DarkMadMax

Reply to Speed - Slower gams and faster games wanted. in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Agreed. Currently game last way too long (3 hours for small 1vs1 is on everything fast is common -unless opponent quits first).

Reply to Balance/Builds Analysis: Attempt to raise the level of the community in Strategy Sins Forums

Heh well I wish to play 1 vs 1 against competent player .I won all of my 10 1 vs1 games playing as a vasari , so for all the say that they suck I didnt see the suck yet (maybe they do but I never saw anyoone competent enough to defeat me) .

Reply to phase missles and phasing through shields in Strategy Sins Forums

Played exclusively as vasari I can say that this is THE weapon tech to max out. Assailants/bombers do sick damage with and you can generally kill caps very fast .Especially true for advent. Once you get subverters mixed in you have immensely powerefull fleet (subverters with 1 upgrade can disable ships on top of providing additional mitgation bypass) .

Reply to Efficient Builds: Learn how to play here in Strategy Sins Forums

I several mp games and won all 1v1, some vs decent players using the illum spam strat. I play as vassari , my first cap is either colonizer either carrier. I tech up to carrier and do 4 missile upgrades and armor. If enemy is lrm heavy I make lots of sentinels otherwise carriers all the way. I get 2nd cap somewhere (either 2nd carrier either first one). 2 carriers are awesome since they heal each other. And I do build a lot of defences on a border worlds (5-6 hangers) .

Reply to How to: see/connect-to/host SERVERS! in Technical Sins Forums

[quote] I don't suppose you read my post (#30) on page on of this thread? the Monk [/quote] Ohh my bad. thanks for info!- I dont allow ping on wan side either that is why I got the message!

Reply to Sins Enhancement Mod v1.7 3/23/08 UPDATED in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Hmm looks like cap will be overpowered with all those changes. Have you though about that at some point it doesnt make sens to have support ships -just build all caps if they are so powerefull.

Reply to How to: see/connect-to/host SERVERS! in Technical Sins Forums

Well the game keep telling me that "most people wont be able to see your game". I done all the stuff and tested whether port forward correctly - I am net admin myself and know how to configure routers/ firewall, of course including my home one (linksys with ddwrt firmware). I can host CS:S game no problesm for example.

Reply to So.. what are Vasari about? in Strategy Sins Forums

Vasari are about shield mitigation :) -their LRM and bombers upgraded can do sick damage if researched . theit carriers cap are also very good (with repair cloud ability). For late game their support (subverters )are also great - completely disable enemy ships.

Reply to Carriers overpowered? in Strategy Sins Forums

Lol it is funny that people bring up all carrier fleet as weak, yet I never said it is ALL carrier. I play vassari and here is what I use 2 Sova Carriers with repair cloud maxed out and LRM and subverters as support . Subverters disable ships pretty good - including flaks (they also good to prevent people running away).I rarely lose ships . With maxed out shield ignore tech bombers take out caps in 10 sec flat.

Carriers overpowered? in Strategy Sins Forums

I found out that after you reach some critical mass of bombers in your fleet(20-30+)and some support you basically become unstoppable .Reason being that bombers cost nothing , fly very fast and 30 of them can kill any capital ship very fast. You attack basically as soon as you enter the well, while other ships have to travel to you first. Flak frigs or no flags it doesnt really matter -you take out caps in first minutes of a fight and you may lose some bombers which will regenerate anyway<br

Reply to Why use basic frigate? in Strategy Sins Forums

Frigs do not require crystal so they are good option for crystal tight maps .Plus they get some nice abilities down the line. But essentially I agree missile>frig.

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

[B]General[/B] -Add "faster" and turbo option to current speed setting (at 1.5x and 2x speed of current fast) -add 16x and 32x time speed up options for replays. [B]Small UI things[/B] -ability to drag and drop ships between fleets in empire tree window .Also ability to add ships to the fleet and designate leader without reforming the fleet -add numbers and/or names to fleets and ability to rename fleets (colors are nice but often hard to tell apart

Reply to Defense is useless. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Defense is not useless. It cant fend off a large fleet, but fully developed it can holds its own against 90% of pirate attacks and be a real help to defendding fleet wehn larger forces attack. I usually build 4-6 hangers,1-2 repair bays and rest are turrets

Reply to Faster game and faster replays please! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Are you even reading what I wrote? I do not talk about removing current speed options -just adding a few additional ones. There is a setting you know for game speed so if you want slow game you may set it this way.

