to turn trading race exclusive techs off. Anything that isn't common can't be traded, meaning I can't build other races buildings or use their bonii on top of my own. Maintain the differences of the races during the game... That's why they went through all the trouble to make them different, isn't it? And please let me demolish race specific structures like charging stalks... they look pretty, but short of an amusement park my population reall

Reply to Considering Writing Custom Modding Tool in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[color="#00FF00"]It's called notepad. Changing the turning and speed values is pretty straightforward. Download the reference files, which already have everything in text and go to town. I modded my cap ships to turn and accelerate in the first few incarnations and I know very little of complex inner workings and such. I haven't played in awhile as EU3 In Nomine has my attention at present, but there is a reference manual with the mod tools download that walks you through the basics an

Reply to Patch?! Great!....label this one v.Catch-22 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[color="#00FF00"]What speed are you playing at? Snail -10? Not trying to be rude, just genuinely shocked... I start teching ASAP, usually as soon as the first stations are up. I build 2 civilian on my first two planets so I can research volcanic and ice colonization. I am truly mystified as to why it takes you so long to get going... As for autocast, Online I would want to micro, but against AI you're on equal footing and manual micro really isn't necessary. I do control my t

Reply to Age of Sinners in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[color="#00FF00"]Just turned Richard Petty's Car number... After looking at all the replies here it's interesting to see all the different ages. As to why us older folk play games... I do cuz I can't dance and I'm to fat to fly... Hope I can still be playing when I'm 69 and retired. Although by then we'll be suited up in virtual reality. Hope I can run fast there... T[/color]

Reply to Horrible Customer Service in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[color="#00FF00"]What is up with people today? Seriously... send a 30 second email to support or make a 30 second post to this forum to complain. One gets you help so you can play the game... The other makes you you look... well like you should be more worried about what color finger paint to use and when nap time is. I hear today's snack is raisins... you might want to skip it. For petes sake, there have to be a hundred of these posts in here. Stardock isn't perfect

Reply to I am enjoying the new economy, growth rates (population etc) in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[color="#00FF00"]I personally don't think trade is working properly... It's the same every turn regardless of where the ship is in the route. I used to see it start at 3 or 4 and go higher number as the ship went farther from me and closer to it's destination. With a good route and good modifiers it would easily reach 30-40bc on a medium map. I could get 60bc plus if I was in a corner and sent the ship diagonal to the other corner. I can only imagine what it would have gone to on a lar

Reply to Patching in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[color="#00FF00"]Even using Stardock Central (the outdated way) is cake... open it up and it does it all for me. Hardly a problem causing nightmare... Not to mention the fact that these people are pretty responsive when it comes to real problems, as shown by the fact a company person is the first to respond. There's not really a need for the tone of this post. In future, please remember there are those in the lower age brackets that visit here, and while you have the "right" to use what

Reply to Create your own TV show, or what show would you like to be un-canceled? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Was that Quark? I don't remember much about it to be honest, and had to google it to jog my memory, but it sounds like it.[/quote] [color="#00FF00"]That rings a bell... It was on for a few weeks and disappeared. I can't even remember if it was funny or not... It was just the whole premise, especially considering it was the 70's. I didn't bring up B5 because they have done, and from what I have heard are planning to do another direct to DVD type thing. I think this WAS

Reply to Create your own TV show, or what show would you like to be un-canceled? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[color="#00FF00"]1- Firefly... A show rarely comes together like that one did, and it was a wholly original series that could do anything and go anywhere and never feel like it couldn't be there. I believe I heard they were going to do a direct to DVD 2nd film, but I'm not 100%... 2- Journeyman... an ODD show that was just getting started. Alot of potential there, but was on at a bad time and after heroes, which was totally the wrong audience for it... 3- The Dresden Files...

Reply to Sudden and extreme tech cost increases in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[color="#00FF00"]I play as a custom race, and in the bonus screen I always use points on research, usually 20% although I change it every game. I have used all of the amounts though at one time or another. I also always check creativity, even when it didn't work in previous versions of the game, my race was always creative. I have not encountered the bug using either of them... T [/color]

Reply to I am enjoying the new economy, growth rates (population etc) in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I don't quite get the effect that leaving a tile empty instead of planting a economic bonus improvement there could do?[/quote] [color="#00FF00"]If your planet is pumping out 6bc, and you build an economic building that gives you 10 or 15% bonus, you get what, an extra credit or two depending on the round up or down? For a building with 1bc maintenance... This is OK, you break even and as the population goes up it becomes a better investment, but did you spend the cash you needed

Reply to New player, very Underwhelmed at the moment in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[color="#00FF00"]I personally dislike campaigns... I have tried them in every game I ever played that came with one, but it always ended up half done... I would much prefer to see the devs put time into a campaign EDITOR, so that the community could develop their own campaigns. Campaigns, like mods now would be labors of love and commitment. The time spent on one story could be spent on polishing a really good editor. I believe the ability to create fresh stories and content would be far more ef

Reply to Question about Construction Ships in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[color="#00FF00"][quote]Well, the basic premise is that you are the leader of a race of sentient asteroids, leading your asteroid people from asteroid to asteroid among the stars, with only small asteroid cannons to defend yourself against another race of slightly larger and slightly less sentient asteroids. I think the basic concept is pretty solid, but we have to iron out some of the details.[/quote] As long as the expansion packs don't include a new race known as the "hemorrho

Reply to Question about Construction Ships in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Thanks for the quick response! So if there's no facility pre-built at the asteroid, the resources around it are pretty much useless, then?Also, what happens if I accidentally salvaged one of my construction ships or if one of them is destroyed by the enemy? Does the planet automatically generate one to replace it?Thanks again![/quote] [color="#00FF00"]There are asteroids and there are "asteroids"... If it's a big one in the center of the gravity well it may be colonizable. Click

Reply to AI in TA in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[color="#00FF00"]The Terrans and the Altarians don't seem to do well on small maps or low AI count at all. I figure it has to do with their alignment and objectives values... if they don't have enough planets they can't tech fast enough, and since they seem to hold off on weapons they don't have any for awhile. This is offset by either a) alot of worlds so they tech fast or b) alot of AI to trade with. In your case, The Arceans are junk, they never do anything... The Altarians are Terrans, just

Reply to I am enjoying the new economy, growth rates (population etc) in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[color="#00FF00"]I have to agree with the OP on this one... And with the sentiment. It's a difficult thing to build a game that is challenging yet fun. While I do feel something akin to hate in the beginning, having to run in the red so much to get those last two worlds colonized or that constructor done to get that resource, It's worth it once the populations rise and the cash starts coming in. Not only do you feel the pinch when you're at war, you feel it during expansion. Gone are