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Reply to My last big disapointment in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Star Trek Legacy for the PC. It could have been made of solid gold, screen shots looks stunning... but wasn't. It floated :S Neverwinter Nights 2. Take a classic game that's stood the test of time. Then butcher it, tweak the engine so even a modern computer chokes. Tear apart the scripting system so it breaks, regularly in the SP campaign. Then pretend everything's A-OK. RA3. I like this game. But I hate the cut scenes. Military

Reply to Planning on getting a new video card. What do you recommend? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Well, AGP is kind of defunct these days. One thing to be absolutley sure of is what sort of AGP slot you've got. Is it a 4x or 8x type. Most modern AGP cards require an 8x slot and despite a lot of them having "4x/8x" written on the packaging and the specs alegedly being backwards compatible they have a massive shit fit when they actually meet a 4x slot. Moving on, you say "Dell video slot"??? Now that's something I've never heard of personally but considering

Reply to Where are the Lady Sinners? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="ShadowMaiden" reply="11" id="2084297"] Quoting nixiepixel, reply 3 Quoting ShadowMaiden, reply 1 quoting post -waves- Lady Gamer here, Both me and my sister (Lady Aleksandra) play Sins quite a lot, usually against each other. When we're not trashing the Vasari you can find us in EvE Online. Regards, SM. ..Eve is silly. ^.^ Your personal or professional opinion? le

Reply to capturing resources.... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

One thing Shadowhal didn't mention is that the Vasari scout won't capture the neutral extractors if you've set explore to autocast (or at least mine don't). Once you've got a scout in there cancel any existing move orders and disable explore... it'll quietly get on with capturing. Then you can send it merrily on its way again when it's done... as it can't really defend them... it's a scout.

Reply to Entrenchment: Where do we go from here? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="slurple23" reply="18" id="2084427"]How frequent are these expansion packs going to be? Every other month? Once a year?[/quote] Randomly, depending on how much leg work Ironclad need to do for it I'd suspect. It's not like they can throw a large number of devs at it. My finger in the wind guess would be six - eight months. /Returns to coaxing gpac to write sbtl atoms.

Reply to Super Dreadnaughts in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

SuperCap ships could be a useful addition to the game. Now being an EVE player my logic is this: the more advanced the ship (i.e. supercap) the more specialised it would be. So yeah it's big, it's expensive, it's made of rice paper but does something really cool to buff your fleet/local area. Perhaps terraforming or shutting down phase drives in the gravity well. You could even have one that can take a fixed number of smaller ships directly to another star system

Reply to Babylon 5- the movie in Everything Else Sins Forums

To be honest the story of the last Babylon station is done. But what's left behind is a functional universe. It's quite possible that someone could pull off a movie/TV show/Game/Whatever set in that universe that had nothing to do with Babylon 5. Of course marketting something like that would be... tricky. But possible.

Reply to Question about Warhammer: DoW II in PC Gaming Sins Forums

To be honest I loved the original DoW, I took the second incarnation for a test drive and yep, it's very pretty and it's exceptionally nice to see a hive tyrant smash things... I dunno as far as single player went (which is what I'm most interested in)... no. For some reason I just didn't like it. Maybe it was me but whilst I get the whole 'small force, use cover' approach the controls just didn't seem to lend themselves to it... kind of "Hide behind this wall in ambush"... troo

Reply to Gabe Newell (Valve) Talks Piracy in PC Gaming Sins Forums

It's no great surprise that when you drop the price through the floor people flock to buy something. On the other hand the Steam system of being able to 'gift' people spare copies of your games; plus selling things like Left 4 Dead in a 4 pack is a nifty idea. That final one is perhaps something Stardock should look at doing... I mean you sell a multiplayer game like Sins... why can't I buy two, three, four copies of it all at once and punt them to different people.

Reply to Entrenchment: Where do we go from here? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="adambarnhart" reply="7" id="2083438"]at more races 3 come on there needs to be about 10[/quote] The fluff lends itself nicely to 4. TEC, Advent, Vasari and ... the Xeelee (or whatever the hell is chasing the Vasari across the galaxy). I think 10 different races would be a touch overkill unless your talking about 3 or 4 primaries and factions within them. It would be nice if you could barter free passage through a neutral gravity

Reply to Entrenchment: Where do we go from here? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="CursedSpirit" reply="5" id="2082255"]i would like to see a STORY or campaing added some kinda back ground with mabey small vids before and after the missions. a forth race mabey either an alliance of advent/Tec or advent/vas sorta thing.[/quote] If I recall correctly: 1st Expansion = Defense (Entrenchment) 2nd Expansion = Diplomacy (Make friends, influence people... then gank them with your other buddies) 3rd Expansion seems to be air

Reply to how do you download patches without impulse? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="astrath" reply="5" id="2082904"]I don't think there is a computer than can play Sins and not run IE7.[/quote] Work computer, IE7 can and does brake compatibility with some IE6 coded web apps, simpler to stop the update from happening. Or a copy of XP that is failing the WGA check (and yes WGA can go splat on legitimate XP installs). Or someone trying to use (DAR)WINE. Or finally. Someone with dial up and can't be online enough to let XP patch.

