ScourgeOfGod

Reply to We're making progress in Iraq in Everything Else Sins Forums

Karma, I agree that we are a lot a like. It's kind of like how most Christian denominations are basically alike but differ to varying degrees on minor doctinal issues (which of course to them are huge differences but to outside observers they don't see much difference between, for instance, full emersion baptism and sprinkling water on the head baptism). We are peace with Canada, we are at peace with france, we are at peace with China... these countri

Reply to Dawn of Victory - Total Conversion: Use the newer thread idiots. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The plot is loosely based on a series of books by Harry Turtledove; aliens invade during World War 2, humanity holds them off, and you have Germany, the US, and the Soviet Union launching into space. I read those books! However, it must be pretty losely based on them because after the intial fighting (and another short war where the aliens kick Germa

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

we'd even have prettier teeth Unlikely, brushing them would take away from game time .

Reply to Plundered Booty in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yes! Money stolen from innocent merchants! I love it!

Reply to We're making progress in Iraq in Everything Else Sins Forums

Sorry Schem, I;ll do paragraphs from now on . TGE that is such a Kantian perspective and personally I hate Kant's philosophy. For those of you not conversant with Kant, his moral philosophy was that there are certain acts known as "moral imperatives" which under no circumstances can one commit. This means no matter the outcome one could not, for instance kill another person. Not lieing was anoth

Reply to Copy Protection? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I just wanted to tell Stardock from my experience with Gal Civs 2 I love their policy on copy protection and CD replacement. I don't pirate games in general, but I would NEVER pirate a Stardock game even if I did simply to encourage their kind of policies. You guys ROCK!

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

It's unlikely there will be die-cast models as they are wicked expensive to make. Which is why you pass that exspense on to the Sins addicted customer .

Reply to We're making progress in Iraq in Everything Else Sins Forums

Karma the west has not been kind to the middle east. The greivances between Islam and the West go back a long time. They did start the aggression by attacking the byzantines but Western European Christians didn't have much justification for attacking the holy land in the crusades other than religious fanaticism and desire for control trade routes. Then there was the Western occupation of the Middle East after WW1 and the setting up of puppet governments. Then there has been the West's constant i

Reply to Predictable layouts = no exploration fun in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well Starcraft didn't have a random map generator so after a while exploring the map didn't do anything, but I digress. I haven't pre-ordered (and thus haven't played Sins as of yet), but if there is a random map generator, shouldn't that provide sufficiet varity for interesting exploration (if not please explain why)?

Reply to Terrain Wish List in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

How large are the grav wells? Mercury at its closest to the sun is 46 million km away. Now if grav wells are only a few hundred thousand km or even a few million km (like 5 or 6 million km) out from the star, the chances of a planet existing in that radius go down dramatically (high solar wind would have blown the early material for a planet further away during the formation of a solar system). From a gameplay perspective, I'd say leave planets out of solar grav wells. It provides a goo

Reply to A few thoughts.... in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Hmmmm...decreases tax revenue during war...interesting. That would put a lot of focus on either decisive quick victories or major pre-war preparation. I personally kind of like it, but it should be an option because in, for instance, a 1v1 the players may want to only have war and no peace (thereby artifically making the game slower due to lower tax revenue, and one of the complaints I've seen on these forums of Sins is that it takes too long). However, in large games with variable alliances (my

Reply to A few thoughts.... in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

One way to possibly make different levels would be a cease-fire nothing can move across the borders, a peace treaty only trade ships can cross the borders, and a full alliance all ships can cross the borders (perhaps you could even have two alliance levels, at the basic level you only can move ships across each other's nations, and war can't be declared with your ships in an ally's territory, and a full alliance where you share LOS and can designate ships/fleets to be sharable with your allies).

Reply to What day will Beta 3 be realeased in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yea the wires shouldn't be candy colored

Reply to Because it's funny: US says their bomb is bigger... in Everything Else Sins Forums

The Philipines certainly didn't have a stable democratic government after we left despite our stated intent being "to prepare the Philipines for independence." that doesn't help prove we're an empire though. Oh I'm sorry, cases of blatent imperialism don't prove the US was imperialist. Ok I MIGHT buy your point if this was an isolated incident. But after the Spanish American War we made Cuba our protectorate and it stayed that way until Catr

Reply to Because it's funny: US says their bomb is bigger... in Everything Else Sins Forums

