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Reply to SoaSE newbie lf advice in Strategy Sins Forums

To be clear, Trinity contains 3 Separate games, each adding additional units and gameplay. Rebellion is all units and game play in one game, plus more. If you can get Rebellion, you should because the others are obsolete once you have that. I would say the one reason to get Trinity at this point is if you want to ease into the additional Units and gameplay. It also makes more sense to learn factions pre-Rebellion since they Split; helps you understand how to use them before layering t

Reply to What killed pacts and envoy's in multiplayer? in Strategy Sins Forums

Is it possible to do a mockup of this idea or would the devs have to do it?

Reply to What killed pacts and envoy's in multiplayer? in Strategy Sins Forums

I do worry about my idea being too easy... If only a few techs have resource cost, then wouldn't be necessary to always research diplomacy concurrently? While making the diplomacy tree more useful is good, I question how to bottleneck the tree enough that diplomacy research doesn't become a 'must'. Anyone have any ideas about this?

Reply to What killed pacts and envoy's in multiplayer? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="58" id="3301094"]Another consideration is eco players....how do you make pacts always useful and viable for all games without making them too powerful in the hands of an eco player?[/quote] Maybe make cost not a Factor? Remove the resource Cost from most techs in the Diplomacy tree and replace it with something you get from actively pursuing relations. This would obviously be a big change, but you could recycle Diplomacy points for this new resource.

Reply to What killed pacts and envoy's in multiplayer? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="mascan" reply="40" id="3299991"]The team arrangements, victory conditions, and maps used should also be taken into consideration.[/quote] How so? [quote who="GoaFan77" reply="39" id="3299936"]You could make that argument with the faster settings, but given how long games of Sins can take that is a necessity in multiplayer, no one necessarily wants that by choice. No one would ever play games if they were going to take 5 hours each.[/quote] I don't know

Reply to Counters/Synergies in Strategy Sins Forums

Well, the stickies are always a good place to start even if they are old. However, my sticky was updated only days ago and is still good, but is a reference chart of ship stats. You can get a good idea of what counters what by going to it and looking through the Damage Modifiers Chart, which tells you what bonuses ship classes get vs other classes. However, here is my best rundown for you: early game it's light frigates>flak>corvettes>long range frigates>light

Reply to Got Rebellion. It's impossible. in Strategy Sins Forums

Please provide a link, I don't think I've Seen this map.

Reply to VL early game survival strategy in Strategy Sins Forums

Obviously you want to utilize the Vasari Loyalist's ability to go mobile. If you want to keep this strategy, I think the way to look at the above advice is: "going all-out mobile early is not very safe"

Reply to Vasari Fleet Make-up in Strategy Sins Forums

Um, out of curiosity, are these percentages based off Fleet Supply ornumber of units?

Reply to What killed pacts and envoy's in multiplayer? in Strategy Sins Forums

As a non-MP player, you can and probably will completely discredit this, but... I would like to put forth the possibility that rebellion offers better research strategies earlier for all the factions. Nothing has improved the diplomatic route. As stated, now there are Titans and it's kind of a race to get there. The Bi-directional relationship thing has always been there and has always sucked. These both contribute to the lack of pacts, but I think they are only obstacles.

Reply to So I have an updated refrence chart... in Strategy Sins Forums

Updated with rebellion stuff. Not a lot of other changes, I've been busy.

Reply to Is Rebellion "Large address aware"? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

anyhow, the only way setting the LAA flag would help is if you have more than 4gb of ram on your system. The only way having more than 4gb of ram on your system is useful is if you have 64 bit, so all in all, you would want to have a 64 bit OS and more than 4gb of ram. Then, it is only a small improvement, but it is helpful.

