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Reply to well???????????? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

is this a game were whoever builds the most ships the winner? is that the whole game? reply plz If you build all Combat Frigates, constantly investing resources in increasing your fleet cap, you very well may have the most ships in a fleet. And that fleet will get chewed all to Hell by my mixed-force of researched and teched-up fleet of fewer elements but more interoperative effects. So, the obvious answer is no … Fleet composition i

Reply to Sins Video to Van Halen in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Man, I thought I was one of the few people that remembered this song. Props from we old guys.

Reply to Bombardment Mod Request in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]I would like to see a new in game option to “glass” a planet to keep the enemy from colonizing it. I play as the Vasari and fight defensive actions with carrier battlegroups while my main fleet is away in any of the four other systems. I tend to play on huge random maps which means i can only maintain a small defensive force.[/quote] You do realize that you’re, in the great words of Anonymous, “not doin’ it right,” correct? If this i

Reply to Will galaxy forge get an update? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Jus wondering if galaxy forge wil get an update? Specifically im after the ability to set specific artifacts & bonuses to specific planets / asteroids etc[/quote] I hope so, myself. I was poking around with GF at making a model of the Sol system and really could have used the ability to set Artefacts a bit more specifically. That said, it’s not the worst thing at this point, not until we actually get the Scripting tools and docs and start being able to assemble more campeigns. Wh

Reply to Option to destroy planet would simplify game... in Strategy Sins Forums

But I do have a problem with all these empty planets that I know the enemy could eventually find and put to use…and by this point in the game I’m no longer interested in colonizing. Here is the problem, and it’s your problem, not a game design problem. You leave planets for the enemy to make use of behind the lines and you expect them not to? Which part of “eXpand” is missing from the 4X glossary for you? Ser

Reply to Forums Back Up in Sins News Sins Forums

There’s already an RSS feed for every forum and sub-forum. Click on the rss button that is displayed next to each forum. Yikes, a tiny, non-standard RSS icon that blends into the background of date-static and hides, cunningly, in the upper right corner … and for some reason not getting picked up by the RSS auto-discovery in Firefox. Huh, I wonder why I couldn’t find it! ;)

Reply to FileFront Network Site Proposal in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

That is unfeasible and unlikely for anything beyond “Bob’s Damage Tweak Minimod”. Dawn of Victory’s alpha build is currently over 150mb. With video, meshes, new textures, a mod could easily reach half a gig. Half a gig is almost nothing to download these days. We got off the dial-up modem standard in the modern world a few years ago. That said, ideally you have an integrated auto-download system in your hosting browser that

Reply to why must ppl be morons online. in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Time to start your own consulting business, where you can sell this matching logic to game companies with online services. Dealing with crazed, self-involved rectal-probers with absolutely no ability to form coherent sentences and who do little to make me want to continue allowing the human race to continue wasting oxygen is why I got out of software engineering and consulting. :) Plugging a recomendation system into the online facet of a

Reply to Dual-Monitors disabled because of game. in Technical Sins Forums

I can report not only that it does function running on one full-screen of a dual-monitor setup, but that the other monitor displays just fine, at least on my Nvidia 8800 GT. My suspicion is you have a complicating dual-monitor configuration issue with either matching desktops or resolutions.

Reply to FileFront Network Site Proposal in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Likewise worth thinking about is whether or not Sins will integrate automatic loading of mods / maps from an ICO-hosted game directly in-game as part of synchronization. While it may not make it into 1.03, it’s not wholly outside belief it could be in 1.04, especially given how much flexibility it’ll give to map and mod makers to not necessarily need a centralized site for distribution.

Reply to A few Questions before I buy this thing. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The irony of the forum losing that it was me posting that is not lost on me. Luckily, the grammarians in the audience will recognize my characteristic lugubrious style ...

