Cykur

Reply to What would happen after an EMP attack? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Up until recently, I was living in Los Angeles for a few years. I used to joke around that it was the biggest planned cannibal community in the US. 10 Million people living in a desert where they have to pump the water over a mountain is not my ideal place to be when "it" hits the fan. I don't really think we're in immediate danger from a group with the sophistication and resources to put a small nuke into the US upper atmosphere. It isn't the nuke so much as the roc

Reply to Combat "smurfs" for a better community in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]PS: Many of your clan members smurfs all the time and you dont kick them from the games how this cover with your statment ? "dishonest" ??? double moral standard ??? [/quote] Not only do they smurf, they smurf me! Ebil DT's.

Reply to Raging Amish's Skill Rank List in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]Oh, and I thought about it. To me, the team player is the guy who perfectly assimilates himself with his ally. They work together. Move together. Take advantage of merging two races tech's to make one UBER fleet. I like the way you put it when it comes to most DT's. We're cowboys who focus more on getting ourselves up and running into a wrecking ball instead of working with an ally to become a joint-wrecking ball. Also, do you think it'd be fair for me to write a review abou

Reply to Raging Amish's Skill Rank List in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote] He's kinda like JJ though. He'll take heat off you by drawing attention to himself (draws in the 2 or 3 v 1 situations), but in terms of feeding allies I haven't seen too much of that. [/quote] A 7 for Team Cooperation!!! The NERVE!!! J/K, it is probably fairly accurate. And I DO feed sometimes, but half the time it is a stopgap measure while I cut my way and open up a new front. It is very common for me to manage 2 or 3 fleets to both exp

Reply to Raging Amish's Skill Rank List in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Hmmm....my micro is only an 8 or a 9, I think. You have to judge the micro standard by JJ, because I know his micro is better than mine. Tyr's micro is probably better than mine. I'm not even sure if my team cooperation should be a 10? A lot of DT doesn't excel in this area because there are so many cowboys in the clan. Hilariously, my contributions to the team has traditionally been one of two roles: 1) I play whack a mole with my neighbors while m

Reply to Capital Ship Carriers and the truth about strikecraft. in Strategy Sins Forums

Actually, carrier caps are pretty powerful when used properly. They are also situationally useful with some strategies and against some enemy fleet compositions. - They are strong early game when there is not much counter to strikecraft. However, they become marginalized by strikecraft counters like all carriers later in the game. - SOVA rushing on small maps hurts a lot. Not such a useful cap otherwise. - Halcyon has a couple awesome abiliti

Reply to Raging Amish's Skill Rank List in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Poor Raging Amish...he ran out of ships and capitals to rate and document for his guide. Oh well, time to start evaluating and rating the people!

Reply to Lums are FUBAR (Very broken) Part 2 in Strategy Sins Forums

Actually, Quickstart nerfs Vasari the most because in the old days Vasari could already have additional income from roids while people were still trying to afford their labs. Quickstart allows TEC and Advent to rapidly get their military or economic foundations up.

Reply to Lums are FUBAR (Very broken) Part 2 in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]LOL [Magog]Kruelgor. I remember him saying that. He said that with enough diciples you can counter lrms. LOL[/quote] He recanted his evil blasphemies after fighting a couple people who could play. [quote]Personally, I say the only race screwed by the Illum is Vasari. When you're best option as Vasari to counter a type of ship spam is to make flak (not scouts, too weak, not assailants=illum food, HC's too expensive early, LF's? LOL, fighte

Reply to Major balance issue with illums in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]1.03 a minor part fo the communaty was whining advent underpowered. Yeah, his name was Innociv. [/quote] I wasn't talking about whomever did the 4v1. =)

Reply to Major balance issue with illums in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]1.03 a minor part fo the communaty was whining advent underpowered. Trust is they were far form underpowered people just hadn'T yet figure out the game and how to play with lums. So what happens is IC bostes Advent and over night the game become and advent only game. After that they ahve been nerfing advent over an dover still not realising they need to reutrn advent to 1.03 lvls. I know one dude in 1.03 with advent would take on 4 dude by him self and crush em. So I always wondered wh

Reply to Is the Destra Crusader worth using? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Couple dozen meaning in the 50s and higher. I didn't count. I think it was around 60-70, but it might've been slightly lower. It was hugely laggy. I can't check on my recorded games, cause my graphics card asploded.[/quote] It's ok, a lot of things asploded in this thread.

