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Reply to "A pirate raid is inevitable" in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

This may sound backwards, but trade routes are probably your best defense against pirates. Pirates have a habit of breaking combat to run after the tiny, nimble, hardened cargo ships. This both wastes time wastes time they could have spent attacking your military, and splits up their ranks. A strong trade route can keep them occupied nearly indefinitely, which is great for bringing the calvalry back to take them out. Early in the game, repair bays are your best bet for surviving a pir

Reply to [FIXED] Attack order queues are ignored + steps to recreate in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Blair Fraser" reply="2" id="2020129"]Fixed.[/quote]Wow. A bug fix that threatens to be a "First!" post. That's pretty epic.

Reply to How About This: Mines Kill ALL!!! in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Why should trade ships get free passage through a mine field? They're made to block off ships. Cargo carriers are ships.

Reply to How well defended should your Home planet be in the beginning stages of the game? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The best defense is a good scouting. If you scout the nearby systems, and nothing is there, why bother? It's a waste of fleet resources to sit around defending against nothing. If you catch an incoming fleet a few systems away, don't wait for them to come. Take them out!

Reply to (BUG) The gauss cannon the the Kol Battleship in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

The reason is that the Kol was originally designed to be able to produce frigates, basically being a mobile fortress. Unfortunately, they couldn't work the kinks out of the launch bay, which propels the frigates at a high enough speed to kill everyone on board. Eventually they said "screw it", and kept the thing on board as a giant gun.

Reply to People on planets cant run away in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If the planets are colonized and controlled by somewhat stable neutral governments, why don't you have to bomb them up a bit to get your message of freedom and goodwill across?

Reply to People on planets cant run away in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Does anyone know what happens to the population of a planet when you abandon it[/quote]Your provisional government packs up and leaves. Whatever happens to the population afterwards is not your concern!

Reply to [Suggestion] Making mines vulnerable, and stopping the spam. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Have mines interfere with your own trade routes. If a civilian can get through a mine field, then anyone can!

Reply to Ai ganging up in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If you aren't with the AI, then you're against them. Pay the tributes. Think of it this way- would you rather pay an opponent 500 credits to leave you alone, or would you rather face his 5000 credit fleet? The amount of trouble it spares you more than makes up for it. Playing aggressively will also win you AI allies. I had won 3 allies simply from doing some early raiding on my neighbors. An ally is not only leaving you alone, he's covering your borders and countering other player's f

Reply to Idea for a new units ingame for all Races in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]40.000 VS 5000 soldiers = 35.000 Soldiers left in Starbase and 0 in the Frigate and the ship is yours and you can then let the starbase refit it with 5000 soldiers from Starbase. (The Starbase regenerates 10 Soldiers sec. For a Boarding Frigate to get more soldiers it has to get them from a Starbase since only Starbases can generate Soldiers)[/quote]This system wouldn't work. 5000 armed and disciplined troops vs. 40000 thousand dock workers, engineers, rent-a-cops, and of

Reply to "Mass Reduction"? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Ships are coded with a simple physics system that has engine thrust vs. ship mass. The ships still have the same max speed, but become more nimble with a lighter mass. No weapon in the game pushes ships around, so mass doesn't play a role there.

Reply to Is the teamwork tax intentional? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="The_Regicide" reply="6" id="2001947"]The system is great because it counters cheese. Without it you could have an offensive player with 49% upkeep, and an economic ally with 0% upkeep, who just harvests the resources and sends them over to the offensive player. They get more total money, and they also get to skip whole techtrees...[/quote]Except that two players with one army still gets beat by two players with two armies. It is sort of a balancing point for those RARE sit

Reply to Space Ponies???? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Explore planets. I mostly find the achievement on pirate bases, but it seems that any random planet could have it.

