I just won a game on small random 2 player. Of course the difficulty is easy. I play as the advent vs TEC. I thought I would miss the high diplomacy from games likes Galactic Civ 2 & maybe MOO, but actually I am kinda thankful the game is very focus on space combat instead. I don't feel like the pace is slowed at all, since theres always things you need to worry about like building up your choke points, reseach & most notably the black market. And the scale of even such a small map, took me same amount of time if played medium Gal Civ 2. Its stagerring to think what the scale and effort & the loss of productivity if I were to played on larger than one star system.. Arrhh thinking about it also already making me tired!!

The space combat is awesome. I play mostly zoomed out and not minding having to deal with icons, but when a grand scale war break out I would zoom in & enjoy death and destruction in space.

I kinda wish when the pirate meter expires the pirate immediately goes to his bounty and not have grace period for bounty price bid to change. Often I find myself over bidding just so that I can get out of the pirate screen, or baby sit the bid so that I immediately out bid the other guy. Though the way it is set up now makes for some intense multiplayer bidding war.

Acording to the manual we can manipulate the commodity (metal & crystal) in black market, any of you guys manage to pull that of? I just us that portion of the black market to trade in my axcess metal for money. That could be a new strategy to try: drive a particular comodity up artificially so that you could the deny easy exchange rate for the enemy and he'll have to rely on his extractors.

idknight, I agree pirates are the real evil entity in this game & if you can afford it; you should get rid of them mid game. As for software piracy, thought you admit to eventually getting the legal copy of this game I must advice that you don't look for illegal copies of any kind even to trying out game because for everyone that does that theres going to be 10 others that will use the illegal copies indefinitely. In the end the piracy continues because it is us that created the demand for pirate softwares. Glad you like the game.

takkan ur whole family dun have a credit card at all mer?
just get the download version of collector edition, tat's wat's i think frags is using, and me 2 it's more than enough, there's no need for the boxed version

This post has been edited by alwizbthere: Feb 24 2008, 09:57 AM

Yeah,that is the main reason i want this game since i never played a 4X game properly.If the game is good for me,i'll enjoy it to the fullest.If it's bad,i just buy it to support these guys.

Stardock and Iron Clad rocks.

Do they have the executive dreadnaught class do they do they?

so that screenshot is sova class carrier la?? i think the dreadnought u mean is the TEC planet assault capital ship, i like that planet bombardment capital ship, now i'm plying the vasari and their damage is amazing!!! 53 enforcer, 29 assailant, 4 desolator, almost invulnerable

Love the game, well worth it Anyone wants to play over Ironclad?

Strength, and Unity.

This post has been edited by Xeoalpha: Feb 24 2008, 12:21 PM

Sova carrier? What am I missing? That screenshot is a Star Destroyer from Star Wars..TEC planet assault ship you are talking about it called the Marza Dreadnaught. I got screenies of it if you look for my post here or in the screenies thread of the ship assaulting the planet.

Of course sure...just make sure you've got free time...If you have xfire you can add me there.

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Added on February 24, 2008, 1:10 pmSins is the number 1 selling game in Nort America this week!!!!!!

Gamasutra has released their weekly best selling list across all platforms. On the PC:

1. Sins of a Solar Empire (Stardock)
2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
3. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (Blizzard)
4. The Orange Box (EA Games),
5. SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition (EA Games).



This post has been edited by frags: Feb 24 2008, 01:10 PM

Added! Let's play!

Damn u guys are lucky Cc at your disposal, are there any copies of it in Hong Kong?

Yeah,i cant find it in Aus too but heard it's coming in April.

Please tell me if any local distributer bringing Sins into Malaysia so i dont have to pay for an overpriced game in Aus.

I wonder if they have it in Hong Kong.

btw how come I do not see these scenes in the game


I have a 8800gt and I turned everything on to the max but it still does not look the same, feels like something is missing. I wonder why.

Where are the arrow shooters, I do not see them in the game also.

the first pic i also didnt find it in-game, BTW, this game is very futuristic, so they will not use those bow anymore, they r using laser beam

the second pic is made out of tons of TEC cobalt light frigates, dozen of LRM frigates, few krosov siege frigate, and some of the ship i hv no idea, all of them r preparing for the phase jump, but be4 they can do the phase jump i can sure they all will own by my, tons of enforcer and 7 capital ship u need to enable cinematic mode to this, but i dont know how they remove the player's icon.

the third pic is a vasari ship under the crystal extractor, no idea wat's the name of the ship.

WHile this games graphics is not the level of Crysis...its still looks good. Maybe its the icons that dont make the game look as good as the screenies..

BTW to remove icons select the cinematic mode ANd press Ctrl+Shift+Z

Im not complaining bout the graphics, infact this game to me is much more intresting compared to crysis which is just heck and slash.

but just that Im wondering how come I do not see that ingame, now I know why thankyou.

where do u guys get this game anyway?

not available at tsb

They downloaded it from here.

Click the here above.

My gawd,Sins is beautiful.

Who say you need a uber rig to play pretty games?

Well TelVidia says so.

Yesterdays match was an interesting match. With Me, fujkanesai and whats his name...xeos? 3 way FFA. So xeos won and Im still wondering what went wrong. So me and fujkenasai led with fleet size and xeos was just building a lot of structures. I built my Novalith cannon

So me and fujkenasai went head to head and I might have overextended myself going for his home planet...he lost his home planet and i lost 2 Marza dreadnaughts. I thought what the hell i can rebuild them but i was depleted and xeos started attacking me with a large force. And even fujkenasai couldnt do much as his fleet was also depleted. In the end Xeos won with lower fleet count.

So in a 3 way FFA...dont ever overextend yourself attacking a single opponent...thats what i learnt Should have raided his back planets more.