Itharus

Itharus

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Reply to TDN in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

But the ships are a mobile extension of that network - added in by necessity due to the Vasari advance.

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

IMO, the only thing scouts should rightly counter is Fog of War and Mines. It's never even struck my mind to use them in a combat role that doesn't involve mine-sweeping. Why the hell is a scout countering LRF when they are in theory sporting less armor and firepower than a regular Frigate? Something is wrong here.

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Reply to limit Star Bases in suns in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Instead of limiting starbases in solar grav wells, I suggest just fully enabling the AI (in the code, not in our options panel). As it stands, the AI never builds super weapons, and never seems to use the "ultimate" abilities of Star Bases. I have never seen the AI use the Advent's meteor swarm ability on their star base... or the TEC big red button - and the Orkulus? Sheesh, the AI only seems to use half of it's upgrades. For that matter, it seems the AI only rarely uses the

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

Somehow I don't think the Vasari would have ever had females... I always sort of thought they reproduced asexually... probably consciously directing which traits to pass on to their young in the process somehow. Which could explain why cloning is such a successful tactic for them. It could also highly reinforce their apparently feudal nature... especially if they could choose to generate offspring that had certain traits, ie: docile servants, fighters, sterile drone types, etc. Vasari

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Reply to TDN in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]or Trader Nautical Defense Network.[/quote] Nah, nautical implies oceans are involved. For that matter, so does navy.

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Reply to Post a screenshot in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Hhhm, I've never seen those orangey sky boxes before... is that a mod, or is that the "new" one released with this last patch? (Ue's close Hoshinko and the fleet pic a couple shots down from it).

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Reply to Of Dyson Spheres and Skyboxes. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

This would indeed be sick. I hope you either are, or know a good artist to make the art for it ^_^. I think they tried to put a dyson sphere or something like one in the end of the game Freelancer, it was pretty cool... Although it was extremely disorienting flying around seeing nothing but structure and trying to find the one little pinhole that leads out.

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Reply to TDN in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

"Such mighty contests arise from such trivial things." - some pope or the other. ^---- pretty much sums up this thread at this point. Trader Defense Network. -Itharus

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Reply to Post a screenshot in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Don't get me wrong, I'm down with mods, I just think they should have their own thread :). I'll try to post a few screenies here... hopefully I can get it to work. My screenshots wont look as nice as some that have already been posted, because my machine is from 2004 - although I still think they look quite nice, which speaks volumes about the game engine! ...think I have it working this time around, only took about 8 attempts... lol. <img style="vertical-align: baseline;" src

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Reply to Post a screenshot in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Niiiiiiice... Those are some prime shots, Numerarius! I wonder if IC would enjoy a thread that was a screenshot contest (stock Sins/Entrenchment, NO mods (they couldn't use the modded screenies for official stuff))... maybe get some new images for their front page. Anyone know a good site for picture hosting that's free? Or are the forums themselves willing to host them? If this has already been done, cool. -Itharus

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Reply to Is Entrenchment worth the extra loot? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Officially the best dev team today, yesterday and most probably tomorrow too... (if they don't exchange their souls and passion for some stinky mega $$$) [/quote] You mean, if they don't Blizzard out? MjrK: You won't be disappointed! Entrenchment has added to SoaSE by leaps and bounds! Also, the next micro-expansion, Diplomacy, I am pretty sure requires Entrenchment to play. If you play Vasari, you should know the Kostura Cannon gets a HUGE bonus in Ent

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Reply to TDN in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I think that's a bit of a large assumption, eon. Planets don't typically just get lost or destroyed. Turned into industrial wasteland and abandoned, sure... but I'm sure they'd remember where it was (it'd make a good site for dumping further waste on :-P).

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

Vasari do genetic modification en masse... They don't terraform worlds, they change the population. They take normal humans (and I'm sure other species in other parts of space) and modify them to be able to withstand extreme heat, breathe toxic fumes, have layers of insulating blubber to withstand the cold, etc... Which really, when you think about it, is about as insulting as you can get to a species, to go inside of them and change their genetic makeup... The Vasari also make widesp

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Reply to TDN in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Because these guys are merchants. They'd apply coroporate thinking to their defense plans. Instead of having a big navy, they'd have a gestalt defense network... very organized and beauracratic, everything assigned by dollar priority and blah blah blah... Which would explain why so many worlds have no TEC presence. They aren't worth properly defending, unless they totally submit to the authority of one of the major players within the TEC (ie: Haliburt--- ahem, Tondam Corporati

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Reply to [Help Request] Understanding mitigation? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Wouldn't that explain it then? Mitigation goes up the more damage you receive, right? If the advent is doing the dmg over time, it's coming in smaller increments, so wouldn't the mitigation increase on the target be smaller? Where as the Vasari chunk hits hard all at once, and so is subjected to a higher mitigation... no?

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

Mmmm, chemistry. Volt: So what you're saying, is that they either need a little machine to make our atmosphere heavier (provide a compressed air pocket) for them, or a little machine to spike the mix w/ some chemicals to make it enriched, right? Weird question, we're operating on the assumption Vasari do have some means of drawing in atmosphere right (lungs)? A more passive system like gills doesn't seem very useful for anything that's land-based. If we're goi

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