Don't know yet, but if you can run Trinity/Diplomacy, you should be able to run Rebellion.

The flipside is that instead of 1 or 2 players being ostracized for one reason or another(generally being jackasses is the most likely cause) you let the smurfs harrass everyone else and hide behind their anonymity.  You know how many times I have had attempts to insult me tossed by random smurfs?  I have been called "gayfox" hundreds of times at least not to mention the puerile attempts at insulting me in many other ways.  All of this from smurfs that have no accountability whatsoever from the community because who knows who they even are.  Smurfing does not give me the choice not to play with someone I know to harrass people or drag out game or generally being a douche.  Personally their insults don't bother me because I am happy with my life and their feeble attempts at insults belong in junior high rather than something that will actually hurt me.  As long as there are ways to manipulate stats then there will be little true benefit to counting total games.  Certainly it will show you the truly green as grass players but past that who knows.  Fixing smurfing one way or another would certainly be a step up for online though.

[_]-Greyfox

Gotta Have It!

Love It!, I'm treating the text as flavor only as similar things are stated about Capital ships in the game manual. My guess is they'll be a little sturdier with multiple targets per bank while capitals are currently limited to the 1 target per bank. The cool thing will be if the AI is able to build and use them which will help mods that have been trying to go this direction.

Gotta Have It! How can you not like this. Maybe the vaunted Destroyer class...

Love It! Though, I'm not really sure what this means yet. Will Corvette class ships be anti Long Range Frigates? Will scout's be retired as combat units?

Like It! I'm not a big fan of some of the graphic mods, but a little more eye candy can't hurt.

Like It! The diplomatic victory condition was meh! If the new conditions are centered more around PvP play and ending games when they "should" end then I'm all for it.

Gotta Have It! I want this to mean "options" when leveling like Starbases have. CapitalShips of the same class and race could play differently as they reach higher levels as differently ability choices are made. Plus the modding ramifications are juicy.

Gotta Have It! ICO needs retired and the new era of Reactor needs to begin!

True but if LRF's had a true counter (not the soft fighter counter) then LF could target AF thus allowing fighters to properly counter bombers maybe. What counters corvettes in either scenario?

Bombers already have a counter in the form of Flak frigates. Regardless of how effective you think they are (opinion varies) they're there. I think Corvettes will most likely be some form of Monitor type ship, a small lightly armoured ship with disproportionately large guns.

Yay!!!  So there will be a discount for Diplomacy owners.

Will there be some sort of additional discount for pre-ordering?  Do you guys have any estimate on when the first Beta will be available?

you only have 2 gig?  please tell me your talking about a netbook or something...

Webellion?  Execute them all, centuwion!

So what happened to whatever was chasing the Vasari?  Did it give up?  Maybe it got bored, if it's intended prey han't invented anything useful in over 10000 years apart from how to get more mileage out of Scramble Bombers.  I suppose if it involves a type of madness, rebellion could be a first sign?

More seriously though, this could be an opportunity to rewrite the Sins lore, which hasn't really done a great deal for the franchise so far.

What you need is an explanation for why three different cultures have set up a base in a star system or star cluster at roughly the same time, why they can't detect any of the other orbital bodies without sending a scout and why their technology is limited at the start.

So- the various rival empires have long known of an inaccessible cloud containing a star or stars, but their instruments could not determine anything more.  They suspect from some of their readings that it was once the home of an ancient dominant culture.  However they also discover that a temporary discontinuity in space-time (the dimensional cascades) will allow them to send a very limited exploration party to the system, equipped with the minimum necessary to begin a colony on a terrestrial planet revealed to them by means of its beacon- or warning.  The exploration party discover that their instruments will not penetrate the space cloud even from the inside, but they can detect phase lanes radiating away into the unknown.

How about that for a first sketch?  Not really in keeping with a Rebellion theme, but then neither are super-giant starships.. they seem more Late Imperial than Rebel to me?  At least it covers how the game is played out though?

Lastly, to all those who claimed that the Unity could never be broken when I raised the topic many moons ago- ha. 

I get paid tomorrow! Time to preorder this and Portal 2

This has just been nagging me all day, should I go out and get Trinity now? Or will this be like Dawn of War II: Retribution, where nothing is carrying over so there's no reason to get the first 2 games? 'Cause if all I get is a discount, then I'll just wait until it comes out, and enjoy the full experience of all 5 factions and all the ships.