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Reply to Does a "fear" of experienced (or pro) players keep you from playing Sins online? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

@ Screenshot: ...wow. Edit: I don't really have a set time, but if I had to peg one, I'd say most commonly on the weekends, probably late afternoon-ish pacific time. Edit 2: I play Entrenchment 99.98% of the time, so I probably won't be on the vanilla ICO much.

Reply to Does a "fear" of experienced (or pro) players keep you from playing Sins online? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'll try to float around more publicly on ICO, and see if I can't find a few matches at some point. As I have no reputation on ICO yet, I've made a fresh profile for public games, you can catch me from time to time as: DuneRunner 10 points if you can catch the reference in that name! I don't quite qualify as a noob, but neither am I hardcore nor anywhere near pro. Honestly, I'm rather average. I do not spam, I do not rush, I do not flavor of the month; and I pl

Reply to Does a "fear" of experienced (or pro) players keep you from playing Sins online? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

And that's what's really killing SOASE multiplayer, not the game, not the game balance. But to be honest, I'm part of that inner circle group, so I have no room to talk. The reason? The people I know are willing to play long epic games across multiple sessions (the save feature is awesome... even if it doesn't actually save at exactly the spot you tell it to every time), and there's not ultra-competitive little dumbass kiddies involved who throw the flavor of the month single unit spa

Reply to Does a "fear" of experienced (or pro) players keep you from playing Sins online? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I tried just that last night. There were 71 players. 4 in the lobby, one of which was me, and no one responded when I said hello. There were also only 2 games open: a comp stop and a "no noobs". I cried a little inside.

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

I can accept that point Cykur. I think that there is room for argument, but I give you this victory :-P.

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

I hope that some day they actually give us dimensions on their vessels... because I know this game is not to scale in any way shape or form. I mean really, the Jarrasul would have to be several times the size of a Kol, lol... of course then it'd have several times the hitpoints, you'd think... and that would be imba as hell in game :-P.

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

Goooooozzzfrahbah. Anger is bad. Go to your happy place.

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

Well... the human-based carriers have large banks of lasers for ship to ship combat, among other anti-ship weapons... and on top of that, strike craft in SOASE are probably quite a lot larger than our own fighters (think about all the extra equipment you'd need to cram into a spaceborne fighter). The Vasari carrier cap has weapons too, and huge banks of nanites and probably stacks of random elements laying around ready to be assembled into something. Oh, and the TEC carrier has missile sateli

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

[quote who="52500" reply="109" id="2438310"] And yes, I can get assailants up pretty fast, but then I am splitting income on two ships i cant afford in the early stages of the game. And by the time I have anything resembling a combat fleet, I have drone hosts attacking me.[/quote] Quoted for the massively annoying truth.

Reply to Greatest Strength and Weakness of TEC, Advent, and Vasari in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Those bastards [e digicons]:annoyed:[/e] .

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

[quote who="Cykur" reply="12" id="2437775"] 'P.S. the Nimitz has a lot more aircraft on board than a SINS carrier cruiser.' Probably because there are NO aircraft on board SINS carrier cruisers.[/quote] Zing!

Reply to Greatest Strength and Weakness of TEC, Advent, and Vasari in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

God, the Illums have a benefitial bug now? /Sigh, what is it?

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

A bear will very handily break 3-4 wolves apart. I've seen it. Awesome video. A skirmisher... not so much. Hell, it's not even the alpha wolf let alone a bear. Edit: No one is repurposing the LF's, they are complaining about the LF's (skirmisher's, actually) capability to perform it's intended role.

