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Reply to Wouldnt smaller craft such as starfighters be useless in space combat? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

While I don't believe or hope that there will be spacewarfare, I think it's reasonable to conclude that spacefighters will exist. A society of generally peacefull beings won't go building large ships of destruction if there isn't any threat worthy of it. Fighters or more accuratly, small patrol craft could play a vital role in policing the space around a planet. While not capable of even challenging larger dedicated craft, they could prove useful in curtailing criminals or even stoping a larg

Reply to BETA multiplayer! in Multiplayer Organizer Sins Forums

Man everytime I get on there's only about to people online, and the there's one private game. This whole week I've only been able to play two short 1v1.... sucks

Reply to Arcova Scout Frigate Captain's Log in Fan Submissions Sins Forums

Way too small for me buddy... [e digicons]:'([/e]

Reply to The Decline and Fall of the Vasari Empire in Fan Submissions Sins Forums

When are we going to get more? [e digicons]:smitten:[/e]

Reply to The Decline and Fall of the Vasari Empire in Fan Submissions Sins Forums

This is some good stuff man. The way you describe the situation in SoaSE was beyond my expectations. I like how you made the Trade Order control 2,000,000 worlds but still have each system controled by independent corporations. It's all very inspired and deserves more attention than 2 measly replies.

Reply to Unknown threat to Vasari? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Cataclysm2000" reply="6" id="1906248"]Its the female Vasari. If the men are anything to judge by, I would run too.[/quote] No wonder the crew of that ship went insane. No sailor could stand the nagging. "Sir they've penetrated our defenses. They request we take out the garbage...." "Abandon ship!"

Reply to Wouldnt smaller craft such as starfighters be useless in space combat? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

On the possibility of fighters, I believe that we cannot in all good faith predict the technologys of the future. Can anyone here with all honesty say they know what will happen two hundred years from now? If your answer consists roughly of "to the best of my knowledge..." then you cannot predict it. Therefore, to seriously debate the possibilites is pointless, and this discussion is already over.

Reply to Wouldnt smaller craft such as starfighters be useless in space combat? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I think we should all just calm down, and remember this is just another internet debate. No need for anyone's feelings to get hurt. If you want my opinion though, it's that any accurate prediction of space warfare must take into consideration several variables. The first would be human stupidity. That a big one. Just because something may be cheap or better doesn't mean someone will use it. The second would be ecomnomics. Just because you can use the super planet cracke

Reply to Future politics, what do think it will be like when we can colinize other planets and fight space battles. in Everything Else Sins Forums

I believe habitable planets are more common than modern scientist believe. One reason is our current method detection relies on the mass of object, meaning that smaller planets and other stellar objects would be invisible to our current means of observation. The second is that our definition for life is rather limited, and while planets similar to ours may be rare within our galaxy, other worlds could suit life. Its vary narrow minded of some people to assume that entire universe conforms to our

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

Yes but that would result in a massive loss of life and destruction of most of the planets infrastructure. Seriously we can't treat our compare warfare in the future with games, because these won't be pixels your killing. That kind of brutality could get you removed from the hypothetical chain of command. You've got to be precise in your attacks to reduce the unnecessary loss of life. Removing the government but still leaving the people will be the goal.

Reply to Future politics, what do think it will be like when we can colinize other planets and fight space battles. in Everything Else Sins Forums

Anything can be possible, its only the matter of doing it. What if for some reason, our minds are too primitive to achieve FTL. What if we either need to change who we are or are gifted with the technology by a race that isn't limited like we are. We often consider ourselves intelligent but when compared to what creatures might even now exploring reality, we may merely be beasts. Needless to say, it is very likely that by the time we reach FTL, we won't even be human.

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

Radiation bombs could be impractical in the future. Lets say you have a swarm of what Falkenberg termed assault shuttles moving toward a heavily populated planet with an atmosphere. Sure you could kill them with radiation, but the collateral would be too great. That much radiation would tear a chunk out of the atmosphere that could take centuries to repair on its own. The issuing blasts would kill of much of your population if they were not shielded in some way. Even if they were, former areas o

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

The space fighters off the future could have multiple functions. One strikecraft could act as a fighter, bomber, shuttle, and atmospheric reentry craft. You can't land your big ship on the planet so your going to have to either capture orbital elevators or land the soldiers manually. In fact it could launch soldiers like bombs, and then extract them once the objective is complete. While this is all happening, the vessel would be fending off atmospheric defending craft and bombing targets of oppo

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

Well gravity would make agriculture and society in general cheaper, so that in the future planets could be used mostly for space.

Reply to A german view on history and terrorism in Everything Else Sins Forums

I think we should all just cool down! What does this all really accomplish, blaming one another for the worlds ills? Can't we just forget our differences and play some video games? :( Please?

Reply to A german view on history and terrorism in Everything Else Sins Forums

I think Republicans are evil! They're polluting the air and killing the turtles! On a more serious note is how backward much of our own country is. I mean I find it offensive that we African Americans are expected the be humble about our victories when McCain was spouting stuff all around the world once he won the Republican nomination. Its such a double standard. I feel like anything Obama does will come under scrutiny when McCain make all the mistakes he wants. McCain's is one the wo

Reply to Back from the Bungie.net forums. in Everything Else Sins Forums

Obviously many of them don't want the series to be over. They're simply releasing their gamer inner rage on each other.

Reply to Back from the Bungie.net forums. in Everything Else Sins Forums

I don't know if anyone here plays or has played D&D, but the announcement of the new 4th Edition and the displacement of Dragon and Dungeon into digital form pretty much tore the well knit community apart. Before long almost every thread on wotc official site turned into an edition war. Sucks.

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

I think that space war is not only possible but a necessary part of our expansion as a race. Lets face it, even today we're discovering more and more planets within a habitable orbit of their stars. Each on of these could easily support life, not including many other planets with variants of life caused by rare circumstance like for example Europa. Even undiscovered gas giants could alter the chances of a planet fitting in a habitable zone. Out of how many of these planets that develop

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

Lets assume that we cannot violate the laws of physics to travel through space. What would we use to propel our vessels through space? Antimatter rockets, ramjets, or any other proposed method?

Reply to Girls that play RTS? in Everything Else Sins Forums

While I do believe girls play games, I have yet to meet any serious gamer. Most I have meet online were brought there by their boyfriends which can really mess with a game. Here I am playing an infection map on Halo 3 with my bro when this larger group of players joins our game. Besides being a bunch of jerks the guy happened to bring his girlfriend. Quickly the game degenerated into a bunch of guys slobbering over the one girl in the game. The zombies quickly broke through our defenses which we

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

I believe that in order to accurately predict space warfare, we still have to look at the objectives. Nukes and other high-yield weaponry would cause too much damage to planets to be part of any serious invasion plan. Like homefleet said, the enemy will know your coming so you'd better be prepared to carve your way through their defenses and still be mobile enough to conquer the planet. That means large capital ships moving forward where any other vessel would be destroyed by the defend

Reply to A german view on history and terrorism in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote](If I type lol now is it comedy?)[/quote] Would that be your entire performance?

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

I believe space warfare in the future is going to be less navy style standoffs and more siege. After all, the most valuable thing in space is a planet for the large amounts of resources close to a potential home for future populations. The new craft will be large transport whose first role is to move soldiers to both unoccupied and enemy worlds. Their secondary role will to be siege units to disable planetary defense such as platforms and military installations. The weapons we