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Reply to Suggestions for better polish game in Technical Sins Forums

The next patch will be out soon, but won't include new ships (or news ships, either) from what I've read. There's always a possibility for something like this to be included in future patches, but adding a new ship type would require quite a bit of work, so I'd see that more as left to either modding or the expansion pack. Also, your biggest two requests were new ships and then ships moving during combat? If that's it, I'd say Stardock and IronClad did one heck of a job with the game.

Reply to The Irrefutable Truth of the Galactic Empire in Sins Clans Sins Forums

Even more evidence that the ponies threaten our very existence- I wasn't even posting this in a restaurant! They're everywhere.

Reply to Puzzling drops in frame-rate during game play. in Technical Sins Forums

Have you turned down the video settings, salainzero? It sounds like you have a similar, but different issue from Gyson here.

Reply to Puzzling drops in frame-rate during game play. in Technical Sins Forums

Could you open the Task Manager while the game is running and see how much CPU and Memory usage Sins is taking during a time when it works normally and compare it to a time you experience a frame rate drop? If the CPU usage spikes or Sins is suddenly eating a ton of memory, that might contribute to some issues like you mentioned and also why exiting it and re-opening seems to fix it. I assume you're running XP, as it's an older machine. Some other things to try/think about: *Disable

Reply to The Irrefutable Truth of the Galactic Empire in Sins Clans Sins Forums

Pink Space Ponies P.S.P. PlayStation Portable (aka Sony) Coincidence? I think not. We are just now getting a glimpse of the true nature of these Ponies. First, they create re-chargable batteries that explode. Then they create CDs with rootkits embedded in them, in an attempt to take over our computers. Finally, they create a next-generation digital media format to monopolize all entertainment. The truth is near.

Reply to Speeding up the cleanup after you are "winning"? in Strategy Sins Forums

Incentives to stay in the game late is where Sins seems to fall a little flat now. If you're on the losing side, it's nearly impossible to recover if your fleet was decimated. If you're on the winning side, you have to play tag to make the win "official" (not that it's ranked anywhere). I imagine most of this has to do with game balancing, which is on-going and will be addressed in future patches, but since there hasn't been as much official word about this yet we're still speculating right n

Reply to Maximum PC Rates Sins as KickAss! in Sins News Sins Forums

I saw the original editorial and thought they might do that. Will Smith was quite impressed. Unfortunately, I don't have my copy of MPC yet to read (I was hoping it would come today), but this continues to affirm me that MPC knows their stuff. I'm also looking forward to their cover article as I'm going to build a new PC and look forward to playing Sins on there.

Reply to Let us know what you'd like in v1.03 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The ability to ignore see messages from other players. Along the lines of typing /ignore [name of person]. This could be done through the GUI, too, appropriately, but any other multiplayer management would be appreciated, probably similar to what they have in WoW or other MMORPGs.

Reply to Jerks in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

How hard would it be to add a /ignore [name of user] option? MMORPGs have it for a reason, why not SoaSE?

Reply to Jerks in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

I'd also like to know- is it there live voice chatting, or just text? If there's voice included (which would be kind of nice), a mute option would be almost required, IMHO. What if one player had annoying music in the background? Or if you kept getting feedback from someone? If there's only text chatting, a simple ignore command should be easy enough.

Reply to GameSpy: Editor's Choice Award in Sins News Sins Forums

I didn't see this anywhere on the main page and wasn't sure where to post it, but since this is talking about reviews: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/sins_of_a_solar_empire_and_me_a_story_of_addiction_heartache_and_true_love It's written by Will Smith, editor of Maximum PC, declaring his love for SoaSE. Getting back to this topic, after reading many reviews the biggest digs against SoaSE after the new patch seem to be: *No single-player campaign *High le

Reply to Twilight of the Arnor Beta 3D Change Log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Cari/Kyro- Maybe you should put a post in the Support & Bugs section to include the most recent things Cari just said like "[email protected] unless you actually NEED a response from a support tech (eg, you can't get into the game.)" or to use a different zipping utility if you're sending in your game under Vista, or that your games should be zipped, etc. Brad has a decent sticky posted here: [link="https://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=274&aid=128951"]https://forums.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor preview in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

My biggest gripe with Gal Civ 2: *Micromanagement All the improvements above are great and useful. However, I still haven't seen too much that addresses this specifically yet. The closest has been some improvements to the Governors screen to include some options for Constructors (finally!), I think. The area you notice this the most is when you start on Large or greater galaxies. By the time the civilizations have matured to be able to expand to other colonies easil

Reply to From the Desk of CariElf in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Was this archived anywhere? Sounds like quite the video!

Reply to Vacation bound 2007 in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks, Kyro. If either of them have a free moment, a Journal update would be cool.

Reply to Vacation bound 2007 in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

This has been one heck of a vacation. I assume Gal Civ patches are still being worked on, right?

Reply to Apolyton.net's GalCiv II review in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

The link posted just returns back to this post. Looks like an typo. I went to Apolyton's site and found it: http://galciv2.net/4/254/439/ I'm not sure how old the review is, as it doesn't post a date.

Reply to Tell us what you'd like in Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar 1.6! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Another voice in the mix: *Race customization enhanced (allow changing of logistics, tech, miniaturization, etc.) *Add additional map features (nebulae, space clouds, super novas, etc.) for more strategy *Decrease micromanagement, particularly for Constructors- make them work more like miners *Create an end-user map/scenario editor *Improve UI, as listed in this thread: https://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=357&aid=143715 *Enforce infl

Reply to A couple of suggestions in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I'd like to also suggest the addition of nebulae that have different effects. Heck, maybe they could even be temporary additions (they exist for so many turns and then leave). There seem to be a lot of possibilities. Thinking back to Master of Orion 2, I believe they had a nebula that would slow down travel in that area. I could see implemented them to: *Slow down/speed up ships traveling through it (both military and trade) *Increase/decrease sensor range in there (I like this

Reply to Custom races are broken in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I've found it strange/frustrating that the pre-made races have those built-in, non-modifiable bonuses whereas the Custom race does not. I would agree you can specialize quite a bit more which can be an advantage, but some of those hidden/unchangeable values on built-in races does seem odd. Why not bring that into the user level so you don't need to modify values with a text editor? Or is this a bug?

Reply to Improving performance in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I have an XP 1900+ w/ 1 GB of RAM and an Asus GeForce 6600 card and it plays pretty well (although I haven't played as much with DA, so I'm not as sure). I've played on Gigantic a couple of times and it did slow down near the end, but it was still playable, and I had most graphic features still on. Kudos to Stardock on this.

Reply to Population and Morale in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

What's the rationale behind this population limit? Food improvements were already reduced in power and entertainment tech has been increased in cost so I'd think those would be effective deterrents already. No other planet improvements see a reduction in effectiveness that I know of? For instance, I can build unlimited factories, labs, banks, etc. with no penalties.

Reply to Multiple Construction Modules in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Even if the module is supposed to be used to disassemble the current ship, I'd really like it if we could add more than one construction module per ship. As mentioned previously that would really reduce micro-management later and not penalize the colony building ships to produce 5 different ships with 1 module each over 5 separate turns versus building one ship with 5 constructor modules in a few turns. Right now you can add multiple colony modules and multiple troop transports. Why not multi

Reply to How much RAM is need for a gigantic map in DA? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

It seems like ATI cards are having slowdown problems with the new graphic enhancements, especially on older ones like 9800s.

Reply to any word on a Dark Avatar patch in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

From what I've seen/read I think it had to do with the graphic improvements, but some cards with low RAM and/or that are older have issues. Mostly ATI, but I could be wrong.