Agent of Kharma

Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]The evidence that's supposed to prime us to receive alternative theories to evolution consists of: (1) a 'parapsychologist' who thinks he's found the force, (2) a geoscientist with an abiogenic theory of petroleum, and (3) a documentary alleging that the Sphynx is older than currently believed. Even if you grant all of this, it isn't a coherent argument for or against any theory of biological change.[/quote] Nah, I could give a crap about any of that stuff. But his assess

Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Sins Forums

http://superstrangeland.blogspot.com/2010/01/intervention-theory.html A lot of what is said here is quite good stuff and accurate, some is a little iffy, and some is downright weird or preposterous. But an interesting read nonetheless. My favorite quote from the article: A fellow German, physicist Max Planck, was moved to state it this way: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opp

Reply to The liberal plan. in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Apparantly it's to be against the iraq war and say you will draw troops out, and cut military funding, then boost the military budget to far beyond the Bush years and add more troops.[/quote] You are confusing the liberal plan with the democratic plan. Liberalism is an ideology - they have all sorts of plans (feminism, abortion, affirmative-action, immigration, blah blah). Democrats are a political party - their plans are simply "do what the establishment wants, and

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire v1.19 and Entrenchment v1.05 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]From my perspective LRF balancing is a different issue than scout balancing and I think scouts did in fact need some kind of nerf. The problem with nerfing their health is that they become too weak to traverse gravwells and do their job of scouting, so apparently the devs went the route of nerfing their firepower.[/quote] That's what I thought, too. I support the scout nerf - the idea of viable scout/lf spam is ridiculous. If seeker/disciple is still viable after

Reply to Starbase banks - details in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="4" id="2524909"] Most people consider this outright cheating, though.[/quote] That's because it is. How could anyone argue that it isn't?

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire v1.19 and Entrenchment v1.05 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Question 1: Was the skirmisher buff in line with what most players thought was needed? Question 2: Was the scout nerf in line with what some thought was needed? Question 3: The buff on the skirantra looks like it might be worthwhile. What do you think?

Reply to NEW Patch Stat Changes Forums [NEW TOPIC: CAPITAL SHIPS!! 1/2/10] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="726" id="2520240"]I'm lowering my estimate to 2-3 weeks, seeing as the time between the first hints and the release of the patch notes was much shorter this time. Also the patch is much smaller to begin with.[/quote] What? You are saying they already released patch notes? Where? I haven't seen them.

Reply to Ok, Vasari next level info this time in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Also: how can you miss phase stabilizers?[/quote] He also missed phase missles! [quote]Darvin, thanks for the information about the Enslaved Labor (which i've heard more than once was great to have)[/quote] I think you should get enslaved labor. It is definitely worth it, unless you are in the rush or suicide spot multiplayer.

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]It does not help that the only opposition party just want to do away with government instead of changing how it works.[/quote] That's a joke. People say the republican party wants to do away with government, but under George Bush and a republican-controlled congress and republican-controlled supreme court (the first time they had control of all 3 branches of governent for decades and decades), they grew the size of governement more than it had ever grown before. T

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Darvin, you essentially nailed my earlier point right on the head. Thanks.

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]In the short term, yes, America's inefficient jobs are at risk (as proven by GM and Crystler's bankrupcy). However, in the long run the cheaper prices that trade creates tends to benefit more people than jobs lost.[/quote] No. The good jobs are wiped out (engineering and technical jobs, not to mention manufacturing jobs). The cheaper prices at Walmart will never make up for the fact that the job outlook turns into something resembling a 3rd world country. When

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Unrestricted trade, conceptually, has some amazing benefits, such as being able to produce beyond the possibilities curve for BOTH nations trading with each other, even if one country is better at producing everything.[/quote] This is free trade propaganda. Free trade is wiping out the American middle class. Millions of good jobs are gone and will never come back. Free trade is also destroying the dollar, because free trade is responsible for the accumulation

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]You may have indeed "answered" his question, but he requested an explanation "without getting political". Your entire last paragraph has next to nothing to do with free market or socialism directly. Further, you are the first one to mention political parties, and this rarely moves conversation in a good direction.[/quote] You are wasting your breath. I won't stop writing what I want to write just because you don't like what I write. Furthermore, I won't be policed i

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Agreed. Any truth that *might* have been put in there has been hidden by the extremely thick bias.[/quote] Really? What's my bias? [quote]Besides, I don't think the OP wanted this to deteriorate into current politics Karma.[/quote] Not sure if you are qualified to speak for what the OP wanted, or to police his intentions, and either way my diatribe was not about "current politics." It was directly related to his questions.

