Sakhari

[quote who="RiddleKing" reply="3" id="3157672"]Solution: 1. ***** run 2. Repulse the shit out of that titan. [/quote] Heh, that's pretty much where I am at the moment. I guess I'm just getting a little tired of having to spam bombers in every game where one of these titans is present. And, since bombers en masse are effective against nearly everything else that fleets generally have a problem with... well, why not? I'm not goin

Do you use frigate-class ships with any regularity and if so, which ones? Nearly every fight I've gotten into that features either the Eradica or Ragnarov (on my side or the other or both), just about everything smaller than a heavy cruiser gets wiped off the field with one or two shotgun blasts or chaos bursts. I'm starting to feel like there's a point in the game where the smaller ships become little more than a liability and I'm not sure what to do at tha

[quote who="Vatticson" reply="1" id="3156766"]Another thing i think the multiplayer needs to fix: There´s too much information there. i think it´s tiring to look if the game i selected has a password or if it has free avaliable slots for everyone or for friends only. I would replace those texts with color icons (like those game options where you select game speed and stuff), because i know all of that text is important. Multiplayer menu

Seems to me, whatever you summon in this situation isn't going to distract the player from killing the titan. If someone gets the titan down to 'critical' health (especially as low as 1000 as Volt said), they're going to commit to finishing the job. In most cases, this would probably just end up being a weaker sacrificial ability like the ART's ultimate which nobody seems to like much as-is.

[quote who="shkotay" reply="16" id="3155957"]K, back to my off question: what good are the corvettes? Currently I see them zoom in and zoom out, and not do much dmg. Plus they die right away. [/quote] They're fast, they have a low resource and fleet cap cost making them easily spammable early on, and they're at least decent against pretty much everything in the early game. They might not seem like much to look at if you only have a small handful of them

[quote who="shkotay" reply="7" id="3155924"]They make that big a difference?[/quote] They can safely bomb any structure from outside that structure's attack range and they do significantly more damage against structures than other ships. Taking down starbases and fixed defenses is their primary function. As was said, the only thing they need to worry about (assuming an enemy fleet isn't around) is fighter-squadrons which is why you bring flak along.

The Trinity pack was $39.99 on release and that was released alongside the Diplomacy micro-expansion but as was said, Diplomacy and Entrenchment have always been $10.

I usually hotkey my fleet groups and structures of interest. For casual play at least, that's more than enough to get the job done. The empire tree is just useless clutter to me, too.

[quote who="AseOfSpadez" reply="116" id="3150557"]I can get a 200 cred economy going with just about 5 non-asteroidal planets.[/quote] Pardon my ignorance but is everyone on ICO playing with the fastest game settings - income specifically? As TEC, I've taken over nearly every planet in a medium system, spamming Trade Ports and Starbases with full trade-upgrades all the way (including the extras with Development Mandate) and I think the highest I've seen on Normal setting

[quote who="R3DT1D3" reply="33" id="3150313"]Even if the Vasari are coming next week, it would have been nice to get a mine hotfix. [/quote] No kidding. Titan-dozing is getting awfully tedious, especially in AI games where there's a carpet of mines in nearly every grav well. I certainly hope we don't have to wait another week for that one.

[quote who="StarFallArmada" reply="7" id="3147657"]It would certainly help with the "pirates attacked a planet really far from the front lines, and though fixed defenses are protecting facilities and the planet, nothing can stop those bastards killing my trade ships at the edge of the grav well"[/quote] It's been my experience that trade ships in a grav. well tend to follow a fairly predictable course. Putting one or two turrets on that path typically does the trick for me.&

Whatever the intention of the pirate mechanic, the actual effect on player behavior has pretty clearly been that pirates are altogether ignored outside of the few seconds before they launch, at which point we see the ebay-esque last-second bidding war where everyone involved just prays that they get the last click before the invisible countdown runs out. Opinions may vary but to me, this is an aggravating way to do business and not much fun overall as a gameplay m

I don't care much about superweapons at this point but in the same spirit, I could definitely get behind a toggle for mines. Put me down for 'all of the above'. Options are preferred in single-player games.

