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Reply to Vista-64 rocks in Personal Computing Sins Forums

I dont like being the microft basher du jour, but ... I should point out - for the sake of fairness - that looking at the main consumer operating systems, its only Windows (and only consumer/workstation versions of it) that has issues with 4GB+ total ram on 32-bit. Macs have been on 64-bit for a while now, ofc. Linux, can work with up to 64GB of ram on 32-bit. Although PAE is necessary for a process to be able to access an address range greater than 4GB, most things th

Reply to Returning Armada useful? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Aye. Think of them as Rapid Response Teams :)

Reply to Here comes the next OS from Microsoft in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="Xiandi" reply="3" id="1892192"]They better do it right this time, and get the bugs out of it before they release it.[/quote] I'd make a bet that it will be another "Wait for SP1 or its suicide" affair, but its so foregone I doubt anyone would take me up on it.

Reply to [MOD RELEASE] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 0.03b Released (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Major Stress" reply="19" id="1891913"]The Galaxy/Venture was not meant to be built in the hundreds which is why it has such a high fleet cap. There were never more than three seen in any battle.[/quote] I know, which makes pure galaxy/venture 2k-fleets quite amusing [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

Reply to Brand new to SoaSE in Strategy Sins Forums

Only a couple of hings to add: You might wanna make your first cap the coloniser ship. If you don't, you'll be wasting fleet and resources on 2 colony frigates. You'll need 2 to replace a colonising cap because they have abysmal AM regeneration. If you choose not to make your first cap the coloniser, you'll probably want the full-on battleship. You'll lose early-game expansion speed advantage for mid-game firepower (your combat cap will be at a higher level). Whi

Reply to Name some OS other than Windows, Mac and Linux in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="Pixeleo" reply="25" id="1891311"]Let's set a criteria for looking for OSs: If they can't be skinned, they're not worth it[/quote] That's not really a good distuinguishing feature in a *NIX os, since every damn terminal prompt that's in color can be skinned, not to mention every darn window manager.

Reply to Name some OS other than Windows, Mac and Linux in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Only remotely via SSH and very briefly - a friend of mine pickup an old (10yrs+) SGI box and I had a look around inside. And yes SGI boxes are very expensive. As to the processor, MIPS > Itanic, obviously :P

Reply to advent bug/feature (1.09) in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Nah, its normal - ships with frigateRoleType "AntiFighter" statCountType "FrigateAntiFighter" don't auto-join fleets, even though their entity has autoJoinFleetDefault set to TRUE. Its bloody annoying, but nothing new.

Reply to Vista and XP get Linux-like multiple desktops in Personal Computing Sins Forums

The thing is right ... I use linux regularly, and I use the windows port of the *NIX window manager BlackBox on windows ... and they both have multiple desktops ... and I hardly ever use them. Sometimes (very rarely) on Linux, when I'm coding something for a project, I find it useful to have Emacs open on one screen, XChat open on another, and the references on a third, but this only happens when I'm working with an interpreted language like LISP or python and I have so many files and

Reply to Name some OS other than Windows, Mac and Linux in Personal Computing Sins Forums

I think IRIX hasnt been named yet. Its the SGI *NIX, loosely BSD-ish.

Reply to Sins Plus and SoA2 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yup. entity files are very sensitive to things like that - using plain text without a markup language of some sort usually means that. If it had been up to me I'd have used YAML, but I'm sure there was a good reason for the decision - probably memory use when using text entity files.

Reply to Questions about fleets in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="InfiniteVoid" reply="2" id="1890762"]You can tell which unit it is in two ways: the actual ship's selection circle is brighter than the faded circles of all the other units. Alternately, look in the empire tree and the ship's representative icon will be brighter than the other selected ships.[/quote] There's also a small white caret - one of these: ^ - on the icon of the fleet flagship in the empire tree.

Reply to HELP! with Vasari Returning Armada Mod in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The simplest way of saying it is: you cant. 1.09 adds the capability of making ability activation cost resources. In 1.05, that's simply not possible.

Reply to [MOD] Sins of a Solar Empire: INVASION (new screenshots, May 28th, 2012.) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yup, I know them things, that's a planet, that is! [e digicons]:drool:[/e]

Reply to Any news on when the finalized version will be out? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Soon™ ... *snerk* sorry, couldnt help myself [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Reply to [MOD RELEASE] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 0.03b Released (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Ah, punctuation, how I miss thee.

Reply to [MOD] Sins of a Solar Empire: INVASION (new screenshots, May 28th, 2012.) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I havent looked THAT hard at the abilities system, but I get the feeling a true viral ability is not possible - i dont think you can grant units 1-time abilities as part of an ability effect. You might (note the italics) be able to simulate it, by making the "viral marketing campaign" take over 1 ship, and then choose its next ships from those close to the 1st target, and so forth ... and I'm not so sure about that.

Reply to Halo MOD? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Eh... maybe I'm too old for this, but I still prefer the pfhor to the covenant.

Reply to [MOD] Sins of a Solar Empire: INVASION (new screenshots, May 28th, 2012.) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I'm sure ManSh00ter can make them hit even harder than IC starbases - what's been said about Titans proves that. Having to be built at capital bays and flown into position should be possible, and even switching to starbase mode once flown in like Advent trade ports switch to resource mode. The mutually exclusive upgrade paths, however, probably won't be possible unless you already have Entrenchment. I don't mind either way - I could wear a leather jacket with "Born to

Reply to Star Wars Mod in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Nor will bumping help, since its all up to EJ.

Reply to [MOD RELEASE] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 0.03b Released (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The D'Deridex of course, I'm not quite senile yet, thank you very much :P

Reply to [MOD RELEASE] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 0.03b Released (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Aye, they tend to stick to the cheapest ships - seems the AI is tuned to Sins costs, and that makes it consider even the cheaper SoA 2 cruisers prohobitively expensive. Since they all have the same role, it just stick to the cheapest unit. In all honestly, SoA 2 ships are extremely expensive, compared to Sins ships. It would be fine, except that roid mining rates are unchanged, which makes, for example, starting as a Romulan is incredibly painful, with the cheapest combat ship

Reply to [MOD RELEASE] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 0.03b Released (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Major Stress" reply="25" id="1884691"]For the next update ill make sure all the ships have focus fire set to true since it does seem to have an effect.[/quote] Aye, I dont see any SoA2 factions fielding support cruisers anytime soon - unless there's something you havent told us yet? :p

Reply to [MOD RELEASE] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 0.03b Released (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Major Stress" reply="25" id="1884691"]For the next update ill make sure all the ships have focus fire set to true since it does seem to have an effect.[/quote] Aye, I somehow don't see any SoA2 factions fielding support cruisers anytime soon - unless there's something you have'nt been telling us? :D

Reply to [MOD RELEASE] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 0.03b Released (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Changed it to light, changed defiants to focusfire as well - its all good :)