<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.0"><channel><title>Sins of a Solar Empire Forums » RSS Feed » Single Player Posts</title><link>https://feeds.feedburner.com/Stardock/SinsOfASolarEmpire/forum/405</link><copyright>© 2006 - 2026 Stardock Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright><description>Recent Posts In Single Player</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 9:09:10 AM -0400</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 9:09:10 AM -0400</lastBuildDate><docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs><generator>Stardock Rss Generator v1.0</generator><managingEditor>info@stardock.com</managingEditor><webMaster>kwilas@stardock.com</webMaster><item><author>matrix_v</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/455467</comments><description><![CDATA[I was in the middle of a battle (my full fleet vs titan) when I got a "Military Defeat" dialog.  I have all techs researched, an endgame-size fleet (54 empty slots), twice as many planets as the next player, and an untouched homeworld.    Singleplayer  All victory conditions disabled  4-player FFA  Rebellion v1.82 + Forbidden Worlds + Stellar Phenomena  Unmodded  What just happened? Why did I lose?  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/455467</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/455467</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:16:42 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2014-06-25T09:16:42</pubDateParsed><title>Unexpected Singleplayer "Military Defeat"</title></item><item><author>Existien</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/438453</comments><description><![CDATA[I think Sins has&nbsp;great background stories for each faction, but they are not incorporated into the actual gameplay.  Single-player campaigns as seen in Starcraft and many other RTS are hard to implement, as the tech-trees are not meant to be unlocked tier for tier and one game is a whole war instead of a single&nbsp;battle.  What I would really like to see, are story-elements triggered by certain events as seen in Sid Meier&#39;s Alpha Centauri. As a classic 4X-TBS game, it&#39;s gamepl...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/438453</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/438453</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 3:34:31 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-12-23T03:34:31-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Story-Mode</title></item><item><author>gwuc</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/436467</comments><description><![CDATA[Hey guys, I play only single player and I always play with the pirates off, why are they even in the game? it turns from two civilzations fighting&nbsp;each other&nbsp;to who ever out bids the other straight up wins because theres no hope of defending your self against such a&nbsp;mighty&nbsp;fleet as the pirates early on, they out number 10 to 1 for gods sake and I couldn&#39;t out be the AI anyway so I had no money to build a fleet...  I always play with them off because there really way to ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/436467</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/436467</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 1:54:46 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-11-16T01:54:46-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Pirates in single player games</title></item><item><author>windler</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/305213</comments><description><![CDATA[ok now you all have probably heard this question before and many are trying to answer it. WHAT IS CHASING THE VASARI!!!!!!! if you ask me the only thing that could have done this much damage is if sum one sent a brodcast of the teletubbies ,barney, dora the explorer,and elmo all doing one whacked out christmas speicial  &nbsp;  but really what is chasing them if you ask me&nbsp; this should be in the lore section unless they are waiting to unveil it to either make an expansion or maybe a cap...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/305213</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/305213</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 4:07:15 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-09-27T04:07:15-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>what is chasing the vasari</title></item><item><author>Dandion</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/432364</comments><description><![CDATA[Hello  I am on my first hours playing this complex game and enjoy it a lot.&nbsp; The next step for me would be to move on the asteroid but the AI has a starbase with a HUGE fleet of ships.  &nbsp;  I&#39;&#39;ll post some pics but i would need suggestion to win the fight.&nbsp; I tried many times and the best i can was to kill the AI starbase but i lost all my ships and letting free way to AI to come killing my homeworld...  Please feel free to comment and how could i&nbsp;attach screen...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/432364</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/432364</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 7:16:09 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-09-25T07:16:09-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Need help to kill star base</title></item><item><author>Stormhawk4107</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/178074</comments><description><![CDATA[I am in the middle of my first game of SoaSE and have a question? Once you have researched a tech tree to max, Military Tech say, do you need to keep the labs around?  Are the upgrades still dependent on them, or is it a case of 'Once researched always there". Anyone know for sure or tried scuttling labs after they finished researching? ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/178074</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/178074</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 7:56:16 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-06-24T19:56:16-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Research Buildings</title></item><item><author>wynnreuter</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/390384</comments><description><![CDATA[All I do is fight pirate after pirate and then the AI jumps in. &nbsp;I enjoy strategy, but come on, when the AI jumps in with big ships and I have had no time to research anything because I spend all my cash on ships to fight pirates, I have to brand this game as ridiculous. &nbsp;Why in the hell are pirates so strong? &nbsp;They are better equipped than my ships. &nbsp;Why don't they attack the AI sometimes?  I give this game a 2 at best, can't believe I wasted my money on it. &nbsp;I just w...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/390384</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/390384</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 6:17:46 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-06-24T18:17:46-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>I give up</title></item><item><author>Sulalee</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/427311</comments><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; ...and I have no idea how I managed it.