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Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote]OK....say you contact a plumber to install some taps...which he does....but you do not pay him. Do we call that 'theft', 'fraud', 'breach of contract', or just plain 'being an arsehole'? ['you' may also never have intended to pay him at all].[/quote] I am a plumber (currently an aprentice, about a month from my journeyman license) that works for a company and that actualy happens from time to time. Our solution to this problem? We just get our good ol' budd

Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

The laws I belive are a step in the right direction on internet usage. Getting yourself caught and convicted of the same crime 3 times and then punished for it is nobody's fault but the individual's own. The issue of privacy comes to mind for me concerning on how information is gathered and processed and by who. One example is Blizzard who uses a "warden" program for World of Warcraft to police users and keep constant check on players in order to discourage cheating o

Reply to Happy 4th!!!!! in Everything Else Sins Forums

LOL, That made me think about the robot chicken episode where they did a spoof of the movie 300. Just google up "robot chicken 1776", its a good laugh. Sweet tea for me please.

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

For a laser defence, what about covering the surfaces of your ship with a semi-reflective/reflective material, coating, ect.? Unless of course there are lasers that can cut through mirrors, then that idea wouldn't hold water. Would flak weapons work in space? You could build a missle with a conventional explosive warhead with a shaped charge, then pack it with say, depleted uranium pelets. Depleted uranium is so dense having a cloud of it flying at you

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]That is just the crew section, in space wast heat doesn't dissipated freely (like in the atmosphere) it need to be radiated.Space radiators are those big wing like things, for a warship you would like to make them as small as possible in order to make them less vulnerable to enemy fire, problem is that minimizing radiator size means running them at higher temperature.[/quote] For starters that link is awsome please supply more that would make great desktop wallpaper. But I think

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]You either have poor reading skills and memories or you are a completely dishonest jackass.[/quote] Well I can't be as bad as a person that would spend days arguing with someone he thought to have "poor reading skills and memories" or a "completely dishonest jackass". [quote]I am giving you three days to formulate the calcs or I shall assume you have conceded the entirety of the debate.[/quote] Well I'll go ahead and save you some time, I DO NOT HAVE CALCS TO GI

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Stealth probably won't be totaly useless in combat. You may not be able to completely hide yourself, but hiding/distorting your true nature, size, combat capabilites, ect. ect. would be a good tatic. Got a few questions tho, Since there is no stealth in space, if you "see" someone comming from lightyears away. Doesn't that mean your intell is allready a few years out of date? What if you had faster than light travel? Doesn't that mean you could in effect see yourself dep

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Okay, about nuclear bombs, looks like both wanderer and Jedmonds only talk about fission weapon, what about pure fusion weapon? Not much worries about radiation (with right combination...) which can both be advantage and disadvantage...[/quote] Sorry about that, In my orignal post I advocated using a multible, multi-functional fleets of ships not unlike what SINS currently uses. I like the thought of lasers becoming a weapon of choice in space combat. It could remov

Reply to Happy 4th!!!!! in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]I don't like BBQ or alcohol...[/quote] That'll leave plenty of room for PIE!!!!!!!

Happy 4th!!!!! in Everything Else Sins Forums

HAPPY 4TH EVERYONE!!!! For our friends across the pond, Happy.......awkward conversation piece!!!!! BBQ AND ALCOHOL FOR ALL!!!!!!!

Reply to Can't get avatar picture to work. in Everything Else Sins Forums

Ty, now I just need to find a pic. I allready had one picked out to, but sadly it was a little to big to use.

Reply to Seizing ships? agood idea. (in my opinion) in Strategy Sins Forums

ohhhh....

DOTA mod? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I know DOTA is a mod for another game and the idea has allready been used, But has anyone concidered making a DOTA style mod for SINS? I would like to have mission specific style game play centered around captial ships or by extention a small task force.

