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Winning is underwhelming in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Now don't get me wrong. I love the game and I am certainly enjoying it. But are the wins not just a little underwhelming? You get a little box pop up and mention casually that you've won. Oh and by the way don't forget to put the cat out. I wondered if peeps agreed a little fanfare would not go amiss. Perhaps something more like in Galactic Civilisations were you get a 10 second video that just makes you feel good about the last 3 hours battling. They could hire an actor to voice over a

Thxs for getting your DRM right! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Its so pleasant to be treated like a customer not a criminal. Getting Sins was such a painless experience. Thanks for getting this right Stardock.

Reply to Two Blues in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

You did not change the Terran Alliance you just used them as a template to crate a race. If you don't want the T.A to be in your games either don't select them or if you must play with random races delete them and then they will not appear.

Reply to Of the Drath in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Phaedyme stop feeding the trolls! If you respond to him he will only carry on and we hardly need more of his angry nonsense. [Breaking my own rule here....] That said this made me laugh: [quote] I see you as my inferior, and until you manage to stop sending little posts of concentrated idiocy, I suspect you will stay as such, and I'll simply treat you as one. [/quote] LOL! I have the same relationship with my mother cat. It regards me as an

Reply to Of the Drath in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] I don't believe the Altarian tech tree is complete, but I could be wrong. [/quote] It does not 'look' complete so I hope so. Odd they would have Drath temples, although I admit if a 50 foot lizard asked my to worship it, I would likely agree. I also hope this latest innovation of multiple ethic techs gets rolled back across all races.

Reply to Cultural Strategy, the Torian way. in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

It also increases your soldiering. So they may well want peace but also be wanting to protect themselves from Invasion be researching it.

Reply to Answers for Sins of a Solar Empire in Games in Development GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] It plays in some respects much like Total Annihilation in space. [/quote] Sold!

Reply to Need Graphic Card advice in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

So far so good. I figured I had it now so I'll at least try it. Hooked up the new PSU and GPU. Everything so far seems perfectly fine. Tried The Witcher on High settings and it was fine for the most part. The framerate did drop out when loading new screens, but in all fairness the rest of the machine is 2 years old. Tried COD4 on high, fine. I'll nick my copy of Crysis back off my brother this weekend and try it, I'll also download some of those Nvidia stress tests to

Reply to Need Graphic Card advice in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64885&page=4 A Corsair forum, the thread is discussing this very issue. From page 4 onwards Corsair admit there is a problem with 20% of cards and is looking into it.

Reply to Need Graphic Card advice in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Ah, I choose express delivery and they are already preparing the order for delivery. So I have it now tomorrow anyway. I guess I need to return it later tomorrow and try the next on the list, an OCZ or an Atrix. That said, It seems like quite a big issue. Would Nvida not have released a firmware update by now, or maybe their is a Corsair utility that can disable its features that upsets the Graphic card. I shall try a spot of googling to see what comes up.

Reply to Need Graphic Card advice in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks again, I took your advice and have commissioned Amazon to ship me with all haste: One Corsair HX Series 520 Watt Modular PSU and one nVidia Inno3D 8800GT 512MB I'll grab extra system ram if needed, after I put those in. I'll see how that goes, if I can run Crysis even on medium settings smoothly I'll be happy. I also note that stardock has some rather impressive real time space sim on route, so I'll have that too!

Reply to Need Graphic Card advice in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks guys, and great answer Kryo. Regards budget its fine paying extra for a card if it extends the life of the PC, so if I can push back date I need to upgrade my machine then the card pays for itself. I have a fast processor even though its a single core. So its the 8800GT I have to go for. I'm a little confused why a 7900 beats a 8600, but I will wiki that one. What I'm wondering is this. 1: Should I buy a 8800GT 256Mb or 512Mb, and if the former should I upgrade

Reply to Need Graphic Card advice in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Additional question. What is the difference between 256Mb cards and 512Mb (aprt from the obvious), I assume it makes little difference unless your system is low on System Ram. So I'm thinking that as I have 1Gb ram, which is not as high as it could be these days, I should get a 512Mb card to alleviate the pressure on my system ram.

