Agent of Kharma

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[quote]First off, your opponent got a head start on you with units due to LRFs lower tier....So instead you need to invest in a few other ship types and upgrades to make them tougher. AS TEC you should definitely invest in Hoshis to go along with your HC (or even a flak swarm)....Secondly you should invest in armor and health upgrades for them, again to help keep them alive. Unupgraded, unsupported HC are not difficult to defeat, upgraded, supported HC are something else entirely.[/quote]

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

[quote]Actually, i believe LRFs are the only frigate that actually does counter HC, as they are anti heavy armor, so you were doomed from the start there.[/quote] Nope. LRF does anti-medium. HC is a counter to LRF if you look at damage types and armor. But I don't think it's such a counter when you factor in supply cost, time it takes to tech it and build it and churn it out, yadda yadda. Someone can just swarm you with the inferior unit that is actually counte

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

Got it - you're dividing the heal by the cooldown. Another issue. Can someone comment on this? I've played 2 games recently against lrm spammers. One was a vasari - a "pro-ish" type I see online quite a bit. I won that. The other was against a TEC - no winner, we just called it. I played TEC both games. At any rate, all both of them did was build nothing but lrm. The vasari built nothing but assailants all game. The TEC built not

Reply to Capships vs. illums/lrm/assailants in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]For what its worth, we've fixed a bug in the damage code that was screwing things like Illums up (anything with beam damage where the damage duration was equal to or greater than the update period of the damage system).[/quote] Interesting news!

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

[quote]Actually, while i'm on the subject, there should really be a "Critique my replay"[/quote] Actually, I've thought about forming a "game review" thread many times. Someone needs to do it, whether it's me or another person.

Reply to Anyone with help with Vasari? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]bump for another budding vasari player. I dont find there HCS to be all that useful. Am i in the wrong here? I hoard assailants and flak.[/quote] Assailants were always the "bread and butter" unit of the vasari faction.

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

[quote]LOL I was wondering why I had to actually replace ships while playing with the Vasari last night... that certainly didn't happen with the Advent.[/quote] I know, right! [quote]And Lord I almost freaked out when I got my first warning about one of my Caps losing it's shields. Who knew![/quote] Exactly... you've been playing Advent! Who knew! I will say one good thing about the Vasari. Don't get me wrong, they suck early game, they suck mid-ga

Reply to Weird? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Just finished another 5v5. All the 5's were grouped again (I KNOW, EXTREMELY RARE, I'm just reporting it as it happens). I was on flank again. So that's 3 5v5's today. 2 were groups of 5 - I was flank. 1 was groups of 4, with suicides - I was suicide. If I play any more tonight, I will report more results.

Reply to Weird? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Not selective memory - I've actually catalogued this stuff. In fact, I came here to say that I just got out of yet ANOTHER 5v5. Each side had 4 as a group, and 1 suicide. I was suicide, as always. I had a 20% chance for suicide, and 80% chance to be non-suicide, but I got suicide. I have replays, saved games, etc. I really can count the number of times on 1 hand that I was not suicide, and not on a flank.

Reply to Dual Halcyon in Strategy Sins Forums

It's definitely a difficult nut to crack. I beat my head against it many times. If you can get an SB up and keep it up as you apparently did (I never could - halcyon bombers raped), then I think mass flak would be your best bet. Usually not good in the face of mass disciples, but your SB puts the hurt on those disciples if you make sure to keep your flak near it, and they are probably your best bet against the inevitable illums. Second thing to try might be transport

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

[quote]I want people to know that level 3 dunov shield restore is only 68 shield points per sec.[/quote] Explain? (I did vote for it, btw....)

Reply to Weird? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]they call it RANDOM, because its RANDOM[/quote] They call it random because it is SUPPOSED to be random. But is it random in actuality? I can promise you my placement is far from random. Now, is this some fluke, akin to winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning? Hard for me to believe, if it is. I find IrrationalFear's story quite interesting. Just got out of a game 5 minutes ago. 5v5. All the 5's were grouped together.

