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Reply to Planets that take credits in Strategy Sins Forums

Any time you take a new planet or asteroid, it costs credits to maintain until you upgrade the planet infrastructure. You do that using the buttons on the bottom left of your screen (the top left button to select planet upgrades, and then the top left button again to select upgrade planet infrastructure). The upgrades cost credits and I think crystal and metal, and it takes 2 upgrades for the planet to stop using credits. With the third upgrade it will start to generate positive t

Reply to Demigod Proxy Servers & Responses in Demigod Journals Sins Forums

The updates are excellent and I think bought you a lot of good will and grace with many of your customers. I can't imagine how frustrating the situation would have been without them for all those who bought your game. Unfortunately, like many things, it is a results business. If the car I bought constantly breaks down over and over, the good intentions and hard work of the manufacturer and dealership to make it right and the reasons for their mistakes in the first p

Reply to Population drop in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Actually, they just renounce their citizenship in your empire, according to the manual. So they still live there, but they don't pay taxes or otherwise do you any good!

Reply to Demigod: First week anniversary status report in Demigod Journals Sins Forums

The status reports are great. Heck, I like them and I don't even have the game!

Reply to Am I losing money or gaining it in my colonies? different screens tell different story... in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I appreciated the detail -- just trying to understand the game and every (long) explanation of something helps!

Questions re Victory Info screens in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I am playing my first sandbox game (Ultimate Edition) against 6 AI on a medium map on a normal setting. 2 Civs have surrendered to me (including one I was allied with at the time). I am at war with Drengin and one other Civ (who is also at war with Drengin) and Drengin is on the defensive. The two Civs I am not at war with I am allied with. Judging from the star chart, I control about 40% of the galaxy, and Drengin about 25%. Two questions: 1. Why haven

Freeze on fleet creation in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

A couple of times I have meant to create a fleet from stacked ships, and hit the "F" command without first selecting more than one ship. Of course, a message comes up saying that you must select more than one ship to create a fleet, but clicking on that message results in the same error message coming up over and over with no way to get rid of it except quitting the game. My fault for not selecting the ships for the fleet, of course, but the game should not freeze.

Reply to another stardock game with no story in Everything Else Sins Forums

I do like games with campaigns, but lots of good games over the years have not had one -- the Civilization III and IV; Sim City (to go back a ways) -- and now Sins, and I guess Demigod (I don't own it). On games wiith campaigs, I tend to play the campaign and then put them away (e.g., Warcraft III, Starcraft, Descent). I have certainly gotten enough re-playability out of Sins so that I haven't missed the campaign much. For me, the lesson is that you have to investi

Reply to Why is the Entrenchment AI so reluctant to build defenses? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I agree that the AI now tend to use mostly starbases and mines for defense, although I have also seen those backed up with turrets. I am sure that it's just that I am only minimally competent myself, but I am pretty satisfied overall with the AI. Not that I would mind further improvements...

First Game in Entrenchment 1.02 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I just finished my first game with Entrenchment 1.02, single player, on the Gateway map, unlocked teams FFA v. 4 normal and 1 hard AI (OK, I'm not very good -- I had gotten killed in the first hour when I tried that map against 3 hard and 2 normal). I noticed a few things: 1. The AI surrendering conditions seemed much improved from my pre-1.02 games. The AI did not surrender prematurely. The first ones to be destroyed did not quit early, but seemed to keep figh

Where do I send a mini dump? in Technical Sins Forums

I was watching a replay that came to, I suppose, the end of the time in that replay, but instead of letting me quit, Sins froze and I had to use control-alt-delete to get out of it. Not a big deal, but if you want the minidump file let me know where to send it. Thanks.

Reply to A quick tour of Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks! Looks great now. I am a Sins player, and had looked at the Gal Civ II demo at the time I bought Sins, but couldn't get into it. This looks so good in the Dev Journals, though, that I am going to have to try it! Looking forward to a game wtih a story too...

Reply to A quick tour of Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Is there a problem with the images in the main post, or is it just my computer. For whatever reason, the images don't appear and if I click on them it tells me the account has been discable and to call the billing department.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment v1.02 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Thanks, to the developers! Looking forward to seeing the how the tweaks on Ai surrendering work out!

