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Reply to Soase Weebly gone and hacked?!? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="16" id="3088794"]filosoft, I am not intending to disappear, but with the force steam to install and update, even for those of us that do NOT online play, and having no trust for steam/valve( i rate them just worse than stopgames which I do NOT trust) means I will probably not move to rebellion even though I have already pre-ordered, and am considering a cancel of pre-order due to the sforced steam issue. harpo[/quote] I don't trust Steam t

Reply to Buying your way to success in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote]Wanted to get something off my chest. These 'Micropayments'. Seems you can't download an app now or find any 'free' game that doesn't have a $10-50 micropayment tied to it. [/quote] Well, there is plenty of free games who don't need any "Micropayments' : - open source game : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games - commercial games released as fre

Reply to pre-purchasing and impulse/gamespot compatibility in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

In fact, the devs say that rebellion will include everything, it mean sins+ent+dip+reb... mean that you will never need again the impulse version... best to use it ( impulse version ) as a gift for one of your good friend to allow him to discover sins and maybe turn him in a potential Rebellion customer...

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="Darvroth" reply="2960" id="3089653"]Titan as mobile homeworld...[/quote] let see... First, start with Epsilon III as homeworld... build the B5 station as a no mobile titan ( sure that entity files can be edited in the same waty that actual files ) with homeworld capability... Result will be Earth alliance and the rebel faction called Interstellar alliance... For ship, some earth ship, plenty of ship from the former league of non aligned wo

Reply to Mini Dump after 3+ Hours in Technical Sins Forums

Just curious... are you playing sins or entrenchment or diplomacy ? You see, sins is a 32 bit and windows OS have a limit of 2gb ram for a application... a lot of minidump are due to the game hitting these limit in a long game... Everything is become more smooth with one of the last diplomacy patch who include Stardock engine optimization along some optimization from the TSOP mod... unfortunaly, not all of these optimization have be included/ported for the orig

Reply to IGN Posts Its Rebellion Impressions in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote who="lachlanp" reply="1" id="3089947"]Good and all but it hasnt told us anything we didn't already know [/quote] Well, these various article are not for people like us who already know sins and/or are active member of the sins forum... Goal of these article is promotional, to inform the outside world about how great is sins ( Rebellion ) If the initial release of sins in 2008 have know a media coverage like Rebellion have now, i am pretty sure that it w

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

[quote who="kryo" reply="155" id="3089606"]The average user's level of investment in a single Sins match is substantially less than in a game such as Skyrim,[/quote] Believe me, i have SOASE game who have last for month... of course mod and custom map was involved... [quote who="kryo" reply="155" id="3089606"]but more importantly, Sins patches (outside Steam) aren't automatic. [/quote] Well, this will be soon done since Sins rebellion will need Steam... <p

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

[quote who="Alstein" reply="58" id="3089496"]Steam isn't going anywhere for a number of years obviously, barring some massive hack or EMP pulse, in which case we got bigger problems then games. If in 20-30 years Steam is gone, some abandonware site will have a crack. Also, I'm pretty sure Steam isn't needed to run the game, so just keeping the game on a hard drive should be sufficient. While I do have concerns with Steam, I don't worry a

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

[quote who="kryo" reply="151" id="3089296"]Unfortunately it also automatically pushes out updates from mod authors who aren't under any obligation not to make breaking changes...[/quote] Is it not similar to how it work for any official update from soase... with each new patch, it invalidate previous savegame... why will modders have a obligation that game dev don't respect... To my knowledge, with soase, when a mod break a game, it is usually because it upgrade from o

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

[quote who="Burress" reply="85" id="3089285"]With places like Africa and Asia using a lot of pirated software, they can make similar cases. Money isn't changing hands, but how much money can you expect to extract from these places anyway?[/quote] Just one question... who is the thief/pirate ? Is the the asian/african who found the software on some torrent or megaupload site or is it the wealthy European/US guy who upload it? As now, the main target is these wh

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

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="48" id="3088955"]Our new titles are typically $39.95 in 2011 dollars. Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 was over $90 in 2011 dollars. [/quote] Have just check... In 2012, on Amazon, a new Pac-man for Atari 2600 cost 29.99$ ( http://www.amazon.com/Pac-Man-Atari-2600/dp/B0009V1CO8/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t )... by the way, you don't wish to compare your games with the Pac-man for

Reply to Warning about nVidia GPU Verde Driver 295.73 in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="AceMatrix" reply="2" id="3089024"] I have not experienced any problems and it seems that actually I'm getting much better performance[/quote] New features and performance since last WHQL-certified driver Game-changing performance boost of up to 45% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim , “the fastest selling title in Steam’s history” Up to 2x performance Mass Effect 3 with SLI technology. </

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

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="48" id="3088955"] Quoting Thoumsin, reply 46 Quoting Campaigner, reply 45I think it's for the better. Cut out the middleman and make it cheaper to get your goods. Well, from what i see, they cut the middleman but don't make the goods cheaper... they only make more benefice for share holder... It is the same thing with food... by example, your hamburger become more expensive when price of beef meat increase but it never become

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

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="45" id="3088820"]I think it's for the better. Cut out the middleman and make it cheaper to get your goods.[/quote] Well, from what i see, they cut the middleman but don't make the goods cheaper... they only make more benefice for share holder... It is the same thing with food... by example, your hamburger become more expensive when price of beef meat increase but it never become cheaper when price of beef meat lower...

