If I were you I would contact costumer support: https://www.stardock.com/support/ I have no clue what the problem is, but they should be able to help you.
Teun-A-Roonius
[quote who="Rebell44" reply="20" id="3084440"]Brad said that he will use 3rd party solution - what 3rd party MP solution would you propose? GFWL?[/quote]There will be a third party solution, but besides that you can also just download the game through the Stardock Store, so a third party platform is not at all required to be able to play this game...
Steam integration for multiplayer would be a bad thing since there are lots of people that don't like that platform.
[quote who="LupusVir" reply="48" id="3083990"]One problem though: The Titans look nothing alike. How could the disc be with both of them?[/quote]They do not look alike because the image you posted shows only concept art. Concept art just gives a general idea of what the designers want the object to look like in the game. It's final design hardly ever looks the same as the concept art, as you can see in the image I posted above.
[quote who="Yarlen" reply="3" id="3083950"]Initially we had planned to go this route, but it proved to be confusing to testers. As such, you must now choose to be rebel or loyalist during game setup.[/quote]I love it that way! Hoped that you guys would implement it like this (I even suggested it in numerous threads).
The benefit of choosing a subfaction is that you get your hands on a titan, and of course there will be some other benefits aswell, but which these are is still not completely clear. If they would create titans for the neutral factions aswell, it may actually be worthwhile not to choose any subfaction...
[quote who="LupusVir" reply="46" id="3083721"] It looks like the tip of the energy triangle/circle, from which the brightest beam originates, is the disk. Is that what you mean? In the top right corner.[/quote]Yea, that's what I mean. They kind of removed the inside of the disc and replaced it with a floating circle, it seems. In that image, you see what happens when that circle is activated. It shoots a beam from the top of is after creating a triangle of beams inside the
Could you please put some spaces between your sentences? That would make it a lot easier for other people to read it (If you posted this using your mobile phone, than that's the explanation for the spaces disappearing, other people have had this problem as well). Some of your ideas seem to be based on visuals that we have already seen or on information we already have (like the plasma gun from the TEC Rebel titan and the ability to destroy planets from the Vasari Loyalist
That disc is used for devastating capital ships and who knows what else dares to attack that titan. It has nothing to do with that shockwave ability that is show in the teaser trailer (if you look closely, you see that the disc doesn't light up when that ability is activated). Proof for the beam weapon is shown below (remember this one?): <img src="http://pcmedia.gamespy.com/pc/image/article/121/1217222/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion-20120125003933466.jpg" alt="Advent Titan Shoo
I think this is actually a good idea. Would save you a lot of time getting up to speed when starting a new game. Though I'm only in for it as long as I would also be able to disable this feature, like with the resource income speed and Quick Start features etcetera.
This is actually the Advent titan that also appeared in the trailer already. Though as you can see, it's appearance has been altered dramatically.
I think it is more realistic to assume that it actually is the titans main gun (or some ability), instead of some pact or an adopted weapon system from another race (remember the TEC Rebels are the ones that want to destroy the other races, not ally with them).
[quote who="Rebell44" reply="11" id="3083421"]Maybe Rebellion will use Steamworks (very few non-Steamworks games can be activated on Steam).[/quote] It will most likely not, since it is also available at other retailers and a boxed version will become available aswell.
I have mentioned this moment in the other thread already (it is visible at 0:23 in this video), but it is nice of you to bring it under everyone's attention using this screenshot.
Let's all stop bitching at each other and let this thread rest in peace, shall we?
[quote who="RiddleKing" reply="28" id="3082582"]No one plays sins at the highest settings most of the time.[/quote]I play Sins on the highest possible quality with all effects enabled. I am truly looking forward to some graphical improvements. But as you said, it won't be of much use during multiplayer games.
[quote who="Major Stress" reply="62" id="3082287"]Guys you need to relax a bit.[/quote]I'm cool. Just teasing JCD for a bit, that's all. [e digicons]O:)[/e]
Very nice, karma for you! [e digicons]k1[/e] EDIT: It looks like they added a lot of new debris objects and even complete capital ship wrecks. Also, the part with the Protev Colony frigate being loaded with troops might imply that the TEC gets some sort of invasion ability. This is purely speculative, of course. You can see some TEC Loyalist corvettes in action at 0:23 by the way. Can't wait for the beta! [e digicons]:X[/e]
[quote who="Lavo_2" reply="3" id="3081901"]I've used Paypal to pre-order things, admittedly music CDs and not games, so I wonder if that policy only applies to digital DLs or such? As if so, wouldn't it be possible to set up a pre-order for a physical copy, plus shipping?[/quote]Paypal is used for direct transactions. So when you pre-ordered your music CD you probably had to pay for it directly, even though you were going to get it at a later time. Stardock does not charge you im
The old pacts were removed for a reason. Most of them were either useless of too overpowered for a specific race. That's why they replaced them with more balanced pacts.
[quote who="LupusVir" reply="34" id="3080372"]That would let the Vasari have more resources. Because the resource asterois remain, and no one but the Vasari (hopefully) can build extracters on them.[/quote]I do think the resource extractors should be captureable by other players, otherwise this marauding titan would become way too overpowered. Also, I think the player that owns that titan will start off normally with a home planet. Maybe just when the titan has been built,
I like the way the game costumization interface works. But it wouldn't hurt if they though of some way to make setting up a game even faster.
The dev's stated they are working on a promotional video which they thought is looking rather cool.