The last time I installed the beta, it overwrote my standard version. I had to eventually uninstall beta, and reinstall standard. This time, I'd like to have both versions so I don't have to do any uninstalls/reinstalls. How do I do this? I figured it would be "pinned" but I didn't see anything or couldn't find it. Thanks.
Here's the deal. If the siege frigs are adjusted to take up less popcap, they will need a further reduction in hit poits, hull, armor, etc. because, even with nerfs they've already received, they will still be too tough to stand a chance against them in numbers. If 20 siege frigs are sent to your planet, reasonable defenses should be able to take out all 20 - no problem, no loss of planet. With the way those frigs are built right now, the planet would go down, even i
[quote]well, the fact that you guys are fighting all this out with low amounts of cobalts, discs, and ravs leads me to believe the game is probably not very skilled on either side, no offense, [/quote] None taken. I specifically said that I was no pro by any means, and I said in my opening post that he seemed somewhat of a "newb." I've played some of the real pros before - that's just a level of "skill" that I would never have the time nor energy to match. I'm comfor
[quote]But again - and I made this argument against nerfing Siege ships way back when, if a foe invests resources into Siege ships, thats resource not going into an actual combat fleet - the very sort of fleet *we* are meant to use to crush such Siege vessels with.[/quote] Well first off, with that diamond armor siege frigates had, actual combat fleets weren't very good at crushing them. Second off, it was just a seriously screwed-up game dynamic. I mean, what are turrets
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[quote]As far as I know there isn't an [LoS] clan, so I have no idea who they might have been. [/quote] It was a real clan alright - "lords of sin." They had a website and everything (I checked it out). A couple of their members have posted here before - I've seen their names. I have no idea if they still exist - this was quite a while back.
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Fear of assholes more than anything else. The first 100 times I tried to get an online game ended in a completely non-fun experience. Every single time. The typical situation is that some kid create some huge map with 10 players, and wants 5vs5. You join coz its your only shot at a game (I know - ridiculous from the outset. How long will the game last with 10 players? 10 hours?), then 5 minutes into it one of the players bails, causing much consternation
[quote who="Spatzimaus" reply="11" id="2038312"]The 150 mine limit seems nice, although there's still a density issue: I'd assume you can still put all 150 in one small area (say, the end of a phase line), and no amount of minesweeping ability would save the incoming ships from being blown up.... This is especially nasty with the homing mines; lay a cloud of them in one spot, and any enemy capship coming near gets wiped.[/quote] I don't really see the problem with the way it wor
[quote who="XaviorsFist" reply="14" id="2037463"] Example i had the egg and 10 skirmishers (very early game for me probally 3rd or so) The enemy TEC had 25 cobalts.[/quote] Your point is, you won, and the space whale helped you win. Understood. However, as cool as the space whale is, was it worth the 3000 credits + metal + crystal, plus 50 fleet cap, plus the money to buy another crew for it, plus the factory to build it, etc? In other words, if you had put all
Don't know exactly where to put this, so I'll stick it here (that's what HE said, ha ha). Was playing an online multiplayer game, I was Vasari. I had sent a colony frig to colonize a planet, and kept realizing it hadn't colonized yet. Every couple of minutes I'd look back at the planet and say "That darn thing hasn't colonized YET? Must have used a lot of mana up in the phase jumps." Eventually I knew something was wrong, and figured it wasn't on autocast, so I
[quote who="MartialDoc" reply="11" id="2036591"]They are very important and, hence, have big targets painted on them.[/quote] Actually, I think just the opposite: They aren't so important, and I don't paint such big targets on enemy caps. In battles, I focus on eliminating the enemy's frigs first, not their cap ships. Most experienced players I know do the same thing. [quote]If you keep losing your caps, that means you need to protect them more[/quote] <
[quote quoting="post"]... a mine self destruct button that you are able to press once control of the planet is achieved[/quote] LOL. I'm sure that's what the Vietnamese said after the war with the USA. In fact, I'm sure that's what every country has said since WWI - "the war is over now - we should be able to press a button and all these mines go 'boom' ". I mean, come on, that's ridiculous. Why should such a thing exist? What about a button that vaporize
[quote who="Hack78" reply="14" id="2036581"]So what is this guys name???[/quote] I understand the curiosity. I'm not going to give his name because I don't want him reading this post and seeing his name. I'm not trying to badmouth the guy or gossip about the guy (although he is an a-hole, ha ha), I just want to beat the sob. I'd like to give the name, actually, but I think best policy is not to. Actually, I will check on some known smurfs for pros. If I
