Another thing:

Please support custom ShaderPipelines (besides the ones supplied in the game). We can create wonderful effect using new shaders but are only allowed to modify existing ones and therefore change things we don't want to change. This should be very easy.

ShaderModel 3 support for the custom shaders would be good, so we could add our own Parallax Occlusion Culling shaders to the game. Or better reflections and more.

Also I'd love (unlikely, but would be a modders wet dream) to see support for a plugin architecture allowing us to add our own custom buff types, probably C++ written dll's the game would load with the mod which allow for more diverse modifications of the game.

  for modifyable pacts, that would rock.

Then a bugfix please - when I use the cinematic mode and exit the game to windows, next start all my predefined view settings are off and I have to restore them manually.

Sweet.

Good news I thought this might have been it for sins.

Interesting...

First Off A Wonderful Thank You to Brad and Company and IronClad, this is Wonderful, Wonderful News!! I am not sure exactly how one would go about heading off the 2GB limit, other than to suggest, that not holding the entire game in memory might be something to consider. I say that because even load screens wouldn't deter me if there was a chance at adding new expansions or even new whole games at full price for the Sins saga to continue.

Another thought might be to reduce the mesh poly's or upper resolutions of the models, and/or if there were a way to suspend planets and or motion, perhaps lowering the memory calculations when the player is not directly observing those areas.

This of course is all just a layperson's suggestions, i have no clue how to build a game, it just seems there might be many avenues for getting memory usage down. Although the re-coding would be a wonderful lease of 64 bit machines. It is just i fear that a complete re-coding is a huge undertaking. Unless there is of course some program that will 'convert',    but not sure one of those 'magic' things exist. Though, it would make life a lot easier on you all at IC and Stardock. 

Anyway, if i haven't already said it, a thousand thank you's!!  You all are great, and we appreciate your thinking of us. It reminds me why i love you all so much anyway!  Because most companies don't care, and you keep showing us that you do. Thank you for that! 

My budget for games and things isn't huge, but I do want to do my part to support your wonderful team!

Thank you again to Brad and Everyone at Stardock, and to Blair and Craig and Josie and Everyone at IronClad!! 

We love you!!

-Teal

p.s. I know its kinda mushy, but hey,    That's not always bad. 

This is my first post and my first year playing the game. I have enjoyed both the original and Entrenchment. I got enthralled into this game late in July and can't stop playing it. Thanks for the continual support of this game. I will buy the final expansion soon since I know you guys are big supporters of your products. The community is also very good at helping out with lots of useful information. This is a very good start to a very good company(ies).

That is awesome!  I was getting a little depressed that one of my favorite sci-fi games of all time might have been abandoned.

First Frogboy mentions a new update for GalCiv II, and now for Sins...this is why gamers are so loyal to Stardock! 

"What happens to players who are stuck on 32 bit systems and 2 GB of RAM?  Will it become impossible for them to play Sins in online multiplayer?"

 

The way I read it, they are intending to implement a new way (more efficient?) for Sins to use memory on a 32 bit system - not ditching them in favor of 64-bit support.  Please tell me I'm right. 

I would like to see more 64-bit support. 4 gigs of RAM can be purchased for less than $50. Also in Win 7 x64 Enterprise I do run into freezes with multiple 32-bit programs running. Another thing I would like is to trade in all of my expansion keys for the Trinity key. I hate reinstalling all of the packs individually and waiting for the "Game of the Year" version to be released puts you behind.

Well done Stardock!

I'm seriously thinking on buying this game, now that I've seen is still alive, I thought it was dead, to play it at home. From what I've understand will be released a "Game of the Year" version? When will be released and what will include? Also will be wonderful to make it multithreading as I have a Q6600 clocked at 2.4Ghz and on large maps, I have problems.

what i would also like to see is that trinity can be gotten in local stores for those of use that cant buy it online

I saw Vanilla Sins packaged in one of those econo disk boxes at a store for the standard econo-box game price of $10 a couple days ago.

What specifically do you want them to improve with the AI?  I think there's some room for improvement, but whatever they do, it will always be flawed in various ways.  If you think the AI uses bad strategy, is it possible that you might be ready to step up to facing off against real human opponents over Ironclad Online?

I'm not crossing my fingers on any update to ever be realeased again. Making the game more future proof would prolly need massive rewriting of the original client (multi threading, quad core support etc, better memory model).

But here goes nothing... maybe i'm wrong.

Oh and while you at stardock making changes, plz drop the stupid impulse whatnot crap... It appears i have lost access to my previous stardock purchase (incl sins) and no way to access it again (which was bought under sdcentral).. And all of this because of changing e-mail addresses.. Thx stardock for ripping me from fully legaly purchased software.