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3rd mini Expansion

October 31, 2008 6:14:35 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

What do you think the dev's will do with the third expansion? As far as I know all they have told us about it is that it is something special. What does everyone think?

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Reply #1 October 31, 2008 6:27:38 PM
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Pirates playable race.

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Reply #2 October 31, 2008 6:38:42 PM
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I think they will be puting in alot of the things that people have asked for. like ships moving while in combat or moving turrets things like that. 

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Reply #3 October 31, 2008 6:48:41 PM
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Quoting wbino,
reply 1
Pirates playable race.

That just gave me the idea that shouldn't the Pirate base be hidden in the first place? Right now it's very easy to find and well defended when pirates should be just the opposite. Their base doesn't really need to exist in the game either.

I don't think pirates should ever be a playable faction though - how would they win?

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Reply #4 October 31, 2008 7:27:41 PM
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Quoting Starhound,
reply 3

Quoting wbino, reply 1Pirates playable race.
That just gave me the idea that shouldn't the Pirate base be hidden in the first place? Right now it's very easy to find and well defended when pirates should be just the opposite. Their base doesn't really need to exist in the game either.

I don't think pirates should ever be a playable faction though - how would they win?

I like having the pirates in an obvious place.  Pirates are so useful, because the enemy (on normal) will not go through the pirate base to get to you, hence less choke points to protect.  On the map I am playing their are only 2 phase lanes to the star, one of which leads directly to a pirate base.  So once I have conquered this star I will only have 1 choke point to protect.

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Reply #5 November 1, 2008 1:20:48 PM
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I'm hoping they'll work on enabling auto-download for custom (Galaxy Forge-made) maps and most importantly on fixing the minidumps.

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Reply #6 November 3, 2008 6:12:37 AM
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I suspect the Vasari's enemies will be introduced - maybe as a playable faction.

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Reply #7 November 3, 2008 6:53:45 AM
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Quoting MasterPrudent,
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I suspect the Vasari's enemies will be introduced - maybe as a playable faction.

I don't think implementing another race will be part of any "mini"-expansion as it would be way too much work, especially when it comes to balancing.

3 races are perfect for balancing RTS games, even blizzard knows that

 

1st expansion is about defenses

2nd expansion is about trade, economy and diplomacy

so the 3rd expansion would be either more offensive options like more ships or automated attack-drones, mines, siege-weapons etc. or even better -> more tech and end-game weapons so that you still have something to research and gain from in large maps.

ah and when it comes to engine-upgrades multi-core support would be awesome.

right now it's impossible to wage war on really large maps with 8 players on it even with the most top-end hardware.

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