Reply to Balance patch? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Ok, so, what would make sense to me for culture is if ALL factions culture upgrades made it tougher for opponents to defend against culture. If I spend alot on culture upgrades, you should have to either spend a fortune on unupgraded centers to combat it or match my capabilities. Advent should, in my opinion always have a small advantage in cultural capabilities due to their reliance on it, though I don't think that is absolutely necessary. Anyhow, the way I would accomplish this

Reply to I MAY HAVE DISCOVERED WHAT'S CHASING THE VASARI in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

So.... you're ideas are: AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, or nobody knows? [quote who="Sinperium" reply="214" id="3168754"]Refinement is not invention and blurring all invention as nothing but refinement is disingenuous. Tsk tsk.[/quote] I disagree. As an example, at a place I once worked at, there had been excel sheets that tracked various statistics for work and the intranet could pull up info on various orders. I took the excel sheets and connected them to the intranet pag

Reply to Quantum teleportation in Everything Else Sins Forums

well, i never said it wasn't a philosophy. I said the word was not necessary in the description. Take that word out and read it again. It doesn't really change anything. It merely points out that it is an idea or reasoning that is logical but not proven by facts (in which case it would be a 'theory', not a philosophy). [quote who="Sinperium" reply="245" id="3169970"]The origin theories of a multiverse have more to do with multidimensionality and principles th

Reply to Quantum teleportation in Everything Else Sins Forums

without looking up an official definition somewhere (which i don't normally do, but figured you wanted my definition), what jumps to mind is: idea or mindset. However, that aside, that's not the interpretation that I'm taking issue with. the word 'philosophical' in that sentence in not necessary. What I take issue with is the interpretation "conscious life causes the physical universe". The way I r

Reply to I MAY HAVE DISCOVERED WHAT'S CHASING THE VASARI in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="208" id="3168154"]I worked in steam propulsion engineering and the amount of refinement that has gone into ship propulsion as a result of experience using the technology is amazing. But the fact remains, the first steam turbine was invented by someone--the refiner's would never have come up with it on their own.[/quote] my point is that in itself is refinement. the first steam turbine is a continuation of the technology in windmil

Reply to Addressing the Advent Loyalists in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

[quote who="DavidtheDuke" reply="37" id="3168189"]Uh, just so you guys know, Steam says Rebellion is out June 12th 2012. I would think it's probably accurate, considering that's where you get the beta.[/quote] This is irrelevant and so is Seleuceia's links. Without direct word from the devs or an official announcement, I see no reason to believe any of those accounts better than tossing darts at the calendar (well, there is some logic to the guessing like the

Reply to Quantum teleportation in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="240" id="3168184"] In astrophysics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the philosophical consideration that observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it. Note the use of the word "philosophical"--this is what rankles a lot of pure science types--even though science types are the ones proposing it.[/quote] You have misread

Reply to I MAY HAVE DISCOVERED WHAT'S CHASING THE VASARI in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="206" id="3168052"]Bad science is actually a problem right now in mainstream science with the financial incintivezation of research. It already has been found to be causing serious problems in how science is being performed. Competition for grants, funding and the like all hinges on showing fast results before anyone else can and it is a big problem that is systemized now.[/quote] While I don't 100% disagree with you, I certainly objec

Reply to Quantum teleportation in Everything Else Sins Forums

Are you reading the same thing I am? Or are you just trying to egg me on. I do have to sleep every few weeks or so... What the Anthropic principle is about is random laws of physics. Let's say we build a machine that makes universes and each one it makes has completely random laws of physics. And we're interested in which ones have life in them. Well, only a very small fraction of universes can support life. Why? Well, with random laws of physics, you're sure to ha

Reply to I MAY HAVE DISCOVERED WHAT'S CHASING THE VASARI in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="203" id="3167456"]Did you just say, "fringe science"!?[/quote] Lol, does saying that cause you to appear?! Well, I might not have identified what I meant exactly... obviously, the Advent aren't real, so any of their methodology is not science in any way. ****Warning: Interesting and deep conversations to follow.... Read at your own risk****

Reply to Addressing the Advent Loyalists in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

hey, um... before everyone get's all worked up... (might be too late), if the Dev's said "It'll be done when it's done."; where the heck are people getting the idea that they're running out of time? I haven't seen anything from this site stating a release date of any kind. I mean, I've heard the 6/12 number tossed around, but where is that coming from? any official source posted in an official way?

Reply to Quantum teleportation in Everything Else Sins Forums

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

Reply to I MAY HAVE DISCOVERED WHAT'S CHASING THE VASARI in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="randomclam" reply="200" id="3166934"]I've got no idea what the big threat is, but something caught my attention in the new lore that makes me wonder what it is. The in-game race description for the Advent Rebels hints at a corrupt influence in the Unity. The Loyalists believe it is nonexistent, and ignore the possibility. The Loyalists are also extremely aggressive, seeking to assimilate anyone and everyone. The TEC seems to be their main target, but