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Reply to [MOD] Distant Stars 1.0 - [22/06/08] UPDATED - Public beta 1.05 Compatible in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Could I just make one small suggestion about the OP - the blue color, and to an extent purple, make it very hard to read. Nothing wrong with white :) though if you feel you need to separate lists by more than paragraphs then pale bright versions of colors would work much better.

Reply to Alternative Ship Models in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I think Kodiak looks like a tank because that's what it suppose to be - a tank in space. It suppose to make you feel like you're looking at something that's hard to damage and packs a very big punch. Making it longer and "leaner" would remove that feeling... there is a reason why tanks don't look like they do.

Reply to [MOD] Bailknight`s Graphic Mod for Entrenchment ver 1.02 Fixed 1 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Looks great, I'm eager to see the released mod.

Reply to mediocre ship design in Graphics Design Sins Forums

[quote]As far as I know, there isn't an effeciant way to 'degrade' a models polygon count. You can do it easily; it just won't look very pretty.Having multiple ships with varying polygon counts (low, medium, high) would be a waste of memory and time. This completely excludes texturing and UV (but that isn't as hard)I do wish sins had an option for shadows; having your planets fight in the shadow of a planet would be awesome![/quote] Actually there are very good algorithms for reducing

Reply to Sins Enhancement Mod v1.7 3/23/08 UPDATED in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The "auto focus fire" feature you mention, the one you turned off by default, is that controllable from the UI in the game? 'Cause I couldn't find it. There's auto-attack but that's not it, is it?

Reply to Some good strategy questions (experts welcome) in Strategy Sins Forums

2 - what people here are referring to is that during combat, once ships get into "optimal" position for attacking their current target, they'll stay there completely stationary and shoot until target is destroyed or another order is given. So they don't "fly around" during combat - they don't strafe, or engage in evading maneuvers, or try to switch positions to attack from the side, etc. This was done to keep the game from requiring powerful computers. Personally I don't find that very bothersom

Reply to MOD: New Oceanic Planet (by Uzii) v1.0 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I think a gaseous planet would be interesting. It could have low population but high defense - projectiles more easily burn up in the dense atmosphere, and beams/plasma also interact more with the atmosphere and loose some of their potency. Could have standard tactical/logistic slots, and be very high in the research tree - 5th or 6th and with only 1 or 2 upgrades, but have more resource asteroids around - like maybe 6. Oh and the gravity well could be bigger - under the assumption that gas plan

Reply to Let us know what you'd like in v1.03 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Please add a [B]confirmation dialog[/B] for "Erase Set" button. Of course it's my fault for not looking where I click (I erased all my saves for the latest game :( ), but it happens and a confirmation dialog would've prevented the situation. In general, a good rule of thumb for UIs is, anything that deletes a lot of stuff should be designed in such a way that it's not easy to accidentally do it.

Reply to Far Cry movie trailer in Everything Else Sins Forums

But guys, if we didn't have Uwe, who'd be making all those compute game based movies? :) I gotta say it doesn't look good (duh!). Far Cry really isn't the kinda game anyone should be making movies out of, especially not this guy. Then again, he's the only who would think it was a good idea.

Reply to Let us know what you'd like in v1.03 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Here are a few things that come to mind: - I'd like to see what's currently being researched without going into the research screen - When in the research screen I'd like to see what's next in the queue (if the above two are already in and I just missed them could some1 point them out, thank you :)) - I'm not sure if the antimatter lost during jump is a fixed amount or a percentage of the ship's current amount, but if it's not the latter then it should be. A ship would still

Reply to Empire Tree woes in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I noticed that issue as well, though it doesn't bug me as much because I don't use it as often, but then again, maybe that's why. I don't know if there is a need to completely disable autoscroll, but certainly while the mouse is over the tree should stay fixed, we shouldn't have to be chasing icons around in the heat of the battle.

