Odd. That should only be a problem if you can't get administrator permission on your computer for some reason (if you get one of those Cancel/Allow prompts during the install, hit Allow).
Well... where do you think all that money the US government keeps borrowing to fund its idiotic tax cuts (and "stimulus packages" more recently) is coming from? The Chinese are many things, stupid is not one of them. The world in general has a pretty bad track record at this sort of thing. We seem to care when its happening in Haiti or Yugoslavia, but pretty much nobody is paying attention to the disaster in Zimbabwe thats going on right now (where an election is being rigged after the
[quote]1. do you invest in the tech to make the extractors pull more metal and crystal or2. do you research better weapons?That's a choice that will vary based on your individual situation and preference.[/quote] I do neither, typically. :) The extractor upgrades don't really do anything early game, because you have so few extractors. They can add up later when you have a lot of them. Weapons are similar, a 10% damage upgrade to one weapon type isn't very much if you only have
You should build a capital ship factory as one of the first things you do, as your first capital ship is free and a lot stronger then those early frigates. The number of logistical slots added by the upgrade is shown when you have your mouse over the upgrade button. On the right hand side a window should appear saying what the upgrade does, with something like "Logistical Slots 14 > 18". That means you have 14 now and will have 18 after the upgrade. Expanding by colonizing a co
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As was mentioned, there was a thread on this previously, they don't have plans to do it. Its pretty expensive for a game like this if you don't plan on doing it from the beginning, unfortunately. (Almost everything in software is like that, the earlier on you decide to do something, the easier/cheaper it is.)
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Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2 are very much not alike. Starcraft 2 is meant to be more like Starcraft 1, Warcraft 3 is... well, I'm a major Blizzard fan and I didn't care for it either. Having to basically play Diablo by running my hero around getting items and levels was pretty silly in an RTS. I don't think Starcraft 2 is going to suffer from that problem.
You probably don't want to do the research to increase the population limit right away. Especially if you're Vasari or TEC, you can get long range missle ships (LRM) easily (one millitary lab for Vasari, two for TEC). Those ships are a great compliment for your early fleet and help out quite a lot. The most important thing is to upgrade your planets so they don't lose money, which is one upgrade for an Asteroid and two for a Planet. You don't need to max it out right away. Terran plane
"This movie also shows that the theoy of Intelligent Desing is completly scientific and that it is only being excluded because it has religious support." Except thats fundamentally wrong, and shows the entire problem. In order to be scentifically valid, any theory has to be testible, and as such can be proven (or disproven). You can't create a test that proves or disproves Intelligent Design. Therefore, by our definition of science, its not science. The opposition to t
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The TEC colonizer's bonus is free extractors, but I think you need rank 2 colonize before you get one (so a level 3 ship). Not that great really. For me, it really depends on whats going on. If the first thing I'm colonizing is a couple asteroids, the colonizer ship is great. If its something like a desert world thats heavily defended, a battleship is going to do better at clearing the area.
Its faster with higher level capital ships, as their cultural suppression goes up with levels. Beyond that, I'm not sure how to quantify it. I've never seen a score anywhere showing what the total culture of a planet is in the first place (only the current output), so I don't know how to figure out how long it'll take to go down. Often I find the best bet is to move on to the next system, flatten any broadcast centers, and then come back. If you're Advent, firing up the Deliver
Since always, I've never seen a pirate base with more then one phase lane. Could be because I haven't played on a random map either?
