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Reply to Ashes of the Singularity: Tournament in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

That is terribly unhealthy. :) I've got a fairly diverse interest in RTS games, Warlords: Battlecry, Supreme Commander, Kohan, Homeworld, and Sins of a Solar Empire being my all time favorites. Research isn't even in all of them, it's by no means a necessity for a successful, entertaining game, but it's far from something that makes a game less good. SupCom2 may have been a drag in general, but I seriously doubt it was becaus

Reply to Ashes of the Singularity: Tournament in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

... Are gamers really that lazy now? We don't have manual unit abilities, we have control groups that slide across the map at a snails pace, and all of our production is simplified with repeatable queues and way points. If people really can't handle a research tree more complicated than half a dozen repeating percent upgrades in a game this slow, then I'll just go play a Total War game instead. Or FE:LH, if you guys ever fix the annoying bu

Reply to svchost high cpu usage in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Microshit broke Windows 7's updater in March I believe, they put a fixed version out in July, but you may need to download the stand-alone because it's too borked to actually update. Odds are this is your culprit and both of you should fix it. :)

Reply to Welcome to Mars. in Star Control Sins Forums

... The US has had it's fingers in something continuously since 2001, and spent about half of the last several decades at war, undeclared or not. Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq, Lebanon, Cuba, Thailand, the list goes on. It's not because the military industrial complex is waging war on the world to keep itself funded though, that's just a silly conspiracy theory. Anyone deluding themselves otherwise need onl

Reply to Ashes of the Singularity: Tournament in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

People only push crack because they get addicted to it. It's not the sales method that makes money, it's the game.

Reply to Welcome to Mars. in Star Control Sins Forums

While I'd never argue for NASA being a good idea, it's not exactly a budgetary problem, it sure as hell isn't because of military spending being too high. The US is $20 trillion in the hole because it spends over $2 trillion a year on social programs. Discretionary spending, in totality, is only about $1 trillion, that's all of the military funding, NASA, the entirety of government operations, the works. The other $2.5 trilli

Reply to Merge races in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Visit a local psychiatrist's office. :) More seriously, get Notepad++ and Zombie's validator tool. It's too much work just to explain all the work, but with a real text editor that handles proper searching and replacement, and a way to find your errors, you can get started learning. You need to dig into your desired mods and figure out how everything works, it's the only way you'll manage a project this big, ground up.

Reply to Merge races in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I'd say it's a nightmare, but a nightmare would be an improvement. Basically, you have to learn to mod and pick through thousands of files, altering a few hundred of them along the way. The galaxy stuff will need merged, a major pain in the ass. The manifests will need to be altered to account for the merged assets. Only some assets can be merged in, you'll need to modify and exclude others because of conflicts. Simply copying them al

Reply to Hewlett Packard...this just sucks. in Personal Computing Sins Forums

The piece of crap plastic is actually cheap as chips. It's the hardened, finely sharpened blades that actually cost money to manufacture, and are comprised of highly refined quality material. Ink is dirt cheap to manufacture, by comparison. Printing companies buy 55 gallon drums of the stuff. Even really expensive inks are hundredth or even thousandths of the cost of those bloody cartridges. They're thieves, screwing you as hard as they c

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 9/27/2016 Update in LH Support Elemental Forums

I get the missing zones of control every time I reload or start a new game once one is already running. I can't imagine it being hard to reproduce unless it's just some narrow hardware set. I'm not exactly off in the weeds here with a 680 GTX.

Reply to Hewlett Packard...this just sucks. in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Yeah, self solving problem since it's public. Termination of business if they keep doing it.

Reply to Ashes of the Singularity: Tournament in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

Ashes isn't a MOBA, it will never be LOL, it can't go viral. Plenty of RTS games have great sales, with large multiplayer communities, but none of them, including the holy grail of RTS multiplayer communities, Starcraft, have ever come close to it. It's an order of magnitude more popular than anything else and it's not just because it's free, or CS:GO wouldn't be massively more popular than TF2. Going freemium with an expensive to produce, slow to cha

Reply to Ashes of the Singularity: Tournament in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

Gameplay needs to get deeper or faster if you want to grow the community significantly, preferably deeper. Considering hardware requirements, it's probably not going to grow much though, people with high end machines can afford to buy it just for a look. Pseudo F2P will be a short term bandaid, few will stick around for the duration, the vast majority of your non-active players probably wont even bother giving theirs out. I'd be unlikely to do so myself, most of the

Reply to Need advice on cooling in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Actually, you should run Prime95 for a few days and see if it crashes. Your symptoms fit an unstable overclock, not an overheating processor.

