Craig Fraser

Craig Fraser

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Reply to Brainstorm: Planet Bonuses in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

The bonuses are immediately known when you discover a planet. You need to do an exploration in order to find artifacts. The infocard will show a description and icon for each.

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Reply to Patch 0.78.022 is released in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Thanks for the comments guys! We definitely want to leave the fleet composition in the hands of the player. It has been important to us from the very start that the player decides what strategy he/she wants to take. Even at a higher level (combat-trade-research-diplomacy). We are going to need your help understanding the core of your concern here. Does it lie in the feeling that there are only two major strategies - building primarily capital sh

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Reply to Sins Beta 2 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Not just because you mass produce them early on and fly around with your omega fleet of doom laying waste to anything non-capital ship. Hi Nova, with the new capital ship research topics it is unlikely that you'll be able to mass produce. You will be able to pick your flagship from the get-go but after that you're going to need big bucks to sustain a large number of capitals.

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Reply to How to get into BEAT?? Please help!!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

There have also been previews in PC Gamer and Games for Windows, with many more to come. You should hearing about SINS non-stop as we approach release. I encourage you to read the independent reviews. If you want a say in how the game is made, now is the time to help us out, otherwise we'll see you after February. Cheers!

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Reply to Another Opinion in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Hi Rossy, Thanks for your feedback I'm glad you're enjoying yourself. The combat movement has a been a point of discussion for a while and we have been brainstorming ideas that can add additional life. Our major obstacle is the fact that ships will always find the optimal position for attack. Movement away from this location is suboptimal. We also don't want people getting frustrated with ships moving o

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Reply to What do you guys (other beta testers) think? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Also, you DO fight with infantry because they are so flexible, I think that light frigates should be upgradeable during the game, allowing them to be useful throughout. There are several research topics for this It was also important to us that these ships had a function the entire game.

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Reply to Rethink research in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Now, why not apply that same inginuity to the research aspect of the game. Why not make a base stock of research, and some others random, ie: you will have better shield in this game etc. Thanks Karok! Replayability is very important to us. We discussed the possibility of a 'experimental research' topic at the top of the tree.

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Reply to What I think of this game in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Thanks for your feedback Glenn. These details are helpful in BETA. You are right, the difference between easy and normal is minimal at the momment, as the AI is still being refined. Do you mind if I ask what you were spending your money on in your second game? Also, how were your resources and how many planets did you have when the large force of(75/10/10) phased in? What kind of features other than combat, exploration, colonization, etc would you like to see in the game? Just so I know where yo

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Reply to Little things to tweak phasespace in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

1) make a slight variation in between the coordinated jumps of a group jump (like in starwars, where the jumps are closely grouped, but not simultaneous). this makes jumps more cinematic, and entrances much cooler I agree, that would look cool. We'll look into the gameplay and technical feasibility.

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Reply to Problems with conlization in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Hi ArakisKha, I'm glad you're enjoying yourself. The other player is preventing your colonization with excessive culture. The culture 'flip' issue has been tweaked to give you to time to prepare with your own culture structures.

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Reply to Rogue Comets and Human Error in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Im just thinking that if there are rogue comets or asteroids Hmm. I like this idea GalacticaCAG. I feel random elements like this can add a lot of flavor to the environment. The challenge is to make them meaningful without favoring the 'lucky' player too much.

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Reply to Graphic Glitches in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Thanks Gauntlet03, Ron 1)We'll look into this one. We don't want this happening 2)We do optimize this. I'll double check the behaviour. Good observations!

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