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Reply to Joystiq Interview with Brad Wardell & Chris Taylor in Sins News Sins Forums

You might have missed this, but you can download the whole archive and burn it to a disk. So, no, not just at the grace of the supplier.

Reply to Why PC Gaming is Dying in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Economic evidence indicates that the industry is doing nothing but -growing-. We heard this crap the last time Nintendo came out with the SNES, Sony came out with the PS1, and all those other times.

Reply to Expelled: Is Intelligent Design a Science? in Everything Else Sins Forums

No, seriously. The alternative theory to evolution is magic. If species didn't evolve gradually overtime they either A) Were Seeded by Aliens B) Instasummoned by god, just like the bible. God probably used magic, but because he's god, he ignores the need for semantic components. C) Were always here forever D) ????Profit? A and C are pretty unreasonable (Although A is far more likely than B, frankly) and D pretty much professes ignorance. If you don't have

Reply to China, Tibet, and the Olympic Games in Everything Else Sins Forums

Also, Tibet has nominally been part of China since the 17th Century, right on through the days of the ROC. It would be like if Florida suddenly seceded from the union. China provides military and economic protection. The main issue here is that the 'autonomous region' is not really autonomous, and that the government interferes highly in religious affairs. It also continues to carry on an insulting propaganda campaign to demoralize the Tibetan people. If China granted them true religiou

Reply to China, Tibet, and the Olympic Games in Everything Else Sins Forums

Well, part of the fact is that the US and most other countries of the world are in no position to tell China what to do for anything. They can't agree in the UN, and quite frankly, no one has the balls to take the economic hit. Hell, you'd be crying once the economy comes crashing down because we unilaterily decided to piss off a major economic superpower. Face it- If America can't take the pain of occupying a dinky little part of the Mideast and fusses over deposing a tyrant and not be

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

Quite frankly if I'm TEC I like to go Marza, Radiance for Advent, or Devastator for Vasari. Akkans are terrible. The level 6 ability is lackluster, targeting is meh, Ion bolt isn't very good, and the colonization upgrade is less than useless. Normally you won't upgrade it until all extractros are already occupied, and the TEC have techs that allow them to pay only 100 for Extractors anyway. How often do you build extractors anyway? You might get 5, maybe 6 free extractors in a good game

Reply to Why Starcraft II will not live up to the greatest RTS of the past decade. in Everything Else Sins Forums

Blizzard is successful because it delivers a polished product that runs well on a wide range of computer systems. The games are highly accessible from both a single-player and multiplayer perspective. Hard core guys like the multiplayer, and pretty much everyone else likes to tune in for the fantastic CGI, and the funny voice work. Blizzard is probably one of the few companies that gets distinctive audio right. They aren't very original. But don't fool yourselves, they're not an industr

Reply to Choke Point: Hanger-VS-Turret-VS-Other, how do YOU defend. in Strategy Sins Forums

I rarely build defense for the purpose of augmenting my fleet. If the enemy has a greater offensive force than me, I'll try to build ships and hit his vulnerable planets instead of engaging him directly. However, I use defenses to prevent exactly that from happening on my end. The most important key is the phase jump inhibitor- Otherwise the enemy will skirt out of range of your turrets and ignore your hangers. PJIs make them actually pay in blood. PJIs are also great for secu

Reply to Expelled: Is Intelligent Design a Science? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Evolutionary theory is science- it's used in science and all major fields relating to biology. It's the principle theory behind modern genetics and instrumental in curing diseases and what not. There a -great deal- of unrefutable evidence, and it is accepted by scientists of every religion in the world. Intelligent Design is not. Intelligent design is religion specific, that is Judeo/Islam/Christianity. It is part of the American dogma that international peoples find unappealing. Intell

Domina Subjugators? in Strategy Sins Forums

Does anyone have an effective use for these things? I built at least 20 of them, hoping to freeze my opponent's entire fleet, but it turned out that my illuminators just killed the enemy faster than they could target. What's the point? How long does it take a subjugator to freeze something? And why does it prioritize perserverance over freezing? These units would be great if only aquisition and targeting was alot faster. I think subvertors are ridiculously superior to subjugators just by

Reply to A case for returning armada in Strategy Sins Forums

It's not that RA is super powerful. It's just that Improved Allegiance, Mass Trancedence, and Insurgency are extremely UNpowerful. You can't counter RA effectively with culture, Culture cannons, Nova Guns, mass capital ships or that sort of thing. Everything in the late game arsenal is so overshadowed by RA it's not even funny. The only thing that comes close (And to be fair, reasonably so) is Pervasive Economy, which probably won't trigger often from the Vasari player since his actual

Reply to Repulsion and Distortion Field in Strategy Sins Forums

Make it so repulsion uses more antimatter in a single 'push', and so that the cool down is fairly significant, like 20-30 seconds. This way it's good for situationally altering tactical situations, but you cant 'stall forever; Guardians shouldn't be able to put up a permanent cordon that keeps out enemy forces; that's just ridiculous and out of context.

