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Reply to [VIDEO] Some Titan Action in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Bump... Also, the youtube version finally completed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be2vlbrvbls

Reply to Titans - New Game Mechanic Suggestion in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Yottsu" reply="3" id="3099775"]I think that you are not too far off from what the developers are thinking. I found these inside of the gameinfo folder inside of the Rebellion folders. AbilityTargetAntimatterTanks.entity AbilityTargetBackupGenerators.entity AbilityTargetBridge.entity AbilityTargetComputerCore.entity AbilityTargetDamageControl.entity AbilityTargetEngines.entity AbilityTargetHangarBays.entity AbilityTargetSh

Titans - New Game Mechanic Suggestion in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Basic Idea : Leaning heavily on observations of contemporary naval activities, the idea is that certain types of severe damage require the ship to go back to the shipyard for extensive repairs. In order to balance the Titan without nerfing its combat prowess, I propose that we introduce some way for Titans to sustain damage that simply cannot be repaired without paying a visit to a Titan Foundry (the shipyard that creates Titans). B

Reply to The true power of the titan is it possible? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

In favor of it, as long as the titan takes significant damage in doing so.

[VIDEO] Some Titan Action in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

http://new.ixios.net:13297/rebellion.mp4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be2vlbrvbls This is just a temporary URL while I try to get the thing uploaded to Youtube, which will result in it being considerably smaller download (but probably also a lot worse quality). If you want the BEST quality, watch it from the link above! The encoding i

Reply to new TEC Boarding Capitalship Suggestion/ idea using enemy factories in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="bassman389" reply="7" id="3099400"]My idea wasn't to nessasarily enable the player to be able to build the other races ships; but to use the captured factories to build your own ships. My main point was that if you could capture and use factories in enemy sectors it would make the whole battle over a sector more interesting and possibly turn the tide of war in your favor or against you if the AI or opponet could do the same. One of the main reasons I

Reply to Anti-Structure ships should be able to target titans in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Allowing Ogrovs to hit Titans would defeat the purpose of Titans completely. They'd basically just be a starbase that can phase jump, with no greater or lesser survivability than the units we got years ago in Entrenchment. And if you're the Advent, you already have starbases that can move (albeit not phase jump), so it's even more of a yawner. Titans are meant to be downright durable, which they are for the most part (unless fighting another Titan). They're tough as na

Reply to Game hitting 2GB memory address limit and crashing in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

[quote who="RonLugge" reply="15" id="3099193"]Possibly because that's only a band-aid on the actual problem that would split the community in two.[/quote] Uh? How would it split the community in two if the official version of the binary comes with LAA Enabled? Your logic doesn't make sense. You seem to be suggesting that only half the people would receive or use the version with LAA enabled. I don't understand how that's possible, if every

Reply to Game hitting 2GB memory address limit and crashing in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

So, not to jump on the necro thread bandwagon or anything, but... did the developers ever provide a reason why they can't just ship the game with the LAA flag on? Most people who are serious about large maps or mods are going to enable it anyway, but a certain minority are either unaware of the problem (or how to fix it) or deem themselves too technically inept to even try. 64-bit is more of a pipe dream right now (maybe for Sins 2), but LAA is not that unrea

Reply to Novalith Cannon Spamming by the AI in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Teun-A-Roonius" reply="10" id="3098789"]I agree with you that the AI spams way too many Novaliths at the moment. I played with a few random AI behavoirs though, so it may just be the Fortifier AI that does this. Anyway, my game turned into a gigantic Novalith armageddon after an hour or two. I was forced to put up starbases at almost all of my planets so I wouldn't lose them. Pretty annoying for sure.[/quote] Forced? To build Starbases? [e dig

Reply to new TEC Boarding Capitalship Suggestion/ idea using enemy factories in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Yottsu" reply="2" id="3098873"]Being able to capture enemy ship building units that are not of your own (sub)faction would become game breaking. Building ships that are not of your faction would put other players at a tremendous disadvantage since you can produce ships for your fleet (that are not of your faction) reliably. I feel as though one should only acquire ships not of their own faction by boarding the ship one so desires. If anything, an enemy Frigate Factory s

Reply to Titan death un-impressive in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Aethus" reply="5" id="3098861"]As an Advent player Allquixotic, I am very opposed to the bypassing shield bit of your idea.[/quote] Yeah, that was a silly idea, I admit. It works for TEC, but not the rest. Maybe make it so that the explosion has to go through shields first, but it can "strip off" a significant portion of shield mitigation, thus making shields go down easier to the damage points dealt? What I'm saying is, it should basically rip r

Reply to Titan death un-impressive in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Polistes" reply="2" id="3098809"]I think the titans should also severely damage near by ships when destroyed as well, a fitting end for them.[/quote] Oh man, this. Just imagine the energy needed to operate one of these ships: it's got an incredible amount of mass (from the looks of it, it's heavier than an Argonev Starbase), and it manages to propel that mass at amazing speeds; it's almost as maneuverable as a capship! Anything with that much power has

