https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/133257 ? perhaps you didn't know about it. if you did, ok, why not another? just figure that I might point you to the official and probably more well know one as well. :) edit: dang, got beaten by mere seconds.
well, if you look at it logically, entrenchment 1 1/2 - 2 months in beta, give or take. combine that with the work necessary to actually get to beta, throw in the original schedule of 1st in mid november, 2nd in feb/ mar, 3rd in early summer, and you should have some kind of educated guess. so, for me, a six month period seems a reasonable estimate. but then we don't know how much work is already done for the others. could be that the delay saw some effort on them too.
I guess you mean the neutral extractors found at uncolonisable wells such as gas giants, nebulae, etc. the TEC and advent use their colony frigate, the vasari their scout. these ships each have the ability to capture neutral resource asteroids. it does cost anitmatter and has a long cooldown though. also beware that these 'roids cannot be destroyed, ever, only capture from other players. be sure to get as many of them as you can (and defend them), they are a great boost to res
has anyone actually already made the obligatory 'I'm a sinner, I was a bad boy/ girl. I must be punished' jokes?
I'm also strictly against a supership, because ... it never feels like much strategy to bunker down and save for a 'all-purpose super ship of total annohilation'. if it's just a tad stronger than a capship, well, maybe, but something even stronger than fully upgraded starbase would at least for me be a definite no-no. but it's your thread. I just want my objection be noted and be done with it. if so many people want it, then have it your way. I don't have to get it after all and it <
[quote who="Blair Fraser" reply="2" id="2079698"]No, they will work together. The next one will build on Entrenchment.[/quote] I thought that the way mini xpacks were designed means that a player could f.ex. have the diplomacy pack, but not entrenchment, thus not having starbases and other defensive enhancements. or a player could get entrenchment, but not the diplomacy one. and the same for the 3rd pack. 'build on ...' can mean many things. is there a requirement to h
ugh. well, grindstone is one of those three in my entrenchment galaxy folder. there must be some connection here. probably the galaxy folder of the original is empty or even non-existant. just to be sure, could you go check it. it should be something like: C:\Programs\Stardock\TotalGaming\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Galaxy there you should find a good number of maps, significantly more than 3. not sure what to do if it isn't there or empty. maybe your
do you mean in the game or in the directory? if it's in the game, then that sounds wrong. have you switched through all the tabs via the button at the end? it switches small, medium, large and custom maps. maybe you somehow came into the custom one. if you just mean the galaxy folder in the entrenchment subdirectory, then that's ok, I only have 3 maps in there. you have already installed vanilla sins, yes? in the same folder as entrenchment (in fact, entrenchment shoul
is there a chance to get an idea of when we get more info just what exactly or how diplomacy and pirates get some love? in beta I think I heard that the devs would also have liked to expand minor factions, any chance for that?
the ai actually fights for neutral extractors now. that's also quite an important issue.
maybe the place for a new thread, but: http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3173012&p=1 a B+ for entrenchment from 1up. as always a concise review, but it gets the essence I'd say.
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="13" id="2079145"] possibly, as someone pointed out, 3) assault support for attacks. Except this doesn't work so well anymore since the population reduction lasts for a very long time, so if you intend to capture the planet after nuking it, you're shooting yourself in the foot with a rocket launcher. [/quote] too true. that's why I only included it as a 'sort of' option.
I'm not sure if those pop numbers we have at the planets aren't something more like administration and occupation. it sure looks like the planet is nuked to the stone age, but it was not supposed to mean that every single sentient being was in fact wiped out. but I could be wrong there, it's just something I think I picked up in beta so long ago.
I agree. I don't think there are any specific warnings for starbases. make them the same as for capships (but with starbase instead of capital ship of course), those work pretty fine.
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[quote who="Darvin3" reply="1" id="2078883"] I thought that number was broken. After a check of the advent I can tell you that with max research in advent culture mitigation is only 6% Advent also has another tech in their military tree that offers +4% mitigation to all units, for a total of +10% along with culture. Anyways, the underlying problem is that no matter how high you push shield mitigation, it always possible to launch
most strange. I'd say you need to check, if auto-attack is in fact activated, it's something else than the engagement distance, in the normal unit menu, not the tactical submenu. but I figure you probably already checked that and it would be unusual for it to be screwed up unless you played around with it. most strange.
[quote who="Astax" reply="11" id="2079005"]Effect is -40% max population per show. So it's 40%, 80%, and 100% with 3rd shot![/quote] yup, which makes it quite nasty against pop rich planets like terran, desert or ice. I'd prefer to nuke the enemy hw, because that's usually where most of the income is settled and the hw upgrade is quite expensive to get, but with only one I'm not sure you can do it fast enough. certainly not with 2 or shots, but several once they are ready might
some additions to annatar11's post: the advent starbase also get a unique upgrade that raises allegiance and thus income and resource generation at the target planet. 15% per level last time I looked. furthermore (at least last time I looked, I wouldn't think it was changed), the synergy ability of advent point defense also gives a bonus to shields to nearby other turrents. 250 shield points per turrent if I'm not mistaken. not sure how much it stacks. also, I was under the im
all good suggestions, but let's not forget that if the reports are accurate, then maybe some ai routines are faulty. it should not surrender with most of its fleet still intact and several planets under its control. only when the majority of the fleet has been destroyed or it's in total so hopelessly outnumbered and the hw is under siege or dead should surrender be offered.
[quote who="JgzMan" reply="4" id="2078579"]I believe that Starcraft introduced a defeat-condition consisting of 60 seconds with no production buildings. (partialy-constructed buildings counted) That allows for the rare occourance when you have no buildings, but are capable of picking yourself up in a hurry.[/quote] I think it was warcraft 3. in sc, you lost when all your buildings were destroyed. not that it often came to that, as the game would be decided long before that.
[quote who="Mazuo" reply="4" id="2078039"]Does the game even run on Linux? If not, which I assume is the case, why on God's green Earth would you not have IE7 installed? Sure, use Firefox or something else 99% of the time, but you still have to update Windows and occasionally certain websites only like it. But yeah, topic post is hilarious. 'I pirate by making huge downloads with torrent programs that I installed and configured because Impulse is too hard to downl
yeah, the novalith is quite useful for that. also, remember that the other superweapons also got a boost. vasari get a phase node where it hits and advent get a damage boost (25% last I looked) inside the grav well. quite useful those things now.
[quote who="Blair Fraser" reply="8" id="2076242"]There is an update guide. I'll be putting it out tomorrow most likely. Just been really busy making sure the launch was smooth.[/quote] *cough* I think that would be by now. in any case, can we expect a hotfix containing the file ( as far as I could determine the current hotfix didn't contain anything in that range) or will it be more of a post with a file attachment? thx again and when that is done, really, go get some rest. th
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I though this was changed in 1.0. didn't pay attention to this in the game I played. in the change log it said [Quote] -Starbase experience scaled by their build percentage. [/quote] of course, that might only relate to the original set-up/ building process instead of upgrade process.
as to the first: as other have outlined in other threads, you get two abilties with the meteor upgrade, 1) the ability to attack planets and 2) the ability to attack ships. in most cases you'd primarily go for it because of the 2nd one, but hey, you get the first one also and it may be useful if you are attacking planets. it means that you will need less/no siege frigs, which with the price and all is always a good thing. so, in short, no, the meteor upgrades are also quite useful in defense,