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Reply to Prioritize Targets w/o Focus Fire? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]It does not seem to be affected at all by any currently existing shield mitigation, as far as I can tell, all the way up to the cap, it was increasing at the same rate per shot.[/quote] Fair enough. Aside from the fact that mysoltyspl's calculations ignored the effects of hull/shield regeneration, I agree with his conclusions; the SG group destroys the FG group after losing only two ships; a third is nearly killed. If people want me to infodump my numbers I can do so.<b

Reply to Prioritize Targets w/o Focus Fire? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]I'm checking your numbers, and they look good. When you factor in the base shield mitigation of 15%, each ship in SG hits its 60% mitigation cap after only 12 seconds of focused fire, and after it has taken 476 damage.[/quote] ARGH! Make that [b]386[/b] damage after 12 seconds. Sorry, Excel formula booch.

Reply to Prioritize Targets w/o Focus Fire? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Focusing group (let's call them FG) will be doing 50dmg/s, upping shield mitigation significantly. It's simple series - when you sum it you fill find, that you need: 16 seconds to cap mitigation doing ~545 damage during that time.[/quote] I'm checking your numbers, and they look good. When you factor in the base shield mitigation of 15%, each ship in SG hits its 60% mitigation cap after only 12 seconds of focused fire, and after it has taken 476 damage. . . . but I have

Culture Boosts Your Allies! in Strategy Sins Forums

I started a 2v2 comp-stomp last night with my roommate. I'm playing Advent, she's playing Vasari, and we have a Peace Treaty. Since I'm generally fond of the subtle benefits of culture, I throw up a couple Broadcast Centers and watch with glee as my influence begins to creep down the phase lines. Then I notice that when my culture starts creeping into my ally's territory, the allegiance ratings on her planets begin to rise. My roommate's not playing with culture--all of her allegiance

Reply to Prioritize Targets w/o Focus Fire? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]The First time I tried, they went semi- intelligently, and all decided to spread out their fire (somewhat unevenly, 2 of their 4 targets were maxed at shield mitigation, 2 of the others at 15%, and several other ships not being fired at.I tried issuing the order again, to try to see if they would spread out more, but instead, all of them began focusing fire on a single ship, and continued to fire and destroy one ship at a time, so it looks like trying to use the stacked icons to macro doe

Prioritize Targets w/o Focus Fire? in Strategy Sins Forums

I've been trying to figure out how best to marshal my forces in the Battles That Matter--i.e. the battles where [i]some[/i] degree of micromanagement might be crucial. Most recently, I've been trying to focus-fire on capships, or target the enemy's LRMs to seriously cut down on the enemy fleet's damage potential. I understand, however, that shield mitigation is designed to minimize the effectiveness of focus firing. So it may be counter-productive, for example, to tell my entire fleet t

Reply to Fighters vs. Flak - Imbalance? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote] More precise damage stats: TEC 44.4 dmg / 13.5s Vasari 76.9 dmg / 13.5s Wait... is there something wrong with the in-game infocards? How can '76.9' translate into a vague '6'? How can '44.4' suddenly turn into a '3'? [/quote] It looks like the in-game infocards list the damage as DPS, or "damage per second." Dividing the amount of damage by (the amount of seconds it t

Reply to i have a Q' about how the MP will work in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote] Just install and patch it on the other machine the same way you did on yours. No special rigamarole required. [/quote] Nice! Thank you very much. (I'm starting to understand why Stardock's copy protection policy is such a beautiful thing . . .)

Reply to i have a Q' about how the MP will work in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]LAN play does not require registration, and you can have two players in the same LAN game with the same serial.[/quote] On a side note; I'd like to use my purchased copy of [I]Sins[/I] to set up a 2-player LAN game on my local network, as part of a devious plan to get my roommate to buy a copy. I've already patched to 1.02; is it possible to use my CD-key to download 1.02 for my roommate's computer, so that we have compatible versions for LAN play? Or do I have to uninstall [I]

Reply to Fighters vs. Flak - Imbalance? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote] So in a fleet of two capital ships, 30-40 assault frigates, a handful of cruisers, and 25-30 LRM launchers, it's completely balanced that I can completely stomp the Advent Drone Carrier spam - a race that is HEAVILY FOCUSED ON FIGHTERS - with just four or five flak frigates? [/quote] I'll admit that I'm still new to [I]Sins[/I] (have played only one game as Advent); but it seems to me like your hypothetical Advent Drone Carrier fleet could really benefit from a half-doze

Reply to Superweapons Necessary? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Turtling has always struck me as bad game design. This isn't Stronghold. You win by killing your opponent, not an economic or point victory.[/quote] If this were a straight-up RTS, I would be inclined to agree with you; but in a 4X game, there [I]is[/i] such a thing as a "economic or point victory". Sometimes multiple such paths to victory: technological research, an overwhelming economy, or enough diplomatic clout to get you (or your culture) declared Supreme Leader. M

Reply to What does culture do? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Awesome. What constitutes "strong enough"? Is there any quantitative measurement of the amount of culture in any given point of space? I really, really love the look of the phase lines turning your faction's color, but I don't know how to translate that into "strong" culture. Any suggestions?

Reply to What does culture do? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Tangent question: A friend of mine told me that you can't colonize worlds inside someone else's culture. Is that true? If so, can I use culture as area-denial, by flooding my enemy's space with my culture and then destroying his colonies?

Reply to The Third Battle of Lutiz in Fan Submissions Sins Forums

[quote] "That's our cue, people!" Kerensky shouted, striding forward into the command center. "Engineering, prime Novalith for firing. Control, adjust firing solution, 12 degrees left, 5 degrees up. Mister Higgs, theme music! Fire!" [/quote] Just so you know; you got a spit-take out of me with this bit. :) Entertaining stuff! Can't wait to read more!

Reply to Switching Middle Mouse Button and Rt. Mouse Button in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote] I'de also like Double-Click to select all units of type rather than alt-click. Is there a way to set these things up? [/quote] Would you want double-click to select: * All owned units of type on-screen at current zoom level? * All owned units of type in the current gravity well? * All owned units of type, period? That third option feels to me like it would be counter-intuitive. Do you really want to grab all your s