Reply to Faster game and faster replays please! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Nope i don't agree, it's fine the way it is, this game isn't starcraft. [/quote] I didnt say throw the current speed out - just add faster options for people who do not want to spend 5 hours for a medium game . I cant even think about larger games with such snail crawling pace. 2x and 4x imho is much more of a reasonable game speed. [quote] how could you even manage your empire when going that quickly... [/quote] There is not a lot to manage frankly.

Faster game and faster replays please! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I think here is a suggestion most people will agree with : please mark current fast as "slow", normal as 2x, and fast as 4x of current fast speed. current normal and slow should be delegated to "slowest" and "turtle" - dont know if anyone will play them though :) Add ability to speed up time in replays by 16x and 32x. Add ability to single player to speed up over current default speed ( up to 8x-16x would be good) .

Small interface suggestions in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I got a few of interface suggestions which imho are pretty easy to implement and will add to game-play. -ability to drag and drop ships between fleets in empire tree window -add numbers and/or names to fleets and ability to rename fleets (colors are nice but often hard to tell apart) -ability to make subgroups inside fleets with separate attack distance, group distance option (e.g I want to order carriers to stay tight and do not attack, while I might let my cannon fo

Reply to AI is terrible (Hard, 1.02) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]I'm finding similar problems with the AI... It just seems to stop researching once it gets to a certain number of techs. It also stops upgrading fleet logistics, so it's stuck with an outnumbered navy after a few hours of gameplay. I thought this would be limited to the easy AI, but I've observed it with medium AI as well. Combine that with the post above and you get an under performing AI all around, which is disappointing. [/quote] I think those observations are spot on. A

Reply to (Workaround)The HARD AI is way too easy on small/meduim maps in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I start to think it is possible to make the game really hard, in fact I wasnt able to advance so far :) - 4 and more player game and make all AI same team with locked option.

Reply to (Workaround)The HARD AI is way too easy on small/meduim maps in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I actually found AI is much more competent that it was in beta (though I didn't play beta past stage 2 or 3 ) . In fact I got my ass handed to me first 6 times. In my last game ,though, I was able to hold and inch by inch crawl to dominance - it was very slow with systems changing hands multiple times and I am defending most of the time. I try to expand very fast in the beginning and I grabbed around 9 systems in the beginning. Lost all but three shortly after :) It was all

Reply to What the stupidest thing you ever saw the AI do? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

AI waging wars is most of the time pretty pathetic sight. - Not enough agression , starting too slow. Let me intercept their transports at impunity .have their insanely powerfull fleets sitting in space doing nothing .

Reply to Rant about stupid AI in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

And an avid player will deploy a large ship with most engines and single gun. AI will build ships with only engines. A player will deploy some tiny disposable ships in vicinity of the front. AI will not move troop transports close. Like you see it's not so easy to counter the opponent that can adapt. Well some sanity checks on "min guns" would solve this <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" border=0 align="a

Reply to Yor alliance impossible??? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

to get an alliance with any evil empire, I think you have to be much stronger militarily wise. Then they will give you an alliance. I got an alliance on suicidal(so I had HUUUGE diplomacy penalties) with Korath playing as Yor. I had practically no military (ranked last) and Korath were the strongest. So I do not believe this is the case.- Granted I had every possible dip tech researched and every diplo project built but nevertheless it was possible. <b

Reply to X3 Reunion: Review in Games Sins Forums

I think woefully inadequate UI is what kills X series for me. -It is barely adequate to control single ship, but when you get empire (or even small corporation) going game just degrades into fighting with UI. Controlling empire trough series of dialogs and long menu trees is inadequate .They have a space empire game with UI of a simplistic action shooter. NO good control over your properties, wingmans , their orders , etc. etc. Issuing a simple order to one of the ships itself can be hu

Reply to Rant about stupid AI in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I think the biggest problem now is just the lack of speed in the AI. I personally don't understand how the AI designs such crappy ships. AI came some way since original DL where he was designing ships with 2 and 3 speed in an end game (basically engine-less junk). Now days he does decent individual ships design (7 and even 9 and occasional 11 speed).Problem is he has also to be mindful to what and how he puts them in fleets because hi