Black_Warder

Black_Warder

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Reply to Alternative Ship Models in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]what if the perceivedeffectiveness of a weapon system can be altered?Take, for example, the Vikings. They were not really the best with war. They were good fighters, but raiders primarily and easily annihilated by organised armies. Yet they were effective, amazingly so; why? Certainly it has to do in large part with their ability to hit fast enough that the defending locals could not mount an effective resistance, but I believe a great deal of their effectiveness was born of their fri

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Reply to Alternative Ship Models in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Before I say anything I just want to say that I am an undergraduate student in aerospace engineering [quote]Military design most certainly does take aesthetics into consideration, for two reasons. One, the contractor who is developing this weapon has to sell military brass on throwing down some budget money on their creation; military pragmatism notwithstanding, it is easier to sell someone on something that looks as if it will accomplish the task. This means you design a vehicle/weapon

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Reply to Annoyed gamer gives some suggestions for PC devs in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Well, I hardly found the performance for sins to be great, especially for a top down game that should have zero stutters.[/quote] Mate i'm running sins on a notebook comp from 03 and it runs great with no stutters with medium graphics.... (on huge maps allso) Cheers Warder

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Reply to [MOD] Bailknight`s Graphic Mod for Entrenchment ver 1.02 Fixed 1 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Off-topic. And if you're going to claim that, you're going to have to come up with numbers to prove it with the Sins engine...something you're not going to be able to do.The fact that the majority of ships were designed with turrets obviously designed to rotate (biggest example being the Garda flak frigate), but that the Devs did not implement it, speaks volumes as to how wrong you probably are.It only speaks volumes on how out of touch with reality the devs are. Or how lazy they are. If

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Reply to Official Honor Harrington MOD request in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Hasn't Weber concluded his Honor storyline? It seemed to be going in that direction. If so, perhaps the powers that be would be less touchy about things now.[/quote] Rest assured the the Honorverse still lives and will continue to be build upon in years to come. Right now there are 3 novels of the series due to be published in 2008\2009 (CoS2 SoS2 HH12) Cheers Warder

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Reply to Combat & Movement in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]I like the idea of more movement with the capital ships. Empire at War had that problem as well, the fighters would engage, but the cap ships would just park and bark at each other. We just need the codes to modify the ship behavior files for combat...[/quote] But what will be the point in making the ships move? since damge is global and is not affected by the angle of fire (as far as I know, please correct me if i'm wrong) there is absolutely no incentive to make the ships mov

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Reply to Official Honor Harrington MOD request in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I much rather have an Honorvese style mod than a "The Star at war" one, since assaulting defended wormhols can be a bit borring..... (after the first few times IMHO) But, if we do make some kind of a mod based on "real" mechanics (and by we i mean you :HOT:) i can see several problems: 1.Making the star Gravity well big enought to encompas the enire star system while haveing a bunch of intractable objects in it, as i under stand this can't be done atm since we can't put to in

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Reply to Alternative Ship Models in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Look at a WWII Battleship and tell me they were actually worthwhile outside of their majestic look, proud naval background, and intimidation and morale factor.It's not all about what is most efficient. Efficiency and utility are great for science, but this isn't science. This is war. War carries with it a few extra variables.And yes yes I know[/quote] Several points: 1. Battleships of all variants (battlecruisers, dreadnought, fast battleships etc etc etc) have been the optim

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Reply to Official Honor Harrington MOD request in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]I could be mistaken on this, but considering that a modification for a game would not be used for commercial purposes, you could likely create a mod safely using the 'Fair Usage' clause as described by copyright law.Else all the mods out there based on Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Turtledove's World War/Colonization series, etc... would be potential lawsuits waiting to happen.Just don't sell it.[/quote] Mate Kodus on the art in SITS, great stuff. :D

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Reply to A couple of Ideas in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

one of the possible conflicts I see is that via research there already is some sort of possibility for customisation in that you research some techs earlier than others and leaving some out altogether. over the long term of course most players will have researched most techs which makes them equal again This is a true statement, but other than a fairly select few techs (mainly ship hulls/weapon upgrades, ma

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Reply to IDEA: Pirates in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I would like to be able to not just place a bounty on someone but also to task the pirates, like 2000 credits to attack a particular system or to have them target just cap ships. This would give them more of a mercenary flavor. Nah I disagree, because than it will be merc-wars ftw, but I do agree that pirats AI should be tweaked to go more after civilian ships than hard military targets, they are pirats not

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Reply to First Beta 3 impressions in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

now, wait a second, I got an email as well, I reordered as well, but I got no email, except for the confirmation mail. what's going on here? has the conspiracy already started? Check your e-mail again, it will allso contain your serial number at the bottom. Cheer Warder

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Reply to BETA3 is OUT! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Once your pre-order has been successfully charged, you'll get an email with your serial number. You'll use that to download the beta through Stardock Central. Just make sure you have "Show pre-release versions" checked. thanks for the quick replay Yarle

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Reply to BETA3 is OUT! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The post-beta-2 preorders are being processed now. It usually takes some time to get through them all, though. Is there a way to d\l it before we get the e-mail via SDC?

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Reply to BETA3 is OUT! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I wonder if anyone knows how long it will take those of us who pre-ordered at the close of beta 2 to get the confirmation email. A day, two days, next Monday etc. I sure hope it will be soon..... can't download it till they send it <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Crying.gif" border=0 align="absmid

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Reply to Gas giant mystery... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I know for certain that time is one full dimension on its own, einstein's equations apply if it wasnt. WOW Great! i'll write the letter to Stockholm myself for your noble prize . There are two great "everyday" powers that we don't understand time and gravity... If only we could harnnes Gr

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Reply to Gas giant mystery... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

no more than we function in 4-D. we don't, in case you don't know. actually we are constantly moving forward in time how do you know we are not functioning in a 4th space dimension. would a 2-d Creator know if it was a 3-d space or a 1-d in a 2-d space. i believe that the 4th diminsion is going to turn out to be size not time. A

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Reply to stardock account in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I've sent an email and i got an autoresponse: (This autoresponse was generated because your email contained one or more key terms related to Galactic Civilizations II. If your email is not in reference to this game, please disregard this message) Answers to most questions can be found in our Knowledgebase: https://www.stardock.helpserve.com Also, answers are available in the "Sticky" threads of the Galactic Civilizations II forums: https://forum

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