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Reply to 64-bit processor in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="scootertgm" reply="10" id="2112099"]When you install the game, don't take the default location. Install it to c:\stardock. Putting games in c:\program files can cause issues. Vista is very territorial when it comes to the program files directory.[/quote] I won't argue that Vista is very territorial about that location, but I haven't had troubles installing the game there. What did you try to do that Vista through a fit about?

Reply to Haven't got a clue what I'm doing in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"]I don't think I have the resources to build Capital ships of my own yet[/quote] Your first capital is free (: It makes clearing out the small militia at nearby planets much easier in early game. I didn't realize this for several games when I started out. Also - are replays fixed in 1.01? I keep seeing that they go from broken to fixed just about every other patch. If they work now, one of us could post a basic replay to help him out.

Reply to Neutral Siege Frigate is doesn't work in Beta Feedback Stardock Forums

I just saw this recently. What appears to happen is that the siege frigate is trying to move to the planet - the drive trails will just flicker. In my case, it eventually 'reached' bombing range.

Reply to netbook 1024x600 mod? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

I'm surprised that there a netbook with enough power to actually run Sins in the first place, actually.

Reply to When will stores stock Entrenchment? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Buy it online, use the 'archive application' function of Impulse, and stick that on a disk. Both Impulse and Steam have this functionality. It saves me so much money and hassle that I haven't bought a game in box form for two years.

Reply to Thoughts on information presentation in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Mazuo" reply="3" id="2089947"]Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always worked under the assumption that all infocard damage values are average DPS, right?[/quote] I had assumed this as well, I learned otherwise from the dev post in the Vulkoras thread.

Reply to Thoughts on information presentation in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

I think this sort of extensive information would be very handy to have as a 'unit info' tab, perhaps similar to KKND2. Failing that, maybe one of us could make up a little windows app that reads the game files and shows the values for the particular version.

Reply to Nuking planets is evil in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="unkn0wnx" reply="8" id="2089799"]assimilate them like borgs[/quote] Homeworld: Cataclysm had a version of this functionality. It was an interesting gameplay mechanic, but it required a very specific lore for it to work. I don't think that mechanic fits any of the Sins races very well.

Reply to Entrenchment: Where do we go from here? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="CursedSpirit" reply="5" id="2082255"]i would like to see a STORY or campaing[/quote] I think this is one of the major things missing from Sins as well, but it is expensive to do for a 10$ expansion. However, I have a suggestion as to how this could be done: Consider how Valve handles Team Fortress 2 maps: as the community makes popular and well done maps, they polish and 'cannonize' them, making them official maps. IC could do something similar to get a cam

Reply to Nuking planets is evil in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Cptn_Miller" reply="5" id="2089788"]this game is about war, survival, and killing.[/quote] Let's not turn this into a 'horrors of war' thread; it will only result in making people depressed, guilty, and/or angry. Or worse, political. The other part of the post is requesting to have another way of taking over a planet in the next expansion such that some portion of the population and/or upgrades survive, and I agree that this is a good idea.

Reply to Nuking planets is evil in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Actually, if you stop and think about it, the number of people that suffer violent deaths in this game is pretty staggering. Frigate / cruiser crews, capital crews, colonizer capital crews, civvie structures, tactical structures, starbases, vasari colony starbases. Death of planet-bound colonists by slow poisoning from high-yield nuclear warheads, being sucked into space by the Egg, or slaughtering friends and family in a Revelation-induced panic. It's not called 'Charitable

Reply to Do I just have a dirty mind, or... in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="Thomas Fife" reply="17" id="2086702"]So thats what domination is for![/quote] "Yes, Mistress." [quote who="gambitraven" reply="13" id="2086673"]what do vasari wemon look like I wonder................. [/quote]

Reply to Do I just have a dirty mind, or... in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="1" id="2086531"]Believe me, there's always room for dirtier.[/quote] "Ye... Yes, captain." - Protev

Reply to Do I just have a dirty mind, or... in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"]does the Advent starbase look like some kind of kinky sex toy?[/quote] Or the scout.... purge vessel.... constructor.... [e digicons]:-"[/e]

Reply to Do I just have a dirty mind, or... in Everything Else Stardock Forums

Rule 34, everyone.... Rule 34.

