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Reply to Should Strikecraft cost money/resources to build? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Bobucles" reply="3" id="2048863"] Nothing short of fifty plus anti-fighter frigatesSee, what no one seems to realize is... 50+ anti-fighter frigates are pretty damn cheap. Both in terms of fleet supply and resource cost. They're FAR cheaper than the amount of resources needed for carriers. [/quote] The problem is when you come across something besides strikecraft, your flak frigates aren't going to do anything. Even still, with that many an

Reply to kosatru cannon in Strategy Stardock Forums

[quote who="Shadowhal" reply="2" id="2045786"]confirm. was on the receiving end of several blasts. kosturas are far from useless. [/quote] The problem is the 'freeze' time is only like, fifteen seconds, so you'd need four or five of the damn things, or impeccable timing. As it is, the best part of the Kostura cannon is the temporary phase stabilization. Nobody bothers to reinforce the planets they have at the ass-end of their empire, and the... SNEAK ATTACK OMG. Since tha

Reply to Should Strikecraft cost money/resources to build? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Eh, strikecraft really are extremely imbalanced when used en masse. I always like ot have a fleet primarially composed of two heavy carriers and a dozen or so light carriers, with a ratio of 1:3 fighters / bombers. When playing as Vasari, my bombers can destroy any capital ship in two passes. Nothing short of fifty plus anti-fighter frigates will even stand a chance of stopping this onslaught, and while they're busy tangling with the strikecraft, I'm just chugging out more and more, r

Reply to trade ships... in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

My thoughts on this. Note that this isn't a 'do all of this', but just some ideas on 'fixing' mid-late game economy. - Change Trade Ports to be 6 or even 8 logistics slots each. They're just way too 'strong' for how little of a footprint they have. Compare how effective just one trade port is, versus generally needing at least two orbital refinery structures to get any meaningful income from them. Addicionally, have any of you seen a planet with one or two +trade% bonuses, with f

Reply to Conflicting planet bonuses? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Astax" reply="11" id="2048758"]This talk of bonuses had me thinking. I wish we had a diplomatic or Archeolagy frigate. That you coudl sue to scan planets to determine what the bonuses will be, so you know if its worth to upgrade or not. [/quote] If you really want you can just save the game, upgrade, and then reload. They're only random insofar as what bonuses are assigned to what planets, and is determined when you start a new game. However, this really is just

Reply to Conflicting planet bonuses? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Okay, I have to say I don't even notice the + / - gravity well even having any affect. What does it change? How far 'out' you can build structures? How big the 'game space' is around planets? Or how close you can jump in and out of the gravity well? Because for the life of me even if I change it to -100% it still doesn't look any different.

Reply to New update is the best one yet... in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

The choppiness was not due to graphics (at least for me), as evidenced by the fact that once I paused the game, all choppiness was gone until I unpaused. Since the primary purpose of this patch was to eliminte 'running out of memory' crashes, it likely was that - some sort of memory leak slowing eating up RAM leaving less and less for more 'liquid' assets to swap in and out of RAM, creating slowdowns and bottlenecks, until it ran out of minimum space completely and crashed. </p

New update is the best one yet... in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

I'm playing a 5-player FFA, and not only has there not been a single crash in 6 hours of gameplay (oh man I need something to do), but at 1x and 2x speeds there is no stuttering of any kind anymore. It used to be that around the halfway point of even a 3vA the game would become utterly unplayable, chugging along for no discernable reason. Now for damn-near the first time ever I have all my research and fleet maxed, and I can finally see the massive battles I've been hoping fo

Reply to Does a "fear" of experienced (or pro) players keep you from playing Sins online? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote] MadMattezhion Maybe scenario maps are the answer. A set of well-known, incredibly tough scenario maps would give smurfs the chance to really bend some muscle against unfairly boosted Ai or N00bs and see how good they are. The whole scenarios thing would also reduce the learning curve, which has been stated many times (no need for a story, just a few objective based maps so people can get a feel for the game that tutorials simply cannot impart) I

AI still needs help :( in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

I've picked up the game again and been playing Hard and the occasional V.Hard AIs on medium maps, and I've noticed that even when set to Aggressive, they just don't DO much. Early game they're fine - a horde of Cobalts or what have yous comes out and blows me up when I'm not ready for it, sometimes a whole fleet with capital ships, but every time, around the midpoint of the game, and AI seems to just 'turn off'. Like they automatically go into some sort of defensive mode. Very rarely

Reply to Entrenchment delayed five times in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

I'm just POd that Sins Plus doesn't work with it yet.

