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Reply to EVE Online Question in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Vicente" reply="22" id="2122171"] bad equipment (T1) in combat. [/quote] A good FC will find a use for a T1 fitted ship in his or her fleet. Any FC that tells you otherwise is a) rubbish b ) unimaginative. And note: I'm sick of the "BS and BC's shouldn't be flown until you can fully T2 it" meta gaming rubbish people keep spouting, my T1 fitted drake can shrug off 99% of level 3's, The 1% it can't do without hitting max regen it still

Reply to My last big disapointment in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="5" id="2124423"] Quoting RandomRetard, reply 4 One of my biggest disapointments was The Sims 2. I'm still shocked people actually purchase those SIMS games. Well I can understand some females possibly being interested with playing Ken and Barbie on the computer.[/quote] Well. I am female. But was after LCP more than Ken and Barbie :) Hopefully Sims 3 will actually be more of a sa

Reply to Spore: what have you made? in Everything Else Sins Forums

A new ash tray. From the game disc.

Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="NeoDampiel" reply="22" id="2128264"] 1Million to make a game????? WTF!!!!!! yea when yoru spending money and new cars and upgrading computers and allowing vending machiens and toys around the office.[/quote] Whilat I agree with most of what you're saying i think £1mil is a dramatic under estimation of how much a game costs to make. Flick through jobserve or dice or whereever you want for programmers (C, .net, DX, 3D), writers, artists (

Reply to Red Alert 3 wont let me online in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="23" id="2120791"]Probably not. Steam can't exactly scan your system for every game needing SecuROM. (Well, it could, but that's extremely unlikely.) Considering you can uninstall it yourself though, the point is moot. https://support.securom.com/removaltool/[/quote] Then, I was right. It is still there. No actually the point isn't moot. SecuROM neither appears in the Add/R

Reply to To The Staff or Whoever might have this information in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="CenturionJixra" reply="20" id="2117489"] The claims about how name-calling and anti-social behavior are rampant are seriously overblown. [/quote] Perhaps, however it has been my experience that such things do generally happen. I'm afraid I've had quite enough of teenagers, foul mouthed idiots fueled by their anonymous status and their 'tea bagging' antics in the likes of Halo and UT2K4 and various oth

Reply to Another DRM rant in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Mazuo" reply="1" id="2112543"]Summary: I encountered a minor and temporary problem and rather than attempt to get it resolved, I've used it to desperately try to justify piracy.[/quote] Both parties have licensed, paid for copies. Neither is breaking any aspect of (C) law by downloading the software from a 3rd party. Your summary should be: Lack of resilience in digital download services. Or Why 24/7 and 5 9's is a mus

Reply to No SecuROM or online authentication for Sims 3 in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="DethAdder" reply="8" id="2120025"]Kinda funny EA decides to do this on a game that mostly appeals to casual gaming masses, soccer moms, etc. People that aren't as likley to pirate it to begin with. Until EA shows this is the norm for all their new games, I would call it a publicity stunt.[/quote] Seconded with a super sized helping of "Believe it when I see it in the flesh not hijacking my computer".

Reply to Red Alert 3 wont let me online in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="17" id="2114235"]No, it isn't. SecuROM was removed from the Steam version in the 1.07 patch. http://store.steampowered.com/news/2258/[/quote] Unless the patch is disentangling the hidden SecuROM folder, the DLL's contained within and the methods it uses to tie in to the OS. It IS still there. Telling the RA3 executable to not use them is not the same as 'removing from system'. Considering a fu

Reply to 3 PC Game industry myths in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Netaddict45" reply="25" id="2112157"]FPS doesn't dominate consoles. 3rd person point of view action games do, if anything.[/quote] So a FPS with the camera moved to a more annoying POV then. It's still fits in to the 'shooter' genre and for a few lines of code would be a FPS.

Reply to Interceptors are not the answer, Stardock/Ironclad must tweak the funtionality of SC and Carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="The_Rezonator_1" reply="10" id="2111154"] Quoting RandomRetard, reply 9Rather than looking at slamming carriers and mini-carriers. Perhaps fiddling with anti-fighter stuff is the answer? Basically boost flak slightly. I'm also guessing that the counter to fighters/bombers is... fighters. Yet they don't seem to happy to engage, prefering to yomp off against any target. So a tweak to how fighters automatically prioritise their targets might be enou

Reply to The death of PC games at retail in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote] I do agree that PC games are dying at retail - when I go to have a browse in shops the PC section is very often ten-year-old games being sold at 3 for £10 (is there really anyone left that still needs to buy a budget box version of Theme Park?), plus of course the ubiquitous World of Warcraft.[quote] Yes, WoW seems to be the one exception to the 'no PC games' line. In all the stores there is a line of GTC's, WoW boxes and the expansion packs.

