Monk may have a better idea but both or one of you dont use a nat router by any chance? Its just Ive heard of certain nat routers not being able to negotiate connections with other nat routers. Once again maybe Im way of but that would be one of probably many reasons to why you and your friend can join independant games but not together.
Hi I have only really played TEC so they are my favourite, plan to get good with vasari next. I aint playing advent until after the next patch since I dont want dissapointment. I dont even think I have built a novalith yet :) , the research is so big! hopefully I will be able to try some other races in a few weeks but TEC seems really intuative even though their late game ships in certain circumstances feel squishy. I like them because the way they are balanced Im having to think about many aspe
[quote]- The recap says "imagine what the scores would have been with a campaign!" Well, I know of some other games with pretty good skirmish modes that have REALLY SUCKY campaigns. If Ironclad didn't include a good campaign, the review scores would have been worse.[/quote] I would have liked to have seem a campaign and in THIS game and I would even like to see the devs add a campaign to "this" game at a later date free(Extremely demanding I know :) ) Actually though even as a
Change of plan :) just edited out my comment. lol if it doesnt need said dont say it. Anyway aside from the percieved flaws I hope you folks are still enjoying the game!
Generally using others networks like colleges and unis that actually let you host/play have gross bad security(any college I have been at have had many ports closed and if someone did find a way to play a game MP and they found out , that port would also get closed, I think they do it as they have thosands upon thousands of pounds of specialised software and data on the machines and cant risk a potential hack through certain open ports), as for the apartment network you will really need to speak
[quote]The EULA permits you to install Sins on a second PC and play a 2-man LAN with one cd key. Whether or not that's somehow enforced I don't know (as far as having 3+ LAN on the same key), but legally speaking you're allowed a 2-pc lan for each unique key. Sounds like that addresses the rest of your post [/quote] Thanks it does and you know something that kind of sensible way of doing things makes me want to order another copy for IC asap. I wasnt sure about buying the expan
Does sound a bit dodgy to be honest :) I would actually like to know the situations for lans since its been brought up, i.e do I need to buy a 2nd copy to have a lan in my house or is it possible to play a lan with the one copy. Is it legal? Would appreciate if someone could answer each of these questions. Also as far as my situation is concerned I have purchased the game. May purchase a 2nd copy in future but cant afford it at this time. I know some games work on 1 license 1 PC and I know there
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Thanks :) , yeah Im expecting to lose bad for a while. Really appreciate the fact on my first ever online game they cut me alot of slack as it really makes me want to get better! I am cool in future losing bad since when I save the replay I can clearly see where I went wrong. Your advice is appreciated and noted :) Really surprised how much I liked MP and count myself lucky to have a good bunch of people on my first game. I also heard many people were having trouble hosting and I succes
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Hi , wish I had added to friends the people in this MP game. Its just I told them I was new and they were really good about it, In fact I even suspect thats why they didnt bid the pirates on me even once and only on the other guy on my team (He was obviously a good player) , he carried me at the start(Name was ttf or tff or something) and fought both them and ended up wiping out the first guy(THINK he was quite new like myself) I botched my start game well at least I think I did
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Hiya I saw you in IC :) my IC name is foxfire I no some guy was like no I aint doing huge map because it takes to long but I was typing back to you. My proposition was I would play the huge map but if I had to go in say three hours then save the map, or if it was the case you were clearly heading to defeat me I would just amass my fleet and leave my PC on so you could finish me off. I added you to friends and I can understand your frustration if everyone is opting for the fast fast fa
Yeah agree about the time thing :) nothing to add to the thread since Im new myself but as tec I have been focussing on getting a big fleet up early and perhaps neglecting things such as trade ports so this thread helps me as well. People say TEC is good for rushing but I currently aiming to sort my TEC middle and end game so I can play them more than just rush orientated. None of my friends have this strat YET but thats how we play as well on other strats , we all sit back and build massive fle
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Thanks , hehe so many things to consider! Good point as well though.
