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Reply to large Advent vs Advent fleet battles are unplayable in Technical Sins Forums

[quote]This might explain why in the middle of a Huge 10-way FFA, played offline, Sins suddenly ground to a 1-FPM crawl.I reloaded from my save game, five minutes prior to the problem. Same thing happened.I tried again. This time I made sure I was zoomed out all the way, to ensure the major battle I was about to engage in didn't overwhelm my overclocked 8600 GTS.Same thing. I checked my active processes. Bingo! Sins was using well over a gig of RAM, more than half of my CPU cycles, and I'd someh

Reply to Expansion cleanup in Strategy Sins Forums

I build a few defences on border planets if my scouts have seen any enemies in the area. I'll also put a few defences up near pirate raid points if I'm going to lose a bid. Anyway, leaving these defences up gives me a lot of depth when the inevitable attempts come to raid my back areas. It's amusing watching enemy heavy cruisers going deeper and deeper into my empire getting shot to pieces by bomber squadrons. I think they keep thinking they'll find an end to it. Of co

Reply to Purchase next capital ship level? in Strategy Sins Forums

When I play, I use Marzas instead of Siege frigates, in order to make it effective I'll purchase it to level 3, and put the two points into raze planet. First Capital ship i'll level up through pirates.

Reply to Build all your ships before you start to upgrade them. in Strategy Sins Forums

I'm just going to point out that while firepower upgrades are not such a big deal at the start, the health+healing rate hit points let you micro out ships much more easily when you're power expanding your empire in the early game.

Reply to Cap:Frigate ratio; Why build small ships at all? in Strategy Sins Forums

The only reason I build caps beyond the first is in order to siege planets, because they're so much better than seige frigates in this version. So for me its Akkan, then multiple Marzas. (with crap loads of frigates)

Reply to Nerf Returning Armada in Strategy Sins Forums

When somebody has returning Armada up, the thing to do is build your bomb shelters to max on all your planets. Alt Tab out and watch tv or something, because you've already lost and you may as well make him bomb your planets for the next two hours.

Searching planets, not effective? in Strategy Sins Forums

I can't remember the last time in a game when somebody searched or found an artifact. I'm throwing out the question to the community here. Do you think artifacts/bonuses are too unreliable to be cost effective? or do they need a buff in some other way?

Reply to LRM Spam is still king.....for now in Strategy Sins Forums

the sad thing is the amount of effort and trash talking that happened over this issue. Kruelgore should have simply. A. Played the game and lost. or B. Listened to people who pointed out actual file contents and shut up. Instead it was a bunch of grandstanding, wild claims about his own competancy, exagerated claims of success. Jesus the guy sounded like Rumsfeld talking about Iraq.

Reply to Returning Armada in Strategy Sins Forums

I have to give credit to a guy I played against recently, it was a 4 player FFA, the other two players had been eliminated, the opponent he had been primarily faced with was a complete chump, Anyway, I ended up with two thirds of the planets, but he got RA up, so we fought, and when it was was over (I was first in research and all economics but what does that matter?) he offered to ally so we both got the win, because he felt he didn't deserve it. I'm not experienced enough to

Reply to LRM Spam is still king.....for now in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Perhaps it's simply because I'm able to produce so many Disciples in the beginning of the game that LRM spammers simply can't inflict a critical blow to my empire.I can't explain the so-called "mechanics" behind it, but I do know that I fear LRM spammers zilch because of the Disciple (and because of patch 1.03)[/quote] So is this an admission that in 1 vs 1 your strategy doesn't work? Because it sure looks like it. Otherwise whats the problem?

Reply to LRM Spam is still king.....for now in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]I knew you would back out. I tell you what. Here's what I will do. The next time I stop an LRM spammer I will save the replay and show it to you.[/quote] Actually this is you making a serries of bizzare rules and then claiming he is backing out, how many LRM spammers do you know not colonize an asteroid? The challenge was he is going to beat you down with LRMs in a 1 vs 1 match, you're the one backing out, and you're not fooling anybody. Ehhh I kno

Reply to minidump extravaganza in Technical Sins Forums

I just had a minidump, no mods.

Reply to The Feasability of Mass Driver Weapons in Space in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Wow they sure build those capital ships fast, and the crew training, 2,500 trained naval sailors for a Kol in how many seconds? Yah not real time.

Reply to I need help hosting games in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]Again, what I said was... "if he truly finds my guide Networking and SINS "confusing" then he really has no business hosting multiplayer games" because if he can't understand that straight-forward (read it yourself, my 12yr old with a mind to try to understand it could) guide he won't be able to correct his setup for hosting. Since when is having to learn how to port-forward like having to learn how to repair a car? When you're port-forwarding you're not repairing something...[/quote]<br/

Reply to I need help hosting games in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

I'm pretty sure that owning a system, and purchasing the game, does in fact grant you the "right" to play multiplayer games unless you're doing something that breaks the terms of agreement with the company. Monk, you're seriously giving somebody a hard time because they lack network know how? Your analogy about car use is incorrect, it's more along the lines of expecting anyone who knows how to drive a car, to be able to do mechanical repairs. Anyway, I appreciate your efforts

Reply to Limiting Componets by Hull Size in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Sounds like a great way to make small ships pointless!

Reply to Surrendering needs an overhaul in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

How exactly does one make an offering system when surrendering you takes you out of the game. I can't imagine a system that works better than the current one, unless they just adopted a fight to the last man system.

Reply to Who Wants a Carrier Poll to Settle This in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I think carriers are pointless until tactical combat is implemented.

Reply to Carriers - I know the debate has raged before... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

oh the infamous realism arguement. Which applies in a game where there is FTL flight. Muliple humanoid races, and shitloads of planets to live on. how about this, if components don't get larger, huge ships could make themselves immune to 1000's of small ships pretty freaking easily. Why cant they divide their firepower, modern ships can.

Reply to Who Wants a Carrier Poll to Settle This in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Ummm a poll is meaningless without an answer of WTF will carriers do exactly?

Reply to Dark Avatar? Discuss... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Jonathan the reason you are in the tiny minority is that most people don't micro management, frankly I think they should kill micro management as well, it would make it so I could make the jump to suicidal without wasting my time doing exactly what you do. Multiplayer would vastly extend the life span of this game. People just drool over tactical combat.

Reply to WAY TO UNFAIR! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Your right, evil shouldn't have any disadvantage in the UP, they should also get no diplomacy penalty. I mean they really need to balance all the advantages the good ethic choices give you on ethical decisions right?

Reply to Why no bio-techs? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yah JubJub they should have an evolution tech that turns you into a forum troll.

Reply to AI Luck in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Because that is their freaking racial advantage.

Reply to Can you make a race surrender? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Gamewise it was pointless. The idea is though that all those people got to survive. In Galciv when you conquer people you exterminate a large percentage of them, if I was a leader and I realized that I was about to get my ass kicked I would surrender to another country too, and not neccesarily my ally. I want to surrender to somebody who can protect me, and if I'm already losing the damn war why the hell would I surrender to somebody who couldn't protect me when the war started?