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Reply to Effective DPS per unit of Fleet Capacity in Strategy Sins Forums

Wow. The Javelis LRM Frigate is good against everything. Cheap in terms of cash and resources, only 4 supply points, a Cluster Warheads ability for splash attacks, and potential for nice big damage and range extension research. Kind of justifies LRM-rush. Another odd revelation is that ALL bomber squads are better against the Garda Flak Frigate than the Garda Flak is against them! The Defense Vessel has more raw firepower and the Junsurak Sentinel has Charged Phase Missiles, but the Gar

Reply to Nunbers in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]do all ships have the same rate of fire? will a ship with 10 dmg automatically out DPS a ship with 9?[/quote] Absolutely not. All ships have different rates of fire, which may be affected by technologies and abilites as well. Capital ships even have different fire rates for their different weapons. Only strikecraft have the same fire rate - 12 seconds for all fighters, and 13.5 seconds for all bombers.

Reply to So I thought I was doing good in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]The Mothership is often touted as the best of the three "colony" capitals, incidentally, both for its shield regen and for its Malice ability. If you see one in an enemy fleet, its generally a good idea to waste it ASAP.[/quote] The Progenitor Mothership is central to the Advent. While the Vasari equivalent, the Jarrasul 'Space Whale' Evacuator also has some nice abilities(Drain Planet, Gravity Warhead, Nano Disassembler), it isn't as important to the Vasari as the Mothership is

Reply to How can TEC beat this Advent strategy? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Flaks pwn Illuminators.Capital ships? Quite frankly I never go past one. The prevalence of LRM, Bomber and Heavy Crusier is so strong in this game that they really aren't worth building[/quote] Yes, Flaks don't [I]own[/I] Long-Range Frigates(LRFs), they engage them in a long brawl of attrition and eventually kill them all off(if both sides are equal in fleet supply). The only thing that kills LRFs fast(comparatively) is micromanaged fighters, but the carriers they operate from ha

Reply to Favorite Vasari Ship combo's thread. in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]How would any of you vasari experts deal with someone rushing straight to kodiaks? Don't get me wrong, I wish more people would realise tech levels = number of labs not the amount of research. But I am curious how you build a bigger economy and match them to rush to enforcers. I was able to claw my way to Transporters easily enough but I could never seem to put together enough bombers to deal with a mid/early 20+ upgraded kodiaks at a time. I am able to match TEC people, sort of, in s

Reply to How can TEC beat this Advent strategy? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]And of course EMP will be great too. Although I never use it, have to get into the habit.[/quote] The Dunovs abilities are perfect for anti-Advent. EMP Burst brings down enemy shields and antimatter to an extent and Magnetize temporarily makes the target ship attract strikecraft and collide with it - great for a 1-2 punch against the 3 things Advent focuses on: antimatter, shields, and paper-plane strikecraft.

Reply to The best race for a carrier fleet in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]However, this takes time. And in that time the strike craft is killing off your frigates.[/quote] Er... the fighters will be engaged in suicidal combat against my fighters, and after they pop, the bombers go down as well. If flak is present, this process is accelerated. Even while the bombers are still alive, they won't be able to do much damage to frigates or support cruisers. Bombers use AntiVeryHeavy weapons, which do 50% damage against Light(Assailant), Medium(Skirmi

Reply to Useless units and techs? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Raider xenophobia: Reducing the pirate fleet results in less exp for the capital ships to feed on. Meaning it takes longer for the Vasari ships to level up.[/quote] There's always the option of going to the Pirate base, getting all the experience you want, and getting of there before you're dead. But that requires more micromanagement.

Reply to The best race for a carrier fleet in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]What makes Advent strike craft really cool is the Guardians push ability. With that it is possible to keep any non-strike-craft the enemy wants to throw at you away from your carriers! So you got the second best strike craft but immortal carriers. Vasari carriers usually die fast to light frigates chasing them down. To kill the Advent carriers one would have to take down the pushing Guardians first, which takes time and gives the carrier fleet an opportunity to kill off half a dozen s

Reply to The best race for a carrier fleet in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Any faction can spam carriers - considering all the light carriers use up 8 supply no matter what and that every faction gets access to a capital ship carrier for 50 supply, there's really not a CLEARLY superior faction for lots of carriers.For what it's worth, though, I'd recommend Advent for the early game and Vasari for late-game carrier actions. Advent get access to earlier carriers and large swarms of fighters/bombers. They all do less damage individually than other fighter options f

Reply to Asymetrical factions in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Nope, their weapon techs are just like everyone else's.[/quote] Nope. Phase Missiles are their core weapons branch, which benefits everything. Apart from that, Pulse Guns only benefit frigates(not including Assailant) and support cruisers and Pulse Beams ONLY buff capital ships. Wave Cannons also boost the weapons only on capital ships and the Enforcer heavy cruiser. Similarly, the Advent have Lasers and Beams which together constitute their core weapons(used on everythi

Reply to Alternative Ship Models in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Ensign: "Captain? Why does this warship have cathedral sized windows and 40 foot high ceilings?"Captain: "It's better for morale ensign."Ensign: "But with all the money spent on this massive warship, most of it's volume consists of wasted air-"Captain: "Morale ensign! Morale. Also air is important in space"Ensign: "But we could fit a basket ball court in this room alone, that would have been better for morale, and as for air-"Captain: "Quiet ensign, you'll never finish washing all these M

Reply to Enemies Camped in New Star Systems in Single Player Sins Forums

Read the TEC lore to find the reason behind these 'neutral' forces. Before the Vasari arrived 10 years ago, these worlds were all inhabited by humans under the Trade Order. After seeing the Vasari massacre the perimeter worlds with only their scouts and their space-whales, these planets(each having an autonomous government like countries on Earth) fitted civilian spaceships with whatever weaponry they had(anti-pirate stuff) and tried to stop the Vasari but their forces of course got swa

