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Reply to Pirates: Make them leave when the bounty is gone in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

This isn't a bad idea. The mission system is realistic in that more $ = more pirates. With the normal raids, one person bidding 250 credits can spawn 20+ pirate ships to attack. And they will stay until everything is dead. It seems far more realistic that they would leave if there's no more money to be gained. I don't care if throwing more money on bounty extends the raid length, so long as the damage pirates cause is proportional to the money spend on them.

Reply to Are consoles d0med? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Consoles may ironically doom themselves as their hardware becomes more and more advanced. Take the PS3 at launch; $600. Then you need a second controller, a memory card, and some games if you want it to actually do anything beyond play movies. A decent gaming PC, which can do many functions before you even install games on it, can be built for around the same price. Yes the prices on current gen consoles have come down, but what about next gen? You could

Reply to The true face of DRM in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Star Adder" reply="53" id="2519277"]When I asked about DRM and/or copy protection of Mass Effect 2 on the Bioware board people immediately started asking why that would be so important, and shoving down the "you just own a license and not the product" crap down my throat. Looks like the fanbois now even start adopting EA's mantra about reselling software is bad and everyone who cares about DRM must be a pirate. *shakeshead*[/quote] Are you serious? There are idiots w

Reply to Steam Vs. Impulse and Thrid-Party Sellers in PC Gaming Sins Forums

With a MMO, why not just buy it in store? There's no benefit to having it tied to another service since your main account is with the MMO maker.

Reply to [BUG] Ockulus Starbase trade income in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="ChaosMaster130" reply="6" id="2544408"]Its not a bug, its a Nerf I think. Stops TEC players from setting up 4 starbases at a star and getting trade 2 on them and getting mad cash.[/quote] What? I liked my 25 credit/sec stars that were impossible to attack. I actually don't even see why 4 starbases are allowed in stars to begin with.

Reply to Serious Pact Issues in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

I get that part, but a boost to one cap ship and starbases is pretty small time compared to, say, the missile pact which benefits almost every Visari unit. As for it not working, reinstalling Diplomacy seems like the fastest way to fix things rather than do more troubleshooting.

Reply to Pirates Still Not Right in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="wbino" reply="15" id="2545102"] Quoting blwill, reply 4I know I shouldn't let it bother me but the arrogant attitude of some of you jerk-wads is really something. I've been playing computer games since the late 1970's and have probably logged more game hours than some of you twits have been alive. I've played Sins for eighteen months almost daily and I am no novice at the game. I know how to turn off the pirates but will not as that would violate the intent of the

Reply to Serious Pact Issues in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

I still don't get the beam pact. Every other pact has a significant benefit for at least one other race, but the beam pact seems to only really benefit Advent. Does it boost Visari bombing damage, or just the beams on their cap ships?

Reply to Player "Go Play Diplomacy" offends happy Entrenchment players, advertises Diplomacy in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

KlassenT kind of has it. Diplomacy features were not meant for locked 5v5 games. Sins in general was never meant for locked 5v5 games. If you are in the mindset that 5v5 is the only way to play, then yes there is no reason to use Diplomacy . Pacts, envoys, and pirate missions have MUCH more of impact on 2v2 and 3v3 where all players need to think about economy instead of just one or two people feeding the spammers. Sins was not meant to work this

Reply to Rant about ignorant arrogant players in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Why that happened is certainly an interesting circumstance to ponder. Again, this is what happens in any unranked RTS play. Without a ranking and reputation to uphold, people will just troll and smurf until they succeed in driving out all the players who wanted to play a normal game. Since there's no rankings to maintain, there's nothing stopping people from making a new account once they become known assholes. Normally the

Reply to Is anyone playing Diplomacy? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Alexboculon" reply="17" id="2542786"]I just made a huge realization regarding why Diplomacy doesn't make much sense: YOU CAN'T USE MOST OF THE GAME'S FEATURES ONLINE SINCE 99% OF GAMES ARE PLAYED WITH LOCKED TEAMS. That seems pretty simple... All the intricate relationships you are supposed to work on are totally irrelevant, since almost nobody plays FFA online. Diplomacy is just Entrenchment with the added complexity

Reply to StarCraft II beta is out!! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Resist_The_Dawn" reply="4" id="2542036"]Finally! I've been waiting 12 years to play the exact same game with better graphics! As long as I still need to have an average Clicks per minute of 200 I'm sold! /sarcasm[/quote] +1 I will probably end up getting it simply because there's a severe lack of quality competitive RTS' as of late (DoW2 sucked, Tales of Valor sadly killed CoH, C&C4 is going to suck, Sins is a GREAT single player/co-op game but sucks online, Su

