Itharus

Itharus

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Reply to Is it just me or do the Vasari suck? in Strategy Sins Forums

What are you smoking? Skirmishers and Enforcers are anything but "bread and butter ships". They are each the weakest of their type across all three races. Falling back into mine traps also pretty much only works on the AI and morons. The Ruiner is also of fairly limited use on the offensive - flakks will tear down the mines before they can activate and scouting will prevent running into prepared traps. I admire your idealism though. If only things worked that way...

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Reply to Why are Carrier Cruisers Unarmed? in Strategy Sins Forums

The United States Navy, that's who! The Nimitz class supercarriers have very little in the way of shipboard weaponry. They have a few surface-to-air missiles to take down enemy aircraft, and they have a gun system network and a missile system network that are each designed to destroy incoming missiles... in SINS terms they have a few flakk batteries. That's about it. Other than that they rely on their aircraft (strikecraft) to keep them safe. If anything, it could be said that

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Reply to Buff Skirmishers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The root of the problem IMO is Reintegration - they can't figure out how to balance it, and it's mucking up Skirmishers and Enforcers. One thing that always bothered me about Reintegration is that all it does is basically prevent further damage to the ship in combat, or make it die more slowly - but it also takes it out of combat too by disabling the weapons. But rarely does it ever actually save the ship in question (as it's being focused on already anyway). So, the way I see

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Reply to Nano-weapons jammer bug? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I've got a fairly late phase vasari game going on... I'll take a peek later tonight when I get home and try to confirm this. Were you noticing this on only one jammer, or did it happen on all of them? Did the jammer have the upgrade tech or not? -Itharus EDIT: No, it's not how it's meant to work. It's supposed to activate when enemy vessels are in it's range (the range is pretty substantial though).

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Reply to [suggestion] spy to steal technology in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

No, no, no, NO! I will ferociously assault any and all who propose crapola like this. There is NO need for cross-contamination of fleets! It will ruin the frackin' game by obliterating any and all sense of balance. I'm sorry man, but you just CANT have your cake and eat it too. Just roll up three games if you want to play three ship trees - or jump on the Advent bandwagon and go mindcontrol some ships from the other factions. I'd go on, but I've argued against this els

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Reply to Vasari History and Culture in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Honestly, I'd vote for good old fashioned developement. About 10,000 years prior to the date this game takes place, the Vasari ruled an empire spanning "countless" worlds, and only a few of those ever presented any challenge in the conquest. That says to me that they were far more advanced technologically than anyone else in their area (the galactic core, apparently). Also, nanotechnology isn't something you can just be handed and expected to understand and continue innovation of... it's real

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Reply to The Disproportion of Sins in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yeah, I'm sure the TEC Fleets have a few of those Hoshinko tinkerers around... I bet they have crazy harnesses like the Techmarines from WH40K, the ones w/ all the servo-arms and what not. The Advent have use of telekinesis (one of their techs actually has crew who focus on strengthening their hulls by telekinesis, so I'm sure they can move a few objects around too). Also with the Vasari, we can't entirely discount the possibility of using slaves (who knows what races of 'valu

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Reply to The Disproportion of Sins in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yeah, I went off to some navy and navy oriented websites and looked up the crew components the other day... It's insane. I had no idea that an aircraft carrier was basically (almost) a self-sustained military base on the water. I never really thought about all the support personel that would have to accomodated before. As for the robot bits, that's probably why the crew numbers are less than you'd expect - automation. Also about the Jarasul, I would assume the 15,000 crewmen they list

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Reply to The Disproportion of Sins in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'm pretty sure the crew numbers listed are "full combat strength" for the ship in question. I have no doubts they can be run on less (skeleton crew), and that they can most likely accomodate passengers and/or extra crew. As for the Vasari ships? Look closely, even the Kortul has little tiny windows and what not on the insides of their wings, and the Vasari colony frigates have small "skyscrapers" on them too. I have the feeling that most of the Vasari capital ships carry plenty of Va

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Reply to TDN in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I still say Trader Defense Network. Everyone who's for Navy assumes it's just one branch. What if TDN stands for one unified defense NETWORK that includes everything? Ships, Artillery, Infantry, Special Ops types, all of it... combined into one vast military NETWORK... as opposed to a branched military? If you think of it from a corporate mindset, having your military consist of various departments linked together as a single network with a unified chain of command - it just m

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Reply to Vasari History and Culture in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

There are some pretty good horror stories involving experimentation the USA supposedly did with teleportation devices... Hell, I think the movie Event Horizon (one of the all time best movies imo) is damned near a sci-fi retelling of one of them that involved a ww2 battleship that went missing. Maybe the Vasari pushed a little too far while trying to improve phasic technology..? IMO I'd put what's "chasing the vasari" down as a bad result of phase experimentation or a crazy nano plague type d

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Reply to Russian names of TEC capital ships? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The Russians are an historically great people, and have the second most advanced space program in the world today. Some book or the other, I can't remember the author or the title (it's been at least a decade), but it's one of the famous older sci-fi ones, actually had the Russians dominating space and being the major power in the solar system :-P. I want to say it was one of those 1960s or 70s sort of sci-fi books... I think by one of the greats. Bleh... sickness is killing my abilit

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Reply to Vasari History and Culture in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If this game had a true insectoid space faring race (that was done awesomely) I would shit a brick and pass out from a massive joygasm. Just thought I'd mention it... Ya know, the Tohr-Kreen from Dark Sun (old D&D campaign) would make an awesome base for space-bugs, anyhoo, onto the discussion... /sidetrack! There would have to be a complex nervous system guys... we're talking about an intelligent space faring race that utilizes high technology... I don't think any

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Reply to TDN in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If you want to bring in the US Military, you'd better hit up the Air Force - they're who we use for space last I checked. And, woot! Ryat caved. -Itharus the apparently Tree Hugging Vasari Overlord of a thousand leaves, and a hundred branches. Hhm, nah, Vasari need better terms CI :-P MOO3 has a pretty cool little naming convention of different sizes of ship groups if you guys need inspiration.

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Reply to Vasari History and Culture in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

So then, Vasari reproduction? How do they do it like they do on the discovery channel? Eggs? Live births? Litters or singles? They aren't mammals so there aren't going to be any Vasari teets going around... are they bug like? Reptile like? What's the closest classification we have to compare Vasari to? -Itharus

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Reply to Have scouts become too powerful? in Strategy Sins Forums

So it's moot and there's nothing to worry about if you pay attention and play well... gotcha. Was worried for a sec there... methinks I need to do more multiplayer to see what people are up to these days. *attaches a photo of Jixra's bust smiling like a used car salesman with a sparkle on his teeth and flashing a thumb's up (Jixra's Multiplayer Seal of Approval - someone so needs to photoshop that up!)* -Itharus

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Reply to [suggestion]Idea for Diplomacy - limited trade of ship specs in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Some technologies are beyond reverse engineering due to wildy different base technologies. For instance, the Advent use psionic tech that the other races could simply not replicate (well, humans could after centuries of drug induced mutations...). The nano-tech of the Vasari probably has safety protocols within it to hinder study, and on top of that - the level of nanotech they employ is far in excess of the TEC/Advent's abilities, they couldn't understand it at this point. TEC techno

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