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Reply to Will Chrome become the Ultimate Cookie? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

There is no privacy, they can link everything to your IP address.

Reply to Slow Game Play and Page Switching in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

A 3GB video card will use up 3GB of addressable memory... which is more or less everything for a 32 bit application. It's possible that your video card doesn't leave much memory for the game. But I'm no expert, maybe it's something else.

Reply to New Rebellion DLC Ideas in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

I suppose it's too late now, but here's another small idea. An extra ship type, the "POW ship". It saves friendly crew that are floating in space after their ships were blown up. Optionally it can also save enemy crew. The presence of such a ship will increase the recklesness of your ships. If you save enemy crew and place them in POW camps, then you can increase diplomatic relations with the enemy if you return them to their own empire or you co

Reply to Laptop cooling issues in Personal Computing Sins Forums

If you just are just browsing, then let the CPU run in power-saving mode.

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Peak oil is a point of no return. The global economy can only function if there is a steady and plentyful supply of oil. Peak oil means that production rate drops. It will probably drop pretty quickly since by that time, most oil will be produced from small and vulnerable oil fields and the bigger oil fields with a more stable production rate will already be well into their production decline. The disruption in the oil supply will mean that parts of the world economy will shut down - but

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Psychoak, have you ever done math ... have you ever seriously thought of the future in terms of production/cost ... I doubt it. You are like most people who are content with what they have now and think that it will always be that way. Perhaps try viewing energy in terms of food and view food supply in terms of the supermarket and nothing else. No farming, just what's in the supermarket. That's a finite supply just like oil, coal, gas. A supermarket

Reply to Multiplayer (in general) in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote]I guess what I am wondering is if, after stellar gameplay, it is multiplayer that really makes a base single player game better/gives it a longer life or if it is the ability of the game to be modded or a combination of both (and if so, what is the weighting of that combination)?[/quote] I think modding can only work when it is seamlessly integrated into the game. There aren't many RTS games that include modding seamlessly, therefore modding is not important for R

Reply to New Star Control Alien wishlist in Star Control Ideas/Wishes Sins Forums

Just ignore SC3 please. The story wasn't much fun. A few races were nice much most were a bit boring. The new ships were mostly boring too, with too much focus on cloaking. If you can make a game like SC2 again, with a story as funny and with graphics as colorful as in SC2, I'll most certainly buy it. I wouldn't mind if you would re-use a few of the nice races in SC3 in SC4 and make them shine in a new nicer setting. Just ignore everything else. &

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Gas exported by the Netherlands is quite cheap. It is a lot cheaper than gas sold to Dutch citizens for example. Refining solves nothing, because before you can refine oil, you need to import it. That costs a lot of money. The less we need to import, the less money we burn up. And on a sidenote, refining oil that's that used to burn up in cars is a complete waste of effort, if one can run cars just a nicely on electricity.

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

[quote who="psychoak" reply="282" id="3396438"]The Netherlands are a net energy exporter, you're already spending it in your own country...[/quote] This is not true, the Netherlands are a net importer of energy. http://www.iea.org/stats/balancetable.asp?COUNTRY_CODE=NL We export cheap gas and import expensive oil and not-so expensive coal, so we spend a lot of money on imports in the Netherlands.

Reply to I'm Tired of this Password Thing in Personal Computing Sins Forums

I work on websites and sometimes I have to write such login checks... imo it's pretty stupid and those conditions make passwords less secure (because any condition means there is less randomness). For instance, take the condition that there should be two numbers in a password ... that doesn't increase security, not at all. Or take the condition that there should be at least two #%&! special characters in a password ... that doesn't increase

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Petrossa, you fail to include (1) the future costs of global warming, (2) the ever increasing costs of (fossil) fuels and (3) that most of the money that is spent on solar panels can (in principle) stay in your own country (provided you build your own factories of course). I wasn't referring to the cost of the electricity, I gave that example to show that it's possible on a large scale and in a modern thriving economy. To be honest, I woul

Reply to It's just a game people! Game developer harassment on the rise... in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Nice in theory, but lots and lots of crap will take its toll after a while.

