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Reply to Early Defeats in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="varis2000" reply="5" id="2000397"]Remember the Pause feature - confusingly mapped to the Pause key! Use this to buy all the thinking time you ever need when eg. deciding what to research next.[/quote] ...motherfuck that really is confusing, I thought it didn't have a pause feature, I tried space bar, I tried esc, I couldn't find it in the key bindings, eventually I just gave up and would open the options screen, which is a real pain cause you can't see anyth

Reply to END OF THE WORLD COULD BE TOMORROW in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="dknippe2" reply="5" id="1904157"]The first observation was that all galaxies are moving away from each other at ever-increasing speeds.[/quote] No, no. It's ever decreasing or it's constant, the two current end of universe scenarios stemming from the big bang are that it will end in fire or ice :) depending on the total mass of the universe. There is a certain calculated critical value, based on the observed rate of expansion, a point at which, if the

Reply to ? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="8" id="2000265"] Quoting Sole Soul, reply 7 Quoting Annatar11, reply 5I take them all? No-because the thread was completely derailed. (Even though it was already offtopic and had no topic!) So how do you derail something that was never on rails to begin with? Hypotheses, anyone?[/quote] Main Entry: 4 rail F

Reply to Arguement to play SHooters in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="lifekatana" reply="2" id="2000371"] How many times have you been scared/startled in a game? Probably one or two times? Maybe you haven't been really scared in a game at all. For movies that number is probably higher. [/quote] I'd have to disagree, a movie hasn't really scared me since I was 7, I watched alot of them with my dad, they get predictable, but the first time I played a Resident Evil game I had to pause after ten minutes to go

Reply to Arguement to play SHooters in Everything Else Sins Forums

Age doesn't define the individual, it's rediculous to think that not only does his age determine his level of maturity, but to assume that the people who define the standards have the same moral goals as his parents. Personally, I don't know what the fuck these ratings are supposed to tell parents anyway. TEEN Titles rated T (Teen) have content that may be suitable for ages 13 and older. Titles in this category may contain

Reply to Players skill track list. in Sins Clans Sins Forums

[quote who="Cpt_Siddy" reply="3" id="1998732"]Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro.[/quote] After reading all your other post in this thread, I didn't realize tho

Reply to Arguement to play SHooters in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="Emperor_Seth" reply="8" id="1999530"]Well, my mom says that I'm allowed to play M rated games cause I'm more mature than most kids my age (I'm 14) , hell I'm even allowed to play Grand Theft Auto IV. Now look, your friend may not be mature enough to handle shooters and his parents might think so. -Seth[/quote] Sorry kid... but that almost made me pee. In general principle I'd say parents who think kids need to be mature to

Reply to Early Defeats in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If your new, I'd try larger maps, they give you more time to build up your empire before you have to face an actual enemy, Aereolian Sector with all but one AI disabled should be perfect, and because it's such a large map, definately have all the game speeds at max. I think it's a great way to get a feel for tactics and what research subjects and investments are most bennificial. Keep in mind though that the tactics which work best in a large map won't help much in the small ones,

Reply to PC Game Piracy Examined in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="22" id="1974391"] From page 8: "The argument that removing DRM will result in a net increase in sales has no basis in fact based on the evidence at hand. Not only does gaming history show that unprotected games simply lead to more piracy, recent history also demonstrates clearly that simply removing DRM is not the answer to piracy. As we saw in the Scale of Piracy section, many popular games which have no intrusive DRM, such as Assa

Reply to What do you like about Sins? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

[quote who="Major Stress" reply="10" id="1378169"]The fact that even though my system barely meets the minimum requirements the game runs smooth on max settings (until late game that is). [/quote] Agreed, and that I can change the settings during game play, so I can have the great graphics in the begining, and decent game speed during massive invasions, without having to restart the game.

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Yeah, drive me nuts.

Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Quellist" reply="1" id="1954830"]I do hope that it does have a negative impact on sales [/quote] ... jackass

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Sorry, I wrote that in word then pasted it here, I didn't notice they merged till I posted it.

Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="bd1314" reply="11" id="1953025"]@CraigHB you hate it when programs put themself in the startup? Well, now think what .Net does to shorten the application startup time. And of course there is no easy way to turn that of, because at last in Vista that is part of the general windows startup process nad/or login process. So if Windows itself does it, how can you tell application developers they should not do that? I am not citicizing you with that question, instead it was a rethoric o

Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Thanks Zoomba, I run AVG, I'm fine with turning that off for the download, but I run Spybot's Teatimer as a contingency, I believe that all it does is monitor the registry for attempted alterations, have you seen any errors specifically related to TeaTimer?

Reply to Ironclad Online Broken? [resolved - server down] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I tried it again, and bravo, there weren't any active games, and I'm on dial-up through my cell phone right now, so I won't bother to host one, but it works :-) ...have I ever told you how beautiful you are Craig, that firm chisled jaw, and those penetrating amber... lines.

Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I had the same error when downloading 1.1, "File size smaller than expected" something like that anyway, I just ran to the laundramat, had it in about 15 minutes. The owner was ticked when he found me in the building at 1:30 though [e digicons]:blush:[/e]

Reply to 64-bit Windows is better than getting an SSD if you have the RAM in Personal Computing Sins Forums

I just meant the game, my system runs on both, I've actually played with processor affinity quite a bit to squeese a tinsy bit more speed out of programs that refuse to use both. Thanks for the tip, though, I belive what your refering to allows one to limit resources available systemically, by default all the settings are deactivated allowing full access to all resources, so long as they are actually supported.

asking for new feature in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Okay, so, this isn't really beta feedback, just an idea, a rather shameful idea, but I'll present it anyway. I think it would be awesome if Entrenchment, or even just a patch really, granted an option to lock-out combat for a period in the begining of each game to allow for fortification. I want get the Actually HAL I Can Do That achievement, but everytime I try, even with the AI set to Fortifier, I get overrun by at least two capital ship fleets with a dozen or so basic frigates

Reply to 64-bit Windows is better than getting an SSD if you have the RAM in Personal Computing Sins Forums

I honestly haven't noticed a difference, I'm mostly just running x64 on principle, I bought a computer with a 64 bit processor damnit, I want to use it. One thing I've been wondering though, I don't know much about programming, but my understanding is that if a program is in 64 bit code, only the .exe and .dll files need to be specifically 64 bit, and that any of the supporting data files that it uses can still be 32 bit. I mention this because of an issue i've been having and a thread I saw

Reply to Dual core - second core used at all ? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Oh, another thing to try is diabling the empire tree, just go to Menu/Options then User Interface, all the boxes in the center/right are the empire tree, this is the closest I've come to disabling it, but it significantly improved my performance, more than changing the graphics (on larger maps)

Reply to Dual core - second core used at all ? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I've had similar problems with other software. One thing you can do is to alter the process afinity in task manager so all of your tasks but Sins run on only one core and sins alone is set to run on both. It helps a little, but it takes a hell of a long time.

Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

When I first went to download a patch for Sins and found this Impulse client, I was pretty PO'd, I believe I shouted, "What the F*** is the s***? I actually pay for f****** software and you f****** want to put this f****** s*** on my f****** computer!" And so on, it lasted for quite a while... I'm sure that any inferences you make about my past game acquistions would be reasonably accurate, so I scoured the internet for such a copy of the Sins patch, found none, conceided to Impulse, launched

Reply to Ironclad Online Broken? [resolved - server down] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Same here, it was my first time trying, I went digging through my router's firewall settings, the config file for Sins, my adapter protocols [e digicons]X([/e] (insert many, many explitives) for a while after that I also got some weird errors when I tried to come to this site. I haven't tried ICO since, might be fixed now.

Reply to Begin game in Strategy Sins Forums

I don’t know if this should be in this thread or not, I never really got the hang of forums, if there is a more appropriate thread, I’m sorry, please post the perma-link. I just thought it would be fun to discuss general strategy with everyone. I don’t know if I’m any good or not, I don’t have much difficulty with the computer (I haven’t tried against unfair yet), but don’t have high-speed internet so I’ve been avoidin