Reply to AI Surrenders? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I think that it would probably work if in a multi-AI FFA, the AI never surrenders (and neven is considered "dead" - how can it be dead if it has a fleet and multiple planets? -- but this seems to happen all the time) unless it is the last AI in the game. Until then there is no point to an AI surrendering. Its not like its feelings can get hurt from being irrelevant, or it has anything more fun to go do. So long as the game is continuing, even a weak AI that has not been

Reply to AI Surrender? in Strategy Sins Forums

Continuing play with a dead or surrendered AI (as it currently works) is a pain. If you have ever needed to clear a gravity well that a "dead" AI left in a planet that you want after the AI showed as "dead", you will know what I mean. Because the AI is dead, the fleet will not automatically target or clear the mines any more. If I really want that planet with the mines gone, I have to target each one individually.

Reply to Computer AI ... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

When Sins first came out, I recall that behavior of the AI did change from Easy to Normal to Hard. You can see, for example, that the Easy AI tends not to spend all of its Credits. Hard did not at first get a resource bonus, but was just "smarter". Then Unfair took the Hard brains and added a resource bonus. There was a lot of complaining at the beginning that Hard was too easy, which I think is why Hard eventually got a resource bonus in one of the patches.

Reply to Computer AI ... in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I expect that programming the AI on a slider might be a bit of challenge. Of course, I wouldn't mind additional options for AI difficulty. In the meantime, I have two suggestions that helped me and that I pass on to you for what they are worth. I'm not a great player by any means, but can pretty much hold my own with hard AI most of the time and get killed by unfair. If I play FFA, I usually have some hard AI and some normal AI as the other players. Fir

Reply to AI Surrender? in Strategy Sins Forums

A number of people have commented on this since Entrenchment came out (and I really like Entrenchment generally!) The Devs were responding to complaints that it was tedious to have to wipe out every AI ship and planet in order to win a game. I can kind of understand that in a 1 v 1 game against the AI, but I agree with you that the surrender now often comes way too early. Even worse, in my opinion, is when I am playing against multiple AI in a FFA game, and discover early

A Few Basic Entrechment Questions in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I just got Entrenchment, and have a few questions. I only play single player. I know these are basic questions, but help wiould be appreciated. 1. Where in a gravity well is it best to locate a Starbase? Should it be closer to the planet, to try to protect structures/and the planet? Or is it better to have it out at the edge by a phase lane? How close does it have to be to a phase lane to disrupt it? 2. I built a Starbase in a Magnetic

Reply to [Suggestion]Give AI option of surrender in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I think a lot of these ideas could work to improve the AI surrender/death issues. Whether a surrender routine is initiated by the AI, or human player, the AI should continue to fight and play normally until both the AI and the human player agree on the AI surrendering. And while I think this is true when there is only one (or only one remaining) AI opponent, it is especially true when there are multiple AI opponents in a single player game. The complexity of a FFA with mul

Reply to AI showing defeated in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I couldn't agree more. It's hard to have a nice, long epic FFA battle when weak, but still viable AI, with planets and fleets, decide to go home early. On multiplayer (which I don't play), I understand that when a human quits mid-game an AI takes over -- perhaps there should be a replacment AI to take over when an AI prematurely surrenders in single player[e digicons];)[/e]

Reply to What's New in Entrenchment? in Sins Developer Journals Sins Forums

Just want to add my thanks for this and the related posts. Very helpful to me! I had read all of the change logs, but hit information overload and had trouble pulling the big picture out of all of the details. So thanks again!

Reply to AI Surrenders? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I think the current AI is just too easily depressed. A major battlefield reversal, and it jumps off a bridge. Maybe if it saw a counselor, and took a few prozac, it could find a way to pull back, make a new plan, regroup its forces, promote a new admiral to lead its fleet, make a new alliance or two, and not wreck the game. [e digicons];P[/e]

Reply to AI Surrenders? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

The AI definitely surrenders too early now! I was playing a free for all against 5 AI (FFA), a mix of hard and normal. I allied with a Hard AI, and was battling two normal AI on two fronts, when I discovered that two of the AI (one of the normal AI I was fighting and one hard AI on the far side of the system) had surrendered (or considered themselves defeated) -- broken glass in the diplomacy screen, no longer available for alliances, no longer allowed as a pirate target. E