[quote] Don't forget to actually look at the minimum specs. [/quote] They're amazingly low for the amount of eye candy in the game, you might be pleasantly surprised. Here they are: - Windows XP SP2 / Vista - 1.8 GHz Single-Core Processor - 512 MB RAM (1 GB RAM for Vista) - 128 MB 3D DirectX 9 Video Card (Radeon 9600 / GeForce FX 6600 and above) - DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound Card - DVD-ROM Drive (for retail copi
no pay to play, and the fx (placeholders to be replaced by shinier, happier new versions) are awesome. The 3d situation is complicated, and I'll leave it to somebody with more energy to explain.
the distributors'd get pissy if stardock started to compete directly with them. The dl version is bad enough from the developer's viewpoint.
Yeah, none of [link="http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20060821"]these guys[/link] on most of the pc games I play either. That comic was the first thing I thought of when you brought up prepubescent morons on Live, and also when I decided not to get a live membership.
if that's Sins-Battle-small.wmv, can we see Sins-Battle-enormous?
nah, he slipped up, he meant to get a zing in at the mmo's, but phrased it ambiguously. No fee, just awesomeness.
@ raymundus: Brilliant ideas, I'd love to see them implemented, and I'm sure that a few scenarios will help the lore-heads love this game.
wow. just wow. that's amazing
[quote] I love living in the US. shipping for even the bulkiest, delicate things is 5$ or FREE! [/quote] First law of shipping in the US: If it's very heavy/fragile, shipping costs a lot. If it's extremely
you're paying for the beaurocracy that creates the fleet cap, so you pay a bigger cost as you upgrade more. At least that's what I got from the article
i'm crazy and have a full brain. And an overgrown contrary gland. so there.
nah, a text based game with a somewhat similar name gave a cease and desist letter that was good for a few laughs a while back.
the devs have stated that they already bought up surplus bandwidth to handle the release, so the d/ling should work fine
"Phase lanes. WTF!" WTFHAXBBQ! God help me... *grabs kaizers orchestra reference crowbar and goes hunting for eet*
I've been here since beta 1, and i'm an eet/schod addled reference to norway's most popular band (kaizers orchestra, in case you didn't know)
Wait, you managed to stare at these forums since October without losing sanity? Impressive. oh, and for all you new sinners: sinner *sinners = (sinner *) malloc(num_sinners*sizeof(sinner)); int c = num_sinners; while (c--) (sinner *) (sinners + (c * sizeof(sinner))) = "welcome, fellow sinner" for bonus points point out the errors (and yes assume I imported string.h)
yes, but knowing my way around the ui and research trees, in addition to inadvertently memorizing the stats of all the ships will... but they shouldn't know that till after I paint my first few silhouettes. (special hidden veteran comment) I was being sarcastic and trying to lure them into a false belief that micro is actually a valid skill compared to knowing one's way around the strategy and figuring out the units, so instead of playing a few single player games for experimentation before hitt
Just watched it, horrifying stuff. "Oh, it looks just like a feature film, clearly it is infinitely more dangerous to children based on this poll of my brain cells that just went out and contains all the information we need." That should really get a mature audiences only rating, because of its potential effects on the delicate psyches of teenaged boys. Also, the shallow portrayal of staunch conservatives was incredibly degrading. I can't see how they allow such demeaning material on the air. An
Then there are the beta vets like me who've put so much work into a mod that they can't tell what's part of the main game anymore, and haven't gotten much/any multiplayer in for whatever reason. I should be easy game from sheer confusion, but that isn't accounting for the way my fingers have molded themselves to my scroll wheel and my ability to run an entire game from the tree on the left side that will have you perplexed for months. I guess I have enough advantage from experience that you get
[quote]im sorry, i mistyped, the evacuator has more damage, hp, and shields and a skill that is actually useful against militia, the only disadvantage it has is that it is even slower than the akkan, but that doesnt matter since it can actually KILL its foes (unlike the akkan)[/quote] That's why I like it for the early game. A levelled nano dissassembler is a very potent weapon in the small-scale early engagements, because it strips a lot of armor and also does a nice bit of guaranteed
[quote] D'oh, I forgot you could modify the modifiers for game speeds. I was thinking of changing resource rates and build times. [/quote] Yeah, the only reason I noticed this is that I've been mucking about a bit in the files for the [link="https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=443&aid=159037&p=1#1422319"]Battlefleet Gothic[/link] mod, which everybody should look at, because it's going to be awesome. {/shameless self-promotion} We promi
[quote]This game is not your average click fest to begin with, and if you want to mod slow to be even slower... well, you can do that if you want, its easy enough (if a trifle time consuming). I wouldn't bother doing it myself.[/quote] It's not that hard, if you really want me to, i could put up a slower speed in about 5 or so minutes. All the settings do is apply modifiers to game speed, and they take about half a minute to change. However, ron is right, the game plays at the sedate pa
Yeah, the Akkan and its equivalent are the best for gaining an advantage in capturing more planets than the other guy. Another thing you don't mention is that it usually has enough antimatter to colonize immediately, unlike the colony frigates, which toss half their antimatter away in the jump, then use the other half to colonize their first planet, and are worthless for a while. Sure, you waste the added combat ability on a non-fighting ship, but the kol and marza don't have the early versatili
[quote] Funny, I recollect numerous "semi-skilled" players losing to a.i. in games such as Supreme Commander (even a few experienced players succumbed) , CoH (hard setting, since they admittedly cheat on the harder settings), Warcraft 3, Homeworld 2, DoW (even with its blatantly bad a.i.), and there were a few more titles, that I can't recollect....Oh, wait, Kohan 1 & 2 [/quote] Generally, computers win in micro contests and lose in strategy battles. The more a game leans to mic
Yeah, I did get a bit carried away with the exaggeration, didn't I? My point is that running an evil empire, no matter how well you cow the populace, isn't good for morale. Even if you appeal to your race's feelings of superiority, all the other groups will be pretty ticked off. For example, in Nazi Germany's empire, even though the actual Germans were pretty happy with the setup, everybody else was kind of angry. [quote] That's just silly. It's entirely possible to run an "evil" em
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