chimpspanner

chimpspanner

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Reply to Graphics blink on and off! in Technical Sins Forums

Tell a lie - there's an update there. It just didn't notify me. I may well end up with egg on my face. Will know in about 20 minutes! *gets ready to facepalm*

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Graphics blink on and off! in Technical Sins Forums

Hey all. Just bought Rebellion on Steam. My PC is a Phenom II X4 965BE with a GeForce 8600GT (I know, old...but I intend to upgrade soon). Got 4GB system ram. Win 7 64-bit Home Premium, all updates applied. I let the game choose all of its own detail levels. Problem is, as soon as I start the game - even on the menu - the picture goes black, then it's fine, then black, then fine. While the picture is on, I can see that the game runs smooth enough. But it won't stop blinking!&nbsp

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Reply to Impulse gets Total Annihilation! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Ah this is brilliant stuff! TA was the first game I ever bought on the strength of a demo on a coverdisc. I was just blown away. I know a lot of people won't "get" what's so great about it now, but I'm sure after a few good games they'll change their minds :] Really looking forward to development being picked up on this again as well. New units, maps, AI tweaks etc. One question I do have, is this: what compatibility issues are there between 3rd party downloads/hacks/etc., and

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Reply to Second expansion suggestions (Part 1: Economy Suggestions) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Maybe when they're done with SoaSE they can make a spin off game...Sin City (apologies to Mr Miller and Maxis) ;) All the empire micro you could hope for, with all the spacey stuff going on over your head, mostly out of your control! Imagine how frustrating it'd get after your planet has been bombarded for the nth time, though...

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Reply to Really, really need a campaign for Sins. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Everything you get to do in a campaign you get to do in Sins. The only difference is it happens in a different way each time, so the replayability factor is way higher. I guess if they're going to do one at all they could either... ...expand on the back story of each faction by way of missions with scripted events and dialogue/cut scenes. So have the player go through 'historic' missions that deal with the early years of the TEC when the in-fighting and rebellion w

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Reply to Question on culture? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I know a planets allegiance is directly affected by culture (which is why you need to spread it even to planets you already own if they're far away from your 'core' worlds). Other than that I don't know of any other number or stat in the game that relates to it.

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Reply to Another DRM rant in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'm sure this has been asked before but here goes: Seeing how so many people here have such a strong opinion on Impulse and on IC using any kind of DRM on their software, what would these same people do instead? What would THEY do to protect their game? A genuine question - very interested to know the answer. With regards to accessing previous versions of the game, the first thing that strikes me is SUPPORT. How do we expect IC to cope with the logistics of a

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Reply to RANDOM STUFF!!! in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="7" id="2114459"]Which is easier to unload... A truckload of bowling balls, or a truckload of babies? (assume equal weight for both) [/quote] Are the bowling balls just loose in the truck? If so, my vote goes to babies.

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Reply to How to see who's fighting who? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Apparently this is something that's going to be addressed in the upcoming diplomacy expansion. I think they're also going to work on the mission system too - I mean it'd be nice to be able to make demands of weaker AI's. Have them giving me credits and crystal and suchlike :)

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Reply to Tactical Display Mod...a new idea... in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yeah the zoomed out view in Homeworld 2 was cool! Although you couldn't tell what anything was, but they were on to a good idea. See I was thinking it could still be kept 3D, but perhaps stripping away the extra detail geometry, removing reflection and bump mapping, and reducing it to very vivid 'block' shading. The current draw distance and point at which they become strategic icons could be kept the same. As for projectiles I'm not sure how that'd work. Per

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Tactical Display Mod...a new idea... in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Okay I've made this suggestion a couple of times in other sub forums, but I'm interested to know what anyone thinks of it, and also how much work it would be! Okay so here's the deal: I was thinking how a lot of RTS games can be thought of as virtual representations of the battle-area to give the commander more control. In real life, however, would this kind of commander interface really be as effects heavy? So, how about a purely 'functional' version of Sins. Same g

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Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="zathras666" reply="2" id="2109425"]I'm a little late -- I just purchased Sins, and this was my experience with Impulse. - Downloaded Impulse and installed it. I really didn't like that. - .NET is required. I didn't like that. - IE 7.0 is required. I didn't like that. - I got everything installed and ran Impulse and it worked. I liked that. So, there's good and not so good. Impulse did what i

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Reply to The BSG finale! Spoiler City... in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="Thrawn2787" reply="7" id="2108789"]My favorite part was when Cavel commited suicide. Doesn't really make sense though. "FRAK!" ~Famous last words Nor does it make sense that Earth was 1 jump away from that black hole/base ship and they didn't notice. Well the "new" earth, not the old one[/quote] Hehe I really liked Cavil's death. Dry and darkly comical right up to the end.

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Reply to PRESENTING... YOUR FAVOURITE STARSHIP! in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="Thoth17" reply="24" id="2108073"] Dreadnought (a ship built around one big gun) http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x60/thoth17/Dreadnought1.jpg [/quote] I actually really like the shape of that Dreadnought - with some development and maybe some sleeker curves that'd be a badass ship. I see it smooth(ish) on the outside, and super detailed on the grey bit. :) Oh and yeah Seth - that reminds me of an idea I had ages ag

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Reply to The BSG finale! Spoiler City... in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="4" id="2108726"]I liked the finale... everything in between ...it was a pretty powerful finale, and other than tying the individual character arcs at the very end, it didn't feel very rushed at all, which is sort of a rare thing these days.[/quote] Yeah I think it's really just those loose ends (character wise) I would've liked to see them take more time over. I can think of a good 3 or so episodes in the latter half o

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The BSG finale! Spoiler City... in Everything Else Sins Forums

Okay I'm gunna make a wild assumption here and say that a fair number of Sins players also like the re-imagined BSG! So, has anyone watched the finale yet and if so...what do you make of it! I'm gunna go ahead and say the battle between Galactica and the Colony ship is probably the best sequence from all four seasons (perhaps joint best with the time Adama let the ship free-fall through the atmosphere, launched vipers then FTL'd about 100ft off the ground). And her final

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