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Reply to Short 2-3 second freezes every few seconds in Technical Sins Forums

[quote who="TobiWahn_Kenobi" reply="9" id="3094081"](How do you set up your RAM as a raid system? Software RAM raid?)[/quote] It is a Bios option... Supermicro X7DA3+ manual page 4-12 Advanced chipset control > Memory branch mode > the option are interleave, sequential, mirroring and single channel Mirror mode allow data correction by maintaining two copies of data in two branches. You can only change defective ram without shutdown the computer wh

Reply to Stardock Survey in Stardockians Sins Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="3" id="3093607"]E-mails are going out in batches, just keep an eye on your inbox.[/quote] Will do... have receive very few e-mails from Stardock over the years... not like Impulse since it was taken back by Gamestop... a bunch of e-mail monthly, sometime, several time the same send at a few second interval... Have a other question... the 10% discount can it be stacked with other promo ??? ... by example, Rebellion pre-order with 10% discount from

Reply to Short 2-3 second freezes every few seconds in Technical Sins Forums

[quote]Processor: Intel Core i5 2500k @ 4.6ghz[/quote] This can be your problem... you have overclock your processor... normal frequency for these processor is 3.3 ghz... Intel say that it remain stable to the max frequency of 3.7 ghz ( turbo mode is for short time only )... some people with liquid nitrogen cooling have push it to 5 ghz without loosing stability but i doubt that you have a similar cooling installation... I have doubt that Stardock will give support to somebody

Reply to Stardock Survey in Stardockians Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"]I just tock your survey.[/quote] What survey ??? Have never hear or see something about it...

Reply to Is the ironclad team big enough to work on thier new fantasy title, sins2 and this expansion? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="bignick217" reply="5" id="3093490"]As you can see. Rebellion is not Sins 2. [/quote] From https://www.sinsofadarkage.com/faq Why make a new strategy game and not Sins of a Solar Empire 2? Our original plan was to create one more major expansion for Sins of a Solar Empire which is called Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. This is currently in production and will be in beta shortly. After w

Reply to And Stardock raises the white flag (to Valve) in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Zeta1127" reply="217" id="3093223"]... the original was a GotY without Steam and so do they need this now?[/quote] Don't you have read the Draakjacht post ??? Stardock need to follow the trend/fashion who exist now in the game industry... - Be sure to target teen gamers because these one believe everything that you say... older one have learn to think can only be a source of argument and problem... - If your game have sell very good and you have a good

Reply to This game is harder then I remember Maybe I made a mistake pre ordering Rebellion in Strategy Sins Forums

In fact, i find it more easy now that when it was the original sins... well, as for the AI, it is not so much stupid that before ( except suicidal behaviour against starbase )... You don't post about the map size... if you play a 3 vs 3, on small map, you will have directly contact with a potential enemy... best to play on bigger map to give you time to buildup your empire but beware, once you encounter the enemy, they will have more that only 3 capital ship due to the large am

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Reply to And Stardock raises the white flag (to Valve) in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="207" id="3092600"]It will require it to install, not to play. That's two different things.[/quote] Are you so sure... look at the pic below to see when Steam server become unavailable with a game who normally don't need Steam to play !!! Well, since i am not really stupid and that i have the same game buy long time ago in retail, i have found

Reply to And Stardock raises the white flag (to Valve) in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="202" id="3092388"]The reality however remains, that those 'idiots' are the one's the DEVS should and will be marketing to and who will make their game the great success it can be. [/quote] Well, it will not be with Rebellion because sins need more that 2 brain cell for play and a win ingame is not clickfeast related... By the way, sins is already a great success... sales over several million copy... Sure some young people will l

Reply to And Stardock raises the white flag (to Valve) in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="186" id="3092097"]To be perfectly honest, I don't think the communities' resistance to this is particularly relevant...this is a small community, and I think they are hoping rebellion opens this game to a much larger market... Even if every person in the current community decided not to buy rebellion, simply putting the game on steam could get so many new people that it would still be more profitable...[/quote] The small community of ol

Reply to And Stardock raises the white flag (to Valve) in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Metathiax1" reply="182" id="3091959"]Does Desura offer the features your looking from from steamworks?[/quote] Wikipedia is your friend : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desura Seem that they don't have all Steam options but they have some strong point like a anti-DRM policy and when they sell game with third party DRM, they inform their customer... not sure if it good or not but they are from the same company that

Reply to THE BETA HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED SOMETIME DURING MARCH!!! in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="19" id="3091779"]Whether you like it or not, mods (and modders) do have an important impact on the developers and on the community...[/quote] Well, i remember that one of the last diplomacy update was a mix of the TSOP mod and some Stardock engine optimization... result was diplomacy, having more content, was running more smoothly that the original sins... I have always the first mod ever created for sins, from 2007, during the beta phase, before

Reply to Preordering without a credit card in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="1" id="3091704"] Otherwise, paypal will likely be available once the beta begins.[/quote] [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] you make my day... by the way, what is the ETA for the beta... wish to buy Skyrim next month but i can delay it if Rebellion beta begin next month...