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

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="147" id="3088821"]This has (most of the time) simple solution - restart PC and start Steam - it will offer Offline mode.[/quote] Not if it have fail before... first a successful offline switch is needed... And restart the PC is not a simple solution in my case... at boot time, i end up 4 time on 5 with a BSOD on windows ( no problem with Linux ) due to a conflict in protected memory between windows,steam, and my raid system...

Reply to GameSpy: Preview of Rebellion in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Really happy that i don't work anymore in the military Navy... internet connection don't exist in the middle of ocean... so, steam is a no go... curious to know the situation for US military who are stationed in the middle of some irak desert or in Afghanistan ( or any poorly developed country )... I am pretty sure that in the 4-5 year that i was busy on these forum, there was a few guys who was military and working in isolated region of the world... hmmm, what are

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

[quote who="Major Stress" reply="142" id="3088750"]Though i do understand your point if your internet goes out before you can switch it to offline mode. Then you're screwed.[/quote] Have know the problem last sunday with Total War medieval II... lost the connection and end up with something like "Steam error : application unavailable. please try at a later time" !!! [quote who="GoaFan77" reply="136" id="3088732"]Instead it seems to be going through steam, which is a third

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

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="117" id="3088480"]How much can one possibly download in one month? I mean, I have a 250GB / month cap. Most months I don't even break 10GB and the only month I went higher was in Dec 2010 (over a year ago) when I downloaded several large games from STEAM and my wife rented several movies from iTunes. That month we sat at a total download of about 32GB. Seriously, I can't even imagine going over 50.....hehe [/quote] I have at

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

[quote who="DarkSide73" reply="29" id="3088201"]i used to be against this, but I think the last boxed PC game I purchased was sins original release.[/quote] Same here... my last boxed game was the Kalypso version of sins for the French localization... since Kalypso version was a lot more expensive that the Stardock one, that they have never made any localization for the patch, i have end up with a game speaking French and English !!! Almost forget, for these last boxed game, a

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

Well, in the case of these article, Jennifer Helper was only speaking about add a option who allow to skip combat... The keyword here is OPTION... Since when, it is bad to have more option... having a option don't obligate you to use it... people who wish to skip will use it and people who don't wish to skip won't use it... First time that i launch a game, i look at the intro and cinematic... the next time, i use the "esc" key for skip... why not add simila

Reply to Soase Weebly gone and hacked?!? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="13" id="3088053"]... here is a link to MY reference files...[/quote] Harpo, it is great for now... but what about when rebellion will be released... i have read somewhere your concern about network security due to the use of Steam... will you "disappear" too... your mod updater tool and reference files is a must have for any modders because Stardock was never able to keep their forgetool updated... in fact, the forgetool pdf tutorial are so old that they

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

[quote who="jackswift85" reply="108" id="3088007"] I held out as long as possible, but after Impulse was sold it was time to give Steam another try...[/quote] In my case, i have begin use Steam because of Impulse... each time that i have wish to buy a game on impulse, it end up with a "US only" thing... First game that Impulse have push me to buy on Steam was Dragon age origins... discover it on impulse but it was again US only... So, first positive point with Stardock using S

Reply to BIG BIG QUESTION FOR EARLY REBELLION PRE-ORDERER's in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Astax" reply="8" id="3087273"]So how do I cancel my preorder so I am not charged in the future? Seriously dude your knit-picking is hardly helpful. If you can't be helpful then don't bother replying, you just waste my time reading your drivel. [/quote] Well, ask the right question and you will have the right reply... don't need to become somehow insulting and agressive because your little brain is not capable to formulate the right question... and ab

Reply to GameSpy: Preview of Rebellion in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="59" id="3087139"]Steam/Steamworks CPU demapnds are so small that its not noticable.[/quote] Well, at the start ( boot time ), in my case, it use fully one core and around 130mb ram... but once it is started, it is around 1-2% of a core ( i have 8 core at 2.66ghz ) and between 6-30 mb ram... there was a patch a few month ago who have greatly reduce the CPU use and ram use... I am a steam user but not a big fan... mainly due to some incompatibility w

Reply to BIG BIG QUESTION FOR EARLY REBELLION PRE-ORDERER's in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Astax" reply="3" id="3087135"]I have but one question: how do I get my money back?[/quote] You don't... because pre-order was never charged... Stardock don't have receive one $ from pre-order... transaction will be concluded only when they deliver the product... So, you can cancel your pre-order if you wish but don't wait after some money back that you have not yet pay...