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Reply to Sins 1.1 Changelog/ Balance comments in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]I think that a much needed change that wanst included is a change to those planetary superweapons. When things get to a cetrain point in large games such as 3v3 or 4v4, everyonce can focus fire on 1 person without even having to post a fleet. I have lost several games in this manner, planets getting killed wihtout thier fleet ever setting foot in or near the systems getting killed. Imo you should at least have to have a scout in the system to fire the planet-killers at it[/quote]

Reply to Balancing RTS: Hard-cap vs no-cap unit limits in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Based on your definitions, I would consider Starcraft to be softcap -- you had to build structures and protect them to maintain your capacity. Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander is a better example of no-cap. To be honest, a hard-cap game, by your definition, would actually control peoples strategies a lot more than soft cap. A good game should reward unit diversity via gameplay, not artificial unit caps. That way people build what they think will suit their immediate strategy

Reply to Sins 1.1 Changelog/ Balance comments in Strategy Sins Forums

Strikecraft are killed so easily by flak that the boost to Carrier Cruisers will hopefully make them a little more effective. Flak is such a hard counter that carriers are often pretty marginalized. You might have had some good success with them in your games, but most people get pretty annoyed when their twenty carriers are neutralized by 4-5 flaks. I almost always play Vasari, they are my favorite race. I am not that concerned with the changes to RA. Vasari DO need something like

Reply to Your First Cap: Colonizer vs. Any of the Other Four Edited: 16/7/08 in Strategy Sins Forums

While I'm willing to only give you a 4/10 for knowledge of game mechanics, your sarcasm rates an 8/10.

Reply to Vassari Capital Ships in Strategy Sins Forums

Good morning Amish! One comment on the Kortul -- for a long time this was my favorite capship. Disruptive Strikes made it capable of taking on just about any cap head to head, including a Kol or a Radiance. But I wouldn't count on it to stop a Sova rush. I have tried =( Good Sova rushers just fly around the outskirts of your system, and it is brutally hard to keep them in range for long enough to let Disruptive Strikes work, cap ships being as unwieldy as they are... I find it is more e

Reply to Fighting Advent Repulsion with TEC? in Strategy Sins Forums

Strikecraft could be used effectively vs fleets using repulsion if they weren't themselves countered so hard by flak. Most people are carrying some flak with them by this stage of the game. There is no clear counter to Repulsion, since there are usually 50+ Illuminators parked next to the Guardians. The ships that can counter the Guardians (Cobalts or a Dunov) get singled out by a smart player and die so fast to the Illuminators that it isn't funny. The reason Repulsion is so powerful is bec

Reply to Vassari Capital Ships in Strategy Sins Forums

While the Vasari capships look a little weak on paper, you won't really notice the difference in the game. What you will notice is how powerful some abilities seem vs others. Ultimately, capships are support ships to frigate fleets, and the abilities they bring to the fight define them much more than 200-300 shield or structure points. And yes, Advent caps have very powerful abilities -- in the first patches of the game, the consensus was that the powerful Advent caps made up for the frigates

Reply to Your First Cap: Colonizer vs. Any of the Other Four Edited: 16/7/08 in Strategy Sins Forums

The original point of the thread was colonizer caps vs other caps. If someone wants to build a Kol instead of an Akkan, that is perfectly understandable. A Kol is a rock solid choice that fits certain playstyles. But then came the distinctly bad advice that will mess up new players -- to build a second capship. As both Raging Amish and myself tried to point out, the cost of immediately building a second cap is just too high. The money you spend getting your second cap could have ins

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire v1.1 BETA Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Lot of good changes. Glad that carriers seem to be getting an increased role. I'm eager to see how the new RA plays out. I like Vasari, but I have no problem admitting that unlimited free ships for life is kind of overpowered. Putting a cost on it allows it to still provide a way for the end game Vasari economy to keep up without tipping the scale too far in favor of Vasari. I knew the Subverter was going to take some kind of hit, but I'm a little shocked to see the Distorti

Reply to Which game has more control of ships during a battle? in Strategy Sins Forums

Sword of the Stars has more detailed ship combat, but it is also has a slow paced strategy map component. Sins is better for faster games. SotS games take all day...or week.

Reply to Your First Cap: Colonizer vs. Any of the Other Four Edited: 16/7/08 in Strategy Sins Forums

Interfectus -- if you build a second cap, you also have to research the logistics to open up a second cap ship slot (1200,0,75). This is roughly the money you should be spending to research your long range frigate. Your cap ship takes up 50 fleet points, roughly 8 Illums / Assailants or 12 LRM's. Even considering you will not have as much firepower per cost, you will top out sooner as well. You mention that the frigate fleet will incrementally lose power as individual ships die, but guess wh

Reply to Unable to access ironclad online in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Yeah, I'm having the same problem here in LA. Someone needs to wake up and power cycle the login server or replace the hamster or whatever. =) But seriously, ICO Login definitely is not working right now.