Actually Japan had already been an industrial nation and they rebuilt themselves. Furthermore, we were not the aggressors in WW2, Japan attacked us (Korea was a part of Japan at the time so of course we'd occupy it). The US wasn't concerned about rebuilding Japan (we even limited the size of their military and how that military could be used in the constitution we wrote for them). Korea basically built itself up too (with some US money...but we only invested in South Korea to counter North Korea

Reply to Because it's funny: US says their bomb is bigger... in Everything Else Sins Forums

First, whether you belong or not to our alliance is a choice. Alliance is different than imperialism you are correct. I have no problem with the US allying with, South Korea for instance. Imperialism is a totally different thing and yes it does happen today. Iraq is the best example, though one could make a case for Afghanistan as an instance of modern imperialism as well. Imperialism is rarer in the modern world and in the instances where it exists, it

Reply to SPORE offical release date!! in Games Sins Forums

YAY! Free T-shirt! If I sell Yarlen my parent's souls will I get a free copy of Sins and a pair of Sins shorts (which sounds a little odd to me but I'm gonna run with it), to go with the T-shirt?

Reply to Because it's funny: US says their bomb is bigger... in Everything Else Sins Forums

Karma, It is more a mutual partnership then anything else from which we all benefit. I hate to tell you this Karma...but that's the exact same justification used in 19th century imperialism. The white man was "civilizing and advancing" the world's "inferior" cultures. In return, the Europeans (and the US in the case of the Phillipines) got to conscript the natives in the "home country's" wars, dominate the colony's government, make the natives t

Reply to SPORE offical release date!! in Games Sins Forums

I think SPORE is going to be a crappy game. I mean who wants to evolve from being a ameoba to God? All that boring creature cutomization, civilization building, space exploration I mean who cares?.... I'm just j/king I pray to my god (Will Wright) every night that SPORE will be released miraculously ahead of time and that I will get a free copy (or I would be willing to buy it at 50 bucks...or 100 bucks...or 1000 dollars plus my eternal soul <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_D

Reply to Because it's funny: US says their bomb is bigger... in Everything Else Sins Forums

This is going to sound really cold blooded, but in war there are no innocent civilans (besides perhaps children). A nation or an insurgency cannot fight a war if the people of that nation do not support them. Thus the civilians in a nation that a country is at war with are a part of the war effort and thus fair game. An instance of how the people can end a war by ending support for it can be seen with WWI and tsarist Russia. When the people finally got sick of war, got sick of starving, and got

Reply to Because it's funny: US says their bomb is bigger... in Everything Else Sins Forums

Yes they're ass holes but so are a hell of a lot of the world's governments (Russia for instance, if your not russian, or America if your not american). Personally, I wouldn't worry to much about Iran's threats to Israel (Israel already has nukes). If Iran actually is making nukes (which since Bush told me they were I'm rather suspicious of that "fact") they have to know that any use of them will end in the destruction of their nation (even if they only use it against Israel). I wouldn't cl

Reply to SPORE offical release date!! in Games Sins Forums

They SAY Spore will be released March 3rd 2008, but I've noticed that computer games often don't quite seem to get released on their first release date. Half-life 2 for instance...we could be waiting for this game for years...

Reply to We're making progress in Iraq in Everything Else Sins Forums

Little known fact TGe, Moms were invented in England along with air and fire. Overall I agree with you TGE, about pulling out and the possiblity of a regional war. As for the possiblity of a regional war, as cold-blooded as it sounds, the US could pontentially make that work for us. Distract Iran by forcing a stalemate in the war by giving Syria or Saudi Arabia/Kuwait (whoever ends up fighting I

Reply to We're making progress in Iraq in Everything Else Sins Forums

Actually I understood your thing about not giving them mom and apple pie (which was actually first made in England). What I was talking about was that their culture doesn't really include the idea of democracy...and that might be what they really want. The Iraqis may say they want democracy...but like how we don't understand their culture, they don't fully understand ours and their idea of democracy might be something more akin to tranny of the majority with no protections for the minority. We c

Reply to Side-Discussion on 9/11 in Everything Else Sins Forums

I think TGE's pont only really extends to corporations...however, I think that certain tramatic instances can shock even corporations out of greed (only temporarily). Corporations are made out of individuals and individuals can be greatly shocked by event like 9/11. Now at this point though, the shock has certainly worn off and companies are going for the money now. Also, people talk about remembering 9/11 so much it is being to become hokey, that's the problem with waving flags every second, sa