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What do you value most about Sins? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The display? The strategy? Watching things blow each other up with rockets and lasers? The competition? The 3d ships? If you had to choose between magnificent graphics and deep, engaging strategy, which would you prefer? I'm curious what others think. Sins does a great job of meshing the two: I can only name a few other games which can come close to excellent in both respects. Personally, since my subpar computer can barely render Sins under the minimum sett

Reply to Your favoirte race in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="3" id="2967682"]If this is just personal favorites, mine has always been advent. I love their ship designs and weapon effects, and what's not to like about psychic, spice addicted amazons with an undying thirst for revenge? [/quote] And don't forget the harmonic pew-pew-pew of their lasers!

Reply to Your favoirte race in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I like the Vasari due to their multitude of nasty tricks and late-game superiority. Seriously: Phase missiles? Detect any phase jump? Jump to any planet? Build moving, offensive SBs? Instant-healing to units in need of it (instead of repair-over-time)? Strong, repairable strikecraft? Given the current faction balance, I don't see why anyone would want to be anything other than Vasari in the late game, unless of course they're focusing completely on income (eco slot). T

Reply to strategies for the advent? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="36" id="2967660"]I haven't ever really studied them, but it seems the formations that fleets make are more aesthetic than anything else...maybe I'm missing something? I mean, seriously, you hardly ever want your carriers intermingled in your fleet...and the micro needed for flak and support ships just makes virtually any formation pointless...[/quote] Agreed.

Reply to strategies for the advent? in Strategy Sins Forums

I never ever use fleets... I find that alt-clicking to give each individual unit a command usually feels a bit better than forcing ships to move in a formation.

Reply to MultiPlayer Game Speed All Screwed Up in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="14" id="2967604"]So far you're the only person to have ever reported a problem like this as far as I know. Did you guys try a fresh install?[/quote] Well uh the first post does say... [quote]We uninstalled the game and reinstalled it on both machines. Problem still persists.[/quote]

Reply to Sova Turrets in Technical Sins Forums

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="6" id="2967474"]It is odd--it wasn't happening before--not that I noticed--and then suddenly it was. I'll try playing a tech game again and see if I can record it. I noticed because I had six Sova's and all of them were dropping.[/quote] You don't have the auto-record saved? That'd save you a lot of play-time.

Reply to strategies for the advent? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="31" id="2967255"]It is very important you do not group them in with the rest of your fleet...if you do, every time you order your fleet to focus fire, you may cause the iconus guardians to cancel using their ability...[/quote] While true, wouldn't that situation (in which the whole fleet FFs) also be relatively rare, unless the enemy is retreating or has a cap (or SB or PJI) which absolutely has to be destroyed asap? Usually a player would give e

Reply to Orgovs are severely Overpowered in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Twilight_Storm" reply="138" id="2967176"]It would be a mandatory fighter squad(Or squads), since for the most part, the ships the planet itself needs to worry about are weak to fighters, with the exception of capships, in which case the planet wouldn't have enough squads to save itself anyway.[/quote] Indeed. (that's why I said "free fighter squad" instead of "free squad") Then again, I don't really see a problem with allowing strikecraft in gener

Reply to Player vs AI Games in Multiplayer Organizer Sins Forums

Sometimes it's fun late-game seeing how long you can get the AI with its entire 800+ supply fleet to chase a single scout around the gravity well. Usually their fighters rip it to shreds in a few seconds, but you can probably prolong it almost indefinitely in a plasma storm (no SC). "AI leader, our homeworld is being bombed to pieces and the starbase and other structures are getting torn to shreds! Should we do something?" "No, tell every ship to keep chasing that enemy sc

Reply to Orgovs are severely Overpowered in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="135" id="2967073"]Not that it hasn't been said, but the biggest problem is a lack of effective system defense options that don't involve a "fleet"--even if it is only comprised of scouts.[/quote] I can understand from a "realism" standpoint why effective defense in 3 dimensional space would be difficult to impossible without mobile forces (in a fleet), but I also don't really like the forced-fleet-rush and forced-defend-from-rush strategies in

Reply to Sova Turrets in Technical Sins Forums

This is only a suspicion but I think it automatically drops turrets when it's being attacked, even if by strikecraft (which the turrets obviously can't hit) - it might also drop them right after warping from a well with an enemy starbase due to the hull damage caused. Or did you see it happening in other cases as well?

