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Reply to Wikipedia being charged for use of banned Nazi Symbols in Everything Else Sins Forums

While the myths about capitalism and revisionist history in Germany are both products of bullshit artists trying to get rid of reality, it's rather amusing that every one of these turns into a capitalism hating contest. First point, being poor has dick all to do with success. Income mobility is tracked through tax returns, a study from 1996-2005 shows that such idiocy is pure falsehood propagated by the uneducated. They do such a study regularly and this isn't a new facet of our econo

Reply to Still disapointed in the race similarity in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

OMG!!! A SPACE GAME HAS SHIPS ON BOTH SIDES! THEY'RE THE SAME!!!!! The frigates being similar goes without saying, half the cruisers being similar goes without saying, claiming the capital ships are similar requires detaching oneself from reality to post such bullshit without slitting ones wrists in atonement. Melodrama is comedic at best. Stop overstating the similarities and glossing over the differences and maybe it would be such a suckfest every time someone posts about it.

Reply to Still disapointed in the race similarity in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

The two sides play nothing alike from the very start. TEC don't need to pump out fleet upgrades right off, Vasari do. Tec have shield regeneration capabilities, Vasari don't. Vasari have mobility upgrades and powerful disabling and planetary bombardment weaponry, TEC don't. Yes, they both have a basic frigate, a missile frigate(sort of, we're being loose here, a look at the damage types reveals that torpedo frigates are designed for nuking capital ships in particular and vastly more effectiv

Reply to "EPICness" What can done before SINS hits the store shelf!?!? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Mitigation cures both focus firing and steamrollers. If a two to one ratio in fleet size means an optimal damage advantage of 10%, it's not particularly effective to have a larger fleet. Change mitigation so that it's dependent on relative strengths instead of a flat rate for all ships and make it penalizing to the point of negating the majority of the extra damage when firing on a single ship with more than one of equivalent size. Two birds with one stone that.

Reply to Phase inhibitor in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Sending in a group of flak frigates to wipe them out first takes time, the same thing a pji does. It's a delaying factor in your bypassing of the system to hit a core world. They are tactically the same effect. The question is not who needs strategy, the question is who needs a pji when bombers accomplish the same end result by requiring a tactical delay before moving through that allows responding fleets that much more time to arrive.

Reply to some beta 4 feedback in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I'm assuming he pirated the Beta 2 torrent that I spotted from google while searching for this site after I decided to preorder it and forgot what the name was. It's free advertising.

Reply to Phase inhibitor in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Unless it's a big map and you spend half an hour chasing a marza from planet to planet as it uses the special ability to rapidly knock off large amounts of your population and infrastructure. I rather like being able to secure my inner worlds from harm, the problem I think is that hangars are so damn cheesy with 16-20 bombers knocking capital ships out before they can even turn around that no one bothers with a real defensive structure centered around it. You can really hang someone up

Reply to Balance concern - triple Dunov in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I have to repeat my initial suggestions in every post? You're not suggesting any alternatives in most of your posts either, perhaps you should just give up now? Your tactical knowledge of the game is rather nice, but you're really not very good at this. It's absurdly petty anyway.

Reply to RTS vs 4X Poll in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Better versions aren't different from tech advances from a mechanical perspective. Even more complex mechanical variations, like elephants over cavalry, are just a combination of increases. You can simulate identical effects in civ by replacing new units with upgrades for the originals as soon as you have enough to propogate each new variant. A cobalt could remain a cobalt for the duration of the game, but mechanically it's the same as a new ship every time it upgrades, just like the maceman

Reply to Balance concern - triple Dunov in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

This is what happens when you skim posts instead of actually reading. :)

Reply to RTS vs 4X Poll in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Some how I don't think spending the first three hours using just cobalts and conquering a couple dozen planets before you get a second capital ship will interest people much, that's the scope you're looking at here. Why it's not immediately grasped remains a mystery.