Reply to Corvettes and their role in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Give them a survivability ability that you can research, maybe something like "Evasive Maneuvers" where they have a 10% chance to shrug off each attack volley. That'll make them more like a persistent swarm of killer bees, rather than a swarm of gnats. I don't think Corvettes should be anti-Titan. Just let the anti-module ships fire at Titans, with a chance for the titan to evade their shots (i.e. the shots would be far less effective against a Titan than an immobile Starbase,

Reply to [Bug] Ships disappearing in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Could it be an engine limit on polygon count or ship count or effects count, or something similar? I warped in a fleet of 6 capital ships (3 Dunovs, an Akkan, a Kol and the new one, forget the name), my Loyalist Titan, and 6 Raloz Constructors into an extremely well-defended enemy grav well. The enemy had a Loyalist Titan, 5 to 7 capital ships, a large number of trade and refinery ships, tons of phase-cloaked mines, a starbase, about 15 squadrons of fighters, 30 to 40 combat frigates/

Reply to All The Titan? Or new Capital Ships in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Shathak-Ovigas..... reminds me of a Reaper from Mass Effect. A lot.

Reply to The Rebellion Speculation/Suggestion Thread in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

My thanks to IC and stardock for doing another exp!!! :) I can already hear the gears turning in modders' heads, hehe... "Are we going to make the Battlestars into Titans?" "Are we going to make the ISDs into Titans?" "Are we going to make the Scimitar into a Titan?" "Rebels are PERFECT for the Galactic Civil War!" My idea (or shall we say, dream :)) of a Titan is basically the idea of infinite (or near infinite) forward momentum, like a snowball rolling down an infinitely lar

Reply to Stuff the community wants in Sins 2 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

IMHO all future Stardock/IC games should come with a 64-bit build. We have seen over and over and over that 4X strategy games have a sprawling nature to their data set that is very difficult to contain within the virtual address space of a 32-bit process, at least as far as Stardock's implementations have shown. Couple that with some kind of high performance on-disk database for caching less often used objects/data, and you should form the technical foundation for the future of Stardock/Ironc

Reply to Elemental: War of Magic v1.1 Change Log in Elemental Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

I really, really, really, love the gameplay, performance and stability enhancements in Elemental 1.1. That said, I am really, really, really disappointed that I've been harping about the Large Address Aware (LAA) flag for 3-4 years for every single game you guys have released, and you have stalwartly refused to enable it, without so much as providing a justification for why you cannot enable it by default in your builds. So tell me: why in G

Reply to If you’re not running Windows 7 64-bit yet, please do so soon in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Basically, the way I see it is: 1. Make a 64-bit version of your games, if you can. 2. If that's too expensive, at least turn on the Large Address Aware bit, so that people with the /3GB switch enabled or running a 64-bit OS can take advantage of 3 or 4 GB of virtual address space, respectively. I wrote a console program that will turn on LAA on an arbitrary program from the command line; I have tested it extensively with SOASE, Elemental and GalCiv 2, an

Reply to [Crash Fix] Pelaa-Sins in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="wbino" reply="6" id="2708306"]My eyes hurt. And I'm obviously stupid. btw... does it work or not? [/quote] You won't know until you try [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] Like I said, it's not a universal antidote to crashing, but it may help you if you've got enough RAM and are fighting very large battles. Oh -- and if you've got a 64-bit operating system, it will help more than if you only have a 32-bit one. At the end of the day, the truth is that i

Reply to [Crash Fix] Pelaa-Sins in Sins Modding Sins Forums

harpo, how does anything you said contradict what I wrote? Using caps and big fonts doesn't seem to make your argument more valid. Here is your argument, summed up, if I interpreted it correctly: (1) You don't like the way I'm using the terminology "virtual memory" and would rather that I call it "application data space". If you read my post, you'll find that I call the system-level virtual-to-physical mapping "virtual memory", and I call the "application data space" the "virt

Reply to [Crash Fix] Pelaa-Sins in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Just to put the nail in the coffin, I stumbled upon this great article, by a Microsoft employee in 2008, that basically says the exact same thing that I just said, but with pretty pictures, and his own executable. http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx

Reply to [Crash Fix] Pelaa-Sins in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Stant123" reply="1" id="2707281"]Another one huh? You're the 4th or 5th person I know of that's 'helped' in this manner. I applaud your efforts, but this doesn't fix anything, not how you're representing it anyway. It also appears that you've been seriously misinformed or totally misunderstanding what's going on, not only with LAA but the issue with Sins crashing and virtual memory in the Windows environment... Basically, everything you're talking about.&nb

[Crash Fix] Pelaa-Sins in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Executive Summary: Pelaa-Sins You're into a game of Sins that has been running fine for an extended period (minutes, hours), and it suddenly crashes with a minidump. Boom! There are many reasons why this can happen. This "mod" (if you can call it that) addresses one of those reasons. You