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Reply to New diplomacy video. in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Nice vid. 1:04 mins in, could those craft in to the right of the building be the advent and TEC envoy ships? The second one looks a lot like the diplomacy symbol in the title.

Reply to Battling lighting in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I vote for the second one by far. The darker lighting makes the other colors pop out. The first one looks less crisp and a bit washed out to me. Put in gamma and brightness options and call it a day :)

Reply to So much to do for next week in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Not to go too far off topic but will resources be finite or infinate?

Reply to So much to do for next week in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I like the idea of bonus given according to who controls the resource rather than making them prereqs for crafting items. Made me think of watered down honey or varying metal mixtures. Controlling the mine means you can add more of that metal to your armor in turn making it better quality. As far as resource numbers are concerned, it really depends on how big an impact on gameplay they have and what the focus on the map is. Should they be important enough to fight

Question - Does team locking = no diplomacy in Sins Diplomacy? in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

I am just curious what effect team locking has in Sins diplomacy. Personally I play with teams locked because I don't like mission running.

Reply to [wishlist] pirate actions in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

I didn't even realize that they do already. I guess either I don't pay close enough attention to my credits or its too little an amount to have an impact.

Reply to [wishlist] pirate actions in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Great ideas. I always felt the pirates needed some boosting. 1. Make them less predictable as to where they attack. You could make them cloak or disguise themselves as friendly ships so they remain undetected until they reach the target. Star bases or scouts could detect them. 2. They should steal credits along with collecting the bounty. If you have a trade port, thier ships should be able to steal credits, metal, or crystal from you. It could be a channeling ability that can

Reply to First Diplomacy Screenshots are on IGN.com! in Sins News Sins Forums

Looks like a new building in the upper left of the second screenshot. Maybe a diplomatic HQ that unlocks diplomacy research.

Reply to ELEMENTAL SCHEDULE: STATUS in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="joasoze" reply="59" id="2386567"]Looking at the Beta and the current state of the game, it should be pretty clear that feb 2010 would be premature. Let this cook until ready [/quote] You have to remember though we are not seeing the latest build. I would categorize this first beta realase to us as more of a first alpha as its not evenn feature complete. Gramted the addition of all those items in the list could be littered with bugs, I would still think it w

Reply to Creative way to limit a ship to 1? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Thanks! I will trry it out.

Creative way to limit a ship to 1? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I want to lmit the building of a ship to 1 on the playing field at a time however i can't figure out a way to do it. I though of making a building that would spawn the ship costing anitmatter. The building would have a 0 anitmatter regen so the ship could be spawned only once however that won't prevent a player from bulding multiple ship spawning buildings. Anyone have any creative ideas to do this?

Reply to Newb Strategy Guide 101 in Strategy Sins Forums

Are there any good places to get entrenchment replays? All the replays on the main site seem to be either vs AI or non-entrenchment.

Reply to [MOD] Distant Stars - Rebellion Alpha 0.13 Released! [17/06/13] in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I get the crashing too. I seem to have more success with certain maps then others. For example it always crashes on start up for me on forgein invasion. Others I can get in, it just randomly crashes later during the game.

Reply to Ign review- 7.5 in Demigod Demigod Forums

The gamespot score was even lower and I sorta agree with them regarding the single player experience. The game is fun, but I was expecting more then just linked skirmishes as a single player campaign. They could have added minor things that would have beefed it up alittle. For example, having a specific path of battles depending on which demigod you choose leading up to a showdown with an opposing demigod. Right now it feels like there is this huge back story that could really draw the player

Reply to X3 is it good as Sins? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

You definately need a lot of patience to play the game. If you think huge maps on sins take too long to complete, its definately not the game to invest in. I gave up before I learned how to play 'correctly'. I was making something like $4-5000 an hour in game and to properly buy and outfit the lowest tier frieghter, it is like $400,000. Progress is way too slow for my tastes but the concept of the game is really cool.

Reply to X3 is it good as Sins? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

It has a very steep learning curve. Personally I felt it was alittle too slow to get into. You have to make lots of cash to do most things and it takes a long time to start raking in the money. Even with thier increased speed mode I found myself waiting for time to pass more then acutally playing the game.

Reply to Entrenchment Battle Video in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

nice vid!

Reply to Starbase Balance in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I was under the impression starbases would be a costly obsticle to get around and even more costly to take down. As they stand right now, it is pretty much useless to deploy them in a non-colonizable territory which defeats the purpose of making your own frontline. There are some abilities such as the administration one that prevents your planet going neutral under bombardment. I think that ability is great at forcing the enemy to take the base head on. Slow fleet movement, disrupt phase lane

Reply to My Beta FeedBack with pictures. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I don't think starbases should prevent jumping. I do think their range should be greatly increased so at least your not going to get through a gravwell without taking some serious damage if you choose to bypass it. This is more apparent when you plant a starbase in a non-colonizable territory like a junk graveyard, gas giant, or sun. Because of the short range, they are almost useless without adding the hanger upgrades and even then they are a big expensive hanger. I could cover 1-2 phase lan

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment Beta Starts Tuesday in Sins News Sins Forums

Awesome news!

Reply to Only 3 weeks left until Entrenchment in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

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Reply to GAMESPOT HAS NEW ENTRECHMENT PICS INCLUDING OTHER STARBASES! DEC 8 2008! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

An estimate would be great! I think the reason for the backlash was because the 18th sounded like it was set in stone. If it is specifically said this next date is an estimate and it ends up being pushed back again, people would be more understanding. Well some of them would. I see the dawn of war 2 beta, the demigod beta 2, and a few others coming soon. I hope I have enough time to play test entrenchment too!

Reply to Prepaid for Entrenchment. When is beta available? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I would have guessed it was an advent ship at first because of the silvery shine and glowing center but its vasari.

Reply to Dev Diary: Synchronization Woes! in Sins Developer Journals Sins Forums

If you need an app to extract rar files, you can use winrar or winace. I think both are free to use.

Reply to Dev Diary: Synchronization Woes! in Sins Developer Journals Sins Forums

Glad to see this post. Goes to show to people how difficult QA'ing software can be and why it takes so long to release products and patches. It's also why having a beta is beneficial for everyone by finding these obscure bugs that would be difficult to discover internally.