Reply to Splitting a fleet in two ... there must be an easy way ? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well, fleets tend to get into formations when they move - same type of ships are grouped together, some ships hang to the back while others at the front, etc. If find yourself with a messy fleet tell them to move to a spot nearby, they'll form up and then it's easier to select them. I however tend to split the fleets right from start. Once I get a second capital ship I usual designate it as a fleet (of one as it were) and then move to another planet. Then any ships produced there would

Reply to AI is terrible (Hard, 1.02) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]I actually had the AI get another AI capital ship down to 11 hitpoints left, and then a colony ship warped it, and they ALL turned away from the capital ship and went after the colony ship on the other side of the gravity well, the 11 hitpoint ship slinked away to fight another day....i was like ouch..i hope they fix that someday. Shouldnt be too hard...just add a few lines saying if the ship is under so and so % hull, keep it as top priority.[/quote] I don't see why colony ships shou

Reply to I'm not your bro and I am going to taze you! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I'm not going to comment on the second part of the article because I've no idea what happened there but I have to disagree on the first. What Apple is doing is... well, it's lame actually. Which is to say, yeah it's perfectly legal, and they might even have a "justification" for that, but at the end of the day they're just milking more money out of customers, and screwing early adopters. The update to Apple TV is free (and it's more significant), and MS somehow managed to give away for

Reply to It's good to be a man in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It's funny 'cause it's true

Reply to iPhone Unshacked from AT&T in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Frankly I don't understand why Apple would want to lock the iPhone to only one provider in the first place? I can't imagine AT&T payed them enough money to cover the losses of not selling it to non-AT&T customers. Anyway, personally I don't think it's worth the "price of admission", if it was close to $300 bucks I'd definitely consider getting it, but half a G for a phone that lacks many features that le

Reply to TweakVista Now Available! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Aleatoric makes a good point. How do you respond Stardock?

Reply to iPhone "Touch Time" Being Sold in India in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

This is just sad.

Reply to SkinStudio 6 Preview! in SkinStudio Help WinCustomize Forums

Wow! This looks awesome! I must admit, I tried several times to take up skin making seriously but every time I eventually get overwhelmed by SkinStudio and abandon the whole thing. This might just be the thing to push me to actually finish a skin for once.

Customize quick access menu in ICQ6 in Windows XP WinCustomize Forums

Okay, I hope this is okay to post here, but I didn't want to register to an ICQ board just to post one small tip. If anyone who's already registered on some ICQ related forum reads this, pass it on. I never use ICQ's sms/video/phone options, but I do like the quick access menu they added in ICQ6 that gives you access to common functions right from the contact list. I wanted to remove some of these shortcuts, in part because I never use them and in part because they push the "file transf

Reply to WC Poll: iPhone... Yes or No? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Well, since I'm in Canada I don't even have the option yet... seriously, wth is that about!? We're right on top of you. There are people who live on one side of the border and work on the other. Why in the name of all that's good and pure do we always have to wait longer (latest rumor puts the iphone in winter up here) for the latest stuff?? Anyway, my rants aside, to be honest I just don't need half the stuff the iphone has and it's missing half the stuff I'd want in a device like that

Reply to WindowBlinds 5.51 Shareware Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

When will we see blurring in the XP version of WB? Also, is that something that's gonna have to be specifically used by a skin or is that gonna be an option we can apply to any skin ourselves, i.e. through options or something?

Reply to Social Networking Divide: An Issue of Class? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

It's not a class issue as such, but more of an interests issue. People working in similar jobs or industries tend to have more things in common, it's natural. Besides, all those high school students on myspace will eventually get to college, and all those college students on facebook will go on to different things - some will be CEOs, others will be office workers and others might go into construction or something. Point is, most of those people will probably stay with their site since they have

Reply to How to "force" a font onto a skin in WB in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Thank you! It's curious why these options weren't put into the WB configurations controls, but oh well...

How to "force" a font onto a skin in WB in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

I'm 90% sure that I used to have an option in WB configurations dialog to tell it to use a font of my choice, kinda like forcing to use a specific taskbar instead of the one defined in the skin. However, I recently reinstalled the whole system and can't find that option. So either I just don't remember the correct location or I'm going nuts. Can anyone tell me where that option is?