Reply to Make starbases use cap ship slots. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Hmm, I don't see my post. Attempt #2: [quote]You haven't addressed the arbitrary limit on the number of crews, as well[/quote]You're arguing AGAINST the game mechanics itself, I.E. you don't have a real point. Game mechanics are made to enforce gameplay balance and to create strategic elements. Because of this, "arbritary limits" are anything BUT arbritrary. They set the scale of the game and its pace. Sins doesn't have caps that raise with the empire's size. However, the caps

Reply to Make starbases use cap ship slots. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Edit: Repeat post.

Reply to Anti-Structure Frigates in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I don't see why orbital bombing ships weren't repurposed to also attack structures. They're basically massive lightly armored guns, they're best ship for both jobs.

Reply to Asteroids going through Starbases in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Graphically, perhaps the asteroids could bounce off the shields? It doesn't need to do any damage, but it would look cool.

Reply to Make starbases use cap ship slots. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Economic starbases already exist. They come as trade ports, research labs, and mining centers. Since starbases start small and weak, they don't need a capital ship crew to start. Instead, as they increase in size they may require capital ship crew to operate. One possibility is that every gravwell is allowed a small starbase, which can upgrade a bit to medium. But it costs one cap crew to go to large, and a second cap crew to advance to superlarge. This way each grav well can have a s

Make starbases use cap ship slots. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

It is rare that players will use up all their capital ship slots in the game. More often than not frigates are better for cost, and eventually the fleet will fill up with only a modest number of caps. This leaves over half of the cap ship limit unused and unloved. However, balancing starbases is tricky as is. If each system is allowed the same thing, then starbases have to be balanced as a moderate defensive unit. They can't be fleet crushing wonders AND litter your entire empire at t

Reply to Starbase concept re-think. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Why are so many starbases allowed? Smaller starbases already exist as trade ports, research stations, and such. A military starbase is so difficult to balance because every time you go into a new gravwell you can face another starbase. This means if you suffer greatly from one, then attrition from every single world will rape you. If you cruise through one, then you'll cruise them all. A military starbase is a major undertaking. It represents a large investment of resources and manpow

Reply to Currency Resource in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Currency isn't just money. It also represents the manpower and essential ship components ready for use. A ship can't be expected to be fully constructed in a vaccuum. Parts may be constructed on world, shipped to space, then assembled at the shipyard. In this way the planet bound factories get used to the fullest, and the shipyard does everything that can't be done on the ground. In addition, a space worthy crew needs to be trained to properly use a vessel. Currency also represents this essen

Reply to Wouldnt smaller craft such as starfighters be useless in space combat? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Study your law again, Biggles. The second Law of Thermodynamics states only that heat energy will seek its lowest energy state unmolested . That last part is very important. Heat gets pushed uphill as the most basic technology today. Your goddam refridgerator does this, but I guess your lab doesn't have one. Silicon can do it too, to a much lesser extent. It doesn't matter how hot the inside is. If the energy is forcibly withdrawn from the surface, there's no exposed temperatu

Reply to Wouldnt smaller craft such as starfighters be useless in space combat? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote] We know that we cannot hide thermal radiation, so cloaking devices are out of the question.[/quote]I'd like to point out that this isn't exactly true. Objects release thermal energy based on their temperature. The only requirement for stifiling thermal output is to forcibly make the radiating surface VERY VERY cold. Modern technology can already push thermal energy up a gradient to varying degrees, with varying

Reply to Suggestion: reduce weapon ranges! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]That actually will not do a single thing to combat playing mechanics because essientialy your scaling down the game into a smaller graphical size and it will work exactley the same.[/quote]You're also making the graphical sizes smaller to boot? That puts you back at square one.

Reply to Suggestion: reduce weapon ranges! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]I should think that reducing everything in proportion would leave the game mechanics intact. [/quote]So you're cutting the size of the maps in half, cutting the gravity wells in half, cutting the travel distances in half as well? Don't forget to cut ability ranges in half with half the area effect. That absolutely changes things. Your concern is with visually spotting the ships in combat. All that needs to change are how the visibility of ships works.