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Game speed in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Plus and minus signs having that wonderful time dialation function would be a real big help. Over all though, the game is just abysmally boring inbetween combats. It takes a long time to get started, something alleviated by playing a flagship game, but even with your economy rolling along it's a very lengthy game. I actually watched a movie while I cleaned out the second solar system in a 10 and 2 custom game. The ai being unable to kill capital ships made it a little more boring tha

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I don't know, I think I'm going with condescending jackass from the listed options above. My personal preference for self reference happens to be sarcastic asshole though. When I critique something, I expect to be disagreed with, but to have such a shallow, absurd argument against collision detection... I can usually keep myself in hand, mere sarcasm with a touch of patronization is my usual norm. It's self amusement rather than a feeling of superiority, the only creative writing I'm

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You must have gotten lost, is this what you think you're testing? Since you're being absurd and peer pressure is supposed to work, they really don't need a graphics engine at all, a text based gui would be more than sufficient. Emp, bullet points are for coherent people, lazy ones stick to run-on sentences and multi-subject paragraphs.

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That's now the second time you've said that, a 3d model is not an icon. If you're assuming that the 3d models are just there for the hell of it and they needn't comply with simple concepts and aren't supposed to be realistic in any way, perhaps you could ask why we have them? We have a 3d space with 3d objects, we have those objects somewhat reasonably scaled in the confines of a realistically playable game. They could just as easily zoom in closer before replacing the icons with real

Reply to Who wants more single point static defenses? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Jump speeds need upgrades. It takes longer to jump than it does to move in the gravity wells. With the second level psidar tech you can build fleets to kill the attackers with before they get there. It's the jump speeds, not the gravity well speeds, with the exception of the stars which actually take a significant amount of time to traverse. You can already move your capital ships through the mass of defenses to anywhere you want without taking serious damage, they don't need to be faster

Reply to Cloaking Device addon in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Thermal imaging sees the same stuff your eyes do, it's just a different bandwidth. All radiative energy can be manipulated via gravity, black holes for instance do not just suck in visible light, they manipulate the entire electromagnetic spectrum. This happens to include everything a ship should be emitting. Something that can manipulate gravity can in theory warp everything around it, including visible light. It's own emissions would be a neat trick, but you can at the least channel them i

Reply to Who wants more single point static defenses? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

For planetary guns, to fire on siegers, did anyone else here play Legions of Iron? Terrible game, but the orbital weapon platforms that buzzed around the outer atmosphere to shoot at the sieging ships seems to be what some of you are wanting.

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They also shoot through each other.

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Dunov and Akkan battlecruisers don't fill this role already? Between shield restore and the later achieved Armistice on the Akkan, I can't imagine an unbreakable stalemate. Simply move your almighty army of doom in and armistice when you get in trouble. You can avoid static defenses entirely, and move massive fleets into a single planet while the enemy defenders are neutralized. Kill the colony, key structures, key units, whatever.

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The rest is either criticism or agreement in a logical manner, ship speed not so much. It does not take forever to go from one star system to the next because capital ships are slow, they jump at the same speed everything else does. Through the gravity well of a star, they are also godawfully slow, but again, not because they are slow. Everything moves godawfully slow through them. Right now, frigates appear to be about twice the speed of capital ships, with cruisers inbetween. Stri

First impressions "book" in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Yes, I know this is a beta and I'm critiquing a partially finished game. If I come off as an offensive, demanding prick with too many complaints, odds are I am one anyways. I do grasp the concept however and everything listed is listed as such. First, capital ships. Beautiful ability design, leveling system, wonderful stuff that. Unfortunately, it's also my main gripe about them. A level 9 Sova carrier is a wonderful thing to have, there's absolutely no excuse for using the cruiser