Caydr

Caydr

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Reply to Fleets stop auto attacking? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

I have the problem with ships in a fleet deciding to go off in some random direction during a fight as well. I think I found that putting ships in a command group (CTRL #) rather than a fleet allows them to act normally.

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Reply to Major culture bug in new beta in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Palp79" reply="12" id="3131925"]Even better it continues after they are all dead and defeated haha, the ghost of Advents past is upon the galaxy .[/quote] Noticed this myself when a dead AI killed one of my planets with his residual cultural influence.

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Beta 2a bugs and feedback in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Edit: Sorry, didn't notice there was a dedicated beta forum. If I find anything else worth posting about I'll do it in there. - When I have ships set as a fleet and jump them into an enemy system, they seem reluctant to fight. They move around a bit but don't seem to grasp that they're supposed to be attacking. Or at least most of them don't. It might have to do with the size of my fleet (medium-large) or the presence of a Tit

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Since Stardock no longer has a stake in Impulse/Gamestop, why not release on Steam? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

So Impulse is now officially "Gamestop" according to the latest update. I was also delighted to have some bonus desktop popups I've never seen before (and specifically avoided by disabling Impulse Now Gamestop: All Your RAM Is Belong To Us). Since I'm going to be uninstalling this piece of shit in a moment, is there any chance that Rebellion (or ideally, the whole Sins package) might find its way onto Ste

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Reply to Impulse bought by Gamestop? Where do I get my refund? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

So can I get Sins and future Stardock games on Steam instead? Seeing as how apparently you have no stake in Impulse anymore, I can't see why your games should be exclusive. I would much rather buy from a trustworthy source than Gamestop of all companies. D2D even? Something? Preferably a company that makes its business selling games, not magazine subscriptions and "game insurance"? I don't see eye-to-eye with Wardell on everything, but I know he

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Reply to Way to go Shafer :) in PC Gaming Sins Forums

This is exactly what I hate about the direction the real-time strategy genre has gone. When your actions per second is a major indicator of your skill, it's no longer a strategy game. Strategic depth has been replaced with unsatisfying rock/paper/scissors gameplay where by the time you know your opponent has gone "scissors", it's too late to switch to "rock" because the game is already half over. Or you can have a combination of rock, paper, and scissors units, and that wo

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Reply to STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl Impulse problem in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Why was this moved to PC gaming? It goes to show how much concern the Impulse staff have, when they read the first few words of the subject line and that was enough to convince them I was asking for game support, not Impulse software support.

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STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl Impulse problem in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Hi, I just tried searching for: STALKER S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and neither of them found Stalker. I realize it's spelled strangely but can't you fix it so that games which are commony misspelled can be found by their alternate spelling(s)? So then I just did the simple solution and searched through all first-person shooters... ...But it turns out that - new to me - Stalker isn't actually an FPS, as when I finally found it by searching for "chernobyl" I disco

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Reply to THANK YOU STARDOCK, AGAIN! in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

I wouldn't know, Impulse can't decompress my game. I've removed all Sins-related registry entries, including those which the support team say need to be removed, and I have deleted all Sins-related directories on my computer. I've switched to the legacy download system, and I've rebooted my computer several times. So as frogboy says, thank you Ironclad, your game was fun while I was able to play it, and I don't hold you to blame for my no longer being able to.

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Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Too busy to reply to the whole thing - can't tell you what with, that's a secret. Also, you're wrong but I'm not going to go into specifics. OK OK I'll respond to the one part I read: You laughed at the fact that porn and games have different distribution... whatever... and therefore my argument was invalid. However you misunderstood me, or I made myself misunderstandable. Kryo and I (or was it you? err...) were debating the financial aspect of the distributi

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Reply to Fleet supply no longer accounts for ships in production? in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

Dunno about the first thing you said, I still can't figure out how to install the game without errors post-entrenchment beta. But as for the second thing, it's impossible to purchase more than you can supply. The only case where you can do so is if you're currently researching supply tech. (I wonder what happens if you then cancel that supply tech research?)

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Reply to Sins and multicore processors in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

Multi-core does benefit gaming to some degree - the background processes get bumped onto the second core, allowing the first to run your game at full speed. This means you can run a game and transcode a DVD simultaneously without slowdown. ags19, don't speak if you don't know what you're talking about. Tellling a program to use 1 core or eleventy million cores won't make a difference if the program doesn't know how.

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Reply to White-out in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

Oh, no, I don't mean a current forum administrator, I mean back... wow, it was a while ago now. Brain-fart, I can't remember what happened with it. Didn't the official (european) Haegemonia site shut down or something a couple years post-release? Note I mean "H a egemonia" not "Hegemonia", I never was too involved with Dreamcatcher Games, although they did send me a free copy of the game :) How about Haegemonia Galaxy? Do you remember that site

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Reply to Sins and multicore processors in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

Texture memory, eh? Hm... I guess that would make sense, though I've never checked on it myself. I just know that my CPU isn't being utilized fully (even one core), my RAM isn't full (a gig or so remaining at all times.. maybe I need the -3gb switch activated in my boot.ini?), and my graphics card eats Crysis for lunch. Something's a bottleneck, and I'd generally assume it's the AI or the sheer number of ships that have to be tracked, but my CPU isn't overloaded.

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Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Distribution of one type of media on a disc is undeniably similar to distribution of another type of media on the same type of disc. A retail outlet is a retail outlet, and both of the products (anime and games) are commonly sold at the same location. It is a fallacy to claim that there is a shocking price difference involved in the manufacturing and distribution of the two, and yet the former has a customer base which is infinitely smaller than the PC strategy gamer customer

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Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Perhaps I ought to be removed from this discussion, I'm contradicting Stardock staff again with facts and reality. By "revise" the comment, you mean "remove before anyone calls me on it". Calling Ron's argument "more or less" accurate means that parts of it are inaccurate, meaning that his argument is flawed. So let me "revise" your post for you: The cost of distributing a game is classified, yet surprising. I removed my "lol" because I realized i

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Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Surprise me, that's what I tell my hairdresser. Use some sort of provable facts or at least some kind of logic, not just "lol" and "you'd be surprised" and "that's classified". Disc pressing and distribution is something that was mastered years ago. We're at tech level 3, do you get me? There's not a lot to it anymore. Ok, let's look at another example. Take for instance, the Pandora project. They are not only distributing, but manufacturing a com

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Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

The problem with piracy is that it is virtually impossible to prosecute. The penalty for a crime can be the death of you and all your relatives, but if it's unpunishable who gives a hoot? @Kryo: "lol" is the best you can do? At least Ron attempted to make an argument, incompetent though it was. You're setting an example. Prove me wrong. The costs for distributing a finished product are virtually nothing compared to the costs for financing that product's d

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Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Ron, at some point you've got to stop using the "You're lucky you got to play it AT ALL!!" cop-out. At what point are you going to give Stardock respect enough to acknowledge that they are not lucky to have their games available for purchase? If Kalypso was the "only" group interested in publishing Sins, what would you call Impulse? It is, allegedly, a publishing platform after all. Whether a magazine ad says "buy it at your local GAMENHAUSENVOGSZTEIN for 50 euros" o

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