Sorceresse

your OP is a refreshing touch ... in a forum where perpetually restless & power-hungry [B]sharks[/B] are pa/troll/ing & pa/tron/izing ... but why does the CEO of Stardock call himself « Frogboy » ?!? i know all about « frogs » : im a French Canadian from Québec ... oh, yea ... i almost forgot : [I]Merci beaucoup, Prince charmant[/I] ... ;p P.S. The Ironclad devs live in anglo Western Canada : here, in the francophone East, they are perceiv

have u tried this : 1. close a software firewall ? 2. close all antivirus & antispyware programs ? 3. close all non-essential, background, user-associated programs* ? 4. run the game in a window (set in the visual options) ? [size="1"]* in win XP, i only keep the vital [B]explorer.exe[/B] running before launching Sins[/size]

[quote]@ Eilarais My bad sorry. Put Ironclad in the main post [/quote] You perhaps meant, rather, @ Sorceresss : Eilarais was not the one who informed you of Ironclad's role. Now, I can't edit my reply #1, so it seems a little odd after you edited your OP. Not a big deal.

I understand your preference : it is close to mine. I got my gaming education with the fantasy TBS series [I]Heroes of Might & Magic[/I], [I]Age of Wonders[/I], [I]Disciples[/I]. Like you, I am wary of fast-paced, RTS click-fests. Despite that, I recommend that you get SINS, because it has a lot of pre-game customization options which allow you to tailor the game according to your tastes. For example, in the wake of the very recent 1.03 update, there are more

[quote] Thanks for a great game Stardock. [/quote] ... [B][I]and[/I] Ironclad[/B] ... FYI, Stardock officers are not your « dev's » of the SINS game : IRONCLAD designers & programmers are ! Stardock is the (very, very involved) American « producer » of the game : the « development » is done by Canadian Ironclad. For example, Stardock's « Frogboy » is the genius behind the A.I. programming of [I]Galactic Civilizations[/I] (1 & 2) ... but in what concerns S

[quote] the 'everyone hate the competitive players' crowd [/quote] Well ... if there is such a crowd, I'm not part of it. I don't « hate » high-level, competitive players. On the contrary, I admire them, reading all their posts to study their concepts & models, in the abstract, realising that I will never have the time & willpower to try to apply their ideas in online, competitive multiplay. My crucial point has only been this : since that competitive elite possibly represents

im :) for you : that the 1.03 update fixed your problem ... i did the tutorials, and then, i learned how to play (more or less...) by starting a game with only one star, enemy comps on easy (locked teams!) + one allied comp on normal (same team in game set-up) ... i hate tutorials : i prefer to jump in a skirmish ASAP ...

Sunday 1:30 PM (Eastern) : I just tried to enter the SINS forum by the usual path, and the process failed : it hung for 10 minutes before I terminated the attempt. But it was very easy to enter by the forums.stardock.com path. FYI : to report that the situation i have been experiencing since Friday still endures.

@ bonerfest > Thanks for your correction. I am not visually impaired : I had focused on the official 1.03 changelog, not paying any attention to the homepage. My hypothesis, then, is that a marketing-oriented author, on the homepage, got carried away. As far as I'm concerned, the official changelog is the most correct & precise, reliable technical info ... and I do not see any « vastly improved » A.I. there. Marketing ...

From reply #65, posted by "Frogboy" : [color="#2E8B57"] Stardock nor Ironclad are going to make changes to the game that are to the detriment of the single player game experience [...] which is where most people play the game most of the time. [/color] That very recent statement by the [B]CEO of Stardock[/B] goes to the heart of my (previously posted) perspective : the [I]vast majority[/I] of Stardock's [I]customers[/I] do not spend a lot of time (if any) in online, competitive