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Reply to why must ppl be morons online. in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]Not unreliable at all — if your system is set up to actually weight rankings based on near-neighbors in the notional space. A group of friends who heavily mutually high-rank end up essentially creating an isolated island off to the side of the main body once only a few outsiders down-rate a couple of the members. For a new user of the ranking system, they may get matched with a couple of the isolates a couple times but if they have consistently bad ratings of them as a result, a well-desi

Reply to Deliverence Engine in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote] I'd place N-Gun as the weakest of all 3 albeit the flashiest. [/quote] Care to explain why?

Reply to Deliverence Engine in Strategy Sins Forums

You're thinking of the Kostura cannons. Novaliths destroy planets.

Reply to Deliverence Engine in Strategy Sins Forums

I'm not gonna argue 30+ deliverance engines isn't useful. But how much faster would you have won if it was 30+ novalith cannons?

Deliverence Engine in Strategy Sins Forums

I just completed a match where a buddy and I duked it out after defeating some AI on co-op. We just wanted to play around with some of the units in the game. I was using some Novalith Cannons on him, and he was using his Advent Deliverence Engines on me. It seems to me that the Deliverence Engine is not very useful. He fired 5-6 shots at one of my planets and it was still 60% allegiance. Is that supposed to survive? What makes this gun worth the time consuming tech path, expensive c

Reply to Auto-queueing? in Strategy Sins Forums

Totally agree with repeatable queues and reinforce points on fleets. Those two things would be incredibly nice. 1.03!

Reply to So, planning on buying the virtual version. A couple of questions. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

It's the full game, nothing limited about it at all.

Reply to Damage and Armor Type by Ship Class (Charts inside!) in Strategy Sins Forums

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Reply to Black Market Question in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Bump!

Black Market Question in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

So after reading the manual and playing around with the game a little bit, I still haven't figured out part of the Black Market Screen. The part in question are the two options in the bottom left and right corners. This has something to do with me putting up excess amounts of metal and crystal, and setting some sort of price for them. Can anyone explain to me how this works exactly? Are my resources spent immediately, and then put into a reserve? What effect does setting the price h

Reply to A suggestion to solve the defense "bug" (off-type degradation) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Wearing down defenses is the solution to having individual weapons fire at separate targets. It used to be, one ship fired all its guns at the other, one offense roll vs one defense roll. Now since each gun can fire at a different target, it has to 'wear' it down during the round so later shots can actually damage the ship.

Reply to Do you have two computers? Then get Multiplicity in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I'm curious to know how well this responds under a heavy CPU load. Like if I have a 3D application killing most of my processing speed on the clients, can this program still send and receive its keyboard and mouse commands nicely to the client computers? I work in a Virtual Reality lab where we have 3 seperate computers running a large projection screen. Right now I use a free program called Synergy to transfer my I/O, how does your program differ from this? (Thanks for any replies g

Reply to Rebalancing costs for Dark Avatar in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Two Points: 1: Critical hits are already in the game, if I roll crappy, and you roll really well, thats sort of a rare occurence, and I pay the price 2: Similiar to what SrGalen said above, handling defenses with 'every weapon fires' individually isn't hard. -First make the defense roll for all the target ships defense - and use that as defense value D -Now, fire each w

Reply to Forum Formatting Problems in FireFox in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Just installed FireFox 1.5 and that fixed the formatting problem. There is still a minor issue I noticed, dealing with the images below your reply. Firefox crops the images for some reason - this doesn't affect the ability to read like the formatting did, but I felt it was worth mentioning Here is an image of what I'm talking about

Reply to Forum Formatting Problems in FireFox in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I am running FireFox v1.07. Extensions running are Adblock and Filter Set G. I don't believe Adblock causes any problems, since I don't run that at home, and I get this same formatting error. Here is an image from this thread. Notice the 'medals' below your post not formatting correctly, and the 'font' and 'size' dropboxes from the reply field not landing in their correct docking locations. (edit for correct pic link) <img src="http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~riesbr/forum_e

Forum Formatting Problems in FireFox in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Has anyone here had problems with Firefox not formatting the forums correctly? Essentially what I've noticed is that during the page loading the replies and images align correctly, and upon completion of the page load they shift, and aren't lined up correctly. Even the little 'font' drop down box on top of the reply box shifts up and out of its normal docking area - and if I select it, it moves back down - *almost* fixing the formatting problem, but the little medals and award images or whateve

Reply to Penny-Arcade tidbits in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Same here. But it was your journals on this site that really sold it for me. Even had to buy gal civ 1 first to pass the time until release.

Reply to Shipped to Early, definatly needs improvements in system requirements area in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

TrueType fonts are textures. If your card can display textures, your card can do TrueType. The problem with the 5200 is that it has the functionality of the 5000 series but its slower than the Geforce4 Cards. It just wasn't ever a fast video card. And I would say the massive slow downs from the original poster are coming from the memory limitations on a gigantic map.

Reply to Some graphics looks bad on high res in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Cinematics are pre-rendered movies at a set resolution. So they had to pick an appropriate res to have the movies at so it could be useable across multiple types of machines. The game itself is using direct3d for its drawing, which is scalable to any resolution. So the playable game should look fine on any resolution (infact it will look better on higher), its just the videos that have to be stretched. I really don't see how big of a prob