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Giving the game some sort of sensor system could be interesting. Stars, nebulae, line of sight/proximity to celestial objects could affect it, perhaps. You could have research techs to increase sensor strengths in those environments, and the scout could become useful in an attack fleet as, logically, it would have the most sophisticated sensor systems. Just, for the love of god, don't give grav wells fog of war <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Tongue.gif" border=0 al

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Changes in bounty on other empires I actually like seeing this, as long as it stays text-only on the bottom of the screen like it currently does, I really don't need/want a sound effect and voice message for it or anything, but it saves me the trouble of looking at the diplomacy screen each time a pirate raid happens to see if I have the most bounty or not. Seeing those change notices gives you an idea already, as long as you remember <img src="http://im

Reply to Sins Beta 3 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Those are some nice looking changes! Looking forward to giving it a shot. My favorite line of the whole thing was probably "Lag should be dramatically reduced"

Reply to Thoughts on Sins tactics and ways to improve them. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

as well as the fact that the faster ships in a fleet will happily rush off to their doom (fighters and bombers excluded.) Fleets need to stick together period to improve their survivability. Quoted for emphasis. Although the current fleet formation makes it quite 'packed', ideally your Cobalts won't charge into an enemy fleet leaving all your other ships behind, and then get slaughtered because they're the only targets the enemy has in range <img src="ht

Reply to Thoughts on Sins tactics and ways to improve them. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Considering that most current frigates are fitted with missiles vs a small partol boat from WW1/2 would do no damage to a battleship from the same era. Reading comprehension ftw

Reply to Thoughts on Sins tactics and ways to improve them. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

No, those 2 Cobalts you start with are, indeed, equivalent to 'light tanks' to fit the tank analogy Now, a better analogy would be to compare current naval frigates with current naval battleships/capital ships. Considering that most current frigates are fitted with missiles, they surely can inflict some damage on the larger/more powerful battleships! So it's very much not out of the rea

Reply to Proposal: Missle Batteries in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I agree that a little more variety in defensive structures would be nice, because right now you know that all you're going to see is a mass of gauss platforms, a hangar or two, and some repair platforms That said, as with most suggestions about things to add, we really don't know anything about other races and their units/structures and how unique they'll be. The TEC supposedly isn't meant to ha

Reply to Minefields in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Where there are mines, there must be a way to deal with them other than sending your ships through to detonate them, like ships that can remotely detonate/diffuse them in some fashion. And then it wouldn't matter how large the mine field is, only protecting your diffusing ships, which would probably be high on the target priority of the enemy In theory, that is..

Reply to Dream Ship: Destroyer in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I think the game needs a lot more units both Destroyers and Battlecursers. The game also needs bigger fleet supplies to allow for larger fleets. On large multi-solar system maps, it's actually quite easy to amass fleets in the several hundreds of ships. On one map I played with 5 solar systems, 4 players. Each player started in their own 8-planet system and the central had some crazy number of planets. I easily had 8 capitals (320 fleet supply poin

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

a better question is: who WOULDNT want to be seen riding a pink space pony!? Ooh, ooh, me me! *jumps up and down waving his arms*.

Reply to Thoughts on Sins tactics and ways to improve them. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Hi, there... it's called an analogy. There are times when one must take one's own advice. Assuming tank is analogous to capital ship, find me a ship in game that's analogous to 'guy with gun'. The closest you'll come up with is trade ship/colony ship/fighter squadron, and in that case the analogy holds amazingly well. However, everything other than those two ships is not analogous to 'guy with gun', and thus your analogy becomes severely flawed.

Reply to UI Feedback and some gameplay in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Oh, neat! I'll give that a shot. Thanks! I need more time to play to find all this stuff

Reply to Thoughts on Sins tactics and ways to improve them. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Enough of the "weak" units will overwhelm their natural "counters" in real life, and thats the way it is in Sins. Leave it that way! Reiterating this very, very important point, along with an example. The German Tigers in WW2 were pretty vastly superior to any British/US tank, so that in order to take them out, we had to send out our tanks in packs.. a few distract the Tiger from the front (and promptly get blown up), but give the rest shots to the rear.

Reply to UI Feedback and some gameplay in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

One thing that just popped into mind, as far as UI goes. I don't believe it's currently possible in Sins to drag select a group of ships/structures as attack targets? It would make some things easier if say you could select your LRMs and Ctrl+drag a box around a group of gauss platforms, for example, and your ships would all focus fire on each platform at a time and automatically switch to the next. This would also be great for Gardas attacking a large number of fighters/bombers, or if

Reply to Minefields in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

woo! another useless thread about stuff already talked about and DENIED Few early decisions are absolutely permanent. People change minds when they hear things they also think would be cool If anything, ideas will be floating around for future expansions/updates <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" border=0 align="absmiddle"

Reply to Dream Ship: Destroyer in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Ultimately, I'm not sure if another ship class can be added for launch, but I'd expect to see them added in expansions/content updates. Keeping fingers and toes crossed, anyway

Reply to Please Test in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well, another solution to the charging into the front lines and getting blasted to bits is to make their repair drones behave sort of like fighters. That is, the cruiser could sit at the entrance of the grav well and launch its drones, they would then travel to the ship that needs repairing without needing the Hoshiko close by. They could have a really fast flight speed so it doesn't take more than a few seconds to get to the ship initially, and after that they can just hang out in the general a

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

But the real question is, do you want to be seen riding a pink pony in space by any sort of intelligent life that might be looking? I'd think twice about that trade...

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, main example being the LRM frig and missile line,

Reply to Dream Ship: Destroyer in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Actually, a 'destroyer' hull would be between a frigate and a cruiser, I believe, in current naval terms Not that I'm opposed to the idea!

Reply to Minefields in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

also how about stealing vessals? like salvage corvettes off of HW1 or better yet, marine frigates off of HW2 essentully, just ships that can steal other ships. This worked in HW/HW2 because of the relative small number of ships present (making each ship 'worth' more, I remember struggling to capture that first Destroyer you meet in Homeworld), and different damage models (ships could dodge fire, etc). In Sins, this *might* wor

Reply to Beta 3 Feedback based on 1st AI game in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

In small maps where human players rush 2xciv stations just to get the ice and volcano research, you can see the difference. I don't think I've ever seen AI research that.

Reply to A couple of Ideas in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I think some sort of implementation of this general idea would be great. It would allow people to specialize and make their empire more unique, and add another degree of unpredictability to MP games. Its more like the 'combat' strategy techs that you could switch between, IE ground Warfare, Air Warfare, Defense This kind of makes me think of the way it's done in Company of Heroes. If you go Armor, for example, you have some support 'powers', and

Reply to Please Test in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The last time I used hoshikos, they never even had time to be of much use. I went on to do other things, and came back to the fleet with hoshikos to find them all missing--built a few more and found out that the AI targeted them above anything else in the fleet, so they never stood any chance of surviving. Seconded. Whenever I build Hoshikos, they always charge in front and start attacking when the fleet comes out of phase jump. And they always get prio

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

Launch party at Osiris's place! Who buys the plane tickets for all of us?