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Reply to Starcraft 2 is out in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Xea" reply="115" id="2699382"]Wow Starcraft2 is good, but the game was not ready for release. I bought it on the 28th, installed it & then noticed my mouse icon is not moving even though i can select options....i put the game in windows mode to fix that. Then i try to add the license & the key is not working.....had to go back to best buy. Now the game plays but only in window mode since full screen still has the mouse issue & the game graphics are al

Reply to Starcraft 2 is out in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="SpaghettiMon" reply="77" id="2696688"] If I have to hack a game to enjoy it, or use it reasonably, might as well just skip the purchasing part of it. I had to crack Bioware to get my legit copy to even work, and since then I've sworn never to buy another product that'd put me in that kind of situation. I'm glad some people support it, I just wish more people stood up to companies like Activision who are only around to rape your wallets and sell yo

Reply to Elemental – Beta 3B Changelog in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Raven X" reply="48" id="2684739"] Ahh, that's what I figured was going on. Tried 3 games so far all with that same result. The AI will use Tactical Spells if I Auto the battle, but as you said, we can't cast them ourselves in tactical battles. The icons for the spells aren't listed.[/quote] I've seen that happen, but I've also seen it work, where I could cast spells just fine. In any case, tactical battles in their current state I don't consider w

Reply to Diplomacy Trainer in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="1" id="2678862"]The game has a built-in tutorial so that you can learn the basics. Maybe it would be best to start off by playing regular Sins, then by moving on to Entrenchment, and then Diplomacy. Once you understand regular Sins it isn't too hard to pick up the expansions one by one.[/quote] He said he wants a trainer, he didn't say anything about having trouble beating the game or needing help learning how to play. Perso

Reply to Trinity sucks crashes all the time in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

lol, I can't even remember the last time I had a minidump on Trinity, at least when unmodded. Clearly you have issues, but don't try to accuse the developers of being the worst PC gaming has to offer, if the game was having mini-dumps in the first 3-5 minutes for everyone, everytime, someone is sure as hell going to notice and do something about it. Whatever the problem is, it's an uncommon one. For most people, current, fully updated Sins is quite stable.

Reply to A Preview of Elemental Beta 3-B in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Marks1381" reply="29" id="2679372"] and let me guess we arn't talking about 10,000 Sardaukar shock troopers either, because those bad boys would cost 1000 gildar a peice to maintain Gameplay > Pretty Screenshots.[/quote] I see I'm not the only one who names my elite badass troops Sardaukar. :P

Reply to Why Starcraft II will not live up to the greatest RTS of the past decade. in Everything Else Sins Forums

lol, just noticed how old this thread is :P Anyways, I love Starcraft, and I'm sure I'll love Starcraft 2, but the one thing I hate about the game is what the game is most popular for, the multiplayer. More specifically, competitive multiplayer. Sins is the same way of course, but when I play multiplayer, I want to sit back and enjoy the game, not have to worry about perfecting my build orders, maximizing my apm, and trying to snuff out the opponent and end the game as

Reply to pirating? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="StrictLime" reply="8" id="2677779"]SO YOU KNOW I BOUGHT THIS GAME AND IT IS ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS I TEST PIRATE IT DOESENT WORK!!! NVIDIA HATES IT AND NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO FIX IT!!!!!![/quote] Which game? This section of the forums is shared between multiple game sites. Sins, Galactic Civ 2, Demigod, Elemental, perhaps more, not sure.

Reply to [Bug Crash][Beta 3 .805] Unable to load game from start menu - version 2 in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="1" id="2671745"]I've seen this also. Marginally better than a freeze. [/quote] I'd say it's worse actually, the lack of a freeze makes you think it might not be screwed, false hope sucks :P

Reply to Game-ending random event in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I had this happen in my current game, and the Pirates promptly sent every race in the game back to the stone age, trapped on their worlds. My medium sized ships, at the time perhaps the strongest in the game, didn't stand a chance. It was dozens of turns biding my time while my new Destroyer fleets were designed and constructed. The first few versions were wiped out as well, but model after model, my warships started taking more and more Pirate vessels down with them, with the finally

Reply to Master of Orion 3: My first experience summarized in 1 word: Horrible! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="joasoze" reply="1" id="2669765"]You must love self punishment. I rate MOO III as the biggest dissapointment in gaming history by far....[/quote] I'd give that title to Spore, no contest. But yeah, still pretty disappointing.

