We're going to be adjusting the credit income from Worthy Cause soon, as well as making it only usable in enemy or allied gravity wells. It is currently not working as intended.
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The current beta 2 build has a bug where the positive military action bonus isn't being applied correctly. The idea is, faction A hates faction B. If you destroy faction B's ships and facilities, faction A is going to like you better. This is going to get hot-fixed early next week and will hopefully address a lot of the concerns people have with the negative military action penalty.
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As of right now, the pirate AI has been improved and they now spend their money on upgrades to their ships (new abilities, armor, hp, damage, speed, etc). If the modders are interested, look at all of the research subjects that start with RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE. Beta 3 is going to include our brand new pirate mission system, which will allow you to give the pirates a mission to follow (seperate from the current bounty raids), for a price.
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We're looking into this. We apologize for any inconvience.
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[Request Modding] Advanced Weapon Firing Arc Control, and Up the weapon/nav light Hardpoint limits.
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This won't make it into Diplomacy, but is certainly something we'll look into for future releases. How do the modders feel about specifying the parameters for the cone equation to determine a firing arc for each weapon? Point of origin, height of cone (weapon range), angle from center, etc. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cone.html
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New icon. Same name.
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There is a new screen in the Diplomacy expansion called the relationship screen that lets you view every players standing vs. every other player, which includes alliance status.
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It's going to be soon. Soon like...this month if everything goes well.
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Hubere, the situation you are describing seems like a legitimate AI surrender. Darvin is right in that the AI is designed to surrender when it finds itself hopelessly outnumbered. In a 2v1 game like you're describing, I'm sure you and your allies combined fleet was much larger than the AI's fleet. Fleet imbalance gets amplified if the AI has just lost their whole fleet assaulting a starbase or a heavily defended planet, like Darvin said.
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[suggestion] Disable Black Market Toggle, Allow Resource Trading
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Your idea of having a secure interface for giving resources is solved by the ability to offer other players and AI's missions which is a part of the Diplomacy expansion. You could give a player a mission to give you 500 credits, and reward them with 200 metal, for example. As for your idea of having a game option to disable the black market: I'm intrigued. We'll definitely look into something like that.
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You're absolutely correct brenatevi.
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Question - Does team locking = no diplomacy in Sins Diplomacy?
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[quote who="Darvin3" reply="8" id="2397295"]Locked teams just means no backstabbing. Presumably all diplomacy features that don't involve making and breaking military alliances will still be applicable in locked teams. Seeing as we don't have details as to how these features will work quite yet, it's premature to debate what exactly that means.[/quote] Darvin is spot on here. Giving resources is now tied to a diplomacy tech. So is making a trade allian
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This is something we will surely spend a lot of time in beta tweaking. You're definitely right when you say that getting this right is key. We're spending a lot of time creating these new diplomatic tools and it's very important that the AI uses them effectively.
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[quote who="Allegiance86" reply="16" id="2397306"]I like the still shots but seriously, are you guys that cheap to use papercut out type cartoonism with the three factions debating in the room??[/quote] It really isn't a money issue at all. Up to this point, no character in the Sins universe has been animated yet. That is something we are saving for future releases. We are simply trying to keep the art style consistent for now. I'm sorry you didn't like it, but
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It won't.
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That's not really how bounty works at the moment. Pirates (or players for that matter) have to destroy ships, structures or planets of the faction with the bounty on their head to collect it. Pirates would only get stronger if they actually collect bounty by their raids being successful. And of course, the pirate planet will now have a small tax income so that pirates get stronger as the game goes on. Every once in a while the pirates will purchase technology upgrades (bette
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We're definitely looking into ways to improve pirates and the way they interact with the other factions. Pirate capital ships are something we are still very much on the fence about. On the one hand, pirates of antiquity were often known to capture capital ships and use them (granted, the capital ships of old were fairly small compared to modern capital ships). On the other hand, you would never see a modern pirate capture and effectively use an aircraft carrier or a guided missile
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Kitkun is correct. I took those screenshots and forgot to turn run it in release mode, so the placeholder art was still being used.
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Not to be a jerk, but the OP is wrong. Most of us read the forums very regularly and love to hear everyones ideas. In fact, there was a post made just this morning that we talked about, thought was a great idea, and implemented it. I finished it a couple hours ago. Keep up the good work guys.
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I like the general ideal of adding a harder AI. I'll bring this up at our next meeting. Thanks for the input.
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I play all the time and use this name. I'd be up for some action though.
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[quote who="eoncommander" reply="77" id="2368923"]i doubt it uses stealth; it is, after all, called an envoy cruiser. it probably provides some big benefit in terms of treaties [/quote] Envoy Cruisers have diplomatic immunity during their normal travels between embassies and cannot be attacked. If they use their espionage ability to attempt to sway the populace of an enemy planet to your side, they become vulnerable to ships and planetary defenses p
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Single Players who want better AI and who desire human opponents but want to avoid Jerks
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[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="28" id="2367958"] ...unless they require a technology to send resources to stop early feeding. [/quote] That's exactly right. We're still balancing which tier said tech will be, but it's definitely going to be one of the new diplomacy techs.
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There's not much we can say at the moment. Answers will come in time. Please do not take our silence as a disservice to this franchise. While Diplomacy will be the last micro-expansion, it is most certainly not the end of the Sins saga.
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A decent chunk of the expansion will be a total revamp of the diplomacy system which on the surface, may appear to only affect games vs. AI. However, the ability to form trade and research pacts as well as give your fellow players missions will undoubtedly have a very positive effect on multiplayer games. The new Envoy Cruiser will also give you the ability to subvert enemy planets over time via espionage giving you a non-violent way to conquer planets. </sp
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