Sorceresse

Sorceresse

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Reply to Game stutters at the beginning and after load. Driver problem? in Technical Sins Forums

[quote] disabling background loading completely in the user.setting file, though doing that will probably cause a notable increase in the up-front load time.[/quote] 1. would u pleaze indicate, kryo, which line has to be edited in the file, and what info, there, must be indicated instead of the default one ? 2. what do u precisely mean by « notable increase in the up-front load time » ? ... my « old » GF 6800 and my old 1 GB of RAM seem to handle the « highest » textur

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Reply to Piracy: The Gaming Industry in Perspective & the Coming Storm in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Craig Fraser (Canada) : [quote] [B]I would like to see a pirate start walking into stores and lifting games off the shelf.[/B] [/quote] :SURPRISED: I hope that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's cyber-cops do not land on this webpage. [size="1"]The RCMP is the Canadian equivalent of the American FBI (somewhat).[/size] P.S. Feel free to delete (or edit) replies 39 & 45.

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Reply to Multiplayer is Unplayable in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote] What exactly did I do to deserve your sarcasm? the Monk [/quote] the sarcasm was directed at SD/IC, and finally at myself ... u kinda got caught in the middle ... i do sincerely consider u a genius in network engineering, and i was just relaying a very valid info u had posted elsewhere : no sarcasm was intended ... too bad we cant edit old posts on this forum : i would fit u in with less ambiguity ...

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Reply to Multiplayer is Unplayable in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

... well ... some Strategist (at SD or IC) decided that ICO would use the P2P system ... and according to another Genius ( [B]The Monk[/B] ), what happens then, is that the host only synkronizes data that is effectively processed (« simulated ») by each of the other participants... consequently ... the slowest comp & the most laggy connection in the ICO game drags down the flow of the P2P experience for everybody ... but what do i know about that, anyway ? ...<br/

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Reply to NEWS: Sins passes the 100K Copies Sold Mark! in Sins News Sins Forums

... besides saying that theyre very happy about it, i doubt that a SD or IC representative will dare venture precise sales figures ... software companies protect that kind of privileged info ... sometimes, for example, it is to control the influence of sales numbers on the corporation's stock value : even if sales might seem strong for the ordinary joes, they might be below projected expectations, an info that might lower the value of the stock ...

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Reply to I keep getting overwhelmed by Pirates.I can't win? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote] be nice, he had a valid question and came here for a answer, no need to be all snippy at him. [/quote] ... look here boy ... read my post : i gave him a [U]very detailed[/U] answer ... my last paragraph was to give him a hint that he did not have to compose his posts with such big letters ... [size="2"]BE NICE YOURSELF AND STOP PATROLLING & MORALIZING[/size]

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Reply to I keep getting overwhelmed by Pirates.I can't win? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote] I can not make any more Capital ships, even when I have a capital ship builder ? [/quote] to produce a Capital Ship, you must meet ALL of THREE conditions : 1. have built the cap ship construction building in your gravity well 2. have available « Capital Ship Commanders » 3. have at least 50 ship supply available for each cap ship u wanna build Conditions 2 & 3 are obtained by going into the « Fleet Logistics » sector, in Research, and t

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Reply to Ideas and Irritations in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

WOW ... thats a lengthy & detailed OP ! (from a « software dev » no less) ... its odd that it did not attract a lot of reactions : reply #1 was posted 2½ days after the OP !? ... as a defensive noobette, i agree that the defence of the gravity well is too difficult, especially against skilled human killers, who will simply bypass the cannons and approach the planet from a weaker spot, beyond the limited range of those cannons ...

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Reply to Question about AI spending in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

... on other threads, stardock & ironclad guys have frimly declared that the AI players did not receive any cheat resource bonuses ... if so, it makes solving the OP's enigma even more difficult ...

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Reply to Can we have the 1.03 change log plz? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Please, dont use word "Official" when its not. It confuses people.[/quote] yea ... i jumped right in, believing that it was THE official Ironclad/Stardock 1.03 changelog ... i hope that a mod will modify that thread's title ... im sooooo con-fused ...

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Reply to The diplomacy game. Want to be a bastard? in Strategy Sins Forums

from a Stardock guy : [quote] [B]I do recall those that sell me out or betray me and yes I do what I can to get revenge.[/B] [/quote] :SURPRISED: from « some other dude I don't recall » : [quote] You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.[/quote] i had hoped that Stardock would have promoted go

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Reply to Pet Peeves Related to Updates in Technical Sins Forums

... but how would the ICO registration process know that ?!! 1. my dad got one specific serial # associated with his digital download on SDC ... he created his ICO account with that #. 2. suppose i open the box we received by mail 3 weeks later ... it is factory sealed : nobody can then link the serial # inside with my dad ... i install the game at home on our 2nd machine, and then, i go to ICO and create my account with this serial # that was sealed inside the box ... [I]

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Reply to Way too many planets, too few stars. Anyone agree? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

my dad, at home, owns ALL space empire games ever published for DOS and Windows ... and what those games call « galaxy » rarely contains more than 300 stars ... which is very far from the hundreds of millions youre talking about ... u must be one of the very rare gamers, then, who take the word « galaxy » in a literal sense ... ... game designers use this big word (galaxy) to designate what really is a tiny sector of a galaxy ... there u are >>> replace « galaxy »

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Reply to Pet Peeves Related to Updates in Technical Sins Forums

[B]New question [/B]: our main home computer is running Sins with the serial # associated with the SDC digital download, and my dad used that # to create his ICO account. could I use the (since received by mail) DVD's serial # (the DVD and the SDC download representing one purchase, a June pre-order) to create another ICO account, from our 2nd home computer ? that would mean that one single purchase (in June) could create 2 different installations, on 2 home computers,

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Reply to Upgrading Video Card in Technical Sins Forums

the X1300 & X1550 are quite low on the totem pole ... don't take my word for it ... examine the totem pole yourself : [link="http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/04/best_cards_february_2008/page7.html#summary"]Videocard Totem Pole February 2008[/link] don't go below a X1650 PRO ... which is not expensive ... if u get a cheap card, you'll be limited to the cheapest graphical settings ...

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