Reply to [Balance] Should Vasari caps get a little dmg boost? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

I thought Vasari were speed merchants rather than outright combat. I mean the strike craft of the Advent are nice, the TEC's close combat slapping ability awesome... but having my whole damn fleet blaze straight to where I need it makes me smile.

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

[quote who="NomadWarriorSoul" reply="19" id="2079222"] I don't see why this is so difficult a concept to understand.[/quote] If I had a £ for everytime I've had to explain this I would be living in the Bahamas (or not considering the economy). If you walk in to a store and remove a product without paying for it THAT is stealing. In the UK (and AFIC the US) this is a CRIMINAL matter. If I copy music/video/games, without removing a product fir

Reply to So whats better, debris vortex or deflector shield? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Perhaps it's my Gallente heritage but I usually go for the debris vortex. Shields? Ohh you mean the little bar that turns red whilst I get in to blaster range... armour more armour and hiding behind a planet to recoup armour is where its at.

Reply to I really want entrenchment but.... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If you have a debit card, like say a Visa Electron, the payment gateway will accept it as a valid Visa credit card number (and Stardock will be able to process it as such). Most UK banks throw these things in when you open an account, I assume its the same with American ones?

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

[quote who="NomadWarriorSoul" reply="3" id="2078032"]LOL Being okay with piracy = Near future when game developers can't afford to create their games. Yep, that's sure what I want... [/quote] Utter rubish it's been sputed for so long the video games industry should have died along with the dinosaurs. Piracy or to be more accuracte violating copyright(s) has been going on since the days of the AppleII, hell

Reply to Mac? in Technical Sins Forums

Well, no. Not nativley and not supported. On the other hand you could attempt to run the game in something like CrossOver or DARWINE. Saying that you'd need Impulse running which requires .net 2 to run which is often a none starter. But theoretically a retail release version might be A-Ok. Check the appdb over at winehq to see what the compatibility is like.

Reply to homeworld 2 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

As an aside to this, Relic have apparently brought the rights to Homeworld off of Seira (or however its spelt, I'm knakkered). So, the continuing adventures of the space bannana are possible (i.e. Homeworld 3).

Reply to I Want a Starship Simulator in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Destraex" reply="22" id="2001046"] BONUS: Babylon 5 I've found her - real newtonian physics in a space fighter campaign http://ifh.babylonfive.ru/ [/quote] Independance War as there a long, long time before B5. Good game to boot if you can track down a copy. Moving on, one of the problems with being the captain of a virtual starship was demonstrated quite admirably by bridge commander. fundementally it's quite b

Phase stabs & stars in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

The Vasarii starbase has a phase stabaliser ability. Right o. Phase stab's only work intra system, not from star to star (or planets in different star systems). Good good. How come when I build a starbase... at a star, with a phase stab ability... ships in the same solar system don't see it as a valid route to get to the star? Is there some odd property of stars themselves which stops this from working?

Reply to Where’s the external video cards? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Caydr" reply="22" id="2054627"]For just one example, remember that a modern video card has at least 320 mb of RAM, but more likely 512/768/1024 mb. In the near future, 2gb cards will be out (I mean cards that aren't X2). Well that's 1 gig of information that needs to be read and written to almost instantaenously if a game will be playable. $400 "FATAL1TY X-TREME ASSASSIN Z8000 PRO PREMIUM TURBO SUPERCLOCKED VISTA-READY EDITION", it will have stopped working all

Reply to The life of a computer game in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="StarDruid" reply="14" id="2059870"] Sadly most games lost their fun factor quick (very true with MMORPGS) and end up as bargain bin rejects. [/quote] I disagree with this. A well looked after MMORPG can be a very entertaining thing, the problem is that market segment only has a limited number of people, with limited amounts of cash and naturally limited amounts of time... so someone might only subscribe to one (possibly two) at any time. Hence a load

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="MegaVolt" reply="23" id="2057579"] Quoting Sarah Hayes, reply 22 Keep in mind, the Linux community tends to be "all mouth and no trousers", we want the moon on a stick and when someone gives it to us we complain it's not quite the nicest stick around then put the boot in (see EVE:Online cancelling Linux support). That's kind of a bad example. The Eve Online Linux client totally sucked. It was more a turd on a stick and

Reply to NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO SEE IN SINS OF A SOLAR EMPIRE in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

I'd like some form of end game mony sink, be it technolgical victory or something more appropriate for each race. Considering we can already delay a phase jump maybe even delink planetry systems or make them one way (i.e. you WILL stay where I put you and eat my super weapon fire). "Titans" Why yes, yes I would like to see "super capital ships" possibly much like the ones from EVE:Online where they're just big dumb logistics boats giving bonuses to fleets (and as a bonus yo