Reply to Analysis of late-game Entrenchment Advent defenses in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="jjandrah" reply="8" id="2084366"]AIs don't build the defensive rock that you described[/quote] Stratch that... they DO . They even build logistical structures nearby so that they gain the shield and shield mitigation bonuses. Props to the guy who coded these things. [e digicons]:digichet:[/e] It did take more time to drop than the the other race's fortresses, but from my playtesting against AI this e

Reply to Impulse Question in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Exinjeru" reply="7" id="2085109"]My SoaSE box doesn't say I have to install IE7 to receive support.[/quote] It would be impossible to explicitly list everything you need to have installed to run and keep the game up to date. Should it also say that you need a chair, desk, power, etc? When developing software that runs on consumer computers connected to the internet, it is not an unfair assumption that the computer will have all the platform security updates. If you

Reply to [Bug] Explosions don't always appear since Entrenchment is installed in Beta Feedback Stardock Forums

[quote who="wbino" reply="9" id="2084867"]cash in unused things[/quote] I've done this and it appeared to make things better, but without any numbers to back it up, I can't say for sure that it helps.

Reply to Analysis of late-game Entrenchment Advent defenses in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="9" id="2084434"]TEC turrets take "full" (reduced from non-antimodule) damage from ships. The Advent ones take only 40-30%[/quote] Whoops - sorry I missed this detail before. I had thought that the TEC defensive structures received the 'Shield Mitigation' boost as well. I fully agree with you now that Advent defenses are much more powerful than other races'.

Reply to Analysis of late-game Entrenchment Advent defenses in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="7" id="2084268"]But what about Advent vs Advent, or Vasari vs Vasari?[/quote] Vasari vs Vasari, I haven't seen too much trouble. I use multiple caps for that task: the Egg armor subtraction and the Vulkoras bonus structure damage help beat it down and the nano repairers help keep your heavy cruisers from going down. Advent vs Advent, though, I haven't tried too much. AIs don't build the defensive rock that you described, and I'll admit, it may req

Reply to Mass Effect mod in Sins Modding Stardock Forums

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="3" id="2081797"]Perhaps mass effect 2 will give us an alliance/council superweapon to counter reapers?[/quote] Now that I think about it, I wouldn't be surprised if the story / use of such weapon resembled the story in Freespace: First game: Massive alien supercapital/superweapon Second game: Humans build their own massive supercapital/superweapon (Colossus), it fights a massive alien ship, only to find that there are countless more massive

Reply to New Vasari Starbase is a Beast in Beta Feedback Stardock Forums

[quote who="TheSpydyr" reply="3" id="2083277"]they kept coming at that SB and wasting all of their fleets against it. This, in turn caused them to not tech and research everything as quickly because they had to keep rebuilding their fleets.[/quote] Noes! The secrets! If you post them, IC will make the AI not fall for them anymore! [e digicons]^_^[/e]

Reply to Analysis of late-game Entrenchment Advent defenses in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Well, considering: There is also an active thread about the Vasari starbase (particularly with lots of hangar support) being absolutely unstoppable. I have personally witnessed the TEC starbase with tactical structure support hold off substantial forces. It finally went down from a 1200+ supply fleet, but took them all with it anyway using Final Protocol. I think we'll need to do a lot more playtesting before we can claim that one race's setup is dras

Reply to How do you lower bounty against you? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="InfiniteVoid" reply="3" id="2084001"]You cannot claim bounty you placed on a player: you can only claim bounty that other players placed.[/quote] What about the Advent's Karma ability, where bounty is placed on them for killing your trade ships?

Reply to [Bug] TEC Starbase and Frigate Factory Co-Production Issues in Beta Feedback Stardock Forums

This is an oddity that you could see in regular sins with multiple factories. When producing multiple units, the calculation is correct in that you can build as many units in parallel as you have factories, but which factory is building which unit will appear to change when one unit completes. If you look carefully, the "progress" of a unit will appear to waterfall down from factory to factory until it completes. This also means that if you watch one factory after queing multiple items it wil