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Reply to Something about Scifi channel i don't get. in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Something i don't get about Sci-fi channel is that they have never shown any of the Star Wars movies. How come they don't? PS:I hope that the upcoming Star Wars miniseries will be shown on Sci-fi.Sci-Fi is too busy pumping out crappy movies and figuring out how to squeeze more commercials into Ghost Hunters to really care about Star Wars and other sci-fi things. I can't recall a single original movie or series they've made that I like (that includes that abomination of Battlesta

Reply to Tired of having the AIs screw me! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Play with Diplomacy off and locked AI, maybe?[/quote] Do this and you'll have more fun plus learn a few things. Just locking teams and no Pirates makes it much more manageable. You don't suck at the game but you are bitting off quite a bit to chew. A related question about AI levels - what exactly occurs when you level up the AI? More cash I presume?

Reply to Firefly/Serenity Mod. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Ya might get everyone playing as the Reaver race.... :)

Reply to Viable Strategy, Counters, Replays, and Tips 1.05 in Strategy Sins Forums

Excellent strategy post dude, especailly good for a noobish player as myself. What you bring out is the effects of techs/cap ship options that are easily seen and chosen but this is really all theory unless you see the practical part. Good stuff!! :)

Reply to Defense 101 in Strategy Sins Forums

A lot of food for thought here... It appears hangers and turrets have their uses as they make the AI do something a little different. My last game ( a whopping 2 vs. 1 at normal - weak I know :) ) I was getting owned by a slow start plus culture (this I found surprising!) and each race had mega fleets on my corners with an occasinal foray up the middle at my home planet. One thing I can add is I set my fleet at hold in the cover of the repair bay, turrets and hangers

Reply to Can I avaoid SDCentral in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

There is an advantage as well if you buy other games and migrate to another computer. Once you have SDC up on a new machine, you get the option to dowmnload (or not) your other games. I guess it like Steam in this respect but it's not bad at all as the others have said. You can browse and d/l other demos, etc.

Reply to If i was a bomber/fighter pilot... i'd be Upset in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Maybe the fighters should sit in dock bays until something enters the system UNLESS you have the tech that spots incoming enemies. They become mobiized then? An added dimension for teching up??

Reply to Sins vs Gal Civ II in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I find that I have yet to find a planet named "Wardell" or at least "Fraser"... :) I'm too new to really comment on Sins yet but one can see a family resemblence between the two.

Reply to Sins of the Avent in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The Spice must flow ... :) Nice tie in to Dune he-he!

Reply to Sins of the Avent in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Wasn't it stuff like mind control, drug augumentation of physical/mental abilites, genetic manipulations that I seem to remember extolled in an opening cut video? And, on top of all that, listening to Britney Spears music.... :LOL:

Reply to Single player Mode problems .. Kindly help in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Being a newbie myself, also take the above-suggested map without Pirates. Use pause a lot and open the manual. I just finished my first game after two consectutive nights till 1:00 am. Soase is not hard but it sure is deep! :)

Reply to Pleased to Meet You, Hope you Guess My Name... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

****Blushes **** Thanks Mr. Fraser et al. :LOL:

Reply to Pleased to Meet You, Hope you Guess My Name... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Oh goodie! I like ponies, even the spacey ones... :) Sykonaut - not yet but I'll keep you in mind. I saw the thread about noobs on line as well but I've got a lot to learn before I venture into MP. I've done MP in a FPS (BF2 mod Forgotten Hope) and some of the old AOEII so I'll give it a whirl after a bit.

Reply to Why only one thing researched at a time? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

You can't cue up more than you can afford any how right? There will be some element of waiting anyways until economies kick in more?

Pleased to Meet You, Hope you Guess My Name... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I just wanted to say hello to this forum. Yep, I downloaded this game Sunday and found myself up till 1:00 am last nite already. :) Right now my best friends in the game are the Pause Key and the Manual with a lifeline to this forum, which I used last nite to find out how to convert neutral mining asteriods as TEC. I'm familar with the Gal Civs and recently popped out of Astro Empires to what looks like a real RTS. Looking forward to shari

Reply to Bought Sins as an impulse purchase in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I downloaded this Sunday and am looking forward to some good times. I have been familar (through not real active) with the Gal Civ series and enjoyed them, this looks very promising. It looks to be as is has been said - easy to play but very hard to master!

Reply to Is it easy to play? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Downloaded the game yesterday and I'm anxious to put theory into practice. Stardock, Brad et al policy of being accesible is a great one and emotes all sorts of confidence in a great product.

Reply to Allowing colony ships into your territory in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The Thalans colonized Mars on me once when I ignored it in favor of colonizing better quality worlds elsewhere in one of my first games That happened in my current game. Poor AI, doesn't it know that it will be the first planet it will lose. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" border=0 ALIG

Reply to How did you find out about Galactic Civilizations II? in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I voted Gamespot but I heard it from other places are well. My decision to finally buy it (on-line) came from the e-mail from Stardock. Kudos to you guys - Gal Civ II is a dream. Knight

Reply to Test in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You made it, mate!!

Reply to Why shouldn't Starbases attack enemy ships in their areas? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As far as impeding ships, didn't Gal Civ I do this with like a tractor beam module you could add to your star base?? ** clears cobwebs from between ears **

Reply to Mouse wont work in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Midnightsun, that was the answer. Changed my XP computer resolution and wah lah! Appreciate it man. This came after I reinstalled the game from scratch (my disk came in the mail.) Changed the h/w mouse deal. Both didn't work. Again, I thank you all very mucho.

Reply to Mouse wont work in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks all. I'll go back to the last version. I wasn't sure that I could do that thru SDC but I'll give it a try. I think the McAffe deal is just when the program checks the Internet but I'll shut it down. The tip on manually updated the options is great as well. I looked and couldn't figure it out. Needelees to say, I tried many, many things. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gi

Reply to Mouse wont work in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

This forum editor is not quite right - To the above message from me: My mouse will not work at all. I can't even get to the options part of the game to change to hardware mouse. I have a Geforce 6800XT with an AMD64, 939 pin machine that runs everything under the sun but I cannot even exit this game properly. I saw back in FEb 2006 this was noted as a potential problem but it's a real one with me. I have used Windows

Mouse wont work in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I posted this in the Gal Civ II forum and I am reposting here. Quote - I was find until I updated last version. Prior to that, i changed as not to use a full window as Galactopedia crashed my games when I switched back and forth. Uninstalled gsame, reinstalled and I can't get my mouse to respond to even set options to hardware mouse. Catch 22!! WTF. Geforce 6800GT. This looks likes its been an old problem