Reply to Reinstalled Windows - Game Game Asks For Registration but Code Already Is in Technical Sins Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="1" id="3091660"](assuming GameStop has not removed it)[/quote] [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] [e digicons]k1[/e]

Reply to I murdered our retail plans today in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Only for valve games and retail CD key from third party listed in the following list : https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-WUSF-3601 In the case of Rebellion, there will not be a retail version ( opening post )... only a digital download buy on Steam and a digital download pre-ordered on Stardock store... so, in this case, the following apply : For games that incorporate S

Reply to I murdered our retail plans today in PC Gaming Sins Forums

If the serial is a steam serial, there will be no problem at all... my concern was only about people who have pre-order ( and will pay ) on Stardock store... a redemption code will be needed from Stardock for redeem the game in the Steam client... will be these redemption code for free or for a fee ??? As for the 30% taken by Steam, it is not a Golden rule... it is a case by case... it is very possible that because soase have sold very good in the past, that review of the game was ver

Reply to Great low budget sci-fi serie in Movies & TV & Books Sins Forums

Well, i don't have BitTorrent but i have Ktorrent who is part of my Linux OS installation... in fact, it is very possible that you don't need a torrent client... by example, the internet browser Opera can directly handle .torrent, firefox have a plug-in... And seriously, you miss a lot... by example, for music, more and more amateur artist ( some are very good ) release via internet, with full album on torrent... it is a cheap way for them to test if their work have some pote

Great low budget sci-fi serie in Movies & TV & Books Sins Forums

Ironclad have made the great game called soase with a budget who is 1/10th of big game studio... Today, i have enjoy the part one of a sci-fi series pilot made with a budget of 15000$ ... almost nothing when compare to million $$$ budget of big studio... I was expecting a bunch of crap... but once downloaded, i was surprised of the quality... music is good, actor are good, CGI are good ( just some strange animation during the space suit walk )... Well, best to judge yo

Reply to I murdered our retail plans today in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="63" id="3091392"] Quoting Thoumsin, reply 62ask it because redeem game on Steam is not always free... I call BS on that - do you have any source for such nonsense?[/quote] Certain games sold through retail channels can be redeemed as titles for user's library within Steam by entering a product code within the software.For games that incorporate Steamworks, users can purchase redemption codes from other vendors, and redeem these in the Ste

Reply to And Stardock raises the white flag (to Valve) in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="165" id="3091510"]Then there would be no achievements.[/quote] Isn't the actual version of sins already with achievements ? Remember the space ponies thing by example !!! Sure, the actual sins multiplayer have not all the gadget that steam have but it finally work almost perfectly after years of fine tuning... desync problem have become history...

Reply to Sins of a Dark Age - Will it succeed? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="1" id="3090545"]Also I wouldn't be surprised if part of the reason for not making Sins 2 straight away is to let the technology catch up a bit to their plans. Once everyone has 64 bit machines with over 4 GB of ram and who knows what else, they'll be able to do a lot more than they could if they were to start development right now. [/quote] Well, 64 bits have start in 1985 with cray computer and Unico ( unix x64 )... at a large scale, con

Reply to I murdered our retail plans today in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="athelasloraiel" reply="61" id="3090837"]Retail and record labels need to die. as soon as possible. They were living off your hard work.[/quote] Because you think that Steam don't take his share too... the share of Steam is around 30%... yet it better that the almost 70% of retail... Best was when Stardock owned Impulse or will be with the new stardock central... 100% is for the devs... About people who have pre-order Rebellion on the stardock store, it

Reply to The dangers of entitled gamers in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="118" id="3090608"]As for the whole moral quandary of "stealing" video games...what fascinates me most is that people who would never steal a game off a store shelf are completely open to "stealing" digital copies...why does this occur? [/quote] When a game is on a store shelf, you can buy it very easily... digital version can be a other story... in place of a long post trying to explain it, just look at <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_throne

Reply to [v0.54.2]Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races Remastered {Rebellion 1.95+} *UPDATE 16.05.2023* in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="TobiWahn_Kenobi" reply="2963" id="3090387"]Might be a nightmare for some files, but most of the entity files are all in my database editor. [/quote] Well, imagine that with the new shader, they make something similar to sins 1.1... switch again the cl alpha with a da channel... hope that you have the texture in tga for all models, ... or a psd/xsf with a layer for color, a layer for team, a layer for light, a layer for bloom, a layer for... Hope that the