Reply to Interceptors are not the answer, Stardock/Ironclad must tweak the funtionality of SC and Carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Rather than looking at slamming carriers and mini-carriers. Perhaps fiddling with anti-fighter stuff is the answer? Basically boost flak slightly. I'm also guessing that the counter to fighters/bombers is... fighters. Yet they don't seem to happy to engage, prefering to yomp off against any target. So a tweak to how fighters automatically prioritise their targets might be enough. A UI change would be helpful as well. At present it flips between ship

Reply to The death of PC games at retail in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Myles" reply="13" id="2111004"] How you could expect games to run flawlessly on a third party software is beyond me. [/quote] I don't. Flawlessly that is. However if you use standard, documented API calls in Windows and all of the commonly used DirectX9c API calls. It should work near flawlessly in WINE. If it doesn't work at all then you've gone off the beaten track, using an uncommon call or more commonly you've got a whacking great bug

Reply to [THOUGHTS] The Threat To The Vasari in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="transitive" reply="5" id="2110985"] they would be invaders from a parallel dimension with capabilities and motivations so alien even to the mighty Vasari that they were impossible to resist. their bizaare extra-dimensional communications would severely disrupt phasic transmissions and thus be responsible for the conquered parts of the empire going "black" as the exile fleet was running away.[/quote] So the Photino Birds it is then :) But serious

Reply to The death of PC games at retail in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Myles"] You also can't complain that a game made for Windows use windows applications and doesn't work well on non windows machines. That's like saying I don't like non-desiel cars because they don't work with desiel. They weren't designed to run that way, so why should I expect them to?[/quote] Actually, there are some very good reasons to roll your own outside of "run on other OS's". The first being, to use the example of .net. Which version?&nb

Reply to [THOUGHTS] The Threat To The Vasari in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

"Chain reaction spawning"... that'd be von neuman machines of some description then. Which is a cliche by your own description (VNM's are basically the idea used to make the replicators from Stargate). Perhaps the Vasari are political disidents, they ran to save their own necks from the noose (i.e. we're playing the 'evil' empire... the good guys are heading our way). I'm sure that's been done before as well. You want something completley unbalanced chasing t

Reply to Games will not run. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'm assuming someone took a shortcut, welded half a hundered weight of IE DLL's in to their system and IE8's totally changed things. This is why proprietry is a bad thing. It's also why "re-inventing the wheel" can be useful. Best advice is wind your system back to IE7 or IE6... assuming MS left you a downgrade path.

Reply to Strange AI: Scout Madness in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

*scratches head* bankrupt and that's all it could afford? Mine sweeper force appearing ahead of the fleet?

Reply to Isn't the AI building too much starbases? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The AI in general likes to bankrupt itself. It upgrades its fleet points to silly levels very early in the game on vanilla and spams starbases in Entrenchment (As well as silly fleet upgrading). However. 90% of those starbases will have no upgrades to them, a few will have weapons upgrades and few still will match the monstrosities a player creates to defend with.

Reply to Does a "fear" of experienced (or pro) players keep you from playing Sins online? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Levelheaded" reply="20" id="2110827"]I play with people i know, because talking is fun.[/quote] Nothing says 'FAIL' like throwing a bean bag at the person who was supposed to be defending! :)

Reply to What Game Does Morgan Webb Like to Play? Well, Sins of Course in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I have the full Virgin Media package. Never heard of this show or her. Sometimes, not being in the right place (US) really does get my goat! Go go region free IP TV!

Reply to Does a "fear" of experienced (or pro) players keep you from playing Sins online? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Experienced players? No. 13 year olds... Maybe. 13 year olds who have only the mastery of the word 'fag' and throwing insults at you over speach/text chat? Yes. If I play multiplayer its with people I know.

Reply to 3 PC Game industry myths in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Archonsod" reply="15" id="2110766"] I wonder how many people paid for Gal Civ 2 after playing a pirated version; I doubt an honest answer will ever be achievable, but I'm willing to bet it was considerably more than for most titles. [/quote] Icebergs have tips that float. It dawned on my that Kyro mentioned people appearing in the logs with pirated copies of games (and being rejected by the servers). Well it would be a simple matter to grep the IP address

Reply to 3 PC Game industry myths in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Szadowsz" reply="11" id="2110725"] Quoting RandomRetard, reply 8 You have already appearing in a thread where people stated quite openly a pirated copy of Sins led directly to a sale of that product (and possibly the expansion pack). That then is sufficent to negate your comment of 0%, it is however a metric that would require effort to compute which makes publishers highly adversed to doing it. You misunderstand Frogboy. He is stating thst people who pi