&nbsp;Apparently there was a frigate thing and a capital thing and some little red lights appeared and I clicked on attack and it ended. Phew! It was quite exciting, I can tell you.  I just wanted to share. You know, yay me, that sort of thing. I spent three weeks playing EVE online and on the penultimate day someone had to show me how to complete stage one of the first tutorial. So really, this is a massive leap in progress.&nbsp;&nbsp;     ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/427311</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/427311</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 1:19:30 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-06-21T13:19:30-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>I just completed tutorial 1</title></item><item><author>BenderTheBot</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/360096</comments><description><![CDATA[In the begining the Vasari had much of the galaxy under there control, until a mysterious force took over much of there worlds.&nbsp; They sent there fleet in to investigate and all but one frigate came back.&nbsp; Who are the ones who were doing this?&nbsp; I thought it was the Advent at first but the advent only came into the story around the same time the Trade Order did.&nbsp; what the heck was it?!  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/360096</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/360096</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 9:38:25 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-06-19T21:38:25-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Vasari faction Mystery...</title></item><item><author>Ackerman74</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/427180</comments><description><![CDATA[One of my biggest gripes was not being able to build a larger fleet than I did in SoaSE and won&#39;t have a chance to test this out for some time so can you in this version?  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/427180</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/427180</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 9:54:00 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-06-18T21:54:00-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Capitol ships and Fleet supply in Rebellion</title></item><item><author>Gameassassin1020</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/426471</comments><description><![CDATA[closed  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/426471</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/426471</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 8:57:55 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-06-08T08:57:55-04:00</pubDateParsed><title> \</title></item><item><author>aaronmyatt</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/422401</comments><description><![CDATA[Sorry if this is an&nbsp;inappropriate&nbsp;place to ask this question but here goes.  Do higher level AI difficult gain an economy boost/discount of some kind? Because&nbsp;I have been playing this beta a bunch (never played Sins before) and kept finding the AI a bit easy so I ramped up the difficulty to a mix of unfair and vicious level to see what went down. Throughout the entire game I was behind on my titan, where I am normally the first to knock one out, on my fleet sizes, defence sizes ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/422401</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/422401</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 7:41:04 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-04-19T07:41:04-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Unfair/Vicious AI economy</title></item><item><author>FrankieDoo</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/306268</comments><description><![CDATA[    I think Stardock and Ironclad should make the NEXT Star Trek Sci-Fi Turn-Based Strategy game like ST:TNG:BOTF. Sins of a Solar Empire attract me very much. I tried the demo and I think, i'm in love. But, I'm NOT fast enough...so, I rather get destroyed or time up. LOL. It should have more diplomatic options as well. This game also makes me think of Battlestar Galactica. I think, they should make the official game for the serie. It would make an excellent game similar to Sins. I don't know ho...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/306268</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/306268</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 4:42:46 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-04-15T16:42:46-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Diplomacy/The game</title></item><item><author>Railgewehr</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/417257</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  &nbsp;  Im just etting stuck into the Trinity version of Sins .... and have downloaded a version of Distant Stars ( v1.00 45685027 ) . IS this the right verision if I have Diplomacy&nbsp; enabled ?&nbsp;  &nbsp;  Great game&nbsp; and I really&nbsp; appreciate the helpfull Strategy posts in Forum.&nbsp;  &nbsp;  Many thanks  Railgewehr   &nbsp;  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/417257</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/417257</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 1:08:41 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-02-04T01:08:41-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Distant stars mod and trinity</title></item><item><author>cohortq</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/306900</comments><description><![CDATA[Hello Everyone! I just got the game, and I played several single player games, but one problem I run into is that I can't build anymore ships because it would Exceed the supply limit. How would I increase the supply limit? I play vasari, and any usefule information would help, thanks!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/306900</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/306900</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 1:08:08 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-01-27T13:08:08-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Increasing Ship Supply Capacity</title></item><item><author>P5yy</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/315021</comments><description><![CDATA[In Sins Lore , are the TEC the human race. Does earth exist in the sins universe?  And if so , when there is a campaign ,are you going to introduce earth and stuff into the storyline?  &nbsp;  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/315021</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/315021</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 1:29:03 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-10-02T01:29:03-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Are the TEC,  future Humans?</title></item><item><author>irrevenant</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/411848</comments><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m eyeing up Sins Trinity but I&#39;m not spectacularly into online gaming. &nbsp;Is it worth buying Sins if all you intend is to play it singleplayer?  