Reply to A plethora of Suggestions for balancing the game. :] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If we're talking about things that don't work quite right, how about the fact the culture loses completely to investing all that money into military applications instead?

Reply to Long Term development ideas in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Also- What you may want to try is to 'reward' players who spend time playing the game and getting stupid acheivements (Like Space Ponies, Woo!) with 'tokens' that allow them to access the games on your Totally Games Network, much like how Wii Points work. Frankly, I'm not sure how many of your older games sell. Most people have probably pirated the heck out of them now. But if you reintroduce them through the point systems, people will start downloading and playing them again. <

Reply to Long Term development ideas in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

No one is going to pay a subscription for a game that A) Has a small multiplayer community B) Has no guaranteed content Look at your playerbase now, Frogboy, maybe 200 players online on a good day. That isn't going to go -up- when you make them pay even more to stay online, or divide them is it? People spit and spittle all about tournaments and what not citing the success of starcraft- and quite frankly that's a good example. The main issue of competition is that it bu

Reply to Sins updating process is garbage in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Really? I personally -hate- autopatching systems. They're super prone to breakage and failure. Just use SDC for crying out loud. Sins has it's share of problems certainly, but auto-update is really not a significant one. How about let's talk about culture?

Reply to Technology Balancing Suggestions for 1.1 :] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Forget about shields for advent- Increase the power of culture, THEN let's see where we are. If we buff advent military and leave the game where it is, we'll see at least a 1/3rd of the tech tree completely out of use.

Reply to Seige frigates are mighty! in Strategy Sins Forums

'battleship optimized for long range combat with additional special abilities for planetary assault'. >>>>> Specialized in long range weaponry against fortified targets?...Much like a trebuchet? Which is a ...siiiiieeegge engine?

Reply to Destroyers and all the rest in Strategy Sins Forums

The ship classes are there and mis-used because they have two classes of spaceships and had to call them something. Did you expect that they would suddenly include a whole slew of new units for the sake of terminological satisfaction? That would be rather unreasonable. The words were changed to fit the purpose, not the other way around.

Reply to Advent in 1.04 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I honestly don't understand the reasoning behind the carrier nerf. No one was complaining about it, in fact everyone wanted a carrier buff, so they nerfed flak and decreased the cost of TEC and Vasari Carriers, who didn't really need the buff anyway. Soooo. What is this? Are we going to have more random stealth nerfs and unforeseen balance tweaks? Have any of these experiments actually helped? The black market thing as a disaster, and I think everyone was pretty satisfied with the origi

Reply to Seige frigates are mighty! in Strategy Sins Forums

Some hangers guarding the borders of his empire will more or less ruin you day.

Reply to Technology Balancing Suggestions for 1.1 :] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

There definitely needs to be increased utility of culture as well.

Reply to v1.04 is great. These are my personal HUMBLE thoughts on what could be nice in the future. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Quite frankly, culture and research ought to be really viable options as opposed to simply military-duking out or econ booming. Right now it's almost -always- much more useful to invest in economics or ships rather than culture or research (With the exception of improving ship access). Investing in a culture base and research means losing out on at least 1600 you could have used to build ships or planetary improvements, which is alot of money. More often than not that investment is not

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire v1.04 Final Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

What really needs to be done is an increase in the power of culture. Advent has neither military supremacy or economic; it's dominating tech tree is pretty much useless. I think that greatly contributes to the fact that they are indeed, suck worthy. Going completely down the tech tree won't help you do anything in anygame compared to the options available to the TEC and Vasari. Compare Free EXP to Pervasive Economy and Armada, compare the culture cannon to the Nova Cannon and Kosutra. It's prett

Reply to LRMS counter the wrong unit! in Strategy Sins Forums

I don't see why we can't remove the whole Light Frigate counters LRM thing; LRMS already counter capital ships and buildings, which in turn are very effective against light frigates. They're also decent at countering utility ships, because utility ships don't have any damage dealing potential. The big problem here is at Tier 2 about 30 minutes into the game, you have a ship that can pretty much counter anything you throw at it, and is capable of breaking through your defenses to deliver