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Reply to To Explore or not to Explore, that is the question in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote] Besides, after the six frigates I am researching Capital Ship crews and building a hoard of capital ships.[/quote] That's quite the waste. 1-2 early ships, yes, you need the abilities. But beyond that, low-level caps are a waste of pop as they are very frail and weak in combat compared to proper ships. Sure, once you got the army behind them you can build more to level them, but we're talking minutes and hours into the game here, not the initial rush.

Reply to Best capital ship in Strategy Sins Forums

Can only comment on Advent: [b]Radiance[/b] Quite ok overall, but in the end it is a "simple" ship. It can kill enemies, and more importantly it tanks out the damage of the enemies. Be careful of anything disabling/ignoring shields though, for a Battleship the Radiance is extremely fragile. Animosity + Energy Absorptive Armor for the win however, and then dump the gains into more Detonate Antimatter. Despite being the main fighting ship, I use the Radiance as suppor

Reply to Culture Questions in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]TEC-Foriegn Sabotage *enemies in your culture lose 50/100% build rate* The wiki claims to reduce enemy build rate by 50% each rank, and there are two ranks. These numbers would suggest that with both ranks researched and a pervasive culture, you can completely prevent opponents from building. Can anyone confirm this? It seems really strong?[/quote] This is bad wording from how I understand it. I've only had it used against me but it is my understanding that 100% means I t

Reply to Press ctrl+f6 twice fastest to win - fix please? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]An elegant solution:The Black Market starts like a reverse auction.Both metal and crystal start with a buying penality of 1000 credits (just an example).So the starting sell price is still 200 but the starting buy price is 1300(300+1000).Every second the buying penality is reduced by 10 credits, thus after 100 seconds the market will be back to normal.Everytime crystal is bought, the penality reduction become twice as slow.The solution will result in giving the early crystal (or metal) to

Reply to What's with the elitists? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Being competitive is trying to win. You don't load up a game of sins and see how many hours you can hold a front line without going on the offensive. [/quote] I dunno, I'd do that. Just for kicks, and out of curiosity - "I wonder how long I can stalemate this until I need to go offensive to keep them from outbuilding me?"