Shadowhal

Reply to Site with comprehensive ship/tech trees? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

you could try clans of sin , but I'm not sure they are completely up to date. but their information is fairly detailed and nicely visualised.

Reply to The allmighty STARCRAFT 2 in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="bobothegoat" reply="11" id="2158657"]Myth II is what RTS's should have become. Instead they're all trying to be Starcraft. I'll probably buy Starcraft in any case though. As much as I think the myth series is far better as a strategy game, there's never going to be another Myth as far as I can tell, and I kind of like Starcraft anyway.[/quote] myth series sure was nice set of strategy games. among my favourites and the first I ever played. but you ca

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="verybad" reply="12" id="2160538"]I would really like to see the economic system improved, being able to sell and buy stuff from particular empires, and there being a finite ammount of stuff avaialble on the black market (because otherwise all you need is money) I've said it before, but I think a few more items on the market that affect play would be cool. Antimatter. Make this most easilly produced in orbit arround suns (+25%), but also Gas Planets might be g

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

depending on what exactly is implemented (different governements, more economic options, spying or sth like that) I'd like the current diplomacy interface double as an intelligence report window. so, next to the information of treaties, 'like you' % and treaty options, we could have a little summary of what we currently know about that player, be it via scouts, shared vision or a possible spying (or some existing tech). I'm talking some very basic stuff like number of planets, number of capsh

Reply to Iranian sniper or Wookiee? in Everything Else Sins Forums

hm, that could result in a new game: guess the wookie in the squad. solution: draw a religious caricature and wait who goes screaming in some awkward language and berzerk. that said, those things look pretty nasty, don't want to be their target. not that you'd see a good sniper anyway, but ...

Reply to Any Date Set for the Beta for Expansion 2? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

as a matter of fact, I reacall a frasier say somewhere that they would not set a deadline and go more for the 'when it's done' approach, since entrenchment got pushed back a few times already. so, only expect a date quite some time after the official announcement of the title.

Reply to The allmighty STARCRAFT 2 in PC Gaming Sins Forums

well, I always enjoyed blizzards strategy games, or their other stuff for that matter. maybe it's just personal taste. I never particularly like the age of empires or c&c style. I'm not sure, if or how much I should look forward to sc2. on the one hand, it is blizzard and they have been developing this game for a long time, so it must pretty much be perferc and balanced and all that. on the other hand, it just seems very conservative, too much like the original. I don't know if I'

Reply to HeLLo DEMIGOD! in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="8" id="2148643"] Eregus Erebus. [/quote] Erectus. just had to be :D. have fun playing with Lord E.....

Reply to The Pirate Bay founders sentenced to prison in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I doubt it will really help them. the past has shown that when one site goes down, others take its place. as long as there is demand, there will be supply. and there will be demand with the media industry sticking to dying media a distribution models and people unwilling to give a compensation for the products they consume. not that all of the stuff would be worth it, but just not consuming az all is also an option. I just hope this will appease them for a time, because I really, tota

Reply to Your First PC Game in PC Gaming Sins Forums

first pc games I played was diablo ('95 I think), but it was on and off and a friends computer and barely understood anything, because it was all english. though you probably don't need to undestand much to play that game. first game I owned was myth: fallen lords and wing commander prophecy. played them more or less simultenously. the former started me off the strategy trail that I have adhered to ever since. that said, I played video games some time before that. mostly the s

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Ashain" reply="21" id="2145020"]I was thinking about this the other day and I got to thinking that a diplomacy mod should go a long way to bringing Sins into the 4x mainstream. I'll say this first, I love sins and i've played it since way back in the beta, however sins doesn't really in any way play like a 4x, it's really an RTS with a few 4x trimmings. The first major thing thats missing is any way to really customize your empire. I have no real control ove

Reply to Spiel in Amerika bestellt, lieferung nach deutschland in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="astrath" reply="4" id="2135720"] Demigod wird auf den Markt bringen auf April 14th in Deutschland. [/quote] lol. ad topic: keine ahnung. ich bin in österreich und konnte eigentlich immer gleich downloaden. glaube kaum dass es einen unterschied macht. möglicherweise ist die deutsche fassung noch nicht verfügbar, das kann ich dir nicht sagen.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

pirates should be reworked some. I think a big point is for them to get out when they are faced with overwhelming odds or at least jump to a less defended system. they are greedy pirates, not soldiers that fight to death.