Reply to Goldlist of Players - Player Skill Track List in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]Do what the Amish do. Give the kid a hoe or a rake and send it out to work in the field. Hell, I'd dress the kid up, send it out with one of my other 5-6 kids at ages 1-10 and use their cute faces to sell strawberries on the street corner. You think I'm joking? That's what we do! Hell, give that kid a whip to use on the horses. Teach it to work![/quote] Once the baby starts crawling, it opens up a world of cleaning possibilities if you put them in a sponge suit and let em loose

Reply to Is the Destra Crusader worth using? in Strategy Sins Forums

125 Destras = 1250 Fleet Supply ___________ 3 Halcyon = 150 FS 5 Drone Host = 100 FS 30 Illuminator= 180 FS Your Friend = 430 Total Fleet Supply

Reply to Preparing for Demigod v1.1 in Demigod Journals Sins Forums

Great stuff Frogboy! [quote]I like the idea of AI demigods that replace dropped players not providing gold/XP. Any opinions on that?[/quote] They can maybe give 1/4 exp and gold. I don't know if 0 is completely fair. Part of the problem is they need to be a bit more careful about getting killed. I have seen some of the AI gods be totally reckless an

Reply to Goldlist of Players - Player Skill Track List in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]What if the smurf in question never started using the smurf name for pugs until it had a record indicative of skill? Joining a pug with a smurf name that has a record of, say, 45 games played, 35 wins seems much, much, much less smurfy than using a name with 2 games played 2 wins. For the record, I wouldn't join a game with a name that didn't indicate skill in some sort of a way. Also, I'm sometimes captain and when I'm not captain, I think I'm drafted at about the right spot, somet

Reply to Does anyone know of the 2 games that are like League of Legends in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote]I was not aware that Demigod was "broken".[/quote] I actually started playing a bit of multiplayer Demigod recently because it in fact works quite well now -- I'm guessing the OP was referring to the problems at launch?

Reply to Considering getting Sid Meier's Railroads! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

You should get the demo. As has been mentioned, it is less complicated than Railroad Tycoon 3. If you want a more casual game with less depth, go for it. If you want the most detailed simulation, I would dig up a copy of RT3.

Reply to Goldlist of Players - Player Skill Track List in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

I haven't been able to play much. I try to hop on every few weeks to get a game in, but I have less time to play overall and Entrenchment games, on average, take a lot longer to play through. When I was on, I also noticed that my friend's list was fairly empty. I also noticed tons of people who I have never seen before saying "Hi Cykur, long time no see!" -- so I can only guess half of the active community is comprised of smurfs or people who have felt like they "outgrew"

Reply to Lums are FUBAR (Very broken) Part 2 in Strategy Sins Forums

It is kind of a tricky problem because if you make Assailants and Javelis much tougher or cheaper, they could become OP in some area where they are not fighting Illuminators. Also, nobody wants the ships to be carbon copies of each other. The problem is not necessarily about equality between a class of ships. It is about having viable counters at all stages of the game. Unfortunately, because Advent can effectively defend themselves from the counters, we get all this

Reply to Lums are FUBAR (Very broken) Part 2 in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]I suggest you try one where you actually allow the Vasari to have the advatage of a closing fight. Giving the Advent the advantage right off the bat skews the test in their favour already. That's not something you want if you're trying to prove that they're overpowered.[/quote] If you want to see real overpowered, you should see what the test results would look like if the Illuminators were being actively micro'd to always be in motion so the Assailants or LRM's were constant

Reply to Spaceciv is released under new name: Cosmic Supremacy! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I took a look at this....it is probably one of the best browser games no one will ever play. Only hardcore strategy people have the time to deal with this style of game.

Reply to Cities XL in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote]What do you mean its single player? Do you even know what game he/she is talking about. The game’s optional online features and services will let gamers create interconnected cities on virtual and persistent planets. By combining a fantastic single-player game with the social and multiplayer aspects of an MMO, CITIES XL™ will shape the future of the genre by offering more variety, bigger cities and multiple gameplay layers. I helped my si

Reply to Suggestion: remove the option to create multiple players in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]Azrak, it sounds like you should limit yourself to pug-only games that require players to have a minimum of 20 games player or some such.[/quote] Smurfing is the whole reason PUGs suck -- if you are a fan of PuGs, you would spend as much energy trying to stomp out Smurfing as you do promoting PuGS. The amount of played games is irrelevant because of how easily manipulated the numbers are -- being a well known player is the thing which matters.

Reply to Suggestion: remove the option to create multiple players in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]Btw, Cykur: atm they have to delete/rename as well in order to play with a clan tag, so it wouldn't exactly be worse than it is now. If you want to keep your stats there's no way at the moment to change your name when you join a new clan.[/quote] Of course...you know, I wasn't arguing with you. I was just saying having 1 name might be a bit harsh. A good way to handle it would be to have your clan designation in a different field. That way your name wouldn't c