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Reply to Love and hate is a thin line. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]You expect too much 4X.Sins is mostly a RTS game though.[/quote] You hit the nail on the head, the devs tote it as an RT4X, which I've always said they shouldn't, because it's missing a majority of the features that make a great 4X game, and the features of a 4X that are in there are so poor most people ignore them. This game reminds me of Rise of Nations in space, only RoN was more a 4X than this is. When people read what is on the site, they get the wrong impression, I k

Reply to question regarding Flak frigates ~ in Strategy Sins Forums

I think they like them because they see that raw damage is 19 or whatever while light frigs have 11 dps, not realizing there are different damage types.

Interrupting Trade routes in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I brought this up in a related thread but it was promptly skipped over and the thread was forgotten about, plus the thread had an unrelated element in it. Anyways, my question was, back in the beta, trade ships would actually go to a trade port, pick up goods and bring them back, adding credits to your coffers only if they made it back. I don't see that happening anymore, so what does destroying trade ships do now other than give your caps 5 exp and any bounty on them?

Reply to [Detailed questions on Tradeports and BroadcastCenters] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I have a question about tradeports. What does destroying trade ships do? In the beta, trade ships would pick up cargo that was valued at a certain amount, and would not add it to your income until it arrived at it's destination, now however, it's a constant income, so what if any benefit do you gain from disrupting trade routes?

Reply to Artifacts- special in Sins Modding Sins Forums

But still not quite a game changing (for better or worse) occurrence. Just an extra 10% boost to something usually (some are nice though) that other's don't get, but usually most people end up with something.

Reply to Explosions? in Graphics Design Sins Forums

Yeah, explosions leave a bit to be desire, especially siege frigates. It's the same explosion for all races, just different colors, and ridiculously exaggerated explosions at that. But meh, I like it, adds silliness to an otherwise really serious game, sort of like many japanese style games (like Rogue Galaxy), serious but with cartoonishieness (yes, made it up) to it.

Reply to Screenshot of Fleet Bug in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote] If you're talking about the slightly staggered jump, that was done for the "Star Wars" effect of a mass of ships streaming out of phase space [/quote] Flashy effects: 1 Practical Strategy: 0 (although as I said, it isn't really that big of a deal strategy wise, i'm just a smart ass)<br/

Reply to Game design flaw in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

[quote] There's no way to reasonably balance the game in such a way that one player can stand up to, let alone win against, two other players who are as competent as he is (or nearly so). the idea is that with double the resources he should be able to counter two players, or at the very least, slow their counters. something obviously impossible when you're outnumbered 2/1 *puts his hands to his temples* ahm.... ahm..

Reply to Great game luvvin it. Question: How do I turn off Auto-focus on ships? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote] Well, with zoom to cursor the camera focuses on the mouse pointer - if it's a ship, then it's a ship, otherwise it's just a point in space. With zoom to cursor off, it stays focused, you can't zoom out and zoom to mouse pointer. [/quote] Or if it's another star in the very distant distance, that cool battle you were just watching gets left behind in the dust, that's why I turned off zoom to cursor, it kept zooming in on very dist

Reply to Screenshot of Fleet Bug in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I haven't seen this one before, but I have seen several others. One, with a fleet, the jump as group doesn't work well, you still get piece meal, but they all wait until they are grouped together before they start jumping, so it isn't as bad as it would be without jump as group (what I mean is that they will all leave the grav well, but not all of them are in a position to charge for a jump before other ships start charging and jumping). Another is simply auto-fleet doesn't a

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

Same here, I don't even bother with it. I quit my old game and started a new one with locked teams, diplo is a joke right now.

Reply to Bug or 'feature' in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Makes no sense. As it has been stated before, once you researched it, you've researched it. That's like saying because I don't know how a gun works I can't shoot it. Completely irrational, while I understand from a gameplay point of view, it takes so long to research that far up the tree's, by the time they have all of one type researched, they will be so lacking in the other department I doubt they will actually be a threat.

Reply to diplomacy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yeah, diplomacy has issues. Most notably the one where you finally finished a mission to get you 30% approval and his scout shows up in your most heavily defended system, poof, all that work gone with one scout... Can't say I care about what AI buddys with what AI, but most of your other points are quite valid, imo.

Reply to Question on Ports & Refineries in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

It is not efficient to have too many refineries, what that number would be I don't know. I have no idea about tradeports, and that TEC bug has been around for a long time now I believe, since the beta.

Reply to Strength Through Unity, Unity Through Enemas in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

My dad did too. Called it the ultimate weapon the enema.

Reply to lost Colonies in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Was he the TEC? If he was, he probably built the novalith canon, and just blasted your planet from afar.

Reply to Should ships just stand completely still in battle? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote] Dude, that was one of the most clueless posts I've ever seen. How does a huge spaceship dodge incoming fire? with bursts of propulsion, duh You do realise how tiny any projectile would be in comparison to SPACE, right? and how that even if a ship uses the mildest of random propulsion, [B]no aimed, non tracki

Reply to Multiplayer Problems in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Definately firewall. I had this same problem a while back with the beta, what I had to do was allow my brothers ip access to my pc.

Reply to Diplomacy Missions in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yeah, wait for the computer to give you a mission, you complete it, increase your relations with them, only to have them send a scout to your planet which your ships auto kill without telling you and it drops back to 0. I'll stick to locked teams from now on.

Reply to Gameplay Example: Sins of a Solar Empire in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Though it would appear they were wrong on that. I don't trust previews, they tend to hype stuff up too much and release speculation as fact.

Reply to Moons and space stations in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote] What is relevant is that all the new people who are just preordering/buying the game have their own thoughts and ideas of "Hey, this would really cool", and they don't know what's been talked about in the many months of beta testing or not. [/quote] Well that's two posts now in this thread saying "I know it was shot down before, but maybe making another post will change their minds" including the op. [qu

Reply to Matt Damon & Sarah Silverman ...... =o in Everything Else Sins Forums

Not really...

Reply to Solid ship cap? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I've trusted IC/SD up to this point, so I'll trust kermit jr here and take his word that final release is more fun, but he proved schod and my point when he said beta 4 and release is THAT different. We now have no idea what the release will be like because the dynamic duo keeps all this info from it's beta testers, people who paid to have a say in the game they already bought. I can only think of a handful of gameplay mechanics that we had a say in, and it sounds like many gameplay mechanics

Reply to Solid ship cap? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I agree with schod for once. To all of those of you saying that a solid cap makes for more strategy, tell me this, if I am twice the size of you, how does having the same number of ships as you give any more strategy. It downright punishes me for expanding because now I can't defend nearly as well as you can, much less attack as well. Now everyone will find the magic empire size where attacking, defending and mining are all in perfect balance and a game will never end, and games on large map

Reply to 11 Days until release and some answers in Sins News Sins Forums

That's exactly why I'm excited for this game to be released Craig. I wanted that for GCII but the devs said no, even if we didn't ask for it to be balanced for multiplayer, they still said no multiplayer whatsoever (aside from that cheat that doesn't really do much). So looking forward to this, also have my eye on Lost Empire: Immortals, looks like an interesting MOO like game.