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Reply to Cities XL in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Is there a chance I could still get in on it!? I've been wanting a city sim for AGES now. DETAILS MEEEEE ... I'm so excited... I just can't hide it.

Why ICO is Failing in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

I joined ICO today and maybe 10 people are in chat on a Saturday. The most I saw were 3 games waiting for players. I tried to join a 4v4 and and it says "game not found" Then I tried again.. "game not found". Then all games dissappear except the 4v4, I join it. It crashes and everyone is booted. I join again, it crashes and everyone is booted. I join a final time and it seems stable. I notice the 4v4 has 10 slots, so I

Reply to My Current Top 5 RTS's in PC Gaming Sins Forums

1. Rise of Nations 2. Sins of a Solar Empire 3. Age of Empires 3 4. Rise of Legends 5. Red Alert 2

Reply to Woman ordered to pay $1.92 million for pirating ... 24 songs in Everything Else Sins Forums

Ah yes! Pure justice. This wretched terrible person deserved to be milked of every last penny. It is absolutely evident that downloading a song will cause damages of $80,000 to the poor and innocent record company, who was brought down to it's kneese ready to keel over and die if this woman wasn't penalyzed to the full extent of the law! God bless the justice system, God bless the innocent, and may this women rot in HELL where all who download a few songs deserve

Reply to Micromanagement? in Strategy Sins Forums

Online requires a lot of micro. Vs. AI, not really necessary I find.

Reply to Entrenchment? wut? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Your overall assessment is pretty true actually. Most games I've played online with Entrenchment end up with everyone having starbases on all their planets and then it ending in a stale mate (someone just gets fed up with the 6 hour game and logs off). The anti structure ships work well against regular defenses but not so much against starbases. Against TEC and Advent bases they are ok, but against Vasari they are useless, you're better off attacking a Vasari starbase w

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yeah the general idea seems like it has a lot of potential. If done right, you could have a very quick and easy way to manage a lot of aspects of your empire. It might be too simple though and require some extra detail to keep a person ingaged.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

To be honest, I think police forces would be kind of useless, just like pirates now. At the start of the game they would help, but by midgame they'ed just be a waste of resources.

Reply to Czech Republic - In your country, stealing your photos. in Everything Else Sins Forums

why all the hate?

Reply to Ironclad's Future After Sins? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I want it to happen, but it's a cost to benefit ratio that doesn't work out. People who play sins play single player. Yes there are people who play online (I DO!) but for the most part, that is a slim amount of people (thank god we have them because it helps balance the game immensely). But realistically, they sold over 500 k copies and the total number of people online is maybe in the 1000's. That's 500 to 1 on being very liberal. Something like blizzard was able

Reply to AI Behaviour in Sins Modding Sins Forums

yeah, the mod I was making increased the effectiveness of cap ships, but since the AI only builds a few cap ships at the start of the game, the opposite problem occcurs, my 5 Caps will domolish it's fleets. No need to fret though, I've encountered far more difficulties making changes to the overall gameplay that have basically made it unplayable. ie. ships will suddenly stop firing in the middle of a battle and will not attack each other unless sp

Reply to AI Behaviour in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Umm I'm not sure what the confusing part is. But i'll try to explain further... The AI builds on preset templates, which usually only include a few capital ships. I would like to know if anyone knows a way to change this. Since we can't chagne AI directly, I'm looking at secondary criteria, such as say max cap ship slots.

Reply to This place is awsome. in Everything Else Sins Forums

Why do you want to kill Canada? :(

Reply to Need help narrowing down an error! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Neither of those seemed to work. I'll try taking it out again. Maybe it isn't that ship and it was a fluke that it didn't minidump when it wasn't in the mod.

AI Behaviour in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Does anyone know how to make the AI produce more Capital ships? If I increase the Cap ship slots, will they build more caps?

Reply to Need help narrowing down an error! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Sounds like a plan! I'll try it out.

Reply to Need help narrowing down an error! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

So basically the AI is having a problem? Something I've introduced is affecting it's logic kind of thing? Maybe I'll explain what I'm doing. I've basically set all ships in this one faction to have 0 antimatter restore, then created a "supply ship" that has the transfer antimatter ability and high antimatter restore rates. It seems to crash when the supply ship is in action, where without it, there are no problems. Also, I hav

Reply to Need help narrowing down an error! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

EDIT(Yeah, Annatar, that's exactly the error I was talking about. Thanks!) Yeah, the minidump occurs without an error, even with showErrors set to TRUE. This time it happened when two ships jumped into my grav well (though it could be the ai doing someting somewhere else. I'm pretty sure those ships aren't the problem though because I've played with them before with no problems. The only time this error occurs is when my new ship is in the game.</

Reply to Need help narrowing down an error! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Side note, I'm getting "Weapons Index out of bounds" errors. They dont' crash the game but they cause an error to show up. It says something about meshes.. but i'm using Sins original models... Any idea what that means?

Reply to Need help narrowing down an error! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

YIPPEE!!! that explains it. Thanks homy.

Reply to Need help narrowing down an error! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="5" id="2250825"]Open user.setting, set showErrors to TRUE, and it'll give you the exact line in the file that's causing the crash. No guesswork and hair pulling needed. Honestly, Ironclad should just make it the default [/quote] Yes I have showErrors turned on. It doesn't always show an erorr though, and that is the case this time :(. WAIT! When I tried t

Reply to Need help narrowing down an error! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yeah I'll post the code in a bit. haven't tried any Particle Forge stuff. My 3d modeling skills are bottom of the barrel. I'm more into coding.

Reply to Need help narrowing down an error! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

It's random. That's the problem. I've jumped them into other systems, had them use their abilities, move them around a grav well and it's fine. Then it'll just crash out of nowhere. No clue what's doing it. Developer doesn't work on my computer either.

Need help narrowing down an error! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Hello, I've created a ship that uses "AbilityTransferAntimatter" and "AbilityRepairDroids", has 0 guns with large amount of antimatter max and regeneration. For some reason it is causing a minidump that gives no errors. Does anyone know where this error might be coming from? I've had two versions of this ship. The last one is basically a subverter without any guns and the changes to stats + abilities. I really can't figure out what is causing this dump

Reply to AI for trade ships in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'm going to test something out for my mod, when I get it to stop dumping. Instead of having a bunch of useless trade ships, I'm goign to have fewer ships that are worth a lot more. That way, I'm hoping, guarding trade routes will be far more important and pirating those ships will be far more lucrative. I'll let you guys know how it goes, once i get it up and running.