Reply to Should I Buy the Game? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Yes, Goafan is correct. I'm type B.

Reply to Should I Buy the Game? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote who="SirBitar" reply="7" id="3393185"]Now that's really different to what GoaFan says..[/quote] Well.. he said games can last 2 hours. It would not be nice if you have to quit halfway. And he only includes games with experienced players, other game will simply last longer. The only short games I've played were 5s games where I got rushed by veteran players and it was game over for me after about half an hour. All other games I've played have lasted a lot longer

Reply to Should I Buy the Game? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]I will still find plenty of multiplayer users online?[/quote] Yes there are plenty of players, however, most games that are coops against the AI are limited to friend-only or are password-protected and therefore most of the games that are created are not accesible to you. If you want to play those then you will have to host your own games. [quote]and I might end up forfeiting most of my online games should they take longer than an hour or so[/qu

Reply to Wierd problem in Technical Sins Forums

Sometimes a windows update makes changes to your system. Maybe something was changed by that. If you can, go back to a restore point just before such an update. And if that is not the case, then your system may be unstable due to some memory or harddisk failure. Check your harddisk SATA connections just to be sure and do a memory test. (I had some troubles with strange seemingly random crashes in games a while back, and that was caused by a SATA cable

Reply to Rebellion is causing ingame lore annoying in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I would prefer if there was no voice telling me about an enemy firing big gun. It becomes repetitive after a few hours and has no additional value anymore... the accompanying text is slightly informative though, it tells you from which world it comes... but even that does not help me much, it's usually too far to reach with my fleet and I can guess myself where it comes from, by looking at the trajecory of the shell as it moves through space. So basically I t

Reply to The most difficult game... in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Supreme Commander (Forged Alliance), by far. It offered so many possibilities for attacks and their counter... it was just wonderful and it was a pretty difficult game because you never really knew what was coming next ... a wave of gunships and fighers? A long range cannon? A superweapon? A nuke? A navy which wiped out your shoreline? Long range missiles? Amphibious tanks? A lone commander on its way to detonate in the center of your base? Huge armies and huge a

Reply to New Rebellion DLC Ideas in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="DsRaider" reply="63" id="3392094"]Sentient crystals, energy beings, hungry moons, and flame monsters from suns.[/quote] Yes, imho that would be nice. I liked the monsters in the ancient game of Master of Orion, but what I especially liked about it, was that defeating such a space crystal would give you a special weapon. - Perhaps also nice would be a fleet template, where you can select the "current" ships as a group and to memorize th

Reply to Thoughts about the AI. in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Well...it is pretty efficient imho. It costs about 4000 credits, but yields about 7 credits/second on a reasonably long chain and if the chain is extended, it will also boost trade income on all other starbases on the chain. That means, it takes about 600 seconds to pay itself back.

Reply to Thoughts about the AI. in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Really? It seemed more or less random to me. Uh oh... you're right, I've checked a replay and looked at all starbases and they're all upgraded to max armor and fighters and ... oh well, they also all have trade port upgrades already ... I didn't realize that ... [e digicons]:blush:[/e] Not all the AI planets have starbases though... and there are no starbases at gas giants and asteroid belts, and I don't think the AI ever builds starbases in a

Reply to Thoughts about the AI. in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

I see... yes too many starbases may not be that much fun, but if the AI doesn't upgrade the starbase except for the cargo bays, then it won't be that hard to destroy them. And it shouldn't upgrade most starbases for full military power, that would defeat the purpose of economic development because it costs way too many resources. In long games I encounter many starbases, most have just 1 defense upgrade, mostly they just sit there and cannot interfere with the ba

Thoughts about the AI. in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Instead of giving the AI a resource bonus, why not give the AIs a hull/shield bonus? For example, easy: -10%, normal 0%, hard +10%, unfair +20%, vicious +30%, cruel +40%. Of course, this should be in combination with a slightly smarter economic planning (namely that they invest in starbases with cargo bays). And why do I suggest this ... currently, an AI has a really big economic advantage, which it can use to expand its empire and on top of that to

Reply to Titans now never die - Isn't illogical or even a craziness? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

In reality when you destroy something, it comes back stronger, not weaker.