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Reply to [Mod Utility] Greed Mod Manager 2.0.2 in Sins II Modding Sins2 Forums

Announcing Greed 1.1.0 - Merge & Diff Major Improvements Merging now possible across all files. Created intelligent merge file types so you can specify exactly how t

Reply to 10 yrs and AI innovations in Sins of a Solar Empire II Sins2 Forums

I imagine a fair amount of improvement can be brought to the game just by tweaking the priority heuristics, which are presently only defined for things like flak frigates. "ai" : {

Reply to Trade Ports - What Gives in Sins of a Solar Empire II Sins2 Forums

There's a new menu page to the right of the resources beside the market. That's where you can edit point allocations.

Reply to Trade Ports - What Gives in Sins of a Solar Empire II Sins2 Forums

They're a different mechanic. You want to import things to terran planets from other worlds to make money. Pay attention to the icons when you mouse over the build trade port button. The symbols of the resources are how many slots they'll give you, and the cubes are the number of trade points you can allocate in those slots. It lets you customize what resources you're getting.

Reply to First Impressions from a Sins 1 Modder in Sins II Feedback Sins2 Forums

Now that I've had some opportunity to play around with things more, I have some thoughts on the components. Radiation Bomb : my biggest concern here is that this takes time to install, and slots are very much at a premium. Honestly, this seems more like the sort of thing you'd stick on some sort of modular cruiser that could have components installed on it. I think the idea with Radiation Bomb was to give you a little extra oomph in some early-game

[Mod Utility] Greed Mod Manager 2.0.2 in Sins II Modding Sins2 Forums

Introducing Greed , a mod loader for Sins II ahead of whatever official mod management implementation we end up getting. Features for Users No More Manual Deconfliction : Deconfliction of commonly modified files

Missiles Can't Hit Buildings Waiting for Research in Sins II Bug Reports Sins2 Forums

Noticed this when I was building an Argonev while being attacked. If the building is still waiting on research, the AI tries to attack it and fails because it doesn't exist yet. The missiles just whizz straight through. I imagine the same applies to other weapons, but I didn't happen to encounter that.

Reply to [Greed] Point Defense Strings in Sins II Modding Sins2 Forums

[quote who="Smarti12" reply="3" id="3899738"] Cool stuff on the mod! The PD wasting a lot of damage on already destroyed missiles was definitely an issue for me so far. [/quote] It doesn't actually change the performance, it just changes the appearance. For burst fire weapons (like autocannons), the damage is done at the start of the particle effect. Because the effects were sometimes several seconds long on PD guns, it led to weird situations where the gun seemed to continu

Reply to [Greed] Point Defense Strings in Sins II Modding Sins2 Forums

We'll have to see what that dedicated tab holds when that's live. Ideally, it would hook into a repo of existing mods that modders can contribute to. Importantly though, it seems like they're really only offering good support for overhaul mods because of a lack of handling of localized text/manifest collisions. Basically, if you like the base game and would rather a collection of small mods, you're just kind of out of luck unless someone makes a mod pack for it, but that will be annoy

[Greed] Point Defense Strings in Sins II Modding Sins2 Forums

Point Defense Strings Changes Point defense autocannons now fire in shorter, denser bursts to look more like real-life point defense weaponry and avoid the silliness of seeming to shoot down dead missiles. Point defense weapons have also been disambiguated in the UI based on whether or not they can attack things larger than a strikecraft. PD-A (Point Defense - Attack):

Reply to Starbase orbital thruster skill with cooldown + option to auto orbit planet. in Sins II Feedback Sins2 Forums

True, I'm just concerned that starbases will become glorified hangars (though maybe that's okay for the Advent?) if they can't be somewhere useful, so it seems like they need to move somehow . There's also a pretty big difference between non-combat maneuvering and in-combat maneuvering. I think everyone wants to at least keep in-combat tactical maneuvering uniquely Vasari, so that leaves a few options that I can see: Extreme Range : starbase

Reply to Starbase orbital thruster skill with cooldown + option to auto orbit planet. in Sins II Feedback Sins2 Forums

Maybe a planetary component called Orbital Tugs or some such with an active that would allow you to reorient the entire gravity well every so often.

