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Reply to Vasari small mp 1v1 : Space Egg vs Kortul in Strategy Sins Forums

I'd say both are useful. The Egg's Disassembler is arguably the best anti-capital ship weapon and the Kortul's Volatile Nanites can make quick work of enemy fleets.

Reply to Pinpoint Bombardment in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If you also try to use the Vulkoras' Deploy Siege Platform, the platform is often deployed outside of its firing range, so Pinpoint Bombardment will give it enough range to fire if you let the Vulkoras simply use it at maximum deployment range.

Reply to Charged Missiles (Vasari Assailant Upgrade) in Strategy Sins Forums

With Junsuraks (Vasari flak ship), the AoE damage will kill off strike craft quickly. The only problem is that on autocast, it will cause your LRFs and flak ships to ignore movement/jump orders in favour for chasing down a scout/trade ship, or some other questionable target.

Reply to cannot stop decreasing friendly allegiance?? in Strategy Sins Forums

Optimum number = number of colonizable planets you can sustain This number is not constant, as it fluctuates according to your resource demands, fleet size (and capacity), proximity to hostile strongholds, available resources, and numerous other factors. You should only colonize a planet once you can afford to upgrade it to generate positive income, otherwise it becomes a drain on your resources. Defenses should scale according to the threat you percieve is posed by Pirates or

Reply to Repair Bays and Phase Missile Q's in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I thought Advent Repair Bays restored 30 hull/s... still twice as effective as Vasari ones. Just take note that the TEC's repair bay begins with 20 hull/s, and must be upgraded twice to reach 40 hull/s (each upgrade increases the repair rate by 10 hull/s). Repair bay itself is Tier 1 Military, upgrades are both Tier 2 and necessary for the Hoshiko. Technically, Advent have the best repair bay before additional research.

Reply to What are the victory conditions in this game? in Strategy Sins Forums

You can make research more feasible if you increase its speed in the game options (Tier 8 techs get researched in 3 minutes with maximum research speed), or if you're Advent, Aggregate Knowledge will increase the rate of research by 33% (which translates into research times cut by 25%). 1v1 games don't usually take long enough for an empire to completely finish researching all its technologies unless it purposely takes a mostly defensive or conservative attitude towards expansion. Lar

Reply to Dead horse buffet in Everything Else Sins Forums

Bailout defeated 228-205.... Citigroup is absorbing Wachovia, Dutch-Belgian bank Fortis NV gets 11.2 billion Euro bailout... Banks won't even lend to each other now.

Reply to What are the victory conditions in this game? in Strategy Sins Forums

Pretty much, you win when all hostile planets are neutralized. You can also win if all your enemies surrender.

Reply to Questions about fleets in Strategy Sins Forums

When you select a group of ships to be formed into a fleet, look for the sub-selected unit. You can tell which unit it is in two ways: the actual ship's selection circle is brighter than the faded circles of all the other units. Alternately, look in the empire tree and the ship's representative icon will be brighter than the other selected ships.

Reply to Where are the Pirates going? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Actually, I've had a situation where I had a planet with a direct connection with a pirate base and three others that were 2 jumps away. All of them suffered attacks.

Reply to Huge Multi-star Map Strategy in Strategy Sins Forums

In a way, the superweapons are also a crude method of recon, as in the case of the Novalith and Kostura, where only hostile planets are valid targets, which instantly tell you which planets are colonized by a hostile faction. The Deliverance's only restriction is that the planet must have population, so it can be fired on self, friendly, and hostile (though its only bad for hostiles). Really, the only valid targets for the Novalith should be known hostile targets (that is, planets that have b

Reply to Armistice a viable strategy? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="kingofsiam" reply="4" id="1861630"]So you use armistice, and get 60 seconds of hull repair, while the other guy basically sits and watches. [/quote] Wait a sec, doesn't Armistice also disable abilities?

Reply to How do i colonize arctic/volcanic planets? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

In your Civilian/Harmony/Empire Research Tree, find the appropriate subject (planet with green flag on it). Both are Tier 2 technologies and therefore require two civic labs to be constructed in order to be researched.

