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Reply to Suggestions for SOASE 2 in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Realistically, some forming of niches is inevitable. Another option may be to have "tiers" like in Supreme Commander for each faction if there are that many units. I suppose the Titan would be the equal of the experimental units and the capital ships would fall somewhere in between. Some units are used a lot early game and become mostly obsolete by late game, while late game units are better suited for specific roles. [quot

Reply to Remember the races! in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="trims2u" reply="27" id="3483765"] The Korx to me were the expression of what an amoral race is. Neutrality isn't the same thing as amorality. People who are neutral can still have a very strong code of morals. Ethics are different than morals. For instance, I always saw the Korx like modern international arms dealers - people willing to sell guns to anyone who brought cash to the table, regardless of what they were selling, or the obvious

Reply to Suggestions for SOASE 2 in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

One thing I'd like to see is a lot more variation between the sides. Frigates for example, we could have roles that the other races have no direct comparison to. The new capital ships in the Rebellion expansion went in that direction, but the Rankulas was well ... ineffective. I kind of hope as I said that we get some sort of a ship designer.

Reply to Suggestions for SOASE 2 in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="63" id="3484011"] Likewise, most people seem to want more frigates. What roles should they fill? Previously, I've suggested Defense Cruisers to counteract bomber spam. If we're having invasions, should we have a dedicated unit for that or should existing Siege frigates get that ability (I vote they get the ability). Any other ships? [/quote] Presumably, they'd have different trade-offs for different roles.

Reply to Suggestions for SOASE 2 in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

The only other things I would add to that list is that Ironclad is working on their MOBA, and their team is too small to be working on 2 games at once (or so Stardock says). From what I understand, they own the IP to Sins. That means they may have, assuming you are right, transferred those rights to Stardock. It's likely that if you are right, then Sins 2 will have more limited Ironclad involvement than Sins 1. I suppose that we will know at

Reply to Where's the innovation? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Navinor" reply="65" id="3483883"] What would happen if Stardock would spend billions of dollars on Galactic Civ III, but no normal player could play it? You would have a "super complex strategy simulation", but how much would by this? 3000 people? Great. 3000 hardcore gamer playing this game and the company is financially ruined. That will not work! [/quote] Stardock does not eve

Reply to Suggestions for SOASE 2 in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

I'd have to agree that a better UI is needed. It will be needed even more if the game is s 64 bit and the unit caps are increased. Let's say that the game remained real time and most of the wishes remained true. Scale of Sins 2 will be larger because it's 64 bit and unit caps may be higher. - The problem is, you've got multiple star systems, multiple fleets, and multiple battles of several thousand units. - In fact, there m

Reply to Heavy cruisers not worth the money? Do they need a buff? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="73" id="3483825"] Tell me, is HummerX and Sinkillr the same person, or different people? What does your analysis of style tell you? [/quote] To be honest, I could care less whether they were the same or not. I would trust neither as a reliable source of information. So you say people can make up stuff, yes? Or that it is hard to figure out multiple accounts? For the sake of argument, let's sa

Reply to Heavy cruisers not worth the money? Do they need a buff? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Sinkillr" reply="71" id="3483776"] Plot twist: Sinkillr is actually UnleashedElf [/quote] Lol? [e digicons]:D[/e] That's the first thing you have said to me that has made me laugh. If we were, it would be easy tell. our tone would be extremely similar. Plus, you have thus far, attempted to hide your alts as much as you can, the notable exception being HummerX. [quote who="Seleuceia" reply="70" id=

Reply to Suggestions for SOASE 2 in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="42" id="3483777"] You talk about multitasking like it's a bad thing in an RTS. The fact of the matter is in any RTS you'll at times have to manage multiple things at once. The trick isn't to nullify multitasking. It's to make that multitasking as convenient as possible so that player skill can shine through. Multitasking is part of the beauty of RTS games. A self-sorting Empire Tree so that the actua

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[quote quoting="post"] From the information available, GALCIV3 is looking pretty much like the previous iteration with nothing that substantial to tell them apart. This is a gut feeling impression and I hope I'm wrong and there's more than updated graphics and tweaks here and there to justify wide consumer interest in a seemingly lackluster premise. [/quote] The 2 things I expect to do well in this game are: 1. The AI will

Reply to [eMod][LH] AI Plus in LH Modding Elemental Forums

Well it's looking like 1.7 is out. Some of the issues in the game have been addressed, but the issue of the AI not building more higher end units seems to remain a problem.