Reply to NIce article on PC building along with Brads build. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

It's not like it will simply dissappear in a year or two, but cost is why it will be gone even when it's still reasonable to utilize. PATA is still a useful technology for the modern disk drive bandwidth requirements. With a 64MB cache, the last PATA standard in PC's can burn through that cache in half a second, at which point the typical modern drive speed isn't as fast as the interface allows. It would be far from impractical to have UDMA ATA 200 by now, wh

Reply to NIce article on PC building along with Brads build. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

M.2 is simply faster. SATA is a dead end technology at this point, it's expensive to make it faster, M.2 is just direct through PCI-E, which has massively more bandwidth than a SATA III interface is capable of even at the old 1.0 standard thanks to scalable lane addition. I have a 951, it's sequential read is over 2GB/s, SATA III is only capable of around 600MB/s, the conceived SATA IV was dumped in favor of SATA Express, and would still only have doubled

Reply to Economic Singularity: The Gods and the Useless in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

The same people that get "addicted" to porn today, are the same people that would waste away on vr porn... It's not much different from alcoholism, only a small percentage of the population actually flushes their lives down the drain over the stuff, the rest of us have more self respect.

Reply to Don't buy AotS or the Expansion pack directy from Stardock or anyone else, since it only counts if purchased directly from Steam store? in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

This actually makes a great deal of sense. People are stupid, generally speaking. AMD gave tons of Ashes copies away with their hardware, and many of those owners got on steam and bitched the game out, primarily because it wasn't their cup of tea. These probable non-customers, who aren't likely to enjoy a particular game in the first place due to the simple statistical realities of personal preference in regards to entertainment, skew the practical r

Reply to Economic Singularity: The Gods and the Useless in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

It's hard to take posts seriously when they contain hoax material as fact... Simple logic easily disproves the existence of a coup against FDR, the powers that be would never allow even the beginnings of an attempt to overthrow them to go unpunished, let alone the farce of a full blown attempt that was claimed. As there were never even warrants issued, let alone actual prosecutions, they took it to be the obvious fabrication that it was. Only a successfu

Reply to Economic Singularity: The Gods and the Useless in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Yeah, they're not... The politicians are mostly lawyers, with lawyer kids and grandkids, and they'll write and pass legislation to make it illegal to use AI for such things with less argument than they'd need to declare war on a country that had already nuked us.

Reply to Economic Singularity: The Gods and the Useless in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

We've already chased most of our economy out with regulation and taxation, and we still persist in adding more of them every year, we're doomed regardless of automation. I just can't get excited over how automation will end civilization when it already killed itself decades ago, and only limped along until now because of the innovations, like robotics, that made the country stay rich enough to keep itself afloat.

Reply to Post Your Specs in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Yes, 8 is minimalist at this point. At what is basically an idle, I've got 5 soaked up right now. When your internet browser can use a gig of ram, you can't do much of anything with less. The more games get away from 32 bit limitations, the more 16 will be the low end of gaming machines. I'll be doing 64 on my next system, it's too big of an unknown factor for me to do 32 again. It would be very easy for a game like Ashes or GC3 to utilize 30 plus

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 - 0.9.5R Update 7/09/2024 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

That is... inaccurate... As a military officer, historically, mutiny, desertion, and other forms of rebellion during a time of war, if not always, result in summary execution when they're being nice. Summary exile is extremely polite, court martial is extremely polite. Fascism is also authoritarian, and the Federation is run by an elected government subject to laws, and headed by a President in a manner that greatly resembles the United

Reply to how determine what RAM in PC in Personal Computing Sins Forums

It's true, Nvidia is massively more powerful than AMD at present, no comparison at all. However, their DX12 support is lackluster, and you can get an 8GB card for under 300 that performs extremely well for it's price. The 6 GB GTX 1060 performs better in benchmark software, but anything truly utilizing the parallelism allowed by DX12 going forward is going to be wasted on it's power. It's also 2GB shy, and that makes a big difference w

Reply to how determine what RAM in PC in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Yeah, stock cooler is fine for stock speeds. I've run a few of them myself, and I'm the guy that hates having his temps hit the 70's when he's running a stress test. You've got a big problem in there somewhere. It's more of a "my CPU just died from heat degradation" than a performance problem though. I'd be very surprised if the CPU temperatures would cause Witcher 3 to run poorly though. Your system is GPU limit