Reply to BEHOLD: the stardock GDC booth! in Everything Else Sins Forums

lol, plain "Stardock" text on a white sheet, on a nondescript booth in a generic looking location, thanks for sharing ;)

Reply to The new AI cheats... in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

I already knew they cheated in those ways, and would assume it's intentional, but damn that's a big difference.

Reply to Since when did you realize that the US health care system sucks? in Everything Else Sins Forums

I think I first got that idea in my head sometime around when I figured out that the US and Canada weren't the same thing. In other words, forever ago. :P

Reply to Sup Com 2 - No thank you in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="irek1988" reply="27" id="2562968"] You also dont play Supcom in multiplayer? Really stop posting, you making joke out of urself. How can you comment on game who are multiplayer based if you never played it in multiplayer......[/quote] Speak for yourself. SupCom has a large multiplayer community, but like most games with a solid skirmish mode, which SupCom has, many people, myself included, play single player. SupCom is no exception.

Reply to I'll trade my Fans for your Fans: Smart business or Developer folly? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="1" id="2562375"] Command and Conquer: Generals - Yeah EA put C&C on this to sell more copies. NP its a great game and it dosn't infrindge on the C&C world (pity the later C&C games arn't as good as this game). [/quote] Seriously? Generals is the only installment in the entire franchise I consider to be complete crap. I was a bit disappointed with Red Alert 3, but don't hate it as I do generals with it's clunky graphics, dull uni

Reply to Why Do You Need Multiplicity? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

For me, it doesn't come down to what I'm willing to pay for. Sure, I don't like the price, but it wouldn't stop me from buying it if I wanted it. What does stop me is an unwillingness to support the arbitrary price hiking between editions. When I see a program available, then see that I have to pay more in order to get 2 of the features, features that strike me as practically nothing in terms of additional development work required over the basic edition, I find it insulting.

Reply to Why Do You Need Multiplicity? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

I've got the demo going now, and I like it, but still not sure what to do with it. The main issue being price, $50? The thing costs more than Sins Trinity does, for something that has shareware equivalents that really aren't all that inferior, if at all. It's not even that I'm short on cash, but the principle of it irritates me, most notably the different versions. 30$ is already pushing it for this kind of software, but another 20$ if I want more than 1 secondary? And to transfer fil

Reply to Ship based income taxation in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Khezef" reply="4" id="2558232"]Besides. If you are in the army, you do not get taxed. That would really really suck if you got taxed in the army and then went to war and died.[/quote] I think going to war and dying sucks whether you were paying taxes or not ;)

Reply to Mass Effect 2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Not sure if anybody else has mentioned it already (I only skimmed the replies), but you should know that on secondary playthroughs, you start the game with extra resources, 50,000 of each I think. It doesn't remove the need to scan planets entirely, but it does cut down on it a fair bit.

Reply to Take Out Mines in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="2" id="2554156"]Why do you hate mines that much? [/quote] I'd love to be able to disable mines as well. This current system is crap, the joy of a minefield is in the enemy not knowing where the mines are. If they're not going to be invisble, I'd rather play without them. Plus, they're not that great on a functional level either, especially homing mines, you could lose a dozen of the things taking out a single damn scout.

Reply to Unknown Structure in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'd definitely place the Pyramid like ships as Stargate, very reminiscent of Ra's ship in the original movie.

Reply to How do I know if pirates did my mission? in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

As far as I've seen, the Pirates do not have an option to refuse. If you pay for the mission, they do the mission.

Reply to detting rid of the hardcode limit on ram in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Skipping over the fact of whether or not 4 gigs is possible or not for moment...Assuming that it was, is changing something like that even within the scope of what can reasonably be expected from patches? Seriously looking forward to a Sins 2 some day though.

Reply to StarCraft II beta is out!! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

To anyone with complaints about the balance, keep in mind that it's Blizzard, if the original Starcraft can be used as an example, they'll probably be doing balance changes in patches for the next decade.