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Reply to TomAlexander's First Impressions in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I expand asap in order to find more planets but the pirates occupying the unowned sites severely restrict my growth and can destroy my Akkan with ease. It sounds like you do something seriously wrong. First, when starting a new game disable marauders, to make it a bit easier. Secondly, take the Kol for your first capital ship. For it's abilities, chose the shield ability twice and once the Gauss gun. Don't take the flak upgrade. Also bu

Reply to What files or entrys determine gravity well size? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I am also interested in experimenting with a fully connected map. If anyone knows how to do this give me a PM. AFAIK it is only possible currently with custom scenarios (where it's very bothersome to do, using a script to generate the connections helps a bit), not with the auto generated normal maps.

Reply to Right-click on Structure to destroy in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

That second planet down on the list with ships and structures? I have no clue where it is or why I would want to click on it. He he he. But so true, so true.

Reply to New Sins Mod (Europa, Total Conversion [WIP]) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Lordkosc i posted it in the 2nd cause i couldn't edit the first. maybe i missed the button? I realise i made a boo boo but hopefully we can all be friends. Oh don't worry about lordkosc. His lack of sleep has driven him insane. Or at least to something similar. As for the picture in your first post, I'm able to see it just fine. <img src="http://images.st

Reply to Sins Beta 3 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

it will be soon maby tmoz cos they have brung this out. Not soon enough. I want to get my cold claws on the new environment additions. And I especially want to examine their custom maps. Their are certainly a lot of new options available.

Reply to Sins Beta 3 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

New Environments: Space anomalies, gas giants, minor planetoids and more will factor heavily into your tactical decisions and your overall strategy. Ah, very good. Now we just need to get the beta.

Reply to Sins is messing up my hard drive! (Issue Resolved) in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Except that Microsoft expects it to be done that way. Did somebody already suggest that Microsoft is the devils incarnation? If not, now I did it.

Reply to a new idea for logistics good or bad you decide in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Would kinda defeat the point of balancing the limits, though. This where the space farms come in to play.

Reply to New Patch Suggestions in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Will that be in the vanilla game or will it have to be modded in? Vanilla flavor. With chocolate chips.

Reply to Boxed Impressions in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

As for floating ballons around gas giants, how do you propose to do this if the gas giant's atmosphere is hydrogen? You can't get a lighter gas than that for your ballon, and so you will always sink into the atmosphere = death! Well, you would need a rigid balloon (which stays the same at different amounts of pressure) so it would only sink in until the atmospheric pressure of that gas giant is high enough to keep you floating.

Reply to What day will Beta 3 be realeased in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Im getting a repetitive strain injury from checking the site every couple of minutes For the love of our F5 buttons and for the sake of your bandwidth. Tell us when!

Reply to Right-click on Structure to destroy in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

What I'm trying to say, is that the empire tree is pretty much useless to me. The only thing I keep open on it is my fleet tabs. If I had a way of disabling the stars from the list I would have done so. Yep. It's the way I play the game. The whole empire tree is useless to my style of play. Because of that, I would like an empire tree that only shows planets with battles going on (and selected fleets of course). It's much more

Reply to should the cruisers have guns? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

It would probably be more akin to submarine warfare... only the "torpedoes" would travel perhaps tens to hundreds of thousands of miles before finding their mark... Well yea. But would this be fun? I don't doubt that it would be fun for some of the more hardcore gamers, like me . But conventional wisdoms seems to say, that your usual gamer can't be b

Reply to "A new Empire" Scenario map for the beta 1 vs. 1 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

My situation was that I had two phase lane connections to the AI's Empire. They were situated quite a ways from each other. I noticed that when ever I made a move against one, the AI drained the other point for reinforcements. Of course, it took minutes for the AI to jump its fleet all the way to the grav well I was attacking. I figured that the grav well that was drained of ships must be pretty lightly defended. That's why I've made two connections acro

Reply to New Sins Mod (Europa, Total Conversion [WIP]) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Nice to see some other modders here. Welcome to the madness of flying trade station attack bombers. ------------ Btw. I've got just one request. Could you please make meaningful topic titles in the future? It's hard to know what awaits one, if it just reads "New Sins Mod". H

Reply to Disable-able research in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

LOL! My bad, I'm using a different version than the one you have. Military labs decrease ship production times, civic labs decrease structure build times. Mind if you would share your version with us?

Reply to No novalith cannon plz!! I hate super weps in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Most games that have super weapons use them as a means to fix a broken element of the game play. Typically defensive structures can't be countered effectively by attacking units... or something of that nature... That's a somewhat circular logic. Games that have feature A as a counter to feature B are broken, since they don't have feature C (which I like more then feature A) which would also be a counter for feature B. <

Reply to How does the AI change with difficulty rating? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I assure you, it does not see anything you couldn't see and it doesn't have additional resources. It does not cheat in any shape or form. Well, I could see my ships, so the AI could also see my ships! Hah, busted! I'm really a whippersnapper. Well, then it had to be a coincidence. (Or it had those scout thingies on my planets and I've overlooked them. Didn't think of that.) I probably should

Reply to How does the AI change with difficulty rating? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Does the AI see things that a normal player with the same units and planets wouldn't be able to see or have additional resources? Yes they do. At lest they always moved their fleet to planets next to mine (which they weren't able to see) where I've massed my fleet. And if I moved my fleet, they moved theirs to. I doubt if that was a coincidence. Although that was iirc some patches ago, could have been changed, but I doubt it.

Reply to What files or entrys determine gravity well size? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

And all of my ambitious plans get shot down right there. Time for plan B (just need to figure out what plan B is ) Plan B, as always, is to mod some structure as the new super weapon. So let's change the research station to a planet destroyer.

Reply to What files or entrys determine gravity well size? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

you may want to try a smaller area, there is probably a set max and min. No, the game ignores those entries for stars. Dunno why. You almost certainly cannot add planets to the same gravwell by overlapping them, you will probably have to wait until they make it possible to have 2 planet or more systems? Yep, you can't. Current behavior is hard coded. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/M

Reply to TomAlexander's First Impressions in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I guess I didn't notice that so much as to me I don't get much differentiation between the cruisers and tend to look at armour first so I can build up experience while upgrading weapons. If a cruiser is lightly armoured then it gets fragged before it gets experience. Just thinking about it I'm not sure if cruisers get exp points now lol. Cruisers don't get experience. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Wink.gif" border=0 align="absmiddl

Reply to Basic Modding Help in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The dev's didnt use 3dsmax to make the models for Sins. However word has it (correct me if i am wrong) They did manage to import a .3ds made with 3dsmax 5 into sins using an alpha of the forge tools (was it the one of the models i sent you tristan?). There was some mesh work that needed to be done to the model to get it to work with the tools, but if it can import a max 5 model then i dont see any issues with max versions 6-9 since most max versions are identical with

Reply to What files or entrys determine gravity well size? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Blair to the rescue: Blair Fraser wrote: Grav wells can be changed - its on a per planet type basis so open the appropriate file and look for something like farorbitoffset. I forgot this too. Hmm... gives me some ideas.

Reply to As promised a proper tutorial guide to edit sins textures in Sins Modding Sins Forums

i might suggest you switch to photoshop. I might suggest sending me some $$ to buy photoshop. (Perhaps I'm able to get it over my university. They've very neat student licenses of lots of software.)