Reply to 1.1 Predictions in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

While I would love to see some new ships or structures that somehow added to the strategic options and depth of the game, I will be pretty satisfied if the game is totally stable and everyone can host. The multiplayer community has been badly hurt by many players being unable to change their firewalls (at college) or being too lazy to learn how. That and desync crashes pretty much killed this game's chance of having a large online community.

Reply to New player looking for Tips in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Play vs the computer on small maps, but don't turtle -- play to outright dominate the computer and out-maneuver it. When you can do this to an "Unfair" AI, move to multiplayer. Building shit loads of defense and taking forever to win is more for singleplayer, it won't teach you much about the fluidity of multiplay. Read the strategy forums here. Everything you could ask has been discussed. No need to type it all over again.

Reply to Your First Cap: Colonizer vs. Any of the Other Four Edited: 16/7/08 in Strategy Sins Forums

I think for Advent, it is really hard to argue against the Mothership. For Vasari and TEC, it comes down to style and map. If you pick a ship that favors your playstyle and the specifics of the map, you can do very well with a number of ships.

Reply to Are Light Frigates completely inferior to LRM Frigates? in Strategy Sins Forums

Long Range Frigates totally own the basic attack frigates. You only make basic attack for some very early game military before you get long range, or late game to use their abilities to mess with support cruiser anti matter. Maybe to kill Flak if you don't have HC's yet. It has no other use.

Reply to USA Bombs Iran ???? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Oh, okay. Hang on lemme get my phone.Yes, Mr. President? Yeah, I know you're busy... yes but... but Mr. President that's kind of what I'm calling about. IDMopman wants you to call it off. Yeah, the bombing... yes, I know but he thinks it's a bad idea... IDMopman, with an M not an N, yeah he seems to be pretty serious about it... okay Mr. President... okay, I'll tell him.IDMopman, the President wanted me to tell you to fuck off.[/quote] I know I'm late in the thread, but

Reply to Strategy problems in Strategy Sins Forums

If the computer is dominating you, you need to go watch the replays and see how it is playing more efficiently than you. Better yet, find a replay online, and watch how a good player starts his game. Keep playing against 1 computer on normal on a small map. Don't think defensively "how can I protect myself from the computer", think offensively "How can the computer protect itself from me?" Harass it, raid it, scout it and try to anticipate or attack its main fleet when you find an ad

Reply to When do you utilize trade posts? in Strategy Sins Forums

Lots of good stuff and more than enough theory. Just a few comments: You don't really choose trade ports OR expansion -- you always expand -- just have to decide whether you are also putting up tradeports early as well. Good commentary on "the window" from P5YY. Scout your opponent. When you reach the point where you are ready to possibly build trade ports, if your opponent is capable of attacking you in 15 minutes or less, build military and plan for the attack. If

Reply to Presenting Clan X in Sins Clans Sins Forums

So what's everyone up to these days? I log in now and then (rarely) and never see anyone.

Reply to Capital Ships 1 on 1 in Strategy Sins Forums

The Kortul Devastator becomes dangerous to other caps at level 2 when it has both the shield / damage boost ability and Disruptive Strikes.

Reply to Harassment in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

There is always going to be some form of online griefing or harassment. The most determined will always find some way to be annoying -- and for those people the ban stick will probably be the answer. But I think in 90% of the situations, just a simple ignore list will suffice.

Reply to Repulsion and Distortion Field in Strategy Sins Forums

I have to acknowledge how powerful Distortion Field is, but you do have to bring a good number of subverters and use some micro to manage it. They go down pretty fast, and are also susceptible to antimatter draining, etc. I play Vasari a lot, and if I didn't have either Subverters or RA to count on, Vasari would be pretty screwed late game. Of course, on the rare game that I manage to get BOTH going, yeah, it does feel pretty insanely OP -- but I'm already winning by that point usually. <

Reply to Ships pathfind through pirate city, even once revealed. Scouts keep checking in on pirates. in Technical Sins Forums

The fix would be to have a way to flag a planetary system to be avoided by autopathing so ships take the longer route. I requested this in the first wishlist I wrote back when we were playing 1.02. Of course, no one should give bad move orders, but when ships are set to rally to a fleet, it is really annoying when they sometimes shift their route to go through the pirates and you lose a couple ships before you see what is happening. A simple way to flag a system as "Avoid" would be gr

Reply to What am I doing wrong? 1.04 - hard setting - getting PUMMELED. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

You might want to lock the AI's to their own team so they can't decide to ally against you. Once you win a game like that, then think about playing with them unlocked