Reply to In-game advertising, and why you should never buy Far Cry 2. in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Overheal1987" reply="8" id="1914510"]Your example would be more of an exception rather than a rule. Gamers need to read reviews before buying games. If the product looks half finished, DON'T BUY IT. Wait until patches fully fix it and then reconsider teh purchase. Although the publishers/developers made a flawed product, you're not forced to buy it.[/quote] Problem with this is that you can't name a single reviewer I would consider credible these da

Reply to In-game advertising, and why you should never buy Far Cry 2. in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

You're telling me things I already know - I understand why they do it and why they want it. I'm talking about the consumer end, the human side of things. From what I understand, you're on the side of things that more advertising means supporting a game after-sales. I mentioned that I'd sit a little easier with this, if this were a guarantee, but it's not. I pointed out that BF2142, a game with in-game ads, has receieved no more support than BF2, a game with no ads. Advertising

Reply to Have you ever downloaded a game? in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

I'm not ashamed to admit that sometimes, I pirate games out of good old-fashioned spite.

Reply to In-game advertising, and why you should never buy Far Cry 2. in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="1" id="1914429"]I'm not even going to bother asking how you arrived at this "conclusion", because the answer will inevitably be "a little alien told me".[/quote] If you couldn't understand how I arrive at that conclusion of your own volition, no amount of logic would hammer its way through to you. I'll just tell you to look at recent trends in patch quality, and you tell me that publishers give a single shit about the patch process or game quality for peo

Reply to Should Stardock provide alternative IP protection? in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Well the implication I got from what I quoted was that people who tolerate Steam do so because they find the hassle of Steam DRM to be easier than the hassle of SecuROM DRM. I was pointing out that that was lunacy because pretty much every SecuROM game on Steam still gives you a steaming load of SecuROM.

Reply to Bioware in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Star Adder" reply="12" id="1908786"]Personally I did not buy Mass Effect [/quote] You didn't miss anything. It's a console gamer's RPG, nothing more.

Reply to Should Stardock provide alternative IP protection? in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="4" id="1914026"]Some will still not like it, but I imagine a good portion of those who just hate SecuROM installing junk and limiting activations would be okay with it. So it would convert some from each side.[/quote] Steam games still install SecuROM. Where people got the idea it didn't is beyond me.

In-game advertising, and why you should never buy Far Cry 2. in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[QUOTE]This game incorporates technology of Massive Incorporated ("Massive") that enables in-game advertising, and the display of other similar in-game objects, which are uploaded temporarily to your personal computer or game console and replaced during online game play. As part of this process, Massive may collect your Internet protocol address and other basic anonymous information, and will use this information for the general purposes of transmitting and measuring in-game advertising. Mass

Reply to Star Wars: KOTORMMO "Officially announced" in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

MMOs are not about stories, they're about sucking your wallet dry. Unless you honestly think Lost is a compelling, deep example of top quality storytelling, expect to have what appears to be ridiculously high expectations smashed flat. You will not get KOTOR. You will not get Deus Ex. You will not get Baldur's Gate. You will not get ANYTHING resembling a REAL RPG out of this. It's an MMO, what else is there to say? They want to keep you playing for as long as possible, and the

Reply to 10 Things All PC Games Should Do. in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Well, two things about that that really piss me off. On my Vista install, I have two document folders. "Public" and mine own. I had them BOTH moved to another partition, to keep the C: drive freed up in space. However, despite this, many games STILL dump things in the 'Public' folder on the C: drive, making new folders. What's more, these two 'empty' folders on the C: drive are becoming cluttered with crap - appdata, etc. Stuff I can't move. This is equally as much Vis

Reply to End of the N52te? in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Reminds me of when Logitech dumped the G15 keyboard for the crappy new one. They said removing 12 macro keys was because some people said it was "too many". NO! There's *NO SUCH THING* as 'too many options'. Thankfully I bought one up at the last minute...

Reply to Fair & Balanced Reporting : David Brooks Considers Sarah Palin Fatal Cancer of the Republican Party in Internet JoeUser Forums

[quote who="steve-" reply="13" id="1901206"]The last thing we need is someone like Obama. Just my two cents, im sure you'll try and tear apart the entire post. Not that it bothers me.[/quote] Do you have ANY sane reason to back that up? Or just a bunch of liberal finger-pointing that conservatives are so good at? [quote]I also find it amusing that CNN calls this "Fair & Balanced", you don't get the nickname Communist News Network for being fair

Reply to The Worst Electorate Ever? in Internet JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="9" id="1902377"] One thing is for certain, when it is all said and done, George W Bush will go down as one of the worst presidents in US history Fact/ And Pelosi/Reid will be right behind them? Because they have more power than he does. Wow, I didn't know how you could top the indescribable horror of the McPalin ticket. It's called the Obama/Biden ticket.[/quote] You know what I find most hilarious

Reply to The existence of for-pay stuff doesn't hurt you in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Similarly, I love Team Fortress 2. It is a great game. And you know what? If Valve created a new character I could play as for say $10 I'd buy it in an instant. I want more characters in TF2 to play as. But you know the reaction they'd get. They'd probably get flamed because the parasite-class would argue that they should get that for free because buying something once to them means that the developers are perpetual slaves to them after. My mistake,