I'll just echo the sentiments here since it's already been covered but I think Guidance is the only problem with this ship. Reverie's handy, Mass Hysteria is a decent siege tool, and instant intel anywhere on the map with Clairvoyance isn't bad at all. That, I use all the time. As was said, it's just a little AM-intensive for the early game.

[quote]The problem is that with say, 200 illuminators or any other small vessel is that the starbase or anything else can only attack a certain number of targets, no where near close to 200[/quote] I don't understand why it's a problem that any single unit (like a Starbase) is unable to keep 200 targets at bay by itself. If a fleet of 200 units (mixed or otherwise) jumps onto one of your assets and you had no idea it was coming, then yes, you've l

[quote who="Eilarais" reply="9" id="3133505"]The complication is that if you decline a surrender, should the AI surrender again? How long should it wait? Should it surrender to all players in a multiplayer game or just one? Should AI's be able to surrender to each other, and if so how should it be handled?[/quote] Q: Should the AI make further attempts at surrender if the first is declined? A: Yes. I assume there's some kind of trigger that prompts th

I'd prefer that it worked in the same way as in Age of Empires 3. The AI 'offers' a surrender, the player chooses to accept or decline, and the game proceeds accordingly (with the AI continuing as normal or abandoning the game). I agree that the AI is a little too quick to bail in many cases and yes, it would be nice to have a choice in the matter.

Steam has been around for quite a while and in general, people seem to prefer keeping all of their game purchases together on a single service. I'd wager a good-sized chunk of the people who are/were using Impulse are primarily Steam-users who are 'only' doing so because they couldn't get Sins, GalCiv, Demigod, and so forth anywhere else (I'm one of them). And, of course, Impulse now being Gamestop-managed is even more incentive to drop it like a

[quote]Hey, I never called anyone an uneducated fool because they use profanities. [/quote] I wasn't suggesting that you did. The point was that insulting someone directly, regardless of what words you use, isn't going to be a feel-good experience for the target. In your example, direct hostility to other forumgoers was the problem (and as far as I know, that 'is' moderated around here). The profanity was just incidental. And sure, it's not unreasonable to 'a

[quote]Side note, when did he call everyone's language "polluted"?[/quote] I'm guessing this is the part that did the job - [quote]Though it can feel a bit strict at times, it makes for a much better pleasant and nonpolluted reading experience.[/quote] <span style="font-family: Verdana; color: black;

[quote]However, I think a bigger issue that might be worth considering is that while computers are expected to be online at this day and age, consoles... not so much. Couple that with the fact (well, at least anecdotally) that there are more single-player games still coming out for consoles than the PC, and I wouldn't be surprised if the growth of digital downloads on consoles is substantially slower overall than on PC.[/quote] Right now? Sure but the point: If the sh

[quote]Once DD becomes commonplace, I suspect the consoles will start to get phased out shortly thereafter[/quote] What's stopping the next generation of dedicated entertainment consoles (or even this generation, for that matter) from taking advantage of digital distribution? All three of the major brands are already on-board in a limited capacity and it'll only get more popular as time goes on. I don't see why this would be the death-knell for the non-PC gaming market.</p

[quote] as I will now with civ5 after reading all the comments about it. [/quote] *shrug* Well, for what it's worth, I've been regularly playing hours-long Civ5 matches with a friend online since the week after release. No notable incidents to report on that front.

[quote]The problem is, most gamers still don't realise this. People still rush out to buy new games, and don't realise that most of the time they are getting an unfinished one.[/quote] I'd wager such statistics don't actually exist but I'd be interested in hearing what percentage of PC gamers are -routinely- upset by the content of the games that they pick up on day one. Perhaps there's a whole genre of genuinely awful games out there that I've accidentally been avoidi

[quote]New PC games don't work, they just don't.[/quote] [quote]9 out of 10 new games don't work at launch.[/quote] What exactly is the definition of 'work' in this thread? Of the 96 games that I own on the PC, I can count, on two fingers, the number of those that outright didn't work out of the box and both of those issues were fixed inside of two weeks. I suppose, if we count the server issues with WoW, then three fingers would do the trick.