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Reply to Priority of the Fixing of Underpowered Capital Abilities in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Just had a different idea on how to buff Gauss rail gun: Make it a passive boost to the Kol's forward firepower. Many people have complained about how the Kol's forward damage sucks - here's a way to make it rock instead, without draining antimatter that could be used for Flak Bursts or Adaptive Forcefields. A side effect is that Adaptive Forcefield wouldn't need to become passive, and could continue to provide the bonuses it now does.

Reply to Diplomacy Opening Theme WTH in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote] I do think TEC 3 plays in game. They did it b/c I assume they didnt have the time or money to make a new opening theme like they did for Entrechement. So they reused one from ingame.[/quote] Entrenchment did not have a new theme either - they used Battle 10 for that. Honestly, one of the few things I found disappointing in the expansions was the lack of new music.

Reply to NEW Patch Stat Changes Forums [NEW TOPIC: CAPITAL SHIPS!! 1/2/10] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Any thoughts on giving Vasari caps more HP/Shields to compensate for their inferior frigs?

Reply to NEW Patch Stat Changes Forums [NEW TOPIC: CAPITAL SHIPS!! 1/2/10] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Just an interesting thought about capital ships - since the Vasari frigates are definitively inferior to their TEC and Advent counterparts (at least until Optimized Construction and RA come into play in the late game), and Vasari capital ships are clearly very important (just look at the crew sizes for Vasari caps vs. crew sizes for Advent & TEC caps), wouldn't it be a good balancing measure to give a HP/Shields increase exclusively to Vasari capital ships, to counterbalance their weaker

Reply to Stardock’s Chief Troll in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]UPS is fine. But they made a big thing about boycotting Fox News (not a particular program but all of it). When it backfired, they recanted and said "Oh no, we're not boycotting anything..." So I made a comment on Facebook that it annoyed me that UPS was using their business as a political tool. This got reported in the media as me supporting "Glenn Beck" (who I've never watched before) which in turn got a bunch of people really ticked off that I was getting politi

Reply to What war game on PC has best AI in your opinion? Any genre in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I'd say Civilization IV seemed to have the best AI I've seen, with the expansions, it can actually put up a decent fight without extra resources. It still can't really exploit any weak spots you leave, and has problems with keeping more units than necessary on defense (many of them unupgraded from their original type), but at least it could produce a competitive empire without needing a massive handicap.

Reply to I love gamers! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote]and I'm also slightly sad at no 3rd micro expansion for Sins..[/quote] Considering that we were promised there would be a campaign, I'd be really disappointed if that never got done. The Sins lore is really interesting, and it would be such a shame to see it go to waste.

Reply to Good Idea/Bad Idea: The Forum Game in Everything Else Sins Forums

Good Idea: Buying an energy-efficient home.

Reply to Good Idea/Bad Idea: The Forum Game in Everything Else Sins Forums

Bad Idea: Having a week's vacation in Iran.

Reply to 1.04 Counters to Repulse (Best options you've got) in Strategy Sins Forums

Vasari get a few more options strikecraft wise. Between the Skirantra's repair cloud, tougher strike craft, and phase missiles, they could deploy their strikecraft in waves to exhaust the Advent's tk pushes, keep the damaged ones back, and use the rest to attack the guardians. They only do 50% damage, but Guardians don't have much in the way of hull points, so phase missiles from the strike craft would do a lot of damage.

Reply to Patch Stat Changes Forum [NEW TOPIC: Adjudicators 8/25/09]!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

For guardians, I favor increasing AM cost, for Missile Barrage, I favor both reducing the AoE and increasing the range of Interrupting abilities, and for Carriers, I favor eliminating the movement penalty. Everyone should agree that a good RTS should avoid encouraging the spam of a single unit or ability, and all the above changes would help ensure that many strategies remain viable.

Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Star Trek has transporters, Star Trek also has transporter inhibitors. Counters to technology are generally very quick to follow the discovery of a given technology. They can rapidly beam their own personel around without effort because the communicators are also homing devices. To beam out someone not wearing one, they have to find them using the internal ship sensors. To beam someone out that has a transport inhibitor, they have to tag them.</

Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Boarding parties. They wouldn't need to worry about holes in the ship too much. Force fields would pop up any time they managed to make one, and the outer hull is not something so easy to blow through that an AP weapon would do it from inside. They wouldn't need to worry about getting there in the first place either, so the lack of a problem isn't really much help. Star Trek shields also block physical objects, you have to match their frequency, which is

Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Sins Forums

For all the debate about ship to ship combat, if Star Trek marines can't repel boarding actions, then the entire issue is irrelevant. Considering that their usual counter to a boarding action is a bunch of men in latex suits carrying pistols, they don't seem to have a counter for Master Chief or a squad of Elites attacking with grenades and rocket launchers. Considering the Federation's general lack of anti boarding defenses, is there really anything they could do to prevent Maste

Reply to PRESENTING... YOUR FAVOURITE STARSHIP! in Everything Else Sins Forums

I call this ship the Magnetron, it has the the ability to control electromagnetic fields in a roughly 500 m radius around it. So it can do things like deflect projectiles, bend light, create laser beams in any direction, smash starship hulls, interfere with electronics, and make dimensional jumps. It's only the size of a l

Reply to Problems installing Impulse update (solved) in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Thanks, that worked. Wish I knew what was going on though.

Problems installing Impulse update (solved) in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Since this game has been patched several time since release, I can't play until Impulse updates it. However, Impulse seems unable to install its own latest update, and has been stuck at "Downloading Impulse update - Retrying" for nearly ten minutes. What's going on, and how can I fix it? I'm running 64-bit Windows Vista. Thanks!

Reply to Your "Ideal" Fleet: 100 ships for any race in Strategy Sins Forums

Double post, delete.

Reply to Your "Ideal" Fleet: 100 ships for any race in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Ryat" reply="24" id="2125190"] [quote]Antorak Marauder, Skirantra Carrier, and Halcyon carrier, with 5 Guardians, 17 Hoskikos, 5 Subjugators, and 70 Aeria Drone Hosts. Commence running around the grav well with a speed boost, ignoring PJIs, Repulsing LFs, TK Pushing enemy strike craft, while the Skirantra, Hoshikos, and Subjugators heal up any damage that actually managed to get through.[/quote] [quote] Marzas, a bunch of support

Reply to Forge Tools 3 Released in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="5" id="2124507"]if you have version 1.01 you NEED to edit the galaxy.manifest in your entrenchment folder and any entrenchment mods folders. the easier answer is to download my sins map updater v1.1.8 which includes a galaxy.manifest manager to do this exact task. it can be downloaded here http://files.filefront.com/sins+map+updater+v118rar/;13531441;/fileinfo.html if you are ussing entrenchment 1.02 then the galaxy forge maps MUST be in th

Reply to Your "Ideal" Fleet: 100 ships for any race in Strategy Sins Forums

Antorak Marauder, Skirantra Carrier, and Halcyon carrier, with 5 Guardians, 17 Hoskikos, 5 Subjugators, and 70 Aeria Drone Hosts. Commence running around the grav well with a speed boost, ignoring PJIs, Repulsing LFs, TK Pushing enemy strike craft, while the Skirantra, Hoshikos, and Subjugators heal up any damage that actually managed to get through.

Reply to Forge Tools 3 Released in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I eventually just gave up on updating my original file, so I made a new one with Galaxy Forge 3, and copied the file into my Galaxy folder, but it isn't showing up in Entrenchement! Any idea how to fix this?

Reply to Forge Tools 3 Released in Sins Modding Sins Forums

& The map updater still isn't working, so I tried manually updating the file. Now I get an error in Galaxy Forge 3 when I try to load it. I'm wondering if anyone can see where the problem is in the file (sorry for the wall of code) [quote]TXT versionNumber 3 isBrowsable TRUE browsePictureName "" browseName "" browseDescription "TODO - Add Description Here." isFirstCapitalShipIsFlagship TRUE

Reply to Forge Tools 3 Released in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Is there any way to convert maps made with Galaxy Forge 1.1 to Galaxy Forge 3? I've spent some time making custom maps in the earlier verson, and wouldn't like to lose the work. EDIT2: I tried the map updater, and it isn't working. One of the maps I tried to update loads in Galaxy Forge 3, but gives an error when you try to save it, and does not show up in Entrenchment. Another map does not load in Galaxy Forge 3 at all, and also does not show up

Reply to Score Calculator? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks a lot for the information, but I still have some questions. First, are the points given from income determined before or after expenses (such as ship maintainance, etc.)? Also, do you recieve points for techs and money acquired through diplomacy?