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Your fighter/bomber ratio... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I was wondering what people's general thoughts were for the ratio in which they deploy fighters and bombers. I've been using certain strategies myself, and I was interested in whether my rationale was solid. Basically, on offense, I favour bombers over fighters (in increasingly greater ratios as the game progresses). I might start 3:2 bombers/fighters, but by the end of the game I might be at 4:1 as countering caps, titans, and structures become more and more impor

Is searching for artifacts cost-effective? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I've never seen much discussion about this, but I'm assuming the answer is no. Unless you already know where one is, there seems to be a very low chance of actually striking it lucky, at a relatively high cost. There is certainly few resources to spare early on, and they become less valuable (in general) as the game goes along. Does anyone else have any thoughts about this? Is my reasoning wrong?

LAN not working anymore in Technical Sins Forums

So, my friend and I have been playing Sins for a while now, using a crossover cable between our two laptops (my Mac running Windows XP SP3, and his Acer running Vista), and it worked for a long time. For some reason, he could never host games, as I always got an error telling me I was "Disconnected from Game Server", so I always hosted. But recently, it became more and more frequent that he got the same error, and was forced to restart his computer before working. Then, it w