I suppose it could be a pro posing under a smurf account, pretending to be a newb. I didn't really consider this earlier because I didn't see how or why a pro could get his rocks off doing such a thing. I figured it would be a total waste of his time and energy. I mean, I'm no newb, but I'm certainly no tier 1 pro. I mean, the last thing I'd want to do if I was a pro was play people who were absolutely no competition compared to me - it would be no fun. But who k
Well, thanks for the input. I know about capital ship special abilities, and I use them. Sure, they are useful. But in my opinion only a total pro could use them to serious effect (with good enough results to justify their expense). For the average player, I think caps are liabilities - cost way, way too much, eat up way too much fleetcap, go down way too fast. Actually, I think its sad. The capships are the "flagships" of the game. They are the lar
[quote who="Darvin3" reply="9" id="2035818"] They went from cheap indestructible world destroyers to expensive flimsy annoyances. Some middle ground would be nice; if they stayed expensive and kept their low damage, but got back their high durability, that would be more reasonable.[/quote] Actually, its just the opposite. If anything is to be done to the siege frigate, make it cheaper, but DO NOT give them high durability. The main problem with them before was t
You know, I didn't really give serious consideration to the guy cheating (although for the life of me it sure feels like it). But are there really versions of this game hacked to cheat?
[quote who="Darvin3" reply="3" id="2036072"] I can't tell you if this is what your opponent is doing, but it sounds to me like you're colonizing as fast as your mothership or evacuator can, but because of the map layout your opponent can colonize multiple planets simultaneously, something a colonization cap can never do. [/quote] This may be good advice. I am indeed expanding as fast as the colony cap can. Actually, I used to never get colony caps, but late
Have run into this player 4 or 5 times now, but he just crushes me. Actually, the embarassing part is he is somewhat of a newb - he really is. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, and I can't figure out how he's doing what he's doing. The dude expands like nothing I've never seen before. I'll take my first 'roid and he has 3 planets already. By the time I have my 2nd planet he has 6. But that's not all. You figure if someone is doing 1 thing to
[quote]The only issue with 1.00 siege frigates is that they could wipe out planets without so much as slowing down.[/quote] Are you freaking kidding me? Did you PLAY version 1? The speed of those things was the least of their issues. Those damn things had armor made of admantium or something, and thicker than a cap ship. You could wail on those things for ages and they wouldn't go down. And their cheapness meant the AI would send 20 into your system at a
To ask the question about siege frigates means you don't know the history of the game. I had it when the first version rolled out. It was totally and completely ridiculous. To win the game, all you had to do was build 10 siege frigates (at the time they were cheap, used little fleetcap, and were ridiculously hard to kill) and send them straight to your enemy's homeworld. That was it. It didn't matter what fleet he had protecting his homeworld. It didn't mat
I would like either verification from the pros on my contention, or tell me why I'm wrong. In the basic sense, I believe that cap ships suck. Now, in "special circumstances" they can be good. For instance, as a colonizer beginning the game, the Advent mothership is great because of the cheap upgrades on the planets. But I'm talking no special circumstances, no need for colonization, no need for planet bombardment, etc. I'm talking just a straight up fight if I
[quote who="Anatomico" reply="4" id="2034398"] The reason for a minesweeper is NOT just to reduce micromanagement and tedium. The purpose of a minesweeper is to add balance to a game. They ensure that a system that I've captured and held for hours of gametime actually looks like MY system, not the Vasari's (and I can move my ships around my system without worrying about them getting blown to smithereens by a faction that's been wiped off the board).[/quote] This boils d
[quote who="Kitkun" reply="17" id="2024272"]Top of the page, click the link that says 'Lore'.[/quote] I did. I saw nothing referencing starbases, or which ones could move and which ones couldn't.
[quote]And btw, why the aura from the cap would not apply to strikecraft? Iirc all the advent strikecraft have beam weapons.[/quote] I don't know why, I just know it doesn't apply to strikecraft. I posted a while back asking the question, because I didn't notice a difference with that aura. Several "pros" responded, saying the aura didn't apply to strikecraft. There is a vasari aura that one would think applied to strikecraft, but it doesn't either. Go figure
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I'd like the option (as I have now) of being able to build a starbase anywhere, not just a neutral mining site.