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Unit costs and balance

Pbhead — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:04:17 AM -0500

I find it really intresting that no one really talks about the costs of the individual units.

Like. how cheap the tec support ships are in metal and crystal compared to the other races.

or how the destra is 20 crystal and 25 credits more expensive than a kodiak.

or how the defence vessel is 5 crystal and 15 credits cheaper than a flack frig.

usually, its, this ability is overpowered, or, this ability needs help. or phase missles. we do a lot of talking about phase...

Defending against Cruel AI

Manick2005 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 6:31:38 PM -0500

I've been going at it with the Cruel AI for awhile now, and I'm starting to get used to them, but I'm still having trouble figuring out the best way to defend against them. If there is a single choke point, I will win most of the time. But if there isn't, and they have multiple directions that they can attack from, then I will almost always lose. I usually play as Vasari and TEC, but lately I've been trying to get the hang of Vasari in 1v1 Cruel AI, as they ...

Divide my fleets up

NR2001 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 5:15:55 PM -0500

Ok, can someone teach me how to divide fleets up? I usually have a bad habit of having 1 huge fleet

Thanks!

AI Akkans are autocasting Armistice forever

DetriusXii — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:38:37 AM -0500

I'm playing single player as Advent. I wiped out a TEC player, but their fleet remnant is in my world. They have 5 Akkans in their fleet remnant and they're autocasting Armistice. I've tried to snipe units with bombers when Armistice goes down, but the damage doesn't register before another cast of Armistice goes up. I can ignore the AI planet, but I'm just kind of curious as to a viable solution to wipe the fleet out. I could change my fleet com...

Stalemate TEC vs Vasari

BearishMouse — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:35:18 AM -0500

I am having serious problems against the Vasari AI; it is fielding fast response teams of capital ships, light carriers and heavy cruisers as well as upgraded starbases. After 3 hours I have only captured 1 planet off of it because it simultaneously defends its planet while hitting a couple of my worlds to draw attention, and the distraction forces aren't small.

I have a fully working economy capable of sustaining the maximum number of ships and I am fielding a similar mix of sh...

Standard Fleet Structure

HanzUltra — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:39:49 PM -0500

Hey guys,

I'm pretty new to this game (3 days) but I already love it!

Being a RTS-Veteran who enjoyed almost every game of the genre (C&C, Starcraft 1+2, Warcraft 2+3, Coh etc.), I still can't believe I completely missed this beauty... up till now.

So much to my backgound... my question is related to the composition of a "standard" Fleet (for any race basically, but especially for TEC). I'd like to now how a well balanced and strong attack fleet has to look like? ...

Archaeologist achievement.

BlackWizardMagus — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 7:14:30 PM -0500

Hope this is the right board for this, but does anyone have a suggestion as to how to get this achievement? I simply seem to never be on a map that has all the artifacts. Even the huge, multi random map, when I owned every planet but one, didn't yield all of them.

Raiding Strategies

Whisker_Fish — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 9:20:39 PM -0500

Quoting Darvin3, reply 13
So passive-aggressive pressure game? Yeah, that's totally different. Novaliths can definitely be used as a coup-de-grace in that case, but there are lots of great tools at your disposal for achieving the same thing. Knocking on their door with a force of 20 light carriers all loaded with bombers would be just as devastating.

A post over on the topic that went from talking about novaliths to turtling (or passive-aggressive pressure as Darvin e...

Micromanaging large fleets?

Manick2005 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 7:35:46 PM -0500

It seems to me, that once you get to a certain fleet size, a lot of different unit types become very difficult to manage and possibly not even worth making against the CPU. It will auto-target and kill anything that is providing your fleet with any sort of utility. I experienced this in my previous game as Vasari versus a Vicious TEC AI, in which every time I started mixing my fleet with Overseers, Subverters, Carrier Cruisers, and even Sentinels, they would focus fire every one of t...

TEC: How do I master this faction?

General_Fear — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 3:57:59 PM -0500

Okay. I wanted to try TEC. So if you are a fan of the TEC maybe you all can help. I have a couple of questions.

1.) What ships and combo of ships do you focus on? What does you TEC fleet looks like?

2.) Economy. What do you research. In what order? What do you do to get that economy roaring.

3.) What do you do with diplomacy as TEC? If anything?

4.) I keep hearing that TEC is a fast starter? How so?

Any help will be grea...

novalith bombardment from fortified position

generalking007 — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 9:11:49 PM -0500

i am playing a single player game as tec, all the ai's are tec aswell. the ai's are set to easy and fortifier. one ai started out in the same solar system as me, so we are fighting constantly for territory, the other one started in a far away system so they only have to deal with neutrals. that ai has heavily fortified thier systems, i havent even been able to explore them well, and now has a huge battery of novaliths constantly bombarding me from afar. what do i do?

Hoshikos vs. Iconus Guardians - Which is the best?

NemoStardust — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 4:51:39 PM -0500

Hi all

Well, as the title suggests, which is the best? As I have been reading these forums I get the impression that people are just loving the guardians, saying that an advent fleet can stay alive forever with their aid. But I really disagree. The guardians just reduce the damage by 33%. The ships they are protecting still receives 67 % of the damage and slowly but definately are destroyd. Perhaps their destruction is delayed for some time, but not that much in my opinion.

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Flagship Kol?

