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

[quote]Clearly you didn't even read my post. I simply can't compete with someone who doesn't read my posts, so I'm just going to bow out and leave this thread.[/quote] You know how they say "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all"? I was going to say something about how "if you don't have anything to argue, don't even post", but since you're fleeing from this thread after you made yourself look like an idiot, I guess you already know that lesson. Let me

Forum still sucks... :( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Overall they perform alright, but it takes AGES to post or reply to anything, and 80% of the time I get server errors and lose my entire post.

Reply to [MOD/MAPS] "TrueSpace" for Sins in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]As a bit of a side note for people interested in TrueSpace:It will make you think, and actually use real strategy when playing. No more can you bunch up defenses at one choke point and create an "uber fleet" to crush everyone else.[/quote] Not to rain on the parade, but why is every system a linear slog of trade routes, with almost no branching at all, if you want to avoid chokepoints? If you want them to be somewhat reduced in terms of access, by all means restrict trade routes

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

[quote]Considering he said stealing, and not theft.[/quote] They mean the same thing. Hell they even have the same definition and are synonyms of each other, if you want to get into semantics. Definitions of stealing on the Web: * larceny: the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" * In the criminal law, theft (also known as stealing) is the illegal taking of another person's property without that

What the crap is the AI spending all its money on? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'm always #1 economically. I sometimes get to the point where it's literally impossible for me to spend resources faster than I make it (crystal / metal too). Even if I control a somewhat smallish part of the galaxy, in that I hadn't really conquered any planets, they were just neutral, I still economically dominate. I go to the AI and the have a few buildings around their planets whereas every planet I have has 35 slots of stuff, fleets that are no bigger than my own... so where is all their m

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

[quote]I would like to see a pirate start walking into stores and lifting games off the shelf. That is a much less cowardly way to steal games[/quote] Ah, pet peeve here - downloading a game of of Pirate Bay isn't theft. It's also barely even copyright infringement. Theft / Larceny means that someone lost for your gain. You STEAL money from a bank, the bank doesn't have that many (yes, it's insured, but whatever), and you have it. You STEAL a car, you're taking someone else's

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

[quote]On the subject of DRM, I would like to join the crowd of people pointing out that there is absolutely no copyright protection that hasn't been broken in a matter of days. Not even weeks, but days. DRM is an inconvenience ONLY to "honest" customers and you will never find a pirate who says, "yeah they never broke the DRM on *x* so I had to buy it". Never, not in a million years, I'd bet a year's wages.[/quote] Actually, when a game would come out with a new version of Starforce

Reply to Mod Idea: Honorverse in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]good luck, Honorverse is known to viciously defend its IP and serve out cease and desists rather quickly...[/quote] "HELP! SOMEONE IS MAKING THEIR OWN MODELS INSPIRED BY OUR IDEAS AND RELEASING IT FOR FREE!"

Reply to Iron Lore Entertainment's copy protection bites them on the butt in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]I disagree. Designing a product with traps in it to thwart would be pirates without considering the impact it would have on legitimate users in the market was what ruined it for the game. It was simply a bad project management decision.This is so wrong it beggars belief. The traps had no impact on legitimate users, only on pirates.[/quote] Did you even read the article? He said right in it, pirates complaining about the traps most likely hurt sales as people heard that

Reply to Why aren't there moons? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]gas giants are nothing more then vacuums in space[/quote] The definition of irony.

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

[quote]If some one breaks into your shed, you would put a lock on it. Its not really different with games, but Stardock is doing pretty well without a lock, but its hard to track these kinds of things.[/quote] Actually it's more like you buying a car, only there's a device hidden in the driver's seat that propels an iron spike through the body of whomever is in the seat if the car thinks you're NOT the original owner. I buy a car, I'm going to do whatever I damn-well want with

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

Stardock should go scoop up the ILE staff :D

Reply to Half Life 2 glitch...finally, a way to kill those pesky turrets in Action GalCiv2 Forums

This is what / where now?

Reply to Sins passes 100,000 copies sold in just under 23 days in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]crysis (87K in 2 months)[/quote] Crysis actually outsold its sales expectations - the developers never expected it to be flying off store shelves, specifically because of its high requirements.

Reply to Sins passes 100,000 copies sold in just under 23 days in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]And we should believe you instead of someone who works in the industry... why?[/quote] Torrentspy or someone posted their own stats and less than 15% of torrent activity was on games (includes console and PC). About 70% of torrents were TV shows and movies.

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

Video game piracy is still a tiny fraction of overall piracy. Something like 70-80% of piracy is movies and TV shows (TV SHOWS! Some 'piracy').

Reply to Sins passes 100,000 copies sold in just under 23 days in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

And nobody believes me when I say that piracy is an over exaggerated myth.

Reply to Bit-Tech's Review of Sins in Sins News Sins Forums

poop

Reply to Switch out your Sins OST with Homeworld's award winning tracks! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

My personal favorite Homeworld 1 song was track 16.

Reply to [MOD] The Mars Effect v1.5 (Updated Sunday 2/3/2008) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Defensive Hangars now host one additional fighter/bomber wing per/platform[/quote] PS: A handful of fighters/bombers is called a squadron. A handful of squadrons is called a wing. A handful of wings are called a group. ;)

Reply to Bounty: does it matter to you? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

AI-wise they don't put enough bounty on anyone. Midgame the AI is putting 1500 credit bounties on each other - I'm putting 20,000 credit bounties.

Reply to Sinner's Digest: February 20, 2008 in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote]I was going to write up a huge essay on the merits of my idea, but then I realized who posted this, and laughed it off. I can't believe I almost took you seriously.[/quote] In other words, you knew none of your half-assed stupid arguments would change my opinion of you that you're a moron? Or because why? Because you "wouldn't change my mind"? Because I'm not a moronic sheep like 99% of the internet populace? Because I don't try to hide what I mean behind futile

Reply to Sinner's Digest: February 20, 2008 in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote][quote]Stardock releasing an optional Single-player Campaign for Sins of a Solar Empire in dozens of monthly chapters at the low-low cost of $7.49 an installment[/quote] Pay-per month only works for the MMO's... right?[/quote] That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. Today. Let me break this down for you. First of all, $7.50 is a fucking RIP OFF. Unless these 'installments' were promising at least 20 hours of gameplay each, I wouldn't pay anywhere NEAR that much. $

Reply to Sinner's Digest: February 20, 2008 in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote]When you look at the sales of really hardcore games like Crysis and you think, "Wow, those games should have sold a lot more,"Wow, christ taylor is an idiot Neither Crysis nor Supreme Commander "should have sold a lot more", because there were (and still are!) basic fundamental huge issues in those game.[/quote] Actually the biggest problem facing those two games was that they BOTH would devour systems. SupComm was nearly unplayable on a big map on anything less than a quad-core

Reply to Better Bombardment in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yeah radiation is kinda lame. Who the hell worries about repopulating that fast? On a tiny game, radiation could be crippling, but on a large game it means nothing, absolutely nothing.