Reply to First Impressions from a Sins 1 Modder in Sins II Feedback Sins2 Forums

Yes, that's what my testing showed.

Reply to First Impressions from a Sins 1 Modder in Sins II Feedback Sins2 Forums

From what I can tell, there's a minimum of 1 damage from any source, so you'll still take something, technically. Additionally, it doesn't look like mitigation works when shields are down, so it's just pure armor at that point.

Reply to First Impressions from a Sins 1 Modder in Sins II Feedback Sins2 Forums

An update as I've done more digging: I realized that shield mitigation isn't a percentage. It's a flat reduction on incoming damage. That actually does quite a bit to keep small arms from scratching capital ships. It's probably quite intentional that capitals have 8 mitigation and flak frigates deal 7. It also means missiles are double-dipping on that damage reduction. [quote who="Unikraken" reply="4" id="3899296"] Hi Volt, thanks for the feedback. Funnily enough I saw a

Reply to First Impressions from a Sins 1 Modder in Sins II Feedback Sins2 Forums

A very good post. Since you have analyse the stats, are there ships that simply cannot be penetrated No, it's nothing like that. Even when the Ragnarov went to the pirate base, it still took substantial damage from their autocannons by the end. Armor only reduces incoming damage. It doesn't eliminate it.

First Impressions from a Sins 1 Modder in Sins II Feedback Sins2 Forums

After playing a few games and digging through the data files, I figured I'd go ahead and give some general impressions. Community Interaction First off, I'm glad to see Yarlen and Blair continuing to post. That makes me hopeful for community interaction going forward. Moddability Oh hey, it's json files! That's actually an established file forma

AI Buying Stock While Player Locked Out in Offworld Feedback Offworld Forums

If I sell stock in myself to ready myself to buy up an AI opponent, it seems that the AI can immediately buy the stock I just sold despite me being locked out. Is this intended functionality?

Reply to GamesBeat Article on Recent Stardock History and What's Ahead in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Personally, I find this ship the most interesting part of the article: The fact that it seems to have repulsors and weapons on top suggests this is a ground vehicle. That in turn means that the game from which it came is likely a ground-based RTS.

Reply to #GamerGate–the free ride is over in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Taking things out of context is hardly limited to SJWs. Anyone looking to discredit an argument via ad hominem will do it.

Reply to #GamerGate–the free ride is over in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="psychoak" reply="26" id="3493672"]The diatribes from politicians on the right are that we're flushing civilization down the drain with bad economic and social policies that will bankrupt the country. You can argue till the cows come how about whether they're correct or not, but it's pretty rare for someone in Congress to claim the Dems are intentionally out to destroy the country, just that they're incompetent boobs with no idea how the world works. [e digico

Reply to The world’s best strategy game developers are teaming up in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Looking forward to all this!

Reply to Replacement for HDD and SSD looks promising in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="5" id="3492167"] They achieved a storage capacity of less than 8 bytes. Sadly sounds like another memory tech that will be 'five years away' for decades. [/quote]Normally I'd fully agree there, but in the video, he discussed pricing which I thought was odd if it wasn't moving forward at a swift pace.

Reply to Replacement for HDD and SSD looks promising in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Basically, this is just a new form of an SSD with dramatically increased information density and without the drawbacks of flash. Infinitely rewritable More data dense than flash memory by two orders of magnitude Read/write 1E6 times faster than HDD memory Cheaper than existing HDDs This sounds too good to be true, but hey... If they make it work, this'll be awesome.

Reply to The game industry’s problem with misogyny in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

[quote who="myfist0" reply="172" id="3490904"] http://girlagainstfeminism.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/why-girls-cant-handle-video-games-2/ [/quote] I felt like I was listening to my girlfriend rant about feminists the entire time I was reading that... The writing style, when she started MOBAs, etc... that was weird...