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

quote]Nowhere near doomsday.[/quote] True its nowhere near doomsday people have envisioned. Death would only happen slower for the unlucky that would have to survive. Possible weather patern changes, colapse of a world economy at large, Massive political power vacums, and the enriched urainium/plutonium set loose by the explosions would filter through every part of the ecosystem. [quote]FYI, we have detonated nukes in space, Teak and Orange shots, both 3.8 megatons in 1958.[/q

Reply to Yay I beat the AI on normal! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Congrats, I remember after just learning the tutorial and playing the first couple of easy solo missions I felt confident enough to take on a couple of normal AI. Long story short, I got slapped around.

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

@ wanderer, Only to add more to the discussion of space combat, I would like to ask questions regarding aspects of the nuke spamming you haven't covered in explanations. How much weapon grade enriched uranium/plutonium would you need to build all the warheads? As little as I know about enriched uranium, doesn't it take about 10x the ammount of raw uranium to make the refined ammount of enriched uranium? How many warheads would you have to have to allow you to spam them at enemies? 1,000

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[size="7"][/size]LZRS!!!!!!!!!! [size="1"][/size]pew,pew,pew. I completley forgot about lasers becomming viable weapons. Right now we are using microwaves as a means to cook people alive, google up pain ray. And the military has been working on lasers for years. SINS Space station/Deathstar anyone? And railguns to, they exist now and think of what would happen to them or what new weapons would be devoloped with a thousand years or research and devolopment.

Reply to Seizing ships? agood idea. (in my opinion) in Strategy Sins Forums

It would be a great idea, seizing a ship out numbered would add new aspects to the game. It would let you build your forces without expending recources to build more ships. Yet I don't see capital ships as seizeable targets, they have such large crews a boarding party probably wouldn't be able to take the ship fast enough before the ship's comander flipped a self detenation switch or something. TEC, Advent, or Vassari crews seizing a captital ship would lack the training required to use the spec

Can't get avatar picture to work. in Everything Else Sins Forums

I'm trying to get a picture for my avatar but somehow its not working. Whenever I try to upload a picture I constanty get redirected to a web adress with the message that the page cannot be displayed. What am I doing wrong? Thoughts?

Reply to A U.N. Scenario/Mod? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The Novalith cannons I feel are the most reckless and unintentionaly hilarious weapons ever. By a show of hands how many people have bombed themselves? (raises hand) And the real wackiness could happen when the lovable yet incompetent Ensin Wiggles replaced the nuclear payloads with vasaline and mayple syrup. In my fantasy space world anyways.

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

USAF, I could rant at you incoherently trying to ruin everyone's fun about a debate using cacultations based in theroy placed around concepts that the scientific commmunity at large will admit that they do not have a full grasp of. Using said arguements as tools in a subject that doesn't exist to begin with. If that'll help. But in the mean time I'll be on the deck of the starship awsomeness serving as the cabin boy of Master Chief Captin Sir Coolness. ADVENTURE AWAITS!!!!

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Best quote EVER, "I REGECT YOUR REALITY AND SUSBSITUTE MY OWN!!!!"

Reply to What do you guys, think space warfare should be like. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Yes, nuclear weapons are really just big incendiary bombs on a Planet and big neutron bombs in space. Excellent weapons for defeating your foe.[/quote] Same was said when nuclear weapons were first invented. All we got was a double edged sword that inflamed popultaions and caused paranoia all around the world. We can only say we know for certain what happens on a planet since we have used and tested them. As for space, there is credible evidence on what may or could happen an

Reply to A U.N. Scenario/Mod? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Something you'll want to be careful with in this is that, if playing multiplayer, if you go down, ur GOING TO fire that cannon, its common sense, if you've gotta' die, you are taking your enemy down with you...[/quote] Its that fact that would force players to think very far ahead in thier plans in order to deal with it when it arrives. Since its not an issue of if it could happen but when it will happen. Making plans with other players to disable one's cannons or organizing a fi

Reply to A U.N. Scenario/Mod? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yeah I think "winning" at this would involve lots of underminning oponets and political backstabbing while avoiding getting yourself blown up.