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Reply to Dawn of Victory - Total Conversion: Use the newer thread idiots. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The game is not a direct reflection of World War II: after all, it's been hundreds of years! The Soviets tend to be more focused on shooting everything with really big guns and hoping it hits: therefore, they have flak, which seems silly when you take it in a WWII context but makes sense in the universe. Ideas are always welcome and many have been incorporated into the development of DoV. Anyone is free to create their own events and backstory on our wiki, and fan-submitted gameplay su

Reply to Hit and Runs in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Stars are not very good defensive areas. They're not meant to be. Station defenses at your planets.

Reply to Noob Question in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Research the "long range hump drive" technology[/quote] Oh yeah.

Reply to Dawn of Victory - Total Conversion: Use the newer thread idiots. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Previous page, scroll to the bottom :)

Reply to Official v1.04 wish list (Unofficial) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]a game option that makes the fleet size and number of capital ships based on the number of planets under your control[/quote] This was the way it was in beta. It was changed, I suppose, to let small-# planet players with a good economy compete with larger ones.

Reply to Fleet Spamming in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Spoof of this?[/quote] it's exactly the same thing

Reply to Dawn of Victory - Total Conversion: Use the newer thread idiots. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]as you advance on the mod, what are your plans for actual new features, not just altered sins features. such as adding invasions and not just bombing the planet to submission[/quote] Our goal is to create as much depth in a military simulation as Sins has in its empire-building simulation - as such, we have many new features such as boarding, minelaying, customizable weapons, you may even see point-defense. Right now we are experimenting with planetary invasions, but there seems

Reply to Early Game Strats? in Strategy Sins Forums

I use my Advent mothership to clear nearby ice or Terran planets (if I'm in a large game where I don't need 3x tactical for Illums straightaway) While it's difficult to get them upgraded with the starting economy, they provide lots of black-marketable resources. You can then send over 3 or 4 light frigates to the asteroid and take it too, giving you an early colonization & economic edge. If you give your mothership the Shield Regen ability, it can tear through any local militia in the g

Reply to Phase jump Bug? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

You will see the ships actually have a blue line to go back into the "edge" of the inner circle when they jump. They don't actually move there. There is a related bug with planets/suns on the Z-axis where occasionally fleets will get stuck - they need to move towards the planet to jump, for some reason, but can't because they're blocked by the invisible wall surrounding it. I had this happen when jumping star to star.

Reply to Official v1.04 wish list (Unofficial) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote].Even with the demo,i tend to play it till the wee hours in the morning.I cant afford to play this uber addictive game till midnight when im in session.[/quote] Windowed mode -> Drag bottom bar upwards -> See taskbar with time -> ??? -> Profit

Reply to Noob Questions here, need help from non-noobs in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]My problem is that it doesn't respond to my HP touch sensitive scroll wheel. Help![/quote] Probably the fault of the mouse, then. The game works perfectly with any scroll wheel I've used on multiple mice.

Reply to Strange Graphics Dump in Technical Sins Forums

Drivers?

Reply to The advent are wimps in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Their strongest ship is the colony cap. It cannot stand against 3 pirate cruisers[/quote] AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Click that 'shield regeneration' button once in a while.

Reply to minidump problem in Technical Sins Forums

[quote].well....no i dont get it for "any" reason...i have never ever ever seen a minidump error before trying to play this game. and i only see it when trying to play it. so it isnt any reason is it?...its the game. [/quote] That's because it's not usually _called_ a minidump. Usually if a game has a fatal error you will simply crash or get the "program has performed illegal operation" dialog. And if you got a minidump, you will have a minidump file. Either you're not look

Reply to (MOD) OverThrow's Law in Sins Modding Sins Forums

This sounds wonderfully balanced.

Reply to Another positive review in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The constant use of the non-sequitur "SotSE" was kind of annoying, but a funny review nonetheless.

Reply to Check my specs in Technical Sins Forums

[quote]3.4 dual core intel processer[/quote] [quote]freezing up[/quote] Sounds like an unstable overclock..?

Reply to embargo is too good for non random start maps in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]OK, let's try again.THEIR SOVA IS IN YOUR HOME BASE. So whatever fleet THEY have, is the SAME AS THE ONE YOU HAVE. Like, seriously, are you a complete idiot?For another alternate description:ONE CAP SHIP FROM THEIR SIDE ON YOUR TERRITORY, ONE CAP SHIP ON YOUR SIDE IN THE SAME SPOTHOW DOES THIS HAVE ANY IMPACT ON THE EXPANSION[/quote] There are a lot of problems with such an approach: 1. You have to be Advent. Hurf. 2. You have to pick a sub-standard starting ship (

Reply to Manipulating Capital ships max level in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]actually, on some of the videos on youtube, you catch glimpses of people's cap ships, im not so sure but i think i saw a level 12 once or twice, it kinda suks that the max level wasnt put in the game guides, so no one really knows what the max levels are.[/quote] The max level is hardcoded to 10.

Reply to embargo is too good for non random start maps in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]Again, you prove your stupidity.Radiance by ITSELF stops the Sova. So two cap ships are sitting in your base, neither one doing anything much to the other.Your FLEET doesn't have to be there with it.So please, THINK before you post.[/quote] SPOILER: In the first 6-10 minutes of a game, you don't have much of a fleet beyond your capital ship for which to expand with. By tying up your capital ship at your home planet you're fatally limiting your expansion. Go troll somewhere else.

Reply to minidump problem in Technical Sins Forums

[quote]there is a problem with the game...that a LOT of people are having.[/quote] You don't seem to understand what a "minidump" is. It just means the game crashed. It doesn't mean anything specific and you could get it for any reason.

Reply to [ANSWERED] Dual-Core Support in Technical Sins Forums

[quote]Hey I just wanted to ask you guys a question since your already discussing the topic of quad core vs dual core[/quote] Neither. The 6850 is a better deal, but the only CPU anyone should be buying now is the 8400 or maybe 8200. Like has been stated earlier in the thread, the quad will be useless now and useless in the future due to it being 65nm, and the 6850 is already really old, is based on an old die, and doesn't overclock as well as the quad or the 8400. Don't add th

Reply to embargo is too good for non random start maps in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]Radiance completely shuts down the Embargo rush. He will NEVER get his embargo off since he warps in with 0 mana (even with 2-3 jumps), and you burn him immediately (which also silences him). Just keep manaburning him and he's a fast useless carrier.[/quote] This is great..if you don't want to expand. Meanwhile, the other player is taking all the other planets.

Reply to Changing Menu Text? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

It's in the strings file.

Reply to embargo is too good for non random start maps in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]See the option for maps that makes the first capital ship free? Turn that thing off.[/quote] I wasn't aware such an option existed..?