Reply to RTS vs 4X Poll in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The number of techs is irrelevant, how long they take to research is irrelevant. The design of a tech system is how it is ordered, not how big it is. The typical rts tree has different types of units that are accessed as the game progresses. Later units are better than earlier ones, if perhaps serving different roles so the early ones are still useful. You advance through the different units as the game progresses. Another version is one like in age of empires. You do not advance through d

Reply to Balance concern - triple Dunov in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

English appears to be your first language, so I'm going to assume you're just not bothering to check and see if you're making an ass of yourself. I've just read through every post in the thread, again, through mine four times each, even did a search on applicable keywords in case I was just blind. I made no such list, I made no list at all. I did not even imply that they should be using frigates with their dunovs. I even checked to see if you could have gotten the idea from my lazy man itali

Reply to RTS vs 4X Poll in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If a turn in galciv were 5 seconds in sins, a huge map would be a medium single star game... Most of your tech advancement in a 4x is from one weapon type to the next. Most of your advancement in sins is from one ship type to the next. This is the flaw, not how long research takes. They went with a bad research tree for scaling purposes, you need to be able to actually use the stuff. Imagine a frigate game where you maybe got to carriers and possibly the first support cruiser, never

Reply to Balance concern - triple Dunov in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

You have a stubborn case of confused by self. While I do enjoy arguing just for the sake of arguing, I've never been particularly interested in arguing something wrong. So, I'll use simple words in a short sentence and say it again. I didn't post any dunov and frigate army tests. Do a find on samrec, read the following posts from there, maybe you'll figure it out a second time through. For someone with horrific punctuation, I'm surprised you have problems reading almost prop

Reply to Online Connection Limitations in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

500ish wasn't it? Beta 3 was under my download cap, but the second race addition added a bit to the size of it, had to start it late at night to hit the free period if I wanted it done all at once.

Reply to Would the research system for Frigates/Cruisers have worked like this? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I think I deciphered it. He was combining capship research and frigate and cruiser research concepts. His "pretty picture" is eight stages of research for independant fleet caps on frigates and cruisers that would give you access to all of them, but in limited numbers. This would mean you could skip straight to cruiser x or y instead of waiting for 7 research labs or whatever, but only in small numbers at the start to avoid breaking the balance or something. As opposed to hard capping at the

Reply to Online Connection Limitations in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Out in the sticks myself, I can play with a smooth and stable game on hughesnet satellite. 700ish ping minimum. It's a bit of latency, but no the game doesn't run crappy and pause all the time. You're looking at a one second delay on action completion with a comparable connection, so you have to account for it and react retroactively. :) I do have to wait till late in the evening though, the assholes have oversold the service about 10-1, it's a 1500/200kbit connection when the stars

Reply to Planets - this is what we want in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The orbiting defense setup in hegemonia was a nice concept, just so limited. Alas, that applies to the entire game, so many awesome concepts, done wrong. Would be one of the greats with not a lot of tweaking to the mechanics.

Reply to Balance concern - triple Dunov in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I guess you need to read the thread again too. No where have I gone off on frigate armies with dunov supports for a test scenario. Eet, wonderful, really. Just wash your hands before typing ok? Unless it's already on the keyboard...

Reply to Balance concern - triple Dunov in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Perhaps you could post ideas with your next scathing yet diminutive post? Someone is sure to be an asshole, but then you're already posting so you'll get it anyway. Anyone discouraged by ridicule on the internet has other issues. Besides it's the most active thread on the forum despite our uncivilized manner, a recently invented concept by the way. The golden rule isn't do unto others only nice things, it's do unto others as you

Reply to QQ How many sides is sins capable of being modded for? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

A numeric input field for the number of ai sides could work there...

Reply to Balance concern - triple Dunov in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

It's simple arithmatic, not theoretical simulations that haven't been proven wrong yet. It will be right all the time, only people can do it wrong. Either that or 2+2 isn't actually 4, in which case I'm a figment of someones imagination and don't give a shit. Schod, good. The more people I can confuse the better. I have no idea why you're dumbfounded, there's not a lot of complexity in this overblown problem, but everyone is oblivious to the obvious at some point. Perhaps you're th

Reply to Balance concern - triple Dunov in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

20 carriers and a marauder can probably take out four, maybe five. I don't know if a more reasonable equivalence can, but since he's hardly the first to post unimportant information regarding irrelevant scenarios, you could stick to not being a jerk. Yarlen, how about just BBC?

Reply to Influence as a mop up tool in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Ghandi was a product of cultural warfare. It wasn't purposeful, the Europeans were hardly out to start rebellions against their own rule, but by allowing their subjects to travel and be educated in Europe, they created monsters. It started a revolution that not only threw off British rule in India, but did away with the caste systems and advanced womens rights, going forwards in equality instead of back to subjugating themselves. They broke off from the empire instead of joining it, but they