Itharus

Itharus

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Reply to Light Frigates--The Unused Frigate in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="10" id="2307032"]That seems to add needless management, since a unit left to its own devices may not move closer to deal more damage. It's trivial to close the distance between yourself and a target.[/quote] But, it doesn't have to be trivial. What you call needles management, I call dynamism. "Dancing" units is a pretty common theme in many RTS games, it's often what separates the good players w/ micro skills from the junk players (in mp). Also, It w

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Reply to Light Frigates--The Unused Frigate in Strategy Sins Forums

IMO... increase turn rate of the LF, and remove the free Cap Ship. You really should have to research something to unlock Cap Ships. Having this huge super-beast of a ship when you are a fledgling empire with one world under your belt (even if the TEC is feeding you schematics and what not) is sort of silly (especially since you can have a cap ship BEFORE a heavy cruiser - makes NO sense). This would make the opening stages of the game just as exciting as the rest of the game

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Reply to Mass bomber defense in Strategy Sins Forums

The best defense is to not commit to any one particular ship type. Bring a balanced fleet. At the point you've reached, there is no "practical" option, it will be a fair pain in the ass to readjust - the question now is one of speed. You might have to stop your offensive to adjust (I'm sure your defenses can handle their rather inflexable fleets while you rebuild), giving them some breathing room that you don't want to give them - which means their strat payed off. Next

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Reply to So Why, I mean really Why? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Your arguments are rather vague, and you give no proofs to any of your statements. This comes off as a whine thread, more than a legitimate complaint thread. Elaborate if you want to make your points!

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Reply to Cykur Replay in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Cykur" reply="11" id="2238537"] It seems to me that where the tale is really told... is in the statistics screen. Cykur had an actions rate of 400. Second place was at 60. Which seems disturbingly odd... either the statistics screen is for some reason wrong, or everyone else was really slow. Actions has been broken for a while. Also, when you watch a replay, I think it shows YOU'RE actions, not the original ones,

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Reply to Are the single player and online multiplayer parts of the game essentially completely different games? Which one offers the greater challenge, the most suspense, and the most intensity? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

One of my larger problems with online play, is sportsmanship. Quite frankly, it seems to be lacking across the board. Many players only care about victory, and accordingly, play to "crush" their opponents. Often times players like this will be quite rude/insulting along the way, as well. I also agree with Darvin3 a bit, from post 12. The game length is hard to manage, especially when you are playing with strangers. One good thing, you can save the game and resume it later. But again,

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Reply to Terminator Salvation in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="CocaColaAddict" reply="11" id="2232900"] "...it starts and ends with a man who is a mashine but with a heart and brain or something like that now as i undarstand he was PROGRAMMED for spying operations and spacial missions yet somehow hes like " <span style="

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Reply to [balance] Remove -75% build penalty on Carriers! in Strategy Sins Forums

Jix is right, it'd screw up the Advent pretty bad (the fleet dispersal thing). If you did something like that, you'd also have to introduce an option to change the formation of your fleet (ie: position of what genre of ship goes where) - just one pre-set formation wouldn't cut it anymore. While this would make for some nice/interesting variety, it would also unfortunately fudge the balance of the game right out the window (not to mention drastically increase the need for micromanageme

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Reply to Anyone with help with Vasari? in Strategy Sins Forums

Be extremely aggressive and expansionist early on in the game, because you will suffer in the mid game (your economy will lag). Don't worry if you get stretched a little too thin for a while, it's normal. Also, if you are put "on the defensive" - that's the first warning sign of impending doom. The Vasari need to stay on the offensive! Even if it means you have to bypass an enemy fleet and raid their worlds while they encroach on yours, just hold firm - they will recall to fight you!

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Reply to Why go Akkan? in Strategy Sins Forums

Akkan Battlecruisers are support vessels. I don't really know what else to say... I mean... it's solo performance is pretty much irrelevent. The Akkan, like any other capship, is capable of clearing out nearby neutral asteroids and poorly defended planets. If you have progressed beyond this point, you should have a number of frigates, a second capship, and hopefully a couple of cruisers... Thus rendering the solo performance of the Akkan entirely irrelevent. TEC streng

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Reply to 9 Insane AI in Strategy Sins Forums

[e digicons]:(O[/e] You win. Well played, sir. -Itharus PS: Now I feel like renting DS9. You bastard.

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Reply to Can't kill off the AI during a game in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="koda0" reply="3" id="2222140"]You might be playing on an older version... try updating if so... Also, if it's a multi system map, they might have planets in another system that you aren't in... look there if so... (^) Koda0[/quote] I'd have to agree with this guy (the bolded parts)... try hitting the "C" button, and then pressing and holding the "B" button for a few seconds to zoom out really far... pe

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Reply to How to defeat the dreaded space egg, and have your cap survive. in Strategy Sins Forums

I must be the only person on these forums who doesn't think that any capital ship is over powered. Why the hell would you fight a superior opponent with equal forces, anyway? As much as I have in previous forgotten days grumbled towards CenturionJixra's elitist arse, I have to agree with him this time: "I think the goal of the game's design was to balance out the races as a whole and not necessarily the ships they have in each class of ship" That really nails it.

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Reply to Mazara vs. Desolator in Strategy Sins Forums

The way I see it, this can be 'fixed' pretty simply. 1) Make the missile barrage effect more obvious (or is it just my screen that makes it look like just a bunch of javelis firing?), a shinier effect would be nice.... mebbe a larger fire spurt blasting out of the launchers or something. The sooner you notice it the sooner you can stop it, so less beaten people whining. 2) Buff the Vasari Marauder's combat abilities so that you aren't shooting yourself in the foot taking one e

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Reply to Entrenchment Artwork in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Killer gallery you have going on there at Deviant Art. The Tau ones are awesome; it's always great to meet another 40K fan! That said, your pitiful little firewarrior will be nothing more than a blood stain upon the arena floor come the next exhibition of my Archon's pet Wych Cult. :-P Keep up the killer art, man! -Itharus

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