Reply to Better Bombardment in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Vasari use Beams, which is wierd since Advent are obviously the Beam Weaponry Masters. It looks like they ran out of time to think of a 3rd variant of bombardement.[/quote] TEC are the Autocannon masters in space battles, though they have experimented and achieved results with Missiles as well. Lasers are their because they're cheap and simple, if not very strong. They use nukes for planetary bombardment because they're cheap and they get the job done, which is all they want. Ant

Reply to SoaSE, a Unit Reference Chart, v1.12 uploaded in Strategy Sins Forums

Hmmm.... the Skirantra Carrier maxes out at 6 squadrons but the Halcyon and Sova can go up to 7?!!! WTF. Well, I guess it makes up for the fact that Vasari strikecraft can repair themselves so much faster without even using the Repair Cloud, but that fact is also made up for with the Skirantra and Lasurak both having less antimatter than their equivalents. Anyway, here are precise stats for strikecraft: [B]Fighters[/B] [U]Vasari:[/U] Hull - 85 Armor - 3<br

Reply to TEC fan? What's your favorite ships combos. in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]the dreadnort or the kol battleship which is best???/[/quote] The Marza Dreadnought has more weapons loaded in the front, so it's better at taking down capital ships, and of course, it's a planet-killer by design. But the Kol is more durable, and has more weaponry in all it's banks, which make it better against frigates and cruisers. The Marza is missile based, so it goes best with LRMs and Bombers, while the Kol is autocannon based, so it goes best with Cobalts, Kodiaks, Fighter

Reply to Dark Fleet in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Phase Stabilizers allow near-instant travel for your ships between any two of them, so the Dark Fleet is easy to mass into one group and deploy to just about any region of your empire.This point I'm a bit puzzled about. I have used RA to bring a couple defensive ships to each planet I am protecting in my empire, I then have turned off the stab. This seems to work real well for rebels and pirates. If I wanted to mass one large fleet and let it patrol the entire empire, how would I mobiliz

Reply to ship spammers-A Guide to Fighting Back in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]That is, before you counter, you have to scout and know what your opponent is up to. I believe that this is impractical in a competitive, high pressure RTS. You don't have time to do effective scouting, what you must do is have an initial plan that you start executing as quickly as possible as soon as the game begins (for instance, drop 1 weapons lab, research assailants, and start pumping them ASAP).[/quote] Or you could send your scout to his homeworld(by microing it of course)

Reply to Effective DPS per unit of Fleet Capacity in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]This graph shows the average dps of each ship type verus every other ship type per unit of fleet space it takes up. These calculations take into account weapon-type versus armor-type effectiveness and chance-to-hit against strikecraft. DPS and Supply values from all three races are averaged for each ship type in these calculations, with the exception of Long Range - the Illuminator gets it own line and is not included in the Long Range line due to the different damage type. Va

Reply to "Metal from other sources" - What is it? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Pesky, if that is true, why did they have rapidly rising levels of metal from other sources, but I as Vasari, had zero? I had been in a number of battles as well, pirates mostly.[/quote] Their 'other sources' were obviously not the one I mentioned(which is a true source only available to the Vasari). Perhaps they explored their planets and found big metal supplies as relics?

Reply to ship spammers-A Guide to Fighting Back in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

I believe spams can be countered by research. Fish out all the stats on the spammed unit, fish out all the stats on your viable counters, do the calculations and come up with a micro procedure to efficiently destroy your opponent in as little time and as little resources as you can manage. For example, crunching the numbers for Advent Aeria Drone Hosts vs. TEC Javelis LRM Frigates, taking Armor Types, Shields, Shield Mitigation, Shield Regeneration, Armor, Hitpoints and Hull Repair all

Reply to "Metal from other sources" - What is it? in Strategy Sins Forums

The Vasari have technologies that allow them to gain resources from destroying enemy capital ships. When an enemy capital ship explodes, your capital ships collect the wreckage and debris and process it into raw resources for you to use. These are the 'other sources'. AFAIK, the TEC and Advent have no such capabilities.

Reply to The diplomacy game. Want to be a bastard? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]"Good American Values" involves bombarding those who offend us with cruise missiles. ... pleaze : no radical, un-American, commie propaganda on a game forum ...[/quote] This is a a world-wide forum, not just American. Values are individual. If one person wants to get revenge against a backstabbing fiend, it's his/her choice, and if one person forgives and lets him/her self be exploited, it's again a personal choice. Just because someone who seeks revenge is from Stardock doesn't

Reply to Cost of Capital Ship Research Contributes to lack of Use of Capital Ships in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]I have an idea why capital ships aren't used often:Cost of research!Capital ships cost huge amounts of money of field requiring high initial investment into research and fleet cap. Consequently they are less useful than frigates of cost being that frigate research costs aren't nearly as high as frigate research costs, coupled with their lack of cost/firepower ratio.[/quote] Capital ships do something that no other ships do - they level up. At higher levels, with their ultimate ab

Reply to Advent capital ships in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]2.cap choice=RUPTURE[/quote] It's Rapture, not Rupture! There's a tremendous difference in the two words, separated by only one letter. Anyway, the Advent Halcyon Carrier's "Amplify Energy Aura" ability is exactly the same as the Kortul Devastator's "Power Surge", except in this case, you need to bring a comparatively fragile carrier to the front line while the Vasari do it with a battleship which is designed to be on the front line. If the Vasari also wish to bring a ca