Reply to Heavy cruisers not worth the money? Do they need a buff? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Ryat" reply="63" id="3483658"] Quoting Seleuceia, reply 57 You know....maybe this is just another...nah, he wouldn't do that.... I've seen UnleashedElf across several of Stardocks forums and I think he has an acount with Kerberos. All posts I've seen of his are legit.<b

Reply to 1.82 Balance Problems in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Sinkillr" reply="55" id="3482737"] No, stuff like certain technologies, ankylon, and the effectiveness of flak sre worse than ever. [/quote] If what you were saying was to be taken seriously, a person could simply build nothing but flak and win. Flak has its share of weaknesses too. Balance is definitely better than the previous versions of Sins, but there's more that could be done.

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[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="32" id="3483660"] again, you just need a better UI. The empire tree and auto fleeting are a start, but it needs to move to the next level. No need to change gameplay. [/quote] A better UI would not solve the problem. If you have 2+ battles going on simultaneously, your attention is divided. Either you need to: 1

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[quote who="Wintercross" reply="29" id="3483634"] I am conflicted. I would love a turn bases strategic and real time tactical... but I don't think I want Sins 2 to be that... Maybe for a spinoff? Things I really want (which should be possible with nitrous) is object based weapons (so that you can have accuracy % and fast ships can dodge slow shots etc.) missiles that can be intercepted by either certain weapons or counter meas

Reply to Heavy cruisers not worth the money? Do they need a buff? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="53" id="3483515"] And they neutralized combat frigates. The fleet compositions are utterly different before and after them because of their crazy AoE. [/quote] It has made the game kind of Titan-centric. Depending on your perspective that can be a good or a bad thing. [quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="56" id="3483576"] A categorical buff doesn't exactly seem ideal. And besides, the balance conce

Reply to Suggestions for SOASE 2 in Sins Rebellion Stardock Forums

32 bit as it is runs out of RAM on Sins 1. Whether 32 is faster or not - it depends. On CPU intensive apps, you can see ~30% improvement in some areas. Larger files too can be kept in the memory. The x64 architecture does have a few more registers, so you can optimize your code there as well. The only performance drawback is that you have less in the fastest L1 CPU cache and 64 bit apps use somewhat more RAM. With Sins 2 asking for everythi

Reply to Suggestions for SOASE 2 in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="psychoak" reply="23" id="3483601"] SotS had tiny little fleet battles. When you're only tracking a dozen objects, you can do whatever you want to. Rotating turrets in Sins, where you track thousands of objects, would have been extremely impressive. [/quote] Modded SOTS could have larger fleet battles, with 10+ dreadnoughts, although I see where you are going with that. With 64 bit, I think that this is a real possibility.

Reply to Warlock 2 Discussion in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

The problem is that it suffers from terrible AI right now. More effort is spent fighting the world than other players.

Has anyone had the game crash by using 2gb of RAM? in LH Support Elemental Forums

I was playing on the Anthys map and the game crashed because it exceeded 2gb of RAM consumption. Has anyone had this happen to them before?

Reply to Suggestions for SOASE 2 in Sins Rebellion Stardock Forums

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="15" id="3483518"] Construction animation? Probably. I don't see a need, but I imagine it could. Degrees of damage? Doubtful. Maybe simple things like at 30% health some system goes offline. But if you're talking blasting pieces off ships, you either need modular or deformable geometry. Nitrous supports rotating turrets, so you might be able to blast them off. [/quote] Considering Sword of the Stars 1 had tha

Reply to Heavy cruisers not worth the money? Do they need a buff? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="45" id="3483425"] Well....I've never actually seen Hummer and Sinkillr in the same game on ICO, but they are separate steam accounts... And lets face it, does Sinkillr really strike you as the type of person to own two steam accounts? [/quote] Wait ... so this guy plays 2 accounts in the same game at once? Is that some sort of strategy to try to win the game? [quote who="Sinkillr" reply="42" i

Reply to Heavy cruisers not worth the money? Do they need a buff? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Ryat" reply="27" id="3483164"] Quoting UnleashedElf, reply 25 I think RagnorakEviscerator is one of his alter accounts? Who else? Hmm lets see. Hydraling, Stilat, ratburn (on Steam forums - banned), and one or two others IIRC. [/quote] That's quite a

Reply to [MOD] Maelstrom [Trinity | Rebellion] in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="soase-maelstrom" reply="1618" id="3483285"] I typically test on random huge maps with 10 players ... You might have to reduce the ship and building 'Bump' graphics effect settings to High ... from Highest [/quote] Yeah I think so. There's not much alternative I think. It's a matter of when this game was created, everyone was on XP and many systems did not ship with 2 gb. Today everyone has upd