Sinperium

Sinperium

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Reply to Indie authors vs. published authors in Movies & TV & Books Sins Forums

I have a friend who has had several books published and even had one co-authored with Arthur C. Clark. He said if he were to do it "today" he didn't think he would have made it in because of how difficult it is to get publisher to look at your work.

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Reply to Modder's "Get-an-Answer" Thread in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I got a nice answer to the above and thought I'd share what was given: Short answer, no. Long answer, you can fake raids. You can use the random event system to apply spawn buffs owned by a MadVasari type player, and trigger these from your pirates to "send raids" that will be hostile even to TAR players. See SOA2 for implementing third party spawn

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Reply to Modder's "Get-an-Answer" Thread in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I have only been able to sweep the forums on and of for quite awhile and I have heard a general "no" to this but wanted to ask one more time: I have(had?) a pirate mod set up before truce with rogues and pirates. Is there any way to make pirate or rogue units to NOT be affected by these things? Either by faction OR by creating a per unit ability on their ships?

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Reply to So I've Started On a New Build in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Purty. After years of building my own PCs I splurged on a really functional high end case for the first time the last go round and wow, what a difference. Just keep it away from kryptonite.

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Reply to Making a 4x game in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Love to see the work on it. Don't feel bad at all--Stardock is intentionally generous with their forums for this sort of thing. No matter what the outcome, you'll have some solid experince and learn a lot doing this. It's a good perosnal investment.

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Reply to What comes after? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Whats next for the universe of Sins? We've seen a great Trilogy from the beginning, and a wonderfully transformed universe with the Rebellion series. But my question is... What comes next? Sure Ironclad will squeeze a few more dollars out of us from expansions and improvements. But where does the story turn from here? The Vasari, the Advent, as well as the TEC are great factions and you can't make the game too much "prettier"... Well

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Reply to Modder's "Get-an-Answer" Thread in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Hi all! First Any significant new modding links relating to Rebellion and DLCs that I should add to the OP here? Input appreciated. Second Is it possible to limit discovering artifacts to a single modded faction? Third</str

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Reply to Modding Changes Rebellion 1.8 Edition (Updated) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Lavo_2" reply="1" id="3415424"] It's a pleasure to see that 1.8 hasn't brought about any serious game breaking changes while adding quite a bit of substance to Sins. Also don't forget about these new random events and their related files. [/quote] They done good.

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Reply to Ender's Game the movie in Movies & TV & Books Sins Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="2" id="3415487"] I was a big Ender's Game fan as a kid. I wasn't disappointed in the movie, I think Sin's post shares my opinion. Oh and I did see it in Imax.[/quote] Sure...you had to rub it in. I saw Gravity on IMax--definitely a must there.

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Reply to Ender's Game the movie in Movies & TV & Books Sins Forums

I saw it. It is a very "sped up" version of the book. Peter and Valentine's secondary story is pretty much left out--which is understandable. I will say they were very true to the book and did a good job. I'd have loved if the movie had been an hour longer with more content. The movie is basically the short story that was first published before the book. I don't do spoilers but while the movie ended cleanly it sure looked like a set-up

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Reply to Sinperium Offers a Bribe for Help with a Model! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="myfist0" reply="7" id="3414439"] good luck with your model If you need any PF help, let me know. I have done lots with parts of models moving. Could also use PF to do realistic glass Reduced 29%Original 1920 x 1080 the front of the nacelle is a clear mesh that reflects the skybox's environment cube. It is as close as I could get to the ship in the show USS_Enterprise-C_emerges_from_temporal_rift.jpg Uses a few parti

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Reply to The iPad Air has arrived in Personal Computing Sins Forums

"Not for average folk" He means "cost conscious", "who like the freedom to modify their software and devices" and "who prefer to extend the life of their investment through incremental hardware and software updates rather than throw an old device away in short time and be forced to buy a new one". Something like that I think.

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Reply to Kickstarter: LIMIT THEORY in PC Gaming Sins Forums

If you haven't checked his updates do so now. He discussed how he is handling the AI for NPCs and it sounds incerdibley cool. Instead of "spawning" and "triggering" for random player encounters, the NPCs 'exist" and pursue activities like players. The example he gives is he started with a "first law" for all NPCs in a system, "Make money". Then he provided various means for them to do that...trading, piracy, mining. He let's the AI decide what

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