2009-08-05, 23:11 | Link #1 |
Lucy's man
Join Date: May 2008
Location: An Imperial Guard Fortress
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Sins of a Solar Empire
Does anyone here play this game? Its an Empire building game similar to Civilization, only in space. It involves three factions fighting for dominance of the galaxy as you take over planets and negotiate and conquer other empires. No single player campaign but it really wasn't meant to have one in the first place. My favorite faction to use is the TEC for their really strong economy and relatively cheap ships.
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2009-08-06, 03:50 | Link #3 |
Osana-Najimi Shipper
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
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Same here.
Back then (I think latest patch I played is like 1.03 or 04), Advent sucked in comparison to other races (worst economy upgrades, superweapon has of dubious value, late game they're pretty much outmatched either by Vasari's 'Endless Armada' or they get blown to bits by Tec's LRMs and/or Novalith cannon), but I still played them. I dunno, an entire army run by overzealous religious female fanatics, bent on having their revenge through their massive array of pew pew weapons was too interesting to ignore. Seriously, having a bunch of illuminators, bombers, and/or fighters blasting the enemy to smithereens with thier blue white beams was a beautiful sight to behold lol. |
2009-08-06, 09:31 | Link #4 | |
Lucy's man
Join Date: May 2008
Location: An Imperial Guard Fortress
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This game has superweapons? Which are those for each the races? And do you guys play with pirates active or inactive? I leave it inactive since I find it unrealistic how the pirates can easily be more powerful than the strongest empire in the game. |
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2009-08-06, 12:40 | Link #5 | |||
Good-Natured Asshole.
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 34
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I enjoyed that game. I stopped only because it takes at least 2.5 hours per game, a decent 3v3 takes 7 hours, and I no longer have that kind of time.
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If you're trying to play with brute force, you should stick with TEC. Advent is for ridiculous shield tech, most effective culturing (they do a lot of economic damage), and crazy cap ship abilities stacking one on top of another. LRMs fall like dominoes as soon as you get the illuminators into range. Quote:
TEC has this railgun that can shoot to any system, and basically carries planet bombs. Two shots at once is enough to clear a planet most of the time. Advent has basically the same thing, but it deals culture damage instead. Vasari has a portal that generates units for free. (The point is to hit them before they get to set up Returning Armada.) Hint: If you resort to superweapons, you're both way too slow. If you're Vasari I might understand because they're late-game-dominant, but these things are useless. If you have that kind of resources, spend them on teching up your ships and building more of them. Quote:
They're not that powerful. It's one planet. Sometimes I wipe their planet out just for fun and XP. They're useful because you can use them to distract the enemy and take the lead in front of your own invasion force. Last edited by Claies; 2009-08-06 at 12:55. |
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2009-08-06, 12:54 | Link #6 |
Osana-Najimi Shipper
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
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Advent is Deliverance Engine. All it does is it make culture in a target well go up in your favour. If it could make an enemy system yours with multiple shots, it would have some value, but back then it can't. All you can do with it is blast a contested system so that ships in that grav well has increased firepower/shield mitigation, while the oponents ships lose a bit of theirs. Now the thing is, shots take forever to reach large maps, so coordinating your strikes and when it hits is hard, not to mention to actually get it is through culture upgrades, which isn't exactly cheap nor have a big effect in combat.
Vasari is Kostura Cannon. It only deactivates enemy structures for like a few minutes, which is lackluster to say the least. But really, their 'true' super weapon is Returning Armada, which lets you get an endless stream of ships that can either be used for money via scuttling, or obvoisuly through combat. IIRC it even let you go over your supply limit, allowing you to have larger fleets w/out the upkeep costs of higher command levels. Tec's Novalith Cannon is by far IMO the best though. Once you get it up running, you can literally wipe away an enemy's homeworld in a shot or two. Get an entire network and you can systematically blow every world an enemy has, and there's nothing they can do about it apart from hunting down said cannons. And gee, to get it running, its up the rocket upgrade tree, where all you're improving are the LRM frigates which back then were EXTREMELY good. As for Advent Cap ships, Progenitor is heads and tails the first ship you should get. Shield Recharge is so awesome, while Colonize helps your rather weak econ. Malice + Radiance's Cleansing Brilliance though was an auto-win against tightly clumped enemy fleets, at least back then. Now the only problem was that Tec's LRMs (if they spammed) will maul your capital ships from afar before they even get close to using it... dunno if they nerfed Javelis now. As for pirates, I usually play it on. If I can scout out where they're going to go, it's free XP for my cap ships. And besides, a fully upgraded world with 5+ Hangars can easily dispatch any pirate attack, is enough of a deterrence that enemies can't just hit and run with siege frigates, and give enough time for your fleet to come in before you lose all the upgrades spent on that world. @Claeis Back then (1.03/04) Illuminators were CRAP. They dealt capital type damage, which meant that they actually did NOT do their full damage to anything but heavies. Which meant during the early to mid game, they get pwned by practically anything the enemy throws at them, while in late game Heavy Cruisers just deals so much more damage and are so much more durable on a per resource/supply basis. And if the enemy was TEC, LRM spam will massacre you... LRMs moved fast enough that good players will retreat the section you are trying to attack while the other section pounds its way with their crazy DPS. No, the way you play against TEC back then was with a heavy carrier focus and run away as far as possible on the z axis to get away from the range of the LRMs, but even that gets trumped by a few flak turrets on their part. Hopefully you got a significant enough bomber squad to take away those flaks... Finally, if your average game was taking 3 hours, thats way more than enough time to get superweapons. Novalith Cannon and Returning Armada were gamebreakers then, and Advent has nothing of that sort. Culture sucked because it takes time to get it off the ground, and by then either your worlds were systematically bombarded by Novaliths or you're facing a numerically superior fleet that can recoup their losses more than you can. Of course things might have changed in the latest patches (its 1.17 now), but back then Advent were SERIOUSLY underpowered. Last edited by DragoonKain3; 2009-08-06 at 13:17. |
2009-08-08, 01:05 | Link #8 | |
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Join Date: May 2007
Age: 34
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Watching other people play and seeing their builds also helps. Bots tend to teach bad habits. |
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2009-08-11, 15:58 | Link #11 |
Osana-Najimi Shipper
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
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Now I have played around with Entrenchment, well, how times have changed.
LRM used to king of long range frigates and Illuminators the worst, now the Illuminator pwns even Heavy Cruisers with the help of guardians (which you need anyways) while LRMs are nothing more than cannon fodder for the most part. Advent used to be the weakest in early game, now they have the best scouts/light frigates combat wise. Novalith used to be conisdered the best superweapon and Kotsura the worst, but with Entrenchment, it's the other way around. Novalith is near useless when one can build starbases to prevent losing the planet from bombardment (novalith included) at a price of 2 starbases per 1 Novalith built. While Kotsura which did nothing in vanilla apart from damaging/stunning structures, can now move the ENTIRE fleet of the Vasari onto the targeted planet. (Granted, they needed to buff Kotsura since Returning Armada ain't free anymore, so I understand that. XD) And man, speaking of starbases, I thought they would be easy enough to take down. But man, they're tough to crack outside of bombers and the specially made ships designed to take them down. Made me respect a starbase with full defense upgrades, to say the least. |
2009-08-11, 20:10 | Link #12 | |
Good-Natured Asshole.
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 34
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I have yet to play it (and I'm afraid that time is running out), but I've purchased it. |
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2012-07-02, 00:29 | Link #13 |
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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I been playing this game over the last 2 weeks. I'd have to say TEC is my favourit, so I have played them the most. I dont mind the Advert, seem to always want to get the Rapture Battlcruiser. And I just cant stand the Varsai. Something about them makes my ears bleed. I thought about muting the sound when I play them, but then I'd miss out on the *pew* *pew* sound effects :/
The Kol Battleship seems to be my favourit captial ship, and the Aircraft carrier, which both makes up my first 2 Capitals for my first fleet. I've only just learned to manage my Artimiater properly, I always left skills on auto use, and during a battle I found I had no Artimiater to use skills such as finest hour or so. But now I disable auto cast and only put it on when I want the ship to use it also keeping those points for finest hour. my 2nd fleet I like to use the Marza Dreadnaught and Dunov Battlecruiser. One thing I I find annoying so far is I cant seem to get random map making the way I'd like it :/. And the more values I change, the worse it gets. |
2012-07-04, 14:58 | Link #15 |
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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Well couldnt be helped right? I only have Trinity and why start a new thread ? ^_^
I picked up Trinity not knowing Rebellion was coming a week later, and I was looking for a space game until I waited and checked out for Endless Space. I dont know if I should really get Rebellion, I guessing it be another $50 - $90 for new games in Australia. The Titan ships sound interesting. But I havent convinced myself if I should pretty much *repurchase* the game.... Would EB let me trade Tinity back in? and then pay the excess ? Anyway for now I got Trinity Theres been one thing thats bugging me atm, According to the user manual, the Kol Battleship has 2 gun laser battery, but by looking at the ship, it has 3 guns just by the hanger port. |
2012-07-06, 02:19 | Link #17 |
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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I've been trying out Trinity recently too, still quite new to the game. The learning curve seems to be quite steep at the start, also since there's no campaign to help you get used to it...BUUUT, extremely fun to watch your fleets battle, especially once you have 16 capital ships on field~
And the Star Wars mod is awesome too. |
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