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Reply to How similar will this be to the Imperium Galactica series? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The Kra'hen Empire with all it's production capacity, better ships, and superior end-game weapons, did have a flaw of being unable to do diplomacy and trade making it the automatic enemy of every other empire. By chance, it doesn't manage to get enough territory it is a pathetic opponent that gets wiped out, because the lack of extra trade income limits it's military size. Of course, playing as the Shinari Republic allowed you to manipulate the Kra'hen ships and force them to fire on e

Reply to Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars DEMO .... in Games Sins Forums

I was mainly referring to other strategy titles, which have walls that don't block fire.

Reply to Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars DEMO .... in Games Sins Forums

Yeah, considering the walls actually seem to block weapons fire for once, it would have been nice to have them.

Reply to this game seems similar to pax imperia in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well, there was some tactics, but it's a bit hazy after not playing the game for so long (firing arcs, point-defense, planetary bombardment ships, etc.). Of course, don't remember carriers being that dominate, and can remember being forced to bring other ships to prevent them being overrun. I do sort of remember the fighter and bomber swarms where usually good against softening or destroying lesser orbiting planetary defenses and minor defense fleets. Of course, that might be entirely

Reply to How similar will this be to the Imperium Galactica series? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well, it wont exactly be the same, you are not going to see controllable-and-viewable land-based combat in this game, and most likely wont be seeing any number of pre-rendered cut scenes throughout your conquest. In addition, you wont be outfitting your ships to whatever weapon and equipment load out you want, but there is still some flexibility via research and upgrades. On your other question, the developers would have to answer about how IG influenced the development of this game, b

Reply to 2007, what will it bring in Games Sins Forums

I almost thought Star Trek Online died due to the lack of news about it as of late. In addition, they didn't really plan to let players command or crew a non-Starfleet vessel on the initial release.

Reply to Huxley in Games Sins Forums

I greatly doubt it wont have a monthly fee, if it didn't the news of such a popular payment plan would have been widely popularized by the press. My other concern is the growing appearance that the game is going to be another frag-fest game like UT, but this time pitched as an MMOG with some RPG elements. For instance, you can sort of already observe the gameplay-impact of rocket launchers and grenade launchers compared to other weapon chooses in some of the footage. I hope, the gam

Reply to Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars DEMO .... in Games Sins Forums

You change the player-side or artificial player behavior by first opening the corresponding drop-menu, clicking the item you want, then hitting the key that corresponds to the first letter of that item (i.e. N for NOD), and sometimes clicking the item again. Also, the alien side isn't playable, because all it's unit data is missing from the demo it seems. Also, the avatar's commandeering feature is really more-expensive and less-useful then can ever be ($3,000 + the cost of the unit be

Reply to Sword of the Stars..... Anyone play it? in Games Sins Forums

I guess that is a nice way of putting it.

Reply to Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars DEMO .... in Games Sins Forums

I played it on-and-off for the last few days, it's not that bad, but it's not that great either. I feel the campaign is going to be the biggest selling point for me, but the game really feels awkwardly balanced. In addition, some of the pre-rendered live-action cut scenes have an odd issue of playing the audio several seconds in advance of the video sequence (i.e. audio-video desynchronization). Also, got to play the NOD in the demo. I don't know, but their ultimate war machine seems

Reply to Starsiege: 2845 in Games Sins Forums

I tried the alpha release sometime around a month ago, and it just wasn't very playable at the time. Mainly, due to the void that was the number of players and testers at the time. They released a new website since my last visit and it seems they have something else coming in a few weeks.

Reply to 2007, what will it bring in Games Sins Forums

1. Supreme Commander Expansion 2. Sins of a Solar Empire 3. World in Conflict 4. Spore 5. Pirates of the Burning Sea 6. Final Fantasy XIII 7. The new and mysterious, currently in-development Relic Entertainment game 8. Armored Core 4 (Freaking online play at last!) 9. Warhawk 10. Warhammer Online 11. Settlers VI (I hope, it isn't like number 5!)

