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Reply to How does culture work? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Culture stations divide their culture evenly among the outgoing phase lanes from the gravity well they are in, so planets with fewer phase lanes will have culture spread faster from them. Unupgraded, these stations broadcast culture at 10.0 per second, which with upgrades can go up to 12 for TEC/Vasari and 13 for Advent. Therefore, since planet B is spreading culture at 16.5 culture per second through the two phase lanes connected to it, your Media Hubs are each producing 11 culture p

Reply to Science of Sins in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

For a constant amount of force, a lower mass will cause an object to have a greater acceleration than one with a higher mass according to Newton's Second Law. Consequently, lighter objects are capable of moving and stopping more quickly than massive objects and can be propelled to higher velocities with the same amount of energy input/output.

Reply to Novalith, Kostura or Deliverance Engine, is there any possibility to protect planet from this kind of bombardment attack? If yes (eg. planetary shield), how is it efficient? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Shield Generators only counter the Novalith, but they can do a rather good job of mitigating the effects of such a shot, especially once you have researched Superior Planetary Shields. An unupgraded SG will mitigate 30% of planet bombing damage, one level of SPS increases this to 50%, and maxed SPS increases the mitigation to 80%, which would drop the Novalith's 3500 damage to 700.

Reply to Progenitor--Why does it broadside? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="3" id="2332893"]By the way, the Kol, Dunov, and Kortul if I remember right have rear facing guns.[/quote] The Jarrasul also has rear-facing guns, above and below the engines. Simply put, the Progenitor broadsides to make use of its laser and plasma guns on the same target.

Reply to what is "bump" in the graphics options in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Those are probably what were intended to be scratches and dents in the hull of the ship you're looking at... Seeing that on a ship that just rolled out of the factory makes me wonder if they were torture testing the hull during construction...

Reply to The Best Capital Ships in Strategy Sins Forums

Antorak's fourth ability is Stabilize Phase Space, which, if I remember correctly, was recently made non-channelling for Entrenchment 1.03 (though I can't verify this - I don't have Entrenchment). Prior to the Kostura's ability to create a temporary Phase Stabilizer Node, SPS was the only way to do the same thing. Its only useful once you have a network of Phase Stabilizers up and running (unless another level 6 Marauder using SPS works). Allows for your ships to bypass frontline plan

Reply to attacking the enemy home world in Strategy Sins Forums

In many cases, the AI will attempt to recall all of its ships to its HW in order to try to save it. Empires without a homeworld will result in all of its planets to having a maximum alleigance of 35%, so any planets above that will lose alleigance until they drop to 35%. The AI simply designates one of its remaining planets as its new HW (if any are left) after you destroy the current one.

Reply to Changing Flagships in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The "Flagship" designation can only be assigned to one capital - if you have two (or more) that are both the highest leveled capitals in your fleet, neither will get the designation.

Reply to The Best Capital Ships in Strategy Sins Forums

Any faction - battleships. These guys can dish out and take tons of damage, great for handling hard targets. I've had the right combination of bonuses to increase a Kortul's Pulse Beam damage to 209 (20% from research, 15% from culture, 12% from Kinetic Intensifier, and Power Surge).

Reply to Advent Repair Platform and Antimatter Recharger in Strategy Sins Forums

Rechargers are useless if there are no ships around as it can only replenish the AM stores of ships (although if you have Disciples around with Transfer Antimatter researched, you can direct them to recharge your Repair Bays, Hangars, or if you elect to, the Recharger).

Reply to Poll: Novalith vs Kostura vs Deliverance Engine in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The damage output bonus a Deliverance Signal will provide is 15%, which is no laughing matter when you have an Advent fleet following the shot.

Reply to I gave up on this game- FREQUENT FREEZES!!!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Those "giant files on disk" wilebill mentions may either be the autosaves the game creates every 15 minutes or game recordings.

Reply to Resurrection Question in Strategy Sins Forums

Short answer: no. In order to use Resurrection, a level 6+ Progenitor with the ability must be around when the capital is destroyed. The only way to save a level 6+ Progenitor is pretty much if you have another level 6+ Progenitor to instantly level up the replacement.

Reply to Ever wondered what all those little ships are? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I thought I was seeing things when I saw Kortuls flying around in the atmospheres of my planets a while back... At least the civilians of each race are at peace...

Reply to Resource Question in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The last way is through research, though its only viable if you have a considerable amount of extractors already.

Reply to Auto-attack issues in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'm guessing the game can only handle so many ships using auto-attack and that it is prioritizing ships by likely importance (for instance, capital ships are first priority for auto-attack, so all the capitals choose their targets first, and works its way down to HCs, who acquire their targets last).

Reply to Noob question in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Usually, the reason why your ships go after a different target is if they haven't finished killing it or they are more effective in attacking this other target. For example, heavy cruisers will chase long range frigates as they have a better damage multiplier against them than say light frigates.

Reply to any advantage of Advent? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The Advent is most notable for the synergistic potential of their ship abilities. The most well known of these include Malice + Cleansing Brilliance and Animosity + Venegance (or with a level 6 Rapture, use Domination on enemy frigates to steal them entirely, minus researched abilities). Of their frigate abilities, Replusion on the Iconus Guardian can keep your vulnerable ships safe from enemy attackers, or just preventing them from escaping the gravity well. Although its true economi

Reply to 1.2 Cap Ship Ability Guide in Strategy Sins Forums

Concentration Aura is passive, so it should not have an antimatter cost, cooldown time, and as far as I know, a pulse interval (the ability works constantly as long as the host ship is within range of this ability).

Reply to Essential Hotkeys in Strategy Sins Forums

The = button increases game update rate, - decreases update rate (the two buttons to the left of the backspace key).

Reply to Loads of questions. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

4. The only exception is planet bombing weapons, which simply do that much damage a salvo is fired (possibly less with damage-reducing technologies researched by your enemy). 5. I've never seen Resurrection in action, but my understanding is if a higher leveled capital is destroyed with the Mothership present, and you construct another capital ship (whether it has to be the same type or not I'm not sure), the Mothership will immediately raise the new capital ship's level to that of th

Reply to Unexplained culture loss in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Hostile culture will retreat, but that doesn't mean the planet they originated from will immediately be relieved of its influence.

Reply to [Bug] Artifacts in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

It's definitely possible to find all 9 in Vanilla Sins, got it on my first huge multi-star game (15 total artifacts).

Reply to Ships Health Display in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Holding ALT will show HP/shield/AM bars for all ships (and if you're zoomed in close enough, for strike craft), though I don't know any way to keep it visible at all times. I presume the Empire Tree (the module on the left side with all ships, planets, and structures) doesn't cut it?

Reply to Capital Carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

It seems that in Sins, percentage-based penalties are applied in a special manner. The actual penalty is generally found by 1-[1/(1+P)] where P is the penalty (example, a 40% reduction in cooldown rate translates to a 29.6% reduction in cooldown time). This could mean the carrier penalty is really building at 87% of normal (although that's not much of a difference from 85%). If this weren't the case, things like Demolition Bots by the Hoshiko (which apply a 200% penalty to bo