Theory5 — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 4:39:52 PM -0500

I've been watching the debate on the other thread about the Kol, so I was re-evaluating my stance on it by putting it through its paces. I have noticed something about the Kol though, it is the only ship that is called "Flagship", I've noticed it says that with my enemies too. What does this mean?

8+ hour game >.>

Classicvibe — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 9:11:37 AM -0500

So, um, I'm an on and off player that comes back to SoaSE every few weeks, and a few days ago I tried a FFA 8 player single player map on hard, I think with 5 stars and maybe, 80 planets? TEC, normally Advent but the economic aspects of TEC attracted me (I'm big on eco) Entrenchment installed, no Diplomacy

So yeah, massive map. I'm more accustomed to something like 2v2 or 3v3 medium maps with locked teams, so I was sorta new to all of the missions and alliances.
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is there a campaign?

radrick01 — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 2:05:12 AM -0500

is there a campaign? i was under the assumption there was. if so, why can I only find map type scenarios?(solar systems)

TEC Strategies?

Theory5 — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:42:32 PM -0500

Hey, I have been playing Sins on and off for a while now. I usually have been playing singleplayer because I always get overrun in multiplayer. My way of playing the game has always been as a steamroller that is, slowly building up a fleet until it can run over everything in its path.

I am usually TEC.

Yesterday I was playing an older save, where there were five solar systems but only one really large one (The map was one of those huge maps), and I had eventually overrun every CPU in the s...

Starbase Placement

Meshakhad — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 6:21:15 PM -0500

Where do you normally place your starbases?

I mainly use starbases to control non-colonizable gravity wells, particularly those that see a lot of traffic. Stars and wormholes are the big ones. If there is a wormhole in my territory, you can bet that I will be plonking down a starbase right in the middle.

Occasionally, I use starbases to add to a planet's defenses, but only if I'm going the "fuck you invading fleet" approach.

Are pirates and Star-base Cost Effective and able as a defense against flanking and there ability to flank?

RiddleKing — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 2:38:25 AM -0500

Definition of Flanking in Military language

Quote from WIKI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanking_maneuver

In military tactics, a flanking maneuver, also called a flank attack, is an attack on the sides of an opposing force. If a flanking maneuver succeeds, the opposing force would be surrounded from two or more directions, which significantly reduces the maneuverability of the outflanked force and its ability to de...

overwhelmed in 10 minutes!

radrick01 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 3:05:05 PM -0500

Hi everyone

I just got this game and started playing. I did play the tutorials. I just started on the new game single player. I picked the smallest scenario. I have the computer player set to easy random.

I started by building all 4 mines and then I upgraded my planet once, and built a military research facility then I built a missile platform, and then 15 enemy ships cam in with 1 really big ship(mother-ship or something) and bombed me out...

Which is The Best race?

Battlestar_Freedom — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 2:06:13 PM -0500

OK, i expect to pick up a LOT of flak for this, BUT i will freely admit that i prefer the TEC to the other races (I rarely play as Vasaari and i have never even finished a game as Advent)

I favour the TEC because i like the look and feel of their ships, i think their capital ships are the best and i really love the strong economy you can build up quite easily (especially with the Trade Facilities on the Argonev, 6.5 credits per second each, great!), the strong economy and the reduce ship buil...

The Best Capital Ships

gbonn418 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:03:13 PM -0500

I just picked up the game and decided to work on my skills with TEC. I wanted to raise this topic for discussion; what capital ships do you prefer?

I normally choose the colonial ship first so that I can acquire asteroids and other easy pickins for my empire and gather more resources. Does anybody choose another first? Why?

What I build next changes from time to time, but I prefer the bombardment capital ship, because oh do I love to watch enemy planets engulfed in firestorms. Carriers see...

New player trying to figure out Culture wins?

GodGrev — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:58:59 AM -0500

Good evening all,

I just recently picked up Sins and I love it. Granted I cant win a fight against an easy enemy yet but I am learning.. I think. RTS are by far my favorite genre of games and Sins is above and beyond anything I have ever played.

My question is in the title. I decided to play as the Advent, just randomly, and noticed that they seem to put alot of emphasis on Culture. Granted I dont know the mechanics very well yet so I took to these forums and saw ...

MP Basics

Kain12309 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 9:15:52 PM -0500

Still new to MP, so I want some help on basics for playing pvp matches. Got a few questions. (Vasari player here btw)

Do I prioritize research in civ or military tech first? I see a lot of people go for trade ports asap, which seems like a good idea, obviously, but where do you start putting into health/armor/weapon techs? Do you build more trade ports than research labs with spare logistics slots?

Overall fleets usually compose of carrier capitals, carriers, rep...

So poor a strategy fight ?

YinYang86 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 4:42:14 AM -0500

Hello,

I am very happy with this game I am just discovering - and happy also about this forum since there is NO informations in the game itself but a few poor tutorials.

I said happy with this game but for one thing - as usual in strategy games : the AI is much more A than I... Especially during fights. It looks very easy to beat it since it uses no tricks or tactics but fight to the death or fly.

I also said I am just discovering this game : so maybe I am wrong and will discover an opp...

Storm Front

DesConnor — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:05:01 PM -0500

Storm Front. Ah, the best of all the maps that come with the game. I was going to write up a series on all the maps included with the game, but far too few of them are good enough to bother with, and why repeat the original error? Many people have posted about wanting easier download options for maps in Rebellion, but I want something far more radical, a vastly slimmed down map pool with the crap maps removed or drastically reworked by people who understand what they a...