Reply to Hi. New to Impulse / Stardock in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="12" id="2130600"] not that I'D mind, but the colours, oh the colours ... The colors would mind? I'll take two of whatever you're on [/quote] they're not that strong actually and shouldn't affect my mind. at least that's what the voices in my head agreed upon after some disucssion.

gamer jokes & humour in PC Gaming Sins Forums

just a little fun here. what is a gamers most hated music group well, of course 'Notorious B.U.G.' :D old casual gamer's wisdom: better herds of noobies than nerds with hubris. if you have anything funny in mymind that requires inside knowledge of games or gaming ... go ahead.

Reply to Hi. New to Impulse / Stardock in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="8" id="2130533"] joking around and making suggestions I hereby put forth a motion that Zubaz be required to wear a pink tutu in the office every Friday, and that pictures be taken and posted on the public forums for each occurence.[/quote] be careful. by the way business practices spread in the it world, we'd have a gay friday before the year is over. not that I'D mind, but the colours, oh the colours ...

Reply to Hi. New to Impulse / Stardock in PC Gaming Sins Forums

cool, seems like you're having fun. then head off and play. and drop by in the forums once in a while. the people here are usually a friendly lot, joking around and making suggestions here and there.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="RS-fx" reply="10" id="2130496"] Quoting Shadowhal, reply 3Quoting RS-fx, reply 21 #4 Militias colonize their planets and use their (small) income to improve their defenses, build ships including cap ones : once their entire fleet is destroyed you don't have to bomb the planet, just send your colonizing ship but you won't get any former planet upgrade and a tax penalty for several minutes. how about they just get a huge malus in planet health compared

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="wwharris" reply="6" id="2130349"]Individual unit promotions, a simple 4 rank system would work; I just think it’s a little weird for my light frigate that has been in every single battle to not have some veteran abilities as he makes his towards the final battle. Just a simple base stat increase would work, yes it has been done by other games, but it’s a very simple and effective way to make your armies who survive battles stronger. [/quote] I think in a game l

Reply to Idea: 'Repeat Attack"/"Repeat Target Type" option for fleets in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Agent of Kharma" reply="3" id="2130132"]I had a similar idea which used the "stacking" aspect of the empire tree on the left. When "stacking" is turned on, it will stack ships in groups of 10, i.e. 10 lrm, 10 lrm, 10 hc, 10 hc, etc. My idea was that when you grabbed your ships and right clicked on a stack, they should attack ALL of the ships in the stack. Currently, they don't, so you have to turn stacking off and click each ship independently. What a tedio

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

@phazon88: ever tried Rise of Legends? that game has neutral locations and cities that could either be conquered, bought or acquired by trade. basically you build trade convoys that would visit those locations and every visit lowered the amount they demand for joining your empire. if it reaches zero, they automatically join you. a pretty nice system I think. [quote who="RS-fx" reply="21" id="2129563"] #4 Militias colonize their planets and use their (small) income to impr

Reply to Ion Bolt Buff Request in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I agree with the previous two responses. ion bolt not only disrupts channeling abilities, it also disrupts a phase phase loading which means you can gain quite some time for destroying the enemy, because you can shoot him during the ion bolt and then again when he charges up his drives, which also takes a little while. and yes, a buff to akkan colonisation is definately needed. iirc the lvl does not give any bonus whatsoever while the other races' colony capships even get a bonus at l

Reply to Where is everyone? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/305136431_88581988cd_o.jpg find the dev in the picture. :) just remember: less posting means more working. let them put together something and then have some posts. from the post frogboy made earlier today, I guess they are still in the conception phase with some pretty good ideas. as such, I wouldn't expect too much anytime soon.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I did a lot of posts on diplomacy, so I'll just sum up a few things. 1) reasons of what races like or dislike each other. could be different religions, political or moral views, border disputes ("that planet should be ours!"), racial likes/ dislikes and more. obviously these then need to be followed up with appriate systems like governments, beliefs, etc., but I think those fit quite well into a diplomacy pack. 2) give reasons of why even permanent good relations are worth pur

Reply to SoaSE: Escalation - A combat expansion (now with a story!) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

nicely written, I'll be waiting for the rest. one small note: entrenchment is not quite about only fortifying, but also about breaking them. advent starfish and ogrov make short work of defenses, if you let them. but then, I don't think you meant defense-breaching content as much as material that makes combat in general more tactical, which is a good thing in general. just consider the level of attention you can give to combat with so many other things to do during a real time game. s