Reply to Forums Back Up in Sins News Sins Forums

Nice work, gentlemen. Spiffy fast response, though the Watchlists aren’t working yet (sad, because that’s a function I used a lot ). I am particularly appreciative of the fact I can post in HTML directly without having to dink around with the tabs and options. The only thing I can see that would be particularly useful would be to not just see posts by a user whose ID you click on but threads they’ve replied to as well. (OK, one more thing bec

Reply to FileFront Network Site Proposal in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Honestly, and not to deride the Filefront capabilities but Stardock has been pretty successful across the board with the Stardock Central online application management solution. So much so that the use of Filefront as an interface would be an active step-back from the capabilities they already have. Unless Sins were to suddenly have so much interest that the download of the patches / updates were to swamp Stardock’s ab

Reply to Let us know what you'd like in v1.03 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Two things that have been really bugging me tonight after trimming and juggling screenshots from my folder: An option for the screenshot key to remove the UI by default when hit. I like manual control over Cinematic vs Tactical, but the UI should either be a Cinematic option or togglable by default. I know I can hit Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Meta-Cokebottle-Z to turn it off but … awkward. A more compressed screen save format than BMP. To suggest file sizes are <stro

Reply to why must ppl be morons online. in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Squid such systems are too unreliable. You could easily get a group of friends to all rate each other highly, or rate one particular person down, the bigger group of friends you have the more such power you have in that type of system. You are better off not having a system like that at all. Not unreliable at all — if your system is set up to actually weight rankings based on near-neighbors in the notional space. A group of friends who heavily

Reply to why must ppl be morons online. in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Honestrly, one of these days someone will impliment rthe equivalent of a social-network affinity system for ranking how much fun you had playing against a person, one in which you rate after/during a game if you’d play again with them and manage friends lists. People who rate people similarly to you will get similar suggested rankings for folks they haven’t rated yet, just like URL/articles on Jaanix . One day some fine company will impl

Reply to Homeworld Universe mod in Sins Modding Sins Forums

For the record I dont agree with the argument that mods compete with official releases. My feeling has always been that if a group of folks who don’t get paid can self-assemble and release work that trumps the work your company has doled out several hundred thousand to millions of dollars for people to create and promote as their day job, you don’t deserve to get to think of the mods as competition. You deserve to fail, and the market generally be

Reply to So, when does "Sins of a Galactic Civilization "come out? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Could do one of the following: 1. make ship designing something done outside of games. 2. make it singleplayer only and have the game auto pause when you access one of the more attention needed screens like this and the tech tree. I’m sure you could just plunk a Galactic Civs pause feature in if you had the ability to mod a game this extensively. Ahh, to dream. My guess is that to have some kind of parallel kind of functioning between

Reply to Official Sins Avatars! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I definitely need some 100x100 Avatars with some of the art of Sins featured prominantly, and if not that, at least a 100x100 of the metalic frame they so neatly have which my meagre artistic skills fail to reproduce. :)

Reply to Can we be honorable warriors in Sins....... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

It’s probably worth noting that the Advent have an entire interstellar cannon that fires PURE F’IN LOVE across massive distances, impacts a target gravity well, and causes the people on the planet in question to swoon and think happy thoughts about them. If it’s any help, play the Advent and imagine the bolts of psychic energy descending from the heavens over the besieged worlds is made of Pink Ponies and Pure Rainbows, convincing the populace that y

Reply to So, when does "Sins of a Galactic Civilization "come out? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Actually, I imagine that someone’ll do a Sins of a Galactic Civilization mod for Sins in the next 6mo, and it’ll be just dandy. It certainly should be reasonable to at least model the core ships of the factions there. It’s the tech trees that’ll be the big pains to do up but the fact that there’s significant overlap and the new race-specific trees in Twilight of the Arnor should give some solid material to chew on.

Reply to Take a picture, win a shirt! in Sins News Sins Forums

My father holding a copy of Sins right here in a Wal-Mart, Lawrenceville, GA.

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The working title is going to be “SoA II” until we can think of something better. Isn’t the obvious answer to call this Sins of Angels ? :)

Reply to Developer Invite For Online Talk-Show in Technical Sins Forums

Superb. I'll do just that.

Developer Invite For Online Talk-Show in Technical Sins Forums

I figured that this was a reasonable place to put this, since the community clamouring to talk directly with the Frasier boys and the rest of the gang could only help. I host and produce an online live call-in Internet talk radio show on Sunday nights at 9p. Traditionally, we book bands to play a few tracks from their latest album and talk about the music industry after we do some hard news segments, but I’ve really been wanting to branch out our interview selection and it occurred to