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Reply to Entrenchment please in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Getting it tomorrow is not very likely. Not till after 1.12 is tested and officially released to fix the sync bug according to Blair's post in the dev's journal.

Reply to What's your weapon of choice? Mouse,Trackball..keyboard? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Usually a combo of keyboard and mouse. Keyboard for control groups and moving the camera and a laser mouse for everything else.

Reply to I get Entrenchment or the Turkey DIES! in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Poor turkey. Either way it will never get to experience Entrenchment.

Reply to Ok so v1.1 is out but can we get entrechment beta yet?? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]After the 1.1 being rescheduled, I'd imagine they won't post a release date to keep from upsetting people.[/quote] I hope they still give an estimate as to when it MIGHT be available so people know when to check impulse. Every gamer is used to anticipated games being pushed back, it is just that they are used to hearing about it much sooner. I thought the 18th seemed like a sure thing. I guess not having to worry about CD duplication gives them more freedom

Reply to Video on making a frigate with strikecraft movement. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The ships stuttering has only started for me post 1.05 and I haven't yet figured out why or how to fix it. I am using the same acceleration values as I did with 1.05. Ideally I wanted to create a ship ability like the scout explore that allows one to go into evasive manuver mode which would essentially set the acceleration/deceleration settings so they move in battle. The AI would then turn it on automatically only in battle too rather then how I have it now where its always on. I can

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire v1.1 Lands Nov. 18th in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote who="Lord_Dark_Cloud" reply="23" id="1941327"]Will the entrenchment beta be out the same day.[/quote] It is supposed to be out soon after. I would guess a week or more later but no offical date was given.

Suggestion regarding incoming hostiles alert in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I maybe the only one who is annoyed by this but the incoming hostiles alert could use a threat level. It is not a problem on small maps or during early game but on large maps and in mid-late games it can be distracting. Being caught up in 3 battles across different star systems and getting the generic "incoming hostile fleet" alert for a single cobalt every few minutes gets old fast. I keep having to divert my attention to make sure what ever is approaching my territory is something my defens

Reply to Entrenchment Delayed :( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Something pretty serious must have been found to delay it two months with less than 7 days left before release. I was looking forward to it next week too :(. Oh well.

Reply to Where are the mods in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'd say this game is more mod friendly than most. In fact in the 1.1 patch soon to be released they have increased the number of capital ships you can add for modding purposes. I think many are probably waiting for the 1.1 patch before they update their mods. I know exactly what you mean though. Look at mount & blade. It has a ton of mods but they are spread out across versions. I have 3 versions of the software installed just so I could try out the different mods.<

Reply to Suddenly just had a thought in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Still I think your making it out to be more complex than it really is dude. Diplomacy is hard coded as far as I am aware unlike the races. You can add a new race and it will use the code for diplomacy without any additional work needed whether its the diplomacy we have now or the one we will have in the second expansion. So they could very well wait till the end and then add the 4th race. The only thing they will need to worry about is balancing it with and without starbases and whatever they

Reply to Suddenly just had a thought in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

They could add the starbase for the new race with the new race expansion and enable it only if you also have the entrenchment expansion installed.

Reply to The Endgame - Boring? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Maybe there could be something along the lines of what End War has where the losing side has a 'last ditch' tactic they could use once to try and turn the tide or at least become a threat once more? What exactly though I don't know. For now I just quit the game when the enemy has nothing left to threaten me. Regarding the fleets retreating constantly, I do find that annoying at times too but it is also something human players would do. I think it would be better if it v

Reply to Has Anyone Tried the Shattered Suns Game? And what do you think? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I gave it an honest chance despite the look because it had some pretty good ideas but ended up returning it very soon after. I can live with bad graphics if the gameplay is fun but I didn't find it fun at all.

Reply to Does anyone recognize this? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I had the same thought about this screen: https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/images/screenshots/sinsscreenshot13_1280.jpg Possibly an early version of the vasari missle cap?

Reply to The New Micro Expansions... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Some random ideas: * Scaling: How about a 4th zoom level? Right now we have a galaxy view with all the stars and clouds, a solar system view with all the planets, and a planet or close space view. Maybe there could be a 4th planet high orbit view when you zoom in close enough where the planet fills most of the background. Something close to the scene with the battle over coruscant in SW episode 3. You could only bombard planets when your ships are in this 'layer'. And if there

Reply to Red Alert 3? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I really don't know what they are thinking with the 5 activation limit. All it does is annoy their paying customers. I was in the beta but honestly I don't see myself buying it. It is a lot of the same thing which might not be a bad thing for some but having played all in the c&c series, I rather spend it on a game that tries something new. The gamespot review made me laugh though. He pointed out more flaws then good things yet still gave it an 8.

Reply to Economics of a Starbase........ in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

It sounds like there are other useful upgrades besides weapons for the station like trading upgrade that would make it better over 5 caps IF you are looking for something to use purely for defending systems.

Reply to Video on making a frigate with strikecraft movement. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I was working on something similar to this as well. I was able to get pretty good moving battles by playing around with the acceleration settings but I never could solve the ships smacking into one another when you've got many bunched up. Still it looks cool. See here at about 1:10 into the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMFt4XjTeH8

Reply to Invisible models,need help please in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I am having the same problem. I tried a sins ship model converted to 3ds, opened it in xsi, added the textures as it stated in the documentation and exported as xsi. When I converted it to mesh again using convertxsi, no vertices are captured leaving me with no model / texture for the ship in game.

Reply to Hyperspace antimatter cost? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Thanks!

Hyperspace antimatter cost? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Can anyone point me to where the antimatter cost for hyperspace is? I see modifiers for the value in an artifact buff but nothing in the individual ship entities or in global settings. I am hoping its not hard coded :)

Reply to Opening .mesh in a 3d program? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Thanks All! That plugin to import .mesh to 3ds or the already converted sins to 3ds models is what i'm looking for. Now that I know what I need, I should be able to find it.

Reply to Opening .mesh in a 3d program? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

No luck with xsi. I tried opening and importing but .mesh is not accepted as valid for any of the import options.

Opening .mesh in a 3d program? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I have seen a few mods on here that change the original sins ships. What applications are people using to open the .mesh files as 3d models?

Reply to Need Mod Help? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

How does one open the .mesh files in the XSI tool? I see the xsi to mesh converter but is there one that goes mesh to xsi? I want to mess with the original sins ship models.