[quote]Sabotage Reactor, Demolition Bots, Designate Target![/quote] I just got sabatage reactor and designate target yesterday, I think the reactor one was expansive and I think they did make a differance , especially the designate target one. Im sticking with TEC now as well, because arguably everyones saying they are the most balanced , I would love to try the other factions but I dont want to learn to play vasari and advent and then all of a sudden they get nerfed so Im sticking with
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Awesome that really helps alot. Nice to know all my options, I will try for long chains. Im away to have a game now :-) Appreciated all!
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[quote] if you have a tradepost on two asteriods the trade income will be more than the asteriod income[/quote] Wow seems like Im missing out by neglecting them then.......thanks! I also added 1 more question in my initial post and thats me sorted to try a whole host of things in game :) and Im away to play the game for the rest of the night. Its regarding military weapon and shield upgrades and whether they affect all ships past, currently building and future ships. Cheers for
Hi I have noticed some talk about trade outposts and as TEC I havent been bothering with them. Im just wandering what people think regarding TEC, my logic was that initially it takes some time to get civ infrastructure up on 2 or 3 planets and if I want to get up the military tech tree fast well is a trade OP not costing 1 logistics slot? Also say I do build one how does it work for example say I have simply 2 adjacent planets : TOP@P1 <-------
Maybe I will try that as well beejmin. Dunno I kinda like it atm, I will see how my next game goes, notice you won on that 4 way map as well :) I was doing great and procrastinated during my middle game , neglected diplomacy and ended up stale mate for a while and then because of that lost. The one thing about the pirates that is a pro unless Im wrong about the fact they attack ai like they attack the player is that I sometimes put bounties on the factions head who is the most threat to me. Even
Maybe Im off the mark but you know when you goto play a map is says small random or something well if you look nearish to the lower end of the screen there should be a button change map types and it goes something like small maps, medium maps, huge maps so to get bigger maps press that button and it cycles them by category.
The reason I like xtantos map is it in my opinion feels more real, I get the feeling there distance between factions and feel like Im actually exploring . Plus since I practice on it; it has helped my start game alot. The way the last map worked out it clearly showed what lacked, my middle game. I actually like the pirates , adds some uncertainty to the game :) but I would be interested to know if its possible to wipe them out as well? Currently I just get into a bidding war an
edit button gone nuts again but I must admit the wiki mentioned seems really consise and well layed out, easily accesible. Good job!
I just checked a thing similiar to a wiki and half the links were dead, the wiki mentioned on this thread well the link isnt dead and I like the design so it has my support . Would be good to have it all in one place I agree though. I would like to have a list of other sites that have all the good wikis+guides + strategies.
[quote]A suggestion ... if your worried about the fighters invest in the Kol battleships flack ability, get a chunk of flak cruisers (against computer advent I like to have 15 or 20 of them for a mid sized fleet), and get some fighters... the secret about Advent fighters is there are a lot of them but they are made out of paper... like a fleet of Origami Cranes. There are about 7 to 9 bombers/fighters in a squadron with a handful of health each. If you have a Kol or 2 and your own fighters you c
Jayswimmer I was like you initially , I like long winded and good campaigns but tbh the amount of ways to play the game of your own accord is better than a campaign and thats the first strat ever I can say this with. I would rather have seen a campaign in this game as well but the battles are so epic that no 2 games are the same, give it a chance , I have recommended it to my friends but thats what Im worried about that they wont play it for long enough to see it has got some real epic gameplay
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Thanks , hate having to ask things like that but now that I know where to look I need never ask again. Appreciate the feedback :). I have actually played a few games now but I was mainly just focussing on my start game as that kept putting me waay behind but the last map I played I checked the graphs and it was just beggining my middle game that let me down , thats why its really handy to know where to look for those ships and more importantly , I will be able to follow the big strat guide on he
If you havent already done so: start the game Goto iron clad online Enter your login name and pass, if you havent got a login and pass click create account , once thats done goto step 1 At this point you have an account, enter details and click login Next just at the bottom you will see players if theres none there do add player and choose a name, think it has to be unique Maybe this is where you are going wrong but you need to left click on the player name then clic