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Antimatter and Phase Jumping in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Antimatter and Phase Jumping: Phase jumping does not cost antimatter. The act of jumping has a negative effect on antimatter that renders portions of it unuseable effectively consuming it. Thus, a ship without any antimatter reserves can still make a jump. Blair So far as I know, that is all the information we have available on the subject. My take on it is that it is a defense against being unable to jump due to low AM but still pr

Reply to Wow! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

anyone recall what HW1 ships looked like on a crappy machine? they were essentially boxes. Oh yes. I spent the better part of my HW career playing with triangles, diamonds, squares, and parallelograms - at 5 fps. Wasn't the most beautiful thing ever but the gameplay more than made up for it.

Reply to Can I get beta through pre-order or am I screwed? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

They said that there would probably be a week or so after the beta release where you could still pre-order and get in on the beta. But only for a limited window of time. After that you would have to wait for the next phase of the beta.

Reply to Shield Mitigation ... what I think it does... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Nono, your example was great at explaining the concept. Throw too many ideas in there at once and it gets too confusing. Variable mitigation gains based on weapon power is just another layer over the top of it.... and it looks like schem had the same idea while I was typing my post lol

Reply to Give Suggestion here!!! Ironclad will read them in Strategy Sins Forums

Schem, I mean a REAL long time ago. As in December-05-on-the-Chronos-boards long ago. I know (and stated) that they don't currently orbit. And Paradoxnt: It seems realistic for each solar system to be on a roughly 2D plane. Look at our own solar system. But that doesn't mean that the stars can't be scattered 3-dimensionally or that all of the systems have to be on the same 2D plane. There can still be plenty of 3D goodness with solar systems on a 2D plane.

Reply to Shield Mitigation ... what I think it does... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Also, the % gain in mitigation should probably be proportional to the power of the weapon hit that caused it. In Paradoxnt's example it was a fixed 25%, which is fine for conceptualizing the mitigation gain mechanics. But in actual practice some dolt strafing in his interceptor should not provoke the same shield response as taking a hit from the main gauss cannon of a Kol battleship.

Reply to Give Suggestion here!!! Ironclad will read them in Strategy Sins Forums

Also, planets and asteroids should slowly orbit their stars as the game progresses. This would provide fun navigational challenges as well as balance multiplayer starting positions more fairly. I advocated the idea but no go. Didn't they orbit at one point? I thought there was a discussion long long ago about how planets orbit. Someone cracked a joke about how it would be funny if there were planets that move

Reply to Moons? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

keep in mind the "exhaustion" of your engines from phasejumping. you don't just lose AM, you lose capacity for AM to. My take on that was that it was a defense against being unable to jump due to low AM. On your way IN the effect would be pretty much the same as if it was just consumed: there is a portion of the AM that you cannot use for a period of time (recharge). But on the way OUT it makes a huge difference because now no matter how depleted your AM

Reply to 1UP.com Posts Sins Preview & Interview in Sins News Sins Forums

too bad ships in their last gasp of life , can't ram other ships thus taking them out... I'm kinda glad that they can't. That may be fun for the person who is getting his butt beat but put yourself in the place of the person that is winning. It would suck to outmaneuver, outsmart, and outclass your opponet and STILL have the skirmish result in a draw (you killed his ships but he rammed and killed yours too). Alternativ

Reply to Moons? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The best use I can see for them is as a staging point. Say you have to jump to another system (far away). If you jumped straight to an enemy planet then your AM reserves are going to be low from the long phase-jump. you could instead jump to the star first, rapidly recharge your AM, and then make the relatively short jump to an enemy planet. Also a good place to regroup. Say you are attacking an enemy planet and it isn't going so well. You could beat a hasty retreat to the star, recharg

Reply to Just... wow... in Everything Else Sins Forums

Oh well, at least it got us the internet early. that had nothing to do with military funding... Huh?? Ever hear of the ARPANET?

Reply to Okay... I love IC, but your logo... in Everything Else Sins Forums

Bah, nevermind them. I also thought that the shirt selection was fairly dull... Maybe one with the ironclad logo small on the front and the Sins logo big on the back.

Reply to Anyone else getting just a LITTLE tired of people comparing this to Homeworld? in Everything Else Sins Forums

I agree with Emperor. Homeworld is a great game. We at HG love Homeworld. Any similarities between the two games are viewed as GOOD things, not attempts at ripping Homeworld off. We would like nothing more than for Sins to be everything that HW is and so much more.

Reply to capture ships in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

No ship stealing. Though I believe that the Advent have some capabilities to mind-control enemy ship crews for limited periods of time.

Reply to Shield Mitigation ... what I think it does... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Given the goal of reducing the tendancy to focus fire on a single ship then it would make sense to make shields more effective as damage to them increases. The reason is that if a ship is faced with several targetes, it can inflict maximum total damage by spreading its firepower across all targets evenly because the less damaged the target is the more damage it will take. Now, as for explaining it from a technical perspectie: I saw a show (real show on the discovery channel or some

Reply to Its March (aka) SOASE BETA month!!!!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

So, Schem, the 32nd it is eh?

Reply to Its March (aka) SOASE BETA month!!!!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Hmmm.... In that case, I'll go with the 27th, for no particular reason. Yea, what he said. Because That is the day my spring break ends

Reply to anomalies in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Oh, can I get in on that deal, Micky?

Reply to Burger King Quad Stacker.... it almost killed me... in Everything Else Sins Forums

I guess the way that the tester works is that fat has very low electrical resistance vs. muscle and muscle has low electrical resistance vs. bone. It just runs the electrical resistance that it records through an algorithm (i have no idea what) with your height and weight and spits out the BMI. I guess my electrical resistance was so high compared with my height and weight that I was outside of the range of its results so it just said "error." Not that I give it much stock. I'm a healthy guy...

Reply to Girls that play RTS? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Yes, men and women are very different. Thank God for that!

Reply to Burger King Quad Stacker.... it almost killed me... in Everything Else Sins Forums

even people on the strictest of diets (excluding balemics/anemics) are still eating foods more than they should. My body mass index suggests otherwise. I took one of those tests once just for giggles. It is a little gizmo that you hold in both hands. It sends an electric impulse through your body and measures the resistance it encounters (from one hand to the other) and from that and based on your height and weight detirmines your body mass index. All it

Reply to Roadblocks in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Vague but I guess it isn't something you can talk about yet. Good enough for me! Now we can speculate wildly

Roadblocks in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Something that Paradoxnt said in the suggestions thread made me think of something. Lets say there are 3 bodies: A, B, and C(planets, asteroids, stars, whatever) in syzygy and you want to get from A to C. Will the fact that B is in between A and C cause you to have to stop at B, travel around it, then continue on to C? Or go to some third point D in order to go around B? Or can you magically travel through B in phase space? It seems to me that you should not be able to travel through B

Reply to vista in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

AGH, you must all be rich little brats! hehe just something about you saying that... hehehe

Reply to Burger King Quad Stacker.... it almost killed me... in Everything Else Sins Forums

You are my hero Aww comeon guys, there's nothing wrong with a little junk food every now and then. Everything in moderation right? As skinny as I am it is probably actually good for me