Thanks.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/411848</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/411848</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 6:30:41 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-09-10T06:30:41-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Is Singleplayer good?</title></item><item><author>rkarp01</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/303160</comments><description><![CDATA[Playing Advent, have researched ability to colonize an ice planet, have cleared the gravity well of other ships, when I try to bomb i'm told the planet is not a valid target for bombing.&nbsp; Can't find anything in the interface to allow me to take control of the planet - please tell me how to do this simple thing.&nbsp; Thanks.&nbsp; I assume the solution will be the same for taking contol of an asteroid system?  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/303160</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/303160</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 8:06:42 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-07-07T08:06:42-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>How to colonize a new planet</title></item><item><author>Doormatjones</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/408980</comments><description><![CDATA[Hello all!&nbsp; I just purchased Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity.&nbsp; I&#39;ve played a couple short games, and I noticed I have 3 options, play vanilla SINS, or play with Entrenchment, or with Diplomacy (from the main screen).&nbsp; Is there a way to play with both expansions active or is an either or thing?&nbsp; (Or does Diplomacy automatically include all the features from Entrenchment and I&#39;ve just missed them so far?)  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/408980</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/408980</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 9:03:46 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-05-25T09:03:46-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>N00b question: Can I play with both expansions on?</title></item><item><author>flibbidyfloo</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/408400</comments><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve only played one "real" game so far, so I hope this isn&#39;t a dumb question. But looking at the graphs after I surrendered to the computer (2 hours in), the "Marauding Pirate target" chart has my line going up at a steady rate and the enemy AI&#39;s line is flat along the bottom of the graph at zero. The "Pirates Destroyed" graph looks similar.  Does this indicate that the pirates never attacked the other main player?  I may not have been as steady at offering bounties, but I did o...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/408400</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/408400</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 9:47:49 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-05-06T09:47:49-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Newb question - are pirates ignoring the AI player?</title></item><item><author>General_Jah</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/377113</comments><description><![CDATA[I'm somewhat new to SoaSE and have been playing single player 1v1 vs the AI on hard.&nbsp; What seems to ruin all my games are pirates.&nbsp; Just when I think I have the upperhand and the game is going my way I start getting bombarded with HUGE pirate fleets.&nbsp; There seems to be only luck in determining if I can hold the fleet off, as the comp will out bid me every single time and the only way I can get the pirates on him is if I up my bid at the last second before the auction closes.  I'...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/377113</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/377113</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 8:35:49 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-09-07T08:35:49-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Do pirates ruin 1v1 single player?</title></item><item><author>Fitterian</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/375838</comments><description><![CDATA[I have Windows7 64bit, I can`t for the life of me find where my saved games go.  I have looked at other answers to this question but all relate to Vista or XP.  I tried following the links but obviously the folders are different in Windows7.  Can anyone help me out here?  Thanks in Advance  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/375838</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/375838</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 2:18:26 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-04-22T02:18:26-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Saved-Games</title></item><item><author>Thulemanden</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/330408</comments><description><![CDATA[Played it once. Seems rather silly with a game just keeps sending in new unlimited numbers of attackers until you are overwhelmed. Why go into so much effort constructing a game, when you throw everybody off this way?  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/330408</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/330408</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 7:33:52 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-04-18T07:33:52-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Silly game</title></item><item><author>Grebo75</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/325894</comments><description><![CDATA[Ok, i've had a quick look through the forums, anyone got a decent beginners strategy guide? I've found it impossible to keep up on Normal and a struggle so far on easy! I'm either overlooking something or this game really does have a huge learning curve...  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/325894</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/325894</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:59:43 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-02-23T09:59:43</pubDateParsed><title>Too hard?</title></item><item><author>Topdecker</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/376572</comments><description><![CDATA[It is pretty common for me to create a battery of defensive guns/missiles sometimes with a star base at the center, but my fleet is forever running to engage the enemy.&nbsp; What I want is to force the enemy into my blender of destruction and rushing off to engage them prevents that from happening.  Is there a command that can force my fleet to stay parked where I tell them to go?&nbsp; And if so, what is the command to release them.&nbsp;  Thanks!  Top  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/376572</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/376572</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:43:36 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-02-23T12:43:36</pubDateParsed><title>Staying under the Umbrella</title></item></channel></rss>