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Reply to Rankulas, the clear winner of "Worst Piece of Garbage" award. in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="N3rull" reply="34" id="3430348"]Care to elaborate a bit? I think it's an insult, but I can't decide which of the possible reasons made you type what you did, so I can't even tell what to defend against or where I went wrong[/quote] Animosity is rubbish for several reasons: The range is pathetic...at lvl 1 LFs can actually outrange it, and even at lvl 4 LRFs, caps, titans, SBs, and turrets will outrange it too...this means that in order to use the

Reply to Rankulas, the clear winner of "Worst Piece of Garbage" award. in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

I just saw a post advocating multiple killer strategies involving animosity, and I stopped reading....I believe we have an example of the pot calling the kettle black... As a complete aside, I don't know how exactly what you want to distinguish between different types of AoEs but there are 4 types: Classic AoE -- Centered around the original spawner (shield regeneration, missile barrage, etc) Targeted AoE -- Centered around a selected target, not the origi

Reply to Cap Ships with Interrupt abilities in Strategy Sins Forums

There is nothing in the files to suggest they have a nonzero AM reserve to start with...in fact I don't think you can even adjust the starting AM in the starbase file..I'm guessing it must just be the fact that they have AM upgrades... [quote who="agaricus5" reply="13" id="3430110"]Ah. So if something was channelling but not interruptible, does that mean you couldn't interrupt it, but the ship itself would still be inactive while using the ability?[/quote] Yes

Reply to Rankulas, the clear winner of "Worst Piece of Garbage" award. in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Frostflare" reply="28" id="3430092"]Advent have fewer sources of healing, shields or otherwise, than the Vasari; granted, many Vasari heals are self-heals[/quote] Vasari have no way to regenerate shields though...that is significant, if nothing else because once you hit 100% hull, no regeneration is going to make you better prepared for the next battle...not uncommon for Vasari titans to run around with few to no shields for significant portions of the game since Vasari ca

Reply to Cap Ships with Interrupt abilities in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="candido-" reply="10" id="3430051"]1. I don't think you can interrupt redbutton with detonate AM, EMP, magnetize, or disruptive strikes. There is the three second delay but I don't think it is a 'channeling ability' that you can interrupt. You can indeed do a good thing with armistice to save your ships but you have to be very attentive to graphics to time it just right (extremely micro intensive and high rish). The few times I have tried to do this the starbase did

Reply to Ignore trolls at your own peril in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="53" id="3429871"]I also still think too many people attach too much nobility to the concept of 'free speech' and use it as their inalienable right to say anything they like...inclusive of slander, or even IF it drives someone to suicide. On a lesser level they perhaps feel that trolling is simply another aspect of exercising this 'right'.[/quote] What would you do, make trolling illegal? Do you really trust the government to get that righ

Reply to Cap Ships with Interrupt abilities in Strategy Sins Forums

Detonate AM interrupts and disables abilities on everything but a titan... CB is meh...takes too long to set up if you are trying to hit a fleet...really only useful for FFing...FYI, if you interrupt CB, the beam effect will continue but the DPS will not...

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Frogboy, I appreciate your responses (mainly 1704)...I mainly just wanted to make sure I fully understood your position, which I believe I do, or at least better than I did before...there is one thing I want to clarify, so I'll start with these: [quote who="Frogboy" reply="1696" id="3429116"]Also, not to be pedantic but green house gasses on their own can't produce heat. Only the sun does that. So my old newspaper analogy is valid. The more green house gasses you have, the mor

Reply to Modder's "Get-an-Answer" Thread in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I think you would want to remove the MainViewIcon for said entity...IIRC, the smallHUDIcon is what goes in the empire tree...

Reply to The Advent have no sin in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

"Is it time?"

Reply to The Advent have no sin in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Except the Unity is right and Islam is wrong...didn't you get the memo?????

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Frogboy, I hope you will read this post in its entirety before preparing a response/counterargument...I'm going to start with this quote here: [quote who="Frogboy" reply="1678" id="3429010"]CO2 is a greenhouse gas. If you get enough of it, it will cause temperatures to rise. No one is disputing that. [/quote] You are fully acknowledging that CO2 in and of itself can cause temperature to rise...we can discuss the degree of the effect later, but yo

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

While caseagainstfaith may, shall we say, lack tact , he does have a point...there is an explanation for why CO2 changes have historically lagged behind temperature changes that doesn't rule out the possibility of CO2 changes potentially affecting temperature...I have attached a few links, including one from your own quoted sources (realclimate)... http://www.realclimate.org/index.ph

Reply to Multitasking in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Pin your factory worlds and use alt click to select all units of one type

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

The difference between this and religion is that in a religious thread, only half the people claim to know "science"....

Reply to Some Holiday Consumer Rip Offs in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="3428374"]Never heard of 5 before, who even accepts payment from another individual by check? Sounds like you're asking to lose the money.[/quote] Happens on craiglists too....easy to avoid if you simply make sure the check clears , but most people don't wait that long, especially when threatened that they will be reported for taking too much money...

Reply to The Advent have no sin in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="6" id="3428360"]I'm sure the Advent have learned to teach the young to suppress such thoughts and serve the unity in whatever way is necessary, totally unquestioning of whatever it orders.[/quote] That is actually specifically mentioned in the manual...

Reply to Apple reinvents the wheel - sort of... in Personal Computing Sins Forums

What I find hilarious is that the criticisms of Apple and criticisms of Windows are slowly but surely becoming the same...

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="1618" id="3427945"]That's because CO2 is unlikely to be a significant driver of temperatures one way or the other. It's a weak green house gas making up 0.4% of the atmosphere. [/quote] I'm not attacking the rest of your argument (I think you in general know what you are talking about), but for the love of god please stop quoting that number...0.4% is not an insignificant amount and should not be treated as such...you can argue all you want whet

Reply to The Advent have no sin in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I have a funny feeling the expendable crew on the seeker are thankful that the Martyrdom ability sucks... They also probably are thinking to themselves, "We could have just launched freakin' sensor probes, but no, we have to DIE and 'linger' as spirits in order to do the same damn thing"...

Reply to Problem on STEAM in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well, you could always try a clean install of the graphics driver, I know NVidia offers this option (don't know about AMD)...do you recall AoE2 causing a change to DirectX when it was installed? Like, the first time you ran it, did a little steam screen come up telling you had to take care of some things before you could play?

Reply to VL Titan's Alpha channel... in Technical Sins Forums

[quote who="WOEaintME" reply="4" id="3428098"] I honestly don't think any titans other than Ankylon and Ragnarov have team colours in game (i.e. there is no alpha channel on non TEC titans). I don't know for sure though but I don't believe the others have any team colours in game.[/quote] I think you are correct on this, as a mod was made to add team colors to the non-TEC titans....

Reply to Problem on STEAM in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Did something update on your computer, such as a graphics card, right before the issue? Did you recently install a game that changed the C++ redistributables or DirectX? Have you recently installed any new programs?

Reply to Problem on STEAM in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

When you uninstalled Sins, did you also go and delete all your settings and stuff in My Games and/or AppData?

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion v1.82 BETA Change Log in Change Logs Sins Forums

[quote who="Yarlen" reply="31" id="3427987"]Re: difficulty levels - the nice thing about Sins is that you can set the AI level for each player. I would suggest not being masochistic and when you're ready to increase your challenge, just put 1-2 players at Unfair (or whatever). [/quote] You seem to be getting the idea that unfair is somehow too difficult for us, and that simply isn't the case...I am relaying a complaint that I have heard from players new to ICO who are trying t