Reply to Player vs AI Games in Multiplayer Organizer Sins Forums

[quote who="RobbySpry" reply="20" id="2966817"]As long as the AI gives a proper challenge on the higher difficulties i don't see why it matters how "smart" it is. It will still be fun to those who like co-op and who don't need the pride of winning over other players.[/quote] If you aren't limiting yourself, then once you have good fast early expansion down, there isn't really any challenge at all against nearly any AI: a starbase at each choke point will melt nearly an

Reply to Is the Destra Crusader worth using? in Strategy Sins Forums

The last reply before yours was made over 2 years ago. I think the discussion is horribly obsolete. Check the post dates before you post [e digicons]:S[/e]

Reply to strategies for the advent? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="SuzySuziko" reply="29" id="2966411"]Second question if you don't mind. I have been micromanaging to focus the attacks of all my bombers and Cap ships and drones onto the enemy capital ships to start. Is that a good strategy?[/quote] Capital ships have less firepower per hull strength than ordinary combat-oriented frigates and cruisers. If you want to weaken the enemy's attack power as quickly as possible, let your bombers target heavy cruisers or other

Reply to Free Karma to answer advent question.. in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="StatusIpod" reply="58" id="2965972"]It shocks me to hear it doesn't target caps. Why not! Someone please confirm this? omg just how many issues can advent have[/quote] Lol @ statusipod lobbying for changes when he doesn't even know what the abilities do currently. No, the Disciple's Steal Antimatter only targets enemy frigates and cruisers. (and structures) Which makes sense - all the other light frigates' upgradable anti-antimatter abili

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity/Diplomacy v1.3 Journal - Part 3 in Sins Developer Journals Sins Forums

[quote who="Greg30007" reply="43" id="2965991"]One of main problems of Ai is that they do not scrape structures. So in theory you could forcer AI to gimp himself by keeping attacking and destroying factories. Hit and run tactic until AI build something other than factories.[/quote] Unfortunately, that requires unlocked teams.

Reply to Free Karma to answer advent question.. in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="Greg30007" reply="43" id="2965155"]Advent has great anti colonizing option early game. I find it pain in the a** when I have to fight culture while expanding.[/quote] If they've got culture (and culture stations) so far up that that's an issue early-game, you probably wouldn't be doing much more expanding in that direction anyway...

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity/Diplomacy v1.3 Journal - Part 3 in Sins Developer Journals Sins Forums

A problem I've noticed on the harder AIs: they rarely, if ever, scrap their structures, even if it's a good idea. For instance, once I was playing with an allied hard AI who maxed out on logistics structures on his front-line planet, but hadn't built any culture centers there - so, later in the game, enemy culture was overthrowing his planet every 10 minutes or so, my ally would recolonize and upgrade, and it would happen again, etc. I'm wondering if this might also po

Reply to Can you use a headset to talk with and hear other players (allies)? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

From what I've heard you can use Ventrilo or Xfire, but it might take a little doing to get all of your teammates connected. That's one option, there might be better ones.

Reply to Question about Vasari in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Oh, I was thinking of other factions. Vasari skirmishers make little sense early-game.

Reply to Question about Vasari in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="6" id="2964055"]Don't touch the light frigates; total waste of money early-game. They're good against Advent T0 spam, carrier cruiser rushes, and massed flak tactics, and that's it. The AI will never pull any of these, so they're only useful for disrupting support cruisers. Instead, use scouts for combat purposes. They're cheaper, faster, and they get a damage bonus against the only two units in the militia you need

Reply to Question about Vasari in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"]Also, what's the ideal fleet setup for colonizing early-game? I usually make a Jarrasul Evacuator + 8 light frigates to clean up quick, but I don't play online and haven't really learned any strategies.[/quote] I try to expand as fast as possible in as many directions as possible. If I'm going with a colonizer cap strategy, I usually build a bunch of scouts and then a colony frigate (for whatever direction the capital ship isn't going in), so

Reply to Orgovs are severely Overpowered in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="gamerlamb" reply="95" id="2963083"]You missed my point. With all large military installations in current world history, reasonable precautions are put into place to counter known threats. My point is that it makes little logical sense to assume that at some point in the future, sentient beings suddenly forget the lessons of past military conflict and start building things that can be 100% countered by something that is so simple to protect against.[/quote] I'm not that

Reply to Watch Mode? Is there one? Pls help in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="kingb33" reply="7" id="2963314"]1) How do you track where there are battles happening? The AI builds a huge army sends them off in all directions and then i totally lose whats going on where. Is there a quick way to zoom in where there are active battles happening?[/quote] Hover the mouse over the bars just to the right of a gravity well (when zoomed out). If you see large numbers of ships from multiple factions, it's very likely that a battle is happening there.