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Reply to Entrenchment beta starts today! (12/16/08) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="PeterPiker" reply="23" id="1978410"] Quoting Cataclysm2000, reply 20 Quoting Zoomba, reply 22 Stardock's game betas have been for pre-orders only for as long as I can remember. The idea is simple: Those who have ordered the game have a vested interest in the game doing well and will provide better feedback than those who are just looking for a free game to try. Betas are not demos, they're not there to try before you buy. The

Reply to Entrenchment beta starts today! (12/16/08) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Zoomba" reply="22" id="1977895"]Stardock's game betas have been for pre-orders only for as long as I can remember. The idea is simple: Those who have ordered the game have a vested interest in the game doing well and will provide better feedback than those who are just looking for a free game to try. Betas are not demos, they're not there to try before you buy. They are an opportunity for users to have input into the game they've purchased and be involved in

Reply to Tip: when you are losing carriers vs. carriers case..... in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Shrayev" reply="19" id="1977194"]I'm embarrassed to say that I've never relied heavily on carriers before. I don't play Sins all that often (I'm at college, and I have a mac here, so I can't play it), but in the TEC game I have saved at home, I recently started using percherons. How important should those be to my fleet? The focus for me has been on capital ships, and my frigates (other than Hoshikos) have been treated as little more than a screen to preserve my capital ships. The

Reply to Entrenchment beta starts today! (12/16/08) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well than order up for me! I need this like I need to breathe

Reply to What is the point of Vasari Phase Stabalizers? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="deltalead8" reply="20" id="1976343"]Well if u think of it as legitimately cheating then how about industrial juggernaut and pervasive econ from the TEC, reduced ship build time and money back on every purchase you make thats hard rape endgame especially when u have 3 frig factories in 1 grave well.[/quote]Kostura. I never used RA personally, it took too long to set it up. Phase Gates are a god send though. The ability to go anywhere from anywhere is so incredibly use

Reply to Beating the AI... on hard.. in Strategy Sins Forums

Have you tried HOSHINKO(TM)? TEC doesnt suck, but its not the quality of their units that makes them strong. Its the quantity. Research Industrial Juggernaught and Pervasive Economy. You will be able to churn out ships by the assload

Reply to New to the Game Any advice? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Kruppe" reply="1" id="1972676"]It's Sin's or SoaSE remember when you first colonize a world / astroid you are loosing mony each second. upgeade planet infrastructure ASAP to begin with, building repair bays will make it muuuuch easier to defend Keep scouting, knowing what forces you will be facing is ½way to winning[/quote] Sins. No apostrophe. Remember that the key to victory is a fleet tailored to destroy

Reply to wat race to be in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="unkn0wnx" reply="15" id="1971565"]How you beat a fleet with push?[/quote]because they cant close the distance to attack you, but your LRMs can attack them.

Reply to [MOD] Bailknight`s Graphic Mod for Entrenchment ver 1.02 Fixed 1 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

With Entrenchment looming on the horizon, do you think there will be new weapons or effects that will need to be modded? I hope bailknight comes back soon to keep the mod alive.

Reply to Old Kol in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Tkins" reply="4" id="1971414"]http://www.ironcladgames.com/sins/race_TEC_ships.html it's the best i could do [/quote]Oh dear God, thank goodness they changed every single one of those units for the retail version. Except maybe teh Halycon carrier. I liked the Vasari names more than the current ones though

Reply to wat race to be in Strategy Sins Forums

Vasari own. The only thing that can beat a Vasari fleet is the Advent battle ball (Masses of Guardians spamming Telekenic Push). A shot from a Kostura will shut them down long enough for your phase missiles to destroy them though, provided you have one and are fighting around an enemy planet

Reply to Tip: when you are losing carriers vs. carriers case..... in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Orodum" reply="4" id="1971287"]genrally a combat cap - Kol, Radiance, Kortul - is the best kind to bring, along with light frigates and maybe a few HCs[/quote]Radiance doesnt have any anti-strike craft abilities. If you're Advent and want an anti-strikecraft cap, get the Halycon.

Reply to Sinners - your favorite Sin's tale in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

yeah I like the shorter format. It means you can update more lol. Good stuff so far

Plan 9 from outer space in Fan Submissions Sins Forums

OK, so I cant think of a name. Comment on what I have here, anything helpful will be greatly appreciated _________________________________________________________________________________ “Massive phase out detected, Overlord! They’re back for more.” <p clas

Reply to Whats sorely lacking in this fantastic game?: SOUND in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Like in World in Conflict when you zoomed up to your units you could hear them talking to eachother (Or in combat yelling at eachother). That was a genious piece of immersion right there.

Reply to Vista64 Laptop user, play demo first or is full copy ok to install in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Should run just fine. I have 1.66GHz, 2gigs, XP, and an x1400 video card and it runs pretty well except for when things get big

Reply to 1.1 annoyances. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

As long as we're talking annoyances, the stacking bug needs to get fiexed sometime soon.

Reply to Multiple broadcast station, shield generator etc. ... in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Kruppe" reply="8" id="1964908"] Even as Advent I can never get culture to work. Even planets being "attacked" by 6 of my culture centers only display an allegiance change of -0.03 at most, with only 1 enemy culture center on that planet and maybe 1-2 more on planets connected to it. If the enemy has cap's at that world it will be very hard to *take it over*. But tbh you may be right, culture mecanics either need an overhaul or someone needs to explain whay 99% of us are

Reply to Need some advice as TEC in Strategy Sins Forums

The AI is biased against the player. I learned this the other day when 5 hard AI's attacked simultaniously. They make alliances with eachother even at 0% happiness.

Reply to Multiple broadcast station, shield generator etc. ... in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Pherdnut" reply="6" id="1963932"]Number of towers definitely increases the speed that your culture spreads and pushes enemy culture back more easily so if you're dealing with an annoying turtler or you'd prefer they come to your turtle, buildling 8 culture structures on a fully developed neighboring arid world should get their attention rather quickly. I'm not sure multiple towers will actually enhance the distance unchallenged culture travels though. Population might h

Reply to Possible Entrenchment exploit in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="TheSpydyr" reply="10" id="1964685"] Quoting posativ, reply 6 But then the starbase could just shoot the missile down. I think this torpedo ship has to fire usual missiles which can crack a starbase pretty fast (mayby 10-20 shots). You would have to station a small intercept force near the starbase, or place the starbase so that it can attack ships at the gravwells edge. Um, if I remember correctly, it was stated that Starbases can fire anywhere with a planets

Reply to Saints of a Solar Empire - A SoaSE Story *Book 2 Complete* in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Technically yes, but you COULD put a phase line that passes through a planet. I dont know what happens if you used it in game, but I've accidentally made phase lines that go through planets befoer

Reply to So what's the typical approach to dealing with crappy advent economies? in Strategy Sins Forums

Well if im not mistaken, Advent can get an extra 40% resource income from their Trade Ports when they use Resource Focus. I think its a fairly expensive tech to research though.

Reply to Entrenchment Question on Starbases in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="cg49me" reply="4" id="1963974"]Fire all the weapons on one side of the base simultaneously, opposite the direction of the planet you would like the base to move to. Wait five years. Upon reaching the intended destination, fire all the weapons on the other side of the base simultaneously.[/quote]Not even games of Sins take that long. Your strategy is ineffective, old chap

Reply to Too black to see in Strategy Sins Forums

Hmm, the phase lines are light gray, I suggest you adjust your gamma settings.