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

[quote]It costs less to build and upgrade a Cap ship to level 4 than it does to upgrade a starbase to full health and weapons.[/quote] Can't compare the two. Fully upgraded SB blows away a capship. Having said that, I'm not for being able to purchase more levels with capships. It would be a nerf to Advent. Now, Advent needs nerfing, but they need the correct kind of nerf. Mass Transcendence/caps is one of the things that makes them unique. We don'

Reply to Dual Halcyon in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote] Since Seekers, Disciples, and Illums are clearly OP (and Halcyons are a bit, but at least they are tolerable), you can expect them to be nerfed/fixed (in case of Illum) in the next patch.[/quote] LOL. First question. who told you there would ever be another patch? Second question. Even if there is, who told you these things would be nerfed? [quote]So... I played a 4p locked FFA with random race (ended up Vasari) and was immediatly rushed by the nearby

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

[quote]Agent, I'll let you know if I get carpel tunnel... although I probably won't be able to type well.[/quote] If you get carpel tunnel, that's means you're playing the advent correctly!

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

You want to get to the next level with Advent? You've come to the right place. As Obi-wan said in Revenge of the Sith, "Advent are our specialty." Here's a secret for you. You really don't need to build anything but one unit - disciples. That's it. Don't need labs, don't need research, don't need anything. Just need a good econ, and a row of frig factories to pump as many disciples as you can pump. That will win you the game. Not just ag

Reply to Dual Halcyon in Strategy Sins Forums

Volt, I think superkleenex is commenting less on the original post, and more on the mini-story I related just above with the dual halcyons, seeker/discple, then illums (the story where you said I should have had repair). Yeah, we figured a skirantra, if micro'd out the ying yang, might could beat a halcyon, but he is commenting on the entire ball of wax (seeker/disciple/dual halcyon/illums). I don't think vasari can beat that. The best I've done is set up a starbase, but t

Weird? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Out of hundreds of games online, I can count the number of times on one hand that I've wound up in eco position or non-flank/non-suicide position. Every other time, it has been flank, or suicide spot. I find this strange. It isn't related to my position in the game room, because that changes every time. It isn't related to whatever screenname/smurfname I happen to use, because I've had a thousand of those. Near as I can tell, it is related to my actual account na

Reply to Dual Halcyon in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]And did you not read my description? Assailants are great for ff late game and come out earlier than Illuminators.[/quote] The problem is, a rush isn't a late game situation, and assailants are useless against advent early game.

Reply to TEC Early Culture - Viable? in Strategy Sins Forums

Just to throw in my experience with culture - the other day I decided to try culture out in a practice (test) game. My idea wasn't economic, it was defensive. Enemy comes to bomb my cultured planets? Fine, let him. He can't take them, or so I thought. Chose advent for early culture, dropped 2 civs, researched culture, plopped down a couple culture transmitters right off the bat. Took first roid, plopped down another culture transmitter. I wanted my

Reply to Dual Halcyon in Strategy Sins Forums

I know you're just trying to help, but.... [quote]Vasari repair bays still have oh what is it? 20/25* hps for 10 seconds I believe.[/quote] 15. [quote]Illuminator=Assailant[/quote] A joke, right? [quote]So, that means that a single repair platform can hold off at least 6 Illuminators against one frigate.[/quote] I don't know what went wrong with your math, but a single vasari repair platform isn't going to hold off 6 illums against 1 frigate.</

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

[quote]Deceiver, your story is impressive, but I doubt that this doesnt happen often enough to justify the marauder' s existance.[/quote] I'm not Deceiver, but I'll chime in here. It doesn't happen enough on ICO MP - that much is obvious. But it can absolutely happen in any game not played like ICO MP (SP, long LAN games with friends, etc). I'm not suggesting the ship doesn't need some love. I'm just saying it's a decent ship in theory, it just can't be put t

Reply to Dual Halcyon in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]They may not help at the beginning, but when each of your ships is living twice as long as it normally would, I'd say that's a pretty good deal...[/quote] Putting a vasari repair bay on a hard-rushed (by advent) asteriod is not going to make each one of my ships live twice as long. I seriously doubt it would have even caused me to break even in the scenario I just described, much less put me in the green (notice by the way that the attacking Advent doesn't even need repai

Reply to Dual Halcyon in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Agent of kharma I think youre just losing with skill lol.[/quote] Shunmaha I have tabulated the last 30 games I've played. When I play against Advent, I lose. When I don't, I don't. I've gone toe to toe with your clanmate ferdie before... is that enough skill for you? Don't know why you want to hurl insults, but if you want to play online, shoot me a PM, name the time and place. [quote]Repair bays are going to make a fleet stand against something

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

buff battleship - yae to all buff replicate forces - yae buff support cap - yae to all buff deliverance engine - yae buff fighters - don't recall voting on it, yet i'm down for a nay. put me down as "no vote".