Reply to Huge Multi-star Map Strategy in Strategy Sins Forums

You were right in that the Mothership is involved: its Cleansing Brilliance and Malice (used by the Radiance and Progenitor, respectively). If you have a Rapture at the same time, cast Vengeance on the Radiance after it uses Animosity. Ships that are forced to attack the Radiance will suffer a multiple of the damage they dealt to the Radiance in accordance to Vengance's level. A Halcyon in the vicinity of a Rapture with Concentration Aura will have all her strike craft's damag

Reply to 'Gravitic Tolerance' (Vasari) broken? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

In 1.05, Gravity Tolerance simply shrank the disc representing the gravity well in accordance to the researched level of Tolerance... the gravity well you see would be smaller than the gravity well others see (try comparing gravity well size in a replay and switching between players).

Reply to cannot stop decreasing friendly allegiance?? in Strategy Sins Forums

There are two ways: 1. Station capital ships at the affected planet. Each capital ship repels culture depending on its level (and researched bonuses in the case of the Vasari caps). Culture repulsion rate can be calculated by 0.05x + 0.25, where x is your capital ship's level, if the capital is at friendly location. If you are at a neutral location, divide the result of the calculation by 2, and if your capital is at a hostile location, culture repel rate is zero. Vasari Capit

Reply to Advent Question in Strategy Sins Forums

If you're looking in terms of refineries, then the Advent have none. Instead, their Trade Port can switch to increasing resource extraction rates for that gravity well, with appropriate research (research subject is Resource Focus). Once researched, Resource Focus allows the Advent Trade Port to surrender trade capabilities (disabling the Trade Drones belonging to that port as well as denying other Drones from using the port) in order to raise resource extraction rates to all extracto

Reply to Question about the Novalith cannon? in Strategy Sins Forums

Which level of planetary shields? First level is at Tier 5 (which is included with getting the Shield Generator) and levels 2 and 3 are at Tier 7. Maxed Shield Generators can mitigate a TON of damage, rendering siege frigs (a favourite ship for the AI to employ in raids) next to useless unless in ridiculous numbers.

Reply to Do the Advent have a super weapon? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Like the Kostura, this weapon is more useful with a fleet following the shot in. Culture bonuses aside, the Deliverance Signal also gives your ships a 15% bonus to damage output when they are in the gravity well of the affected planet. On larger fleets, this makes a rather significant difference.

Reply to Hangar defense: fighters or bombers? in Strategy Sins Forums

If you lose a planet, any surviving structures remain and are still operative. However, all your constructor ships go boom, as well as any unfinished structures.

Reply to A bit of Espionage, anyone? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The closest thing we have to an uprising other than overpowering cultural influence is the TEC's Insurgency. Once researched, opposing empires will periodically suffer raids from ships resembling the planetary militia ships that are found around neutral planets at the start. These ships belong to the "Rebels" faction and will attack anyone, including yourself. Insurgency has 2 levels, the second level having more severe raids (either larger forces or generally more Heavy Cruisers). Ship

Reply to Vasari Super Weapon(Kostura Cannon) even worth researching? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Its useful if you follow the shot with an invasion fleet... Kosturas alone are magnitudes less useful, but they can still knock out research labs and culture centres in the affected gravity well, which in turn lowers the effective number of research labs your enemy has and stops culture coming from that planet.

Reply to Question about the Novalith cannon? in Strategy Sins Forums

Unfortuantely, from all I've witnessed, the actual generation of your culture from a planet hit by a Deliverance Signal will equal 25.0/sec - enemy broadcast rate. Should the enemy's broadcast rate be greater than 25.0/sec, then you're just slashing that planet's culture generation... Culture seems to have a tendency to have relatively high spread rates from planets with only one phase lane connected to them... once a Deliverance Signal on such a planet caused my culture to be generat

Reply to Fast Capship Destruction? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Starhound" reply="5" id="1878874"]Two Raptures both firing at eachother, both using Vengeance.. sounds like damage getting bounced back and forth and amplified indefinitely. Never thought it would actually work but seems I was mistaken. Scary stuff.[/quote] That would produce faster deaths when Vengeance's retaliated damage is increased to 65%/130%/225% in 1.1... This warrants experimentation...

Reply to A few questions in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I thought hovering the mouse over the research icon only showed progress on research currently being carried out... 2. You can also set teams at the start of the game, as well as decide whether to leave the teams locked or unlocked. Unlocking teams means players are allowed to change their alliances, while locking teams prevents this (and thus, disabling most of the diplomacy screen). 3. The Advent also have a more powerful set of abilities which complement each other (combos