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Reply to Stuff the community wants in Sins 2 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

"I'd like to see the phase lane network reworked. No lanes any more, just range. Heavily defended bottlenecks in space don't make sense. I'm not saying everything in a game needs to make sense but it doesn't hurt and in this case it would keep the game flowing better. I think I actually preferred Sins before Entrenchment introduced the heavily defended/mined bottlenecks and crazy Vasari starbase offensives. Blocked phase lanes tend to stall gameplay too much. It's just more fun when you have

Reply to Im tired of the Artificial-(non)Intelligence cheating. in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

GalCiv II AI is good. They should get the Stardock AI developers together with Ironclad. Or try to evolve simulated neural network for Sins - emergent intelligence FTW! [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Reply to Diplomacy v1.2 Preview in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

This issue desperatelly needs to be fixored: https://forums.elementalgame.com/363293/ https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/374505/

Reply to Multicore support the only needed patch in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Play with small fleet sizes. Larger fleets add almost nothing to the game in terms of gameplay fun. Its just more of the same eyecandy, and more processing speed required.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire updates in Sins News Sins Forums

Bailknights graphic mod should be included in vanilla Sins.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire updates in Sins News Sins Forums

What is bad about player specialization in alliances, or players buying and using ships and structures from different races (even defenses and research labs, if they bought it with the planet)? In GalCiv 2, it happens all the time. How would it break balance, if everyone could do it? "Problem there is research structures...players could essentially "share" research structures by constantly trading planets...put 8 labs on a desert world and trade that to anyone who needs

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire updates in Sins News Sins Forums

Some kind of structure on colonised asteroids would be cool, like on planets and pirate bases. Now there is no visual difference between colonised and uncolonised roid.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire updates in Sins News Sins Forums

"I would say for Sins2, get rid of those complicated relation ratios, diplomatic victory/ points and give players as TobiWahn suggested means to trade ships/planets/technologies/weapons." Exactly. Diplomatic points and IMHO also culture and allegiance are more annoyances than game-enriching elements. Nothing is more frustrating than being able to colonize planets only few jumps away from your homeworld without building 3-4 culture centers in the orbit to prevent rebelli

Reply to Space Mines and More in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

It would help if the Devs specified what is cpu and memory consuming about the current mines. Is it the model? Then use less detailed model (noone zooms all the way at the mines anyway). But it probably wont be model since there is always only one mine model in view if you zoom, the rest of the minefield gets culled and substituted with simple sprites. Is it their numbers? that would seem odd to me (but I am not a programmer), since all the game must do is keep track of positi

Reply to Stuff the community wants in Sins 2 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="14" id="2866645"]Quoting Kitkun, reply 13Phase lane system is fine. It's be really annoying to have defenders always one jump away but also have every area vulnerable. Lot of structures suddenly become very weak or useless. This. Starbases, static defenses, super weapons, they would all go completely out the window.[/quote] Exactly the opposite IMHO. Building of starbases and static defenses wou

Reply to Stuff the community wants in Sins 2 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

"get rid of the contrived and overly restrictive phase lane system" This. Or better, make phase lanes only between stars, like in the FreeSpace universe (intersystem jump nodes) or Space Empires. Intrasystem jumps should be possible between any two gravity wells, provided there is no third gravity well between them intersecting with the jump trajectory. Of course they shoud still take time based on the distance, not be instantaneous. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]</

Reply to So what should be in the new expansion? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Ability to set special capital planets exactly like in GalCiv 2 would be great - Research capital (research stations around the planet get bonuses), Economic capital (higher income per population and trade route, maybe bonus to roid extraction rates), Manufacturing capital (faster and maybe cheaper manufacturing in factories around the planet). [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire updates in Sins News Sins Forums

"I disagree. The engine is what most would call mature at this point. It would be foolish not to take advantage of it considering a lot of game developers have to purchase their game engines from third parties." The engine is pretty mature, but its also approaching its inherent limits, because its only 32-bit and single-core. Even with optimizations, you can add only so much new content before the game of this magnitude becomes unplayable due to memory crashes and proce

Reply to So what should be in the new expansion? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

"the right proportions between the small and the big ships" That! The model size differences between frigate, cruiser and capital ship classes should be bigger.

Reply to Planetary Invasions in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

It really depends on the weapons used. Invasions would be preferable to nuking the whole planet from orbit (TEC), but in case of more precise weapons without long-term negative effects (Vasari ion beam?), orbital bombardment is far efficient in dealing with hostile forces and preserving civilian infrastructure.

Reply to Planetary Invasions in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I think yes. Certainly better than destroying all infrastructure, resources and planetary environment through massive orbit bombardment, and ending up with your, but almost useless planet. Just destroy the military installations from orbit, and then invade with army and marines. If you have complete space and air superiority, the resistance wont last long, and you can capture civilian infrastructure relatively intact.

Reply to Whats Your Favorite Type Of Planet? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Terran of course.

Reply to Official Multiplayer Discussion Thread in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, its time to bring out the big guns.. Can I pueeease have multiplayeer? [e digicons]|-)[/e] You know you cant really resist the cute cat! :D

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire updates in Sins News Sins Forums

Super cap flagship is a great idea. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] Something like Mamooth tank Mk.II in tiberian sun, you can build only one at a time.

Reply to Would it be possible to force players to leave picket forces at their planets? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Add galciv style fleet manager and hotkey to equally split large fleets, make more open (phase lane connected) maps without chokepoints, or even do away with phase lane system like it was originally intended. Players will be more motivated to split their fleet to smaller taskforces, and will have more effective means to do so. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire updates in Sins News Sins Forums

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/399456 - here is a thread full of good suggestions. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire updates in Sins News Sins Forums

Great! :) What exactly does "new memory model" mean? Will it be conversion to fully 64bit engine, or just some optimalization of the current 32bit model?

Reply to So what should be in the new expansion? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Saerain" reply="71" id="2819771"] Stop making stars look like galaxies when zoomed out. They're stars. [/quote] This. Those spiral arms do not look like star system at all.

Reply to So what should be in the new expansion? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Qu4r" reply="105" id="2827594"]Nothing is impossible. the fact u cant do it doesnt mean other cant do it too The specific manual kind of micro in sisn makes it special. It dont need to be changed or make it easier. And micro shuld require a lot of skill and expirience, haw it requires now. U want it easy- go play gaycraft 2[/quote] The micro in Sins that I talk about (splitting o

Reply to So what should be in the new expansion? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Qu4r" reply="102" id="2827411"]quoting post So what would the new expansion have? C. Adjustable fleet patterns. Have more options to fleet design. Have a skirmisher fleet (LRMs in front instead of HC) an actual battle ball (Fleet centers around capital ships) and a wedge, cause everyone needs to be wedged from time to time... D.