Reply to Genesis Rising: The Universal Crusade in Games Sins Forums

I uninstalled the beta game well-over a month ago, because no-one was online leaving me to the rather unsatisfying artificial player and so on. Multi, if Xfire is causing performance problems with a specific game, you can turn off the in-game support for that given game, which should resolve the problem.

Reply to Girls that play RTS? in Everything Else Sins Forums

I have been playing with girls in various gaming clans, and tend to see some playing strategy games like Warcraft, Dawn of War, Homeworld, etc. On the other hand, considering how perverted some males can be, would you really announce yourself as a girl in a game? There was more then a few instances in some clans where I had to punish members for harassing the female members. Of course, cannot handle those that figure out outside the clans, which sometimes forces them to change names

Reply to Don't leave your lights on in Everything Else Sins Forums

I don't even think Bill Gates could afford that bill.

Reply to will ship wrecks be persistant? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I could start working on a FAQ in my spare time.

Reply to February (is not) SOASE BETA month!!!!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The release date for SUPCOM in my area is around the 22nd, but it doesn't bother me waiting a few more days then others. Umbra Evito, if you played the game on a higher-level of play, you wouldn't be saying such things, as anyone going into multi-player quickly finds out when they are out-maneuvered, out-flanked, out-thought, and out-played on various levels. From my limited single-player experience, the single-player game doesn't exactly force a player to think or act on a h

Reply to Functional Turrets... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

So, all the turret-like objects on ships aren't animated, well, that is if they are even actual turrets? Any case, it wont bother me much with past real-time empire games lacking animated turrets as well, and I'm sure modifications will eventually come out boasting insane ammounts of turrets.

Reply to X3 Reunion: Review in Games Sins Forums

From the change logs, it supposedly was improved, but from other player reports and my own experience it still tends to happen. I have even watched a few larger ships go into an attack run on a station, which then proceeded to head-on ram the station repeatedly till death.

Reply to February (is not) SOASE BETA month!!!!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Multianna, I practically ran every command in the game for various things, but surprisingly never ran the "/map perftest" command in later versions since build 20. In addition, I tended to use FRAPS to monitor my frames-per-second and taking automated screen shots, which I'm sure was slowing my system down a touch. Just, you ran Total Annihilation on a Pentium Pro 90? Wow, you must have been going nuts, because even my Pentium II 300 MHz at the time was running sluggish in larger game

Reply to X3 Reunion: Review in Games Sins Forums

My entire experience with the game was soured by bugs, path finding problems, and a rather sub-par interface in managing hundreds of ships. Of course, most of my grief seemed stemmed from the simple fact that traders have about as much piloting skill as a retarded monkey, and have a tendency of piloting straight into the side of an asteroid or station. I have lost MORE traders to collisions to non-hostile stationary objects then actual combat, which roughly comes to like one-hundred ships in f

Reply to February (is not) SOASE BETA month!!!!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well, I'll just be happy if it does come out this month. The DEV's said the beta WILL come out this month. I just can't remember where I saw it... I am very-well aware of those statements, but in my experience in this industry you grow accu

Reply to February (is not) SOASE BETA month!!!!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well, I'll just be happy if it does come out this month. have you been beta testing it? i personally would wait for a patch or two after it goes retail to make it more playable, all in all it still seems "too" EPIC in scale and really just a big mess of troops vs a big mess of troops... but to each is own so true. Atm its like it needs a super machine to run it. Im gonna wait a bit too. To see

Reply to Get a mac ads, hilarious! in Everything Else Sins Forums

Those videos are even more entertaining then the actual MAC ones. Macs can sometimes be technologically superior to PC's in terms of speed and processing power. But that is marred by their unwavering inflexibility and costly repair fees. Plus you can't play many games

Reply to Get a mac ads, hilarious! in Everything Else Sins Forums

Yeah, the commercials are entertaining in both regions, but rather deceitful of the reality of computing. In my years as a graphic and website designer, I never saw the distinguishing benefits of a MAC, and good-deal of the touted designer software is the EXACT same as the PC version -- or you can find similarly capable PC software.