Reply to WOW! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

HUD off and twist enabled for the most fantastic screenshots ever. I think I took about 20 when I first found that feature :)

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

Palidos: 1.) Returning Armada does not work, it's craptastic. But enjoy if you're winning already anyway :-P Make sure that you have available fleet supply and the necessary resources to pay for your ships... sadly, they aren't free anymore. 2.) Phase missiles are the primary weapon of the Vasari. The long range frigates use them, the cap ships use them, the starbases use them, the fighters and bombers use them, the flakk frigates use them. With upgrades they have a good chanc

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

That's because multiplayer games are often over far faster than single player games. The Vasari strengths only really show themselves around 6 or 7 labs in both military and empire trees... a lot of multiplayer games don't even get that far. For the Vasari, the game is an uphill struggle all the way to the end of their trees before their strengths finally really play out. Not so for the TEC and Advent. Hell, I'm not even convinced the Advent even have a real "weakness". In eit

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

Here's something to complain about if that's the case: the decline of Major League Baseball in America starting in the early 1990's with that retarded ass strike they had. But nah, Allegiance, Skirmishers really do need something... even if it's just a tweak in the research tree that makes them upgrade a little better/faster. Although I sometimes wonder if making certain other ships/techs come easier/earlier *cough*overseers*cough*/*cough*wavecannons*cough*, or with less inves

Reply to mines in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I think mines should rapidly 'pop up' (or down) to strike ships that encroach upon their X/Y threat axis... consider it limited homing capabilities. It would solve that particular Z-Axis problem pretty handily imo. Also, ffs, let mines hurt starbases... it makes no sense to me that a big ass space-bomb can't hurt a star base... it also looks ridiculous when my Orkulus wades through about 100 homing mines to go eat a Transcensia without setting a single one off - where as my tiny little scout

Reply to Does a "fear" of experienced (or pro) players keep you from playing Sins online? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Honestly, what turns me off from engaging in multiplayer outside of my own little circle of friends is not a fear of pro players... it's a fear of having to deal with pricks. The ego's of many of the multiplayer crowd are just off the freaking hook (I mean this in a general sense, not in a particular to SINS sense, and I am not pointing any fingers). While I'm sure there are plenty of decent people out there trying to play SINS online, I just don't feel like taking the risk. I'd just

Reply to The Role of HCs in Strategy Sins Forums

You build them because as part of a late game epic scale balanced flee they are useful, and they tend to survive longer than the frigates and cruisers... really they can sort of replace the regular Frigates (everyone calls them LF and for the life of me I can't figure out wtf the L stands for). Also, the Vasari enforcers can nerf the movement speed of nearby foes... of course, that's pretty damned useless when they are already knocked out from a Subverter anyway, but hey... I'll take

Reply to How does upgrades work? :) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The research immeadiately applies to everything it affects instantly upon completion, and yes, it is retroactive. EDIT: If you are noticing something not getting upgraded when the research completes (that should be receiving the upgrade), move the mouse, wait a moment or two, and then move the mouse back over to get a new tooltip. Sometimes the game seems to take a moment to refresh itself in that manner... it can be quite vexxing when waiting for a Phase Stabilizer to show itself as

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

Well, you also have to imagine that a Kol probably has something utterly ridiculous like 12 meters of molecularly engineered crystalline steel or something for armor plating. I mean look at the armor sheathe on the prow of those things (ignore the lasers sticking out, look just to the sides). That's a pretty hefty amount of metal, plus it's being enhanced by some tripped out harmonic field of some sort that's reinforcing the molecular bonds that's retuning itself to better adjust to the dmg t

Reply to Instead of pre-definied difficulty levels... in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

I'm not criticizing; just admiring your tenacity :-P

Reply to Greatest Strength and Weakness of TEC, Advent, and Vasari in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="4" id="2435127"] but usually you can't put all your eggs in one grav well.[/quote] Is that a crack at my Jarrasuls? Because I beg to differ!

Reply to Greatest Strength and Weakness of TEC, Advent, and Vasari in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Battle Ball = overly-synergizing Advent abilities (cap and frig) that allow them to essentially bitch slap you while holding your ships helplessly at bay, while reinforcing and regenerating the shields of their entire fleet to a massive degree so that it takes forever to damage them (by which point you will have likely sustained heavy losses). It's beatable... but sometimes it takes a frackin' super weapon (for the Vasari). Repulse is an AOE effect right? I can't remember - I