That brings up another question. Will sins have that feature in MP? That would be awesome. (But also have the right balance so it wont be whoever plays the most will win)

well the thing is the rewards wont be a constant. they will be just like every other game....everything is a clean slate at the start of a game and as your ships progress and survive battles..they gain basicly battle experience and are able to fight slightly better. so it wont really matter on how long the guy is playing but moreover how long the ship itself has survived through combat and what it has learned through its many battles.

Nexus did it.

the battlefield series is different as it basicly keeps track of your player and the awards and weapons you unlock. RTS games are quite different especially in the aspect of sins where you will have a reward system for individual ship survial not in the aspect of unlocking cool radically different stuff to use..but slight enhancements maybe to armour...fire control...and manuevering. basicly...it will be like the real world...your ships survive battles and like most people...learn from some mistakes and learn some new tricks that may save time or help out and they try to implement them. this sorta goes along the lines of individual ship XP and reward system because as IC also stated...now and then some ships might be able to get new stuff...like maybe a nice engine upgrade or weapons upgrade or something of that sort for just that ship alone....like a ship refit.

as far as this being a constant in a single player campaign for sins...i cannot say. will just have to wait for a better answer from IC or stardock as they are the ones that have access atm and IC has final say in all matters.

hopefully i helped clear up any slight confusion and didnt add to it (rather hard for me most of the time to simplify what goes on in my head for others to be able to understand)

everytime you start a MP game, all you ships are reset

That would suck so bad. I hope sins is not like that

definately, I didnt buy a game to be called a noob just because I dont own my own multi-verse.

Rakion and BF2142 did a good job of managing something like that without over powering the player (i.e. i was lv. 1 and i beat a server filled with lv.10 ppl).

Shattered Galaxy is one example of what sins should not be like.

Like i said, it wont be "overpowered" or broken. It just lets you keep your awards and new equipment instead of researching and winning those "awards" all over again everysingle battle

Each multiplayer campaign is like an alternate reality, your starting again from the beginning. TEC, Advent, and Vasari all with their goals and the personal aspirations of their leader (The people playing the game).

A persistent universe would ruin the game.

experience from single player mission to single player mission is fine, but in MP it would be a very unfair advantage if you play against someone that has 3 or 4 high level ships versus someone that has 1 L1 cap ship and a few frigates, and as some are doing in C&C3 ranked games (of though units do start of the same) but high ranked players are playing with low ranked players just to get points and achieve a higher rank, but the point is, if sins have rank or ladder games then it would be very unfair to have a player that is starting out against someone that has played 10 games but is playing against low level players simply to get his fleet higher still

sorry but something like that would be a very bad idea, and may turn off a lot of people playing sins online

Heck, even keeping ship levels between games would be way overpowered, guys!

What about something like BFME where the hero restarted at level 1 each game, but total kills and all stats like that were carried over, and medals awarded. (IE Orcslayer Medal for having killed a total of 1000 orcs or more, balrog slayer etc etc)

Edit: Perhaps this could be added with a custom capital ship sorta deal. Where one of your capital ships could be personally designed by you. Would cost more but would be far superior. (IE a sort of points system, so if I want a carrier with 10 bays, bam i got it, or if I want some random cross breed between X and Y I can make it) This would of course be limited to one in play per game. I dunno, could be fun

What do you feel about my option?