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Reply to Feel big? You're not. (Epic Mindboggle inside) in Everything Else Sins Forums

Pretty damn massive. Wonder if it'll ever be possible to visit places that far.. I would be very surprised if no other inteligent life exists.

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

The guys deserved it - They acted incredibly cocky during the entire trail. I used to pirate quite a lot - than I got a job. Now I only pirate to check an artist out, or if a game does not have a good demo. There are a lot of quality music sites now, that let you listen to artists which is a great preview tool. These services are constantly getting better. Sadly, there's still a blank area in previewing music for indie artists, excludin

Reply to Stardock throws GOO on DRM in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="BedOverPictures" reply="19" id="2141310"]DRM implemented through an obfuscator is still DRM; Impulse is much more sinister; Stardock owns and operates the datacenters, and openly admits to logging IPs and associating everything they can with it, mining data for gawd knows who, and no one polices the bytecode. You can't deliver the content fast enough to make JIT worth anyone's while, it's just a scheme to obfuscate code and go further towards establishing software as a totally unt

Reply to What Do YOU want to see in Gal Civ 3??? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I'd love to see more strategies. Insurgencies, combat, ect. Right now combat is fairly bland - Ship sizes and engines should matter more beyond hitpoints. The smaller the hull, the harder it should be to hit it. Ships should be able to go on suicide runs - while expensive, it could be a great insurgency tool. More vision modifiers - gas neublas that screw scanners and can a break down ships, asteroid fields that tear apart big-class ships and so on. As said before, insurgencies.

Reply to Entrenchment rocks: Stardock the next blizzard? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Nah, ironclad doesn't milk every once of money the games have = ) And besides, they're actually willing to take chances. Blizzard makes quality games, but they don't really take many chances.

Reply to Mod Idea: Underwater fighting in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Stars could be just massive empty areas of water. And the planet could easily have massive oceans - it doesn't have to be realistic. Explosions would consist mostly of a giant shockwave, but little fire. EDIT: Holy fuck this is ancient. Been searching?

Reply to It must be a mistake... (LRM upkeep) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The problem with regular users, is they don't like making the hard balance desisions that ironclad has to make.

Reply to A Monday at Stardock in Demigod Journals Sins Forums

We'll offer 3 combs she's thrown away, 1 water bottle (with salivia from backwash), and an assortment of her childhood underwear. Seriously though, very nice. Can't imagine having multiple screens..too much info already on one! (Than again, I do use reference pictures a lot, and tab through many note pads)

Reply to AI is terrible (Hard, 1.02) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The foundation of the AI is much like older rts ai, with some slight improvements - it has a fairly strict build que and small selection of strategies. It seems to have no long-term strategy, with the longest by placing their army on planets attached a lot. Patches will improve it somewhat, but it won't be improved drasticly.

Reply to Which will be the futures car? in Everything Else Sins Forums

2077 is a reference to Fallout, he was kidding.

Reply to What Price Point Should Microsoft Set for Windows 7? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

You're fault for getting it. It's only worth the cost if you really need it. But yes, vista probably sold enough to make up the production cost and than some - since windows 7 is largely based off vista, it should be a bit cheaper. Besides, our economy isn't doing too well, edging near 'suicical' if you want everyone to upgrade again and costing them several hundred $$

Reply to Game AI in Off-Topic Sins Forums

I've always enjoyed making ai - even if it's only using wc3. Thinking of ways the AI can prioritize and create strategies to achieve the priorities interests me. But I wouldn't be surprised if it thinks in short term goals. If you carefully plan yourself out, the AI holds little surprises past a turn. It doesn't consider what will happen if it loses the war (ships guarding planets), among others. But I couldn't even begin to grasp how complex and wide-ranging the AI for galciv must be.

Reply to Ultimate Mod: HardCode Assault! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

You must remember that every single entity stores a large amount of data. Not only that, but the end-game records simularrly take up a lot of ram. Every ship has a way of identifying it, every ship has it's location on the map. Every ship has it's orders, every ship has it's current speed, movement, ect. Every ship has a lot of data it must keep in ram where it can be called up. Ram isn't only used for video and sounds. And 10gigs o

Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Took you blazing long enough. Sadly, people have the strange impulse to respond to them. Insecure topic-starts + insecure posters = this

Reply to World of Goo, a fantastic present in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Old beta tester on it (got it in the first public beta) https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/315859

Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Insecure troller + insecure posters = flame war All of you, grow up. His name is 'epiclulz' for a reason, I'm sure he's gotten quite a bit of entertainment out of all your anger. Just ignore him (yet someone will think they have a witty thing to say to him that he can't create a comeback on, than others join in) and he'll go away.

Reply to World Of Goo - heard of it? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

World Of Goo is now out (for pre-orders, that is. Actual game comes out in a week). http://2dboy.com/ And I have to say it is one of the best games I have played in a very, very long time. The puzzles are both hard and fun to solve (no head-ache causers) and I'm having a blast replaying it. The difficulty increases throughout the game, but it not by raising the conditions or adding a timer. The puzzles themselves become harder to

Reply to any reason to not get the beta patch? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Major thing you should be aware about in betas: They often have bugs, or things aren't as balanced as they should be.

Reply to Vista-64 rocks in Personal Computing Sins Forums

I recently got a swell computer ($750) for only $550 and it came with vista 64. Amd Pheom x4 9550 quad core processer 6gb of system memory and a winky little geforce 6150 (why have such a powerful processer and ram when you have a bad video card?) Just curious though, what's the major difference between 32 and 64?

Reply to Describe the perfect Zombie Game! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Sadly, I'm off the team due to concerns of time managment (my main team member had only 1 and 1/2 months left to wtork on it before job, college, and gf crept up) and did not believe we could finish it by then. However, he and another team mate are still working on it, so email me suggestions/concepts and I'll forward them to him.

Reply to Worst sequel of anything in Everything Else Sins Forums

To be honest, I googled and it tuns out there's around 12 (at least it was last year) The first movie was decent, than the rest where the radiocactive byproduct of the chernobyle accident.

Reply to Worst sequel of anything in Everything Else Sins Forums

Definetely Land Before Time XVII (17) Really, did they really need to bring Big-foot back with Pimpin-Joe Triceratops as his sidekick? At least they got rid of his hoes this time, unlike XIIV and XVI.

Reply to Need a little help from anyone with 3DMax in Sins Modding Sins Forums

A bit off topic, but I've had horrid experiance in using obj as a filetype to move objects between different versions of 3dmax and maya. In fact, I've lost dozens of hours of work due to complications with the obj file type when modeling for wc3. Near the end fo it all, I found out dae is excellent for cross-platform and cross-version exportation/importation.

Reply to music in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Audocity (or whatever it is called) is great for editing/mixing. however, don't expect to remove the background noise with it. Adobe SoundBooth is fun to play with, and allows you to apply quite alot of effects onto sounds. But it is rather expensive.

Reply to This should be done. We, the rabid followers of the Master Chief, hath spoken. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

What I had meant by "with a preteen crowd of brats with no friends and adhd." is that the vast majority of the players are over-hyper 12 year olds, who have nothing better than to play halo all day, use as much laungauge as possible, and talk as fast as they can while drinking sugered drinks. Halo isn't a bad game, but I wouldn't say it's a good game either. It's easy to pick up and have a good time, if you're playing with friends. I tried the live-thing onc