John_Cowski

Reply to Is it possible to play online? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

A co-worker & I tried playing online for the first time together last nite. Utter failure. He tried hosting, then I tried hosting. Same results (virtually). Our systems aren't junk either. I'm running a quad-core 2.8ghz w/4gigs of DDR3 hi-speed ram, blah, blah, blah. Plenty of horsepower for this game. He's running something similar. Our pings were under 60 the whole game but next to it in status it stated: "Lagging" virtually the whol

Reply to What am I doing wrong? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Ryat" reply="18" id="2488953"]nope[/quote] Well, could you please elaborate as to how I get passed this? Also, I was told by Ryat in another post that to watch replays of games I must find replays made with the version of the game I'm using (v1.181). Could someone please finish Ryat' post & let me know where I can get replays of games using v1.181? Thanks

Reply to Watching Replays in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I downloaded a couple of replays to watch but they say "Invalid Save type" when I try to watch them. They are older versions I guess (v1.03) & I'm on v1.181. Does this mean I can't watch older replays?

Reply to What am I doing wrong? in Strategy Sins Forums

Side note...I'm starting another game after winning the last one. Do I have to set up my player' name, pic & colors each time I play?

Reply to What am I doing wrong? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Swordsalmon" reply="7" id="2488218"] EDIT: Also, you really should look at the Multiplayer replay topic and download some of the replays. It's extremely helpful watching what some of the veteran players do, and can really improve your playing style.[/quote] Good advice, SS. Thanks. [quote]just a side point, if you are using the Akkan (or any other colonizer capital ship, the Mothership or Jarrasul) you dont need the colony frigate, just ma

Reply to What am I doing wrong? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="ComradeYakov" reply="3" id="2488205"]What you encountered are the defensive militia that are randomly generated at each planet. They aren't controlled by your AI opponents- they just stay there and attack anything that comes in. Btw, congrats on getting the game. Any chance you'll be joining us for MP (after you practice up a bit?)[/quote] I may give MP a shot in the near future, Yakov. I just hope I'm not overwhelmed by playability of everyone out there

Reply to What am I doing wrong? in Strategy Sins Forums

Thanks, SS! Redoing this map with your tactics in mind. I have 1 question for you. When you say "Repair Bays" for actual defenses, what are you speaking of? Your not talking about the repair platforms themselves are you? Also...not sure if the AI is "cheating" or not but when I got into the game, I immediately created 2 colony frigates & sent them to 2 different planets. As soon as I got to each one, there were approximately 3-4 LRF alr

What am I doing wrong? in Strategy Sins Forums

Finally got the game for Christmas yesterday (Woot me! [e digicons]:grin:[/e] ) Installed it, upgraded it & started playing. Started small with a "Random Small" game. Long story short I played for roughly 4 hours till I dozed off about 3am. Started up again this afternoon & I'm about 2 hours further into the game & the AI just threw about 200 ships at me on 2 different planets!! It'll be a wipe for me but I'll use it as a learning experience

Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else Sins Forums

Ryat banned for being long winded & making no sense with the comment about koda0. And I reserve the right to future ban Ryat cuz he'll have some smart-a$$ comment about this ban. [e digicons]:D[/e]

Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else Sins Forums

Banned for using only 1 "l" in your nick...and a bonus ban for having a 6-digit member number!

Demo "bug" in Technical Sins Forums

This isn't so much a bug or even an exploit but thought I'd throw this out to the technical team. I've been playing the demo for a while now. Waiting for my birthday to get the full blown game (next week btw). I played the "Balance of Power" scenario but turned off the computer players & confirmed that the pirates were enabled. (which they were). I then started playing. Immediately a "Victorious!" screen came up showing that I won the game

Reply to Forge Tools 3 Released in Sins Modding Sins Forums

What's the difference between Galaxy Forge & the map designer in game? I may have missed something along the way within the forum messages. Also, is there a clear cut way of installing Galaxy Forge? Or just extract it to the SINS subfolder?

Breakdown of the different versions of Sins... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Greetings! I've noticed there are, what appears to be, 3 different versions of the base game itself. Store bought version Digital Download <li

Reply to Game play questions... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

WELL CRAP!!! The demo evidently has a 90 minute time period on a game! *sigh* [e digicons]X([/e]

Reply to The future of SoaSE in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="5" id="2446596"] quoting post This is the first time I've ever read or even heard of children purchasing a (real) computer game for their parents. I guess it shows just how far computer gaming has come. [/quote] I guess I should add to this that my "kids" are in college. LOL [e digicons]\o/[/e] They'll always be my kids...don't care how old they get. But just want to make sure they do sp

Reply to Game play questions... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Okay...I can't believe I got not 1, not 2, but 4 EXTREMELY postive replies (and 2 from DirtySanchez) regarding my question. Thanks to all of you! I sincerely appreciate it! Now I must wait till 12/10 (or whenever my kids decide to give me the game) for my birthday gift. So will play what I got now & ask more questions. Half tempted to get the manual printed out too. Think it's worth it? Are there any other Sins fan run

Game play questions... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I know these are probably pretty much newb questions but so far everyone' been pretty cool about answering my initial questions so here it goes. I'm playing the demo till I get the bundle

Reply to The future of SoaSE in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Thank you both for the quick reply to my post. It sounds like you both enjoy the game immensly. And Teal is very emoticon happy!! Nuttin' wrong with that. I appreciate the insight to the game. Will forward my recommendation to my kids to get me the game for my upcoming birthday. So will be stuck playing the demo till 12/10 rolls around. [e digicons]X|[/e] But that will keep me entertained until Christmas rolls around when I ge

Laptop vidcard & SofSE in Technical Sins Forums

I'm in the process of getting a new laptop with a Intel Dual Core cpu 2.2ghz w/4gigs of ram & a Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD video card which features up to 1759MB dynamically allocated shared video memory. Will SofSE play on this machine at all? I know I'll have to turn down some detail & what not but I'm more interested in it just playing at all. Can anyone shed some lite on this? Anyone have first hand experience with this t

The future of SoaSE in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I d/l'd the demo & have been playing the game with much vigor. My kids want purchase the bundled pack of SoaSE & Entrenchment for me for my birthday soon but I want to make sure they are spending their money wisely so I ask the fans this question... What is the future of this game? Are there any new expansions on the horizon for this game? Wh

Nervous purchaser & his questions... in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

We all know the difference between the Standard package and the Ultimate package is $20. For some that's no big deal but $20 is $20! Question #1: With that said the following additional programs come with the Ultimate package. There are some other ones but I'm not interested in those. The ones I am interested in are: WindowFX SkinStudio IconDeveloper <font size

Reply to Speed Issues/memory resources with Stardock software in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

[quote]There is not a trial version of the complete Object Desktop. Which trials did you download from Stardock to try.[/quote] https://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/ I clicked on the free icon. Did you check there?? I may have said Object Desktop but meant Object Dock. [quote](just stating this; system slow down is something crack/pirated versions cause.)[/quote] Well, you must have read the same article I did if you know this too. (just statin

Speed Issues/memory resources with Stardock software in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

Greetings all! My question basically says it all in the subject line. How well does Stardock work with systems nowadays? I downloaded and ran Object Desktop & WinCustomize last year & played with it. I found it to slow my system down & it was taking a lot of resources. My system isn't great but it's not slow. I have 2 gigs of DDR400 memory & a AMD 3200 system. I would like to just bite the bullet & buy the Ultimate package but am leary about it choking