Need Graphic Card advice in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

CPU:AMD Athlon(tm) 64 FX-55 Processor 2.61 GHz System RAM 1023.2 MB Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS (GeForce 7600 GS) 256Mb PSU: 385 Watts Hi Guys, I want to try out a few other games but I think my old machine may need a boost at least enough to last another year until I go Quad core. I have Crysis and The Witcher, both play, although The Witcher is not 100% smooth and

Reply to Post your TA suggestions here in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Nebulars. I would like to see Nebulars in the game that took up a patch of space on the map. These Nebulars would come in different flavours. i.e. Green: Impassable, always have to fly around. No planets within. Red: Violent, some planets within, all toxic or radioactive. Random chance of say 4% each week to destroy any ship with the Nebular except those with planets orbits. Blue: Reduced Sensor range to zero, and speed to 1. You could set the game

Reply to Can we tone down the unique tech trading some? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Using this logic, as soon as I culture flip a Drengan world, I should be able to use any of their pain amplification technologies. The ability to culture flip a world, which is built into the core of the game, negates all this talk of things built around unique phisology! Scincerely, [email protected] [/quote] [quote] Yes, indeed! As long as we're willing to accept that the Drengin techs will only affect worlds that were culture flipp

Reply to Pink Blob of Doom in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] The thing that makes me most sympathetic to Loupindor's request re earlier factories is the Thalan super-ability, which still feels much less "super" with the new tech tree. At least in the early game--it is a big help later on when you finally get those pricy industry facilities. [/quote] Quite, Thalans used to be the aggressive starting race, now they build up slow. Not that I mind it, but their super ability has definitely gon

Reply to Can we tone down the unique tech trading some? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] The countries that have supercarriers are: The United States, Russia, China (bought from the Russians, may still be under construction), France, and Great Brittian (I might be wrong about them, but I think that thewy still have one, and if they don't currently, they used to.) [/quote] We have three. However they are quite old now and two much larger carriers are on order. They still won't be as large as the US carriers but in the UK we have a much larger diplomacy

Reply to Can we tone down the unique tech trading some? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] In fact, please play the Yor, the Iconians, or the Thalan with tech trading off, with a minimum of challenging difficulty. You'll see what I'm talking about. [/quote] My last game was Thalans, Obscene difficultly, tech trading off, won it. I never play less then Maso and have played the other two races fine as well although I forget the exact game setups. The thing about TA is you change the way you play depending on the race

Reply to Can we tone down the unique tech trading some? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] We DON'T have options for the tech trading, [/quote] I see your grasp of the main game screen rivals your knowledge of history and current affairs. :(

Reply to Weapons? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Sure, and I do agree it feels a little easy at the moment. Its just a question of how far you take it. If you want a year to go by while you try and research a new weapon because your being dumped on by the Korath that are almost immune to your laser then you might well loose the war while your waiting to research your next tech line. The trouble the devs have is getting the balance right without killing the fun.

Reply to The Space Between in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] I have to question why you would even ask that question unless you were trying to be deliberately provocative. [/quote] All his posts are deliberately provocative unfortunately. Which is a shame since the discussion on these boards is usually good natured. Best avoided.

Reply to Weapons? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I quite well appreciate what you’re saying, and rather than shoes was I thinking one of the other weapon branches. I also agree that’s it’s a bit too easy right now, and I do believe that very slow tech is not working correctly and the devs intend to fix this. However, what I’m pointing out is that with 3 weapon systems, if it takes years to research a full weapon tree and full defence tree suited to take advantage of X AI, and then the game can become paper scissors stone.<b

Reply to Tech trading 'exploit' in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Even if it doesn't get addressed, there's still always mods. They're giving us all the tools they used to make ToA with the expansion, right? So someone may well just be able to mod all this stuff in, if I'm remembering correctly. [/quote] Exactly, that's what gets me about most of these flame threads where someone declares that they only like playing games with 'insert tech, mega event, etc' set to something. Well for Metaverse t

Reply to Weapons? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] I think there's plenty of weapons techs, but the research is mostly linear, not exponential. For example, each iteration of laser weapons costs 100 more than the previous. Instead, I think it should be an exponential curve. Only races that dedicate a lot of time and energy should get the real end-game weapons, [/quote] This would create other problems, it would make Creativity the main source of high tech. If you have 45 weeks to resear