Reply to Civilization V in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Hopefully it plays more like II than the newer versions. Just couldn't get into III and IV like II did. I know they need to add new stuff to keep people interested, but somewhere along the line they forgot the KISS rule IMO.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire - Diplomacy v1.01 Change Log in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="Haree78" reply="17" id="2542113"]Have you fixed that Pirates will linger in a Gravity Well if there are mines because they think there is still stuff left to kill but don't know how to?[/quote] This is serious one. I can live with strong pirates late game, but this issue causes them to pretty much take over the galaxy late game. I also think the timer on player issued pirate missions needs to be longer. Late game I don't need to make ships anymore, as the

Reply to Diplomacy 1.00 small AI bugs in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="BlackHawk141" reply="10" id="2539996"]'AI players send envoy ships to enemy planets in locked team games.' Quote Please, before hosting your requirements for changes, use some common sense. how do you think pacts work? you need a rating of 11.5 and above for ALL PACTS! having locked teams only gets you a rating of 10.00, but to get pacts you need a rating of 11.5 and above. So AI's still need to send envoys for them to pact with you and others. <b

Reply to Diplomacy 1.00 small AI bugs in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="Mow Mow" reply="5" id="2538860"]AI doesn't send Envoys to allies in locked team games, so you never get pacts from them. Or at least, not within the first two hours.[/quote] I've definitely seem them use envoy vessels earlier than this. [quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="6" id="2538867"]I believe this was done so the AI could actually use super weapons.[/quote] Odd, level 6 cap ship abilities don't start on autocast but the AI supposedly uses them now. I

Reply to trade planet and ship pact in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Both are too exploitable in large team games. If you could give ships, one player could spam ships and another spend on lots of upgrades. Then the ship spammer gives the other guy his ships and you have a fully upgraded fleet in half the time. Even worse with planets. An economy player could just develop planets while in no upkeep, then give away planets to the military spammers once they start running out of steam. They weren't dumb enough to di

Reply to Diplomacy 1.00 small AI bugs in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Yeah, forgot to add the superweapon autocast thing. My friend who was playing Visari didn't know what the hell was going on as his superweapons fired at random, only to notice autocast was turned on. Why would anyone want this thing on autocast for any reason?!

Diplomacy 1.00 small AI bugs in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Just a few minor issues my friend and I noticed during a game: -AI players send envoy ships to enemy planets in locked team games. -Advent AI still makes homing mines on most of their carriers. -Numerous Visari autocast abilities get used without checking if they're actually needed. ie Kortul weapon jam, the new envoy Nanomedice Outreach, Power Draining Nanities, etc. -Pirate seige ships, which I presume are their anti-starbase ships now with their long r

Reply to [Fixed]Diplomacy Pacts not taking effect in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Wait, so is just the supply one currently bugged or all of them?

Reply to Is anyone playing Diplomacy? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Destraex" reply="1" id="2536030"]I am. But not online [/quote] Which is probably going to be true for 95% of the people who buy it. I'll be playing a lot of TCP/IP games with my friends and FFAs offline, but I see no reason to go on ICO when it's impossible to find a game except during peak hours.

Reply to Diplomacy--will the Online Regulars play it? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote who="Deceiver_0" reply="28" id="2534645"] For some reason the AI offline is amazingly better in this version or expansion of the game, but in multiplayer, they still suck hard once an human player has left (either by disconnect or minidump), there just too easy to pushover after that. I have no doubt in my mind this is because the AI taking over for a player doesnt get the luxury of massively increased resource income like it does in single player. Because In single player, t

Reply to Command and Conquer 4 in PC Gaming Sins Forums

They honestly should have put the main C&C on hold and made Generals 2.

Reply to Command and Conquer 4 in PC Gaming Sins Forums

-Persistence. This is the worst thing about the game. When you start youre stuck at level 1 for each faction until you rank up. Level 1 gives you about 3 units, and no research. THIS SUCKS! I just got my nod to level 7 and I finally got to the 2nd tier of stuff. This is way worse than the minor buffs that most games with persistence give you, this is like forcing the new players to get destroyed. Nevermind the fact they don't know how to play the game, They also dont get a

Reply to DLC and Expansions? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="9" id="2533164"]My opinion is DLC should never be about playability. You should not be paying extra for gameplay. They can sell all the DLC they want for customizing looks and the like. But any kind of gameplay advance should either be in the game, a free patch, or else in an expansion.[/quote] Totally agreed. All this does is give devs an excuse to hold back content and charge extra for it later. Hell, there are some cases where $60 retail ga