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Funny, I just read this article AFTER writing what I wrote above. He says what I said, but he says it better. This guy knows what's up. http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts01222010.html

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Sins Forums

You are quite confused. Let me see if I can help you. One of your problems is the assumption that there is a free market in the USA. There isn't. Never has been. Never will be. "Free market" is a code phrase for "whatever is good for big business and the super-rich." It is a managed market - managed by those entities, for the good of those entities. Period. Make no mistake - the last thing big business and the super-rich want is an act

Reply to Ok, Vasari next level info this time in Strategy Sins Forums

You said you are being stingy with research. You certainly don't want to be careless with money in MP, but I'd say to spam reseaarch in SP, if that's what you are playing. One tip is to get all levels of enslaved labor before you spam refineries and trade ports, because those things are expensive. Get the mineral upgrades as vasari. They are good, since you get "two for the price of one." Didn't see anything about starbases in your strategy? As Darv

Reply to Capship balance list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]You do realize that if you increase damage to caps from LF that it will make tier 0 spam(LF and scouts) even worse than it is now? [/quote] I said the same thing. I don't see a need for buffing LF damage to caps at this time.

Reply to Capship balance list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Seige caps are the artillery of sins able to deal out heavy damage to many units and planets and SC are their nemsis so increasing their effect versus SC is not correct.[/quote] This is a poor argument. Let me see if I can help you a bit. The reason we shouldn't be putting extra strikecraft on siege caps has nothing to do with strikecraft being their nemesis - NOTHING. The simple fact is, we don't need to be changing capships to "swiss army capships" able to

Reply to Help get me to the next level with Advent in Strategy Sins Forums

How many bombers you talking about? If it's just an enemy carrier capship with bombers, make all fighters on your skirantra and that's all you will need. But if the enemy is darkening the skies with bombers from a bunch of cruisers, your skirantra isn't going to come close to cutting it. You will nee a bunch of carrier cruisers yourself, loaded with fighters. Sentinals do kill bombers, but not that well. Under most circumstances you'll need fighters.

Reply to Help get me to the next level with Advent in Strategy Sins Forums

If you just plan to play SP, you don't need to worry about anything that has been said as far as types of units to build (seekers/discples/blah blah) or capships. Just build what you want to build, and win. You like that Revelation battlecruiser? Just build it, or several of them. You like something else? Just build that. You like carrier cruisers? Just build them. However, if you plan to play MP, what Darvin is saying is VERY significan

Reply to Even more questions... in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]The game would be much more strategic if: economic, cultural, artifact and planet upgrades were cheaper and/or more significant.[/quote] I think you can add to this list the fact that the hw is overly-significant relative to everything else in the game. There has to be a way to play the game besides "rush hw/defend hw," otherwise we aren't talking about very much strategy in this "strategy game." [quote]Not to mention if chokepoints really worked, and all that you

Reply to Improve the Evacuator's Colonization Ability? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Maybe you could make it so that the starting population is higher.[/quote] Yes, perhaps an additional starting chunk of population (10/20/30 starting pop or something like that)? What about the case of a roid? This would put it over its max population. Would it be allowed to keep its over-population? Debatable I guess.

Reply to Even more questions... in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]I wasn't defeated.[/quote] [quote]You lost your homeworld.[/quote] Lost hw does not equal defeated. I could refer you to one of my games a few weeks ago. I rushed and took out Ferdie's hw, who started next to me. At the end of the game, he had over twice as many planets as anyone else, and over 3 or 4 times the econ. I was not defeated, and furthermore my team won. Having said that, yes I agree that all too often "lost hw equals defeat

Reply to Even more questions... in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]As for your story about Tyr... frankly, once you were defeated...[/quote] I wasn't defeated. [quote]I've seen (and been victim of) Tyr's relentless rushes.[/quote] No offense meant to Tyr in the slightest, but I wasn't impressed. It was just standard fare as far as I'm concerned. It wasn't any more or less impressive or relentless than the bazzillion other rushes I've seen. I knew it was coming, because for one reason I was playing MP online, L