I like killing Pirate bases because once colonized they have a plundered booty income bonus, and since there's only ever one phase lane in, they don't need guarding. The most important thing seems to be high level cap ships, really. Pirates can have mass fleets, but they're just straight up attack ships. They don't have abilities. So if you can bring some strong abilities to bear against them, it really beats them up. It can also take a couple of raids. Go in, weaken them, and
[quote]The only pain I could see with this updating process would be for those who do not have a legitimate copy of the game. It took me 4 minutes today to register, confirm the email, login, and download the latest update. No problems here.Are you seriously proposing a WoW solution of a 125 MB patch every week or two?As far as I can tell the game is solid. I'm on board with Ironclad and Stardock.[/quote] Well, the website was acting up on the weekend. When I tried to update, it kept
Locking teams removes the missions and forces whatever teams you start with to stay that way all the time. Unfortunately if you're playing a 1v1v1 FFA type match (which it sounds like you are), it doesn't really help.
I think people need to get past the idea that 'slowdown' is the problem here. Its not. You can expect the graphics to slow down if your hardware can't keep up. But I think its reasonable to expect that combat still work on any system that meets the required specification, even if its going at 5 frames per second. The problem the OP had is that ships stopped doing or taking damage.
You're not stupid at all, its a small button. :)
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To me, the mistake is in research. The Vasari LRM type ship is 1 weapons lab away (IIRC), which you could have gotten to instead. Those things are MUCH heavier hitters then the skirmishers. Arctic colonization is expensive, best to pick it up later.
Playing on the same size maps (small), the full version will work the same way. If you try to scale up to large maps, you may run into framerate problems because on a big map the ship battles can get *MUCH* larger. (On my current map I have three fleets and nearly 2000 supply worth of ships. On the demo maps you'll likely never get to that point before winning or losing.)
[quote]i also have a question, do the phase lanes made by the phase stabalizers on vasari affect trade income? i just heard something about the number of jumps to the amount of $ you get, and because the stabalizers make it into one jump i might be killing my trade.[/quote] I've got stabalizers all over the place in my current game (Systems of War, 5 stars), and it doesn't seem to be affecting the length of the trade route. The trade ships do seem to use the stabalizer nodes th
[quote]Why is software looked at so differently? It's a product like anything else and pirating it is no different than walking into a store and stealing the game off the shelf.[/quote] To most people, it is different. This type of "its stealing" argument doesn't work on those people because its not stealing. If I steal your Sins CD, you no longer have a Sins CD. If I copy your Sins CD, your situation hasn't changed. That difference is what makes it not "stealing" to m
[quote]In an RTS, however, everyone is playing the same game with the same limitations so it's a lot easier to make changes that won't break one side or the other.[/quote] Changes to multiplayer balance in Warcraft 3 broke the single player campaign so badly that in one patch Blizzard divorced them, effectively creating seperate rules for how the damage types in single player interacted. Since Sins doesn't have a single player campaign right now, I agree thats less likely. But
[quote]This is not an MMORPG. This is a strategy game. There is a HUGE difference.Yes, in delivering content (as I said: single player campaign stuff or something like that) ignoring the minority is the best way to go. It has to appeal to the majority to sell, there is no way around it.However, in terms of multiplayer balance exactly the opposite is true. I am not saying forum posters should be able to heavily influence other aspects of the game but balance discussion simply can not be done by a
[quote]In fact I bet the ones who are always talking about numbers and values are the minority of online gamers. The majority don't care about statistics to that degree.[/quote] They are. Thats true in almost every game. The only real exception is games that are designed to be massive number crunching exercises anyway, because those only draw in the type of people likely to post on forums. The thing to remember is that the forum posters don't form an accurate view of the entire
There seems to be two ways to use the market. The simplest one is the big buy/sell buttons at the top. You use those to immediately buy/sell at the current market price. The market seems to be infinite in supply, but what you buy/sell influences the price. There's smaller buttons at the bottom that are another way of buying and selling, but I don't understand how they work.
Someone should really sticky a post about this. :) Tradeports generate income in every system you put one in. The amount of income is determined by the longest unbroken trade route (systems connected together by tradeports without a broken link in the chain). The simplest way to deal with them is to say that they're awesome, and to put one at every planet/asteroid you control. On large maps, its possible to get a trade network so large that it generates more income then taxes, but even