So, I was reading this book about the life of the prophet Muhammad and I realized that Muhammad's tribe was like the Kushan/Hiigarans, the tribe they took Mecca from like the Taiidan, and the group his tribe took the trade routes from were the Bentusi. That is where the comparisons end because there is no single character in the Homeworld story that seems to resemble Muhammad and instead, the entire Kushan/Hiigaran people emulate him.
No.
You are wrong.
The Kushan are the... well... KUSHAN EMPIRE. They were an actual empire, I think in the India area. They were pushed out of their homes by someone, I don't remember who. Then after a few hundred years, they went back and kicked ass.
But then they were attacked by the Mongols, or "maygar"(spelling?) in their tongue. See: Homeworld 2.
I literally cannot wait to get home and buy this tonight. I havent been this excited about a game since Master of Orion 3, I just hope this one turns out to be as good as I thought MOO3 would be. God that game was a dissapointment, even thinking about it depresses me. Save me from glum feelings SOASE! Be playable both in macro and micro management mode, with advantages for either!
That was actually done quite a whiles ago, via a beta testing importing into the beta build. But apparently Sins is readily moddable, and has a mod selector built-in. Several mods are planned, including the usual Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, etc. etc.
Also I just finished my first little skirmish, on a small map vs an easy turtling Advent AI. I have to say, the easy AI was better than the best AI beta 4 had to offer. I hope the harder AIs don't hurt me.
All graphics set to max (1280x1024 res) on my Athlon X2 4800+, Radeon X1800XT 512mb, 2GB DDR system was mostly fine, with a bit of slowdown (around 20fps) during the biggest battle of the match (in which 4 capital ships and around 50 frigates were involved, plus some structures and turrets, that's friend and foe count). That seems pretty damn good to me.
We should create a list of players, since the game has a buddy list. My name is Vacorsis, so add me. No need to wait for invites or accept them. Friends are added automatically.
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We should create a list of players, since the game has a buddy list. My name is Vacorsis, so add me. No need to wait for invites or accept them. Friends are added automatically.
If Carnivore's still around we could have him update the OP with a list of players if we go that way, otherwise we can just post in here with names of our accounts and figure out some way while ingame.
edit: ok I decided not to be lazy and looked it up:
Minimum Requirements:
Windows XP SP2 / Windows Vista
1.8 GHz Single-Core Processor
512 MB RAM (1 GB for Windows Vista)
128 MB DirectX 9 3D Video Card (Radeon 9600 / GeForce FX 6600 and above)
DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound Card
DVD-ROM Drive
3 GB Hard Drive Space
Keyboard and Mouse
DirectX 9.0c
Recommended Requirements:
2.2 GHz Dual- or Quad-Core Processor
1 GB RAM (2 GB for Windows Vista)
256 MB DirectX 9 3D Video Card (Radeon X1600 / GeForce 7600 and above)
I wonder if my P4 1.6 would be cutting it too close?
I just got my serial, unfortunately my net connection just throttled itself back to about 20 KB/s until 11 pm ish 8 minutes ago (fuck you satellite) so no Solar Empires for me today
Considering people are chucking B5, BSG, Star Wars, and Star Trek into this, I kinda hope someone starts developing some Wing Commander models, as well.
The only thing on my laptop that concerns me regarding system reqs is my nVidia graphics chipset. I expect I'll be running everything at low, but it's not such a huge deal.
Is Sins game replay capable? I enjoy watching a good PvP match in RTS games almost as much as playing skirmishes.
It's an nVidia GeForce Go 6150 (laptop here) -- it has SM 3.0 architecture, but won't run it all that all that fast unless I drop the resolution down to 800x600 or so. I can run MTW2+Xpack on it just fine, Hellgate does alright, and not quite enough FPS to run Crysis on the lowest settings.
To what I said earlier, I felt that the HW series in general emulated the history of Mecca before Muhammad simply because of the change in power of 3 empires/culture group. But yours also works quite well. I just felt that the Arab peninsula was a closer match because a lot of the names of certain areas are taken from the bible which the Quran was based upon.
But I digress.
This graphical awesomeness has me pining for a kick ass video card and more time so that I could mod the ships of the Exo-force, the pirate clans, and the Neo-Sapien empire. I just loved that show so much that awesome games like these makes my heart tingle.
So, how bad would it be if I played it with a 1.7 ghz processor?
I have a 2.1 gig processor, 512 ram, and some weird laptop only ATI card. I just played through all the demos except the first one, which has no tutorial text (which seems to be a common problem) and it was playing just fine. I turned down the details for ships and planets and thats helping it speed up. For those of you with older systems, I think it should be ok. There is a LOT of customization as far as how much detail you want, and I'd nose around the forums to see how people have been able to get the best bang for their buck with settings. I haven't messed with shaders and suchlike yet, just model details, and its still running nice and smooth, so most everyone should be ok.
Also, this looks like the type of game thats going to have a lot of semi-hidden synergies; I predict there'll be a few weeks of "wow, this really affects gameplay more than we thought" until people figure out formulas and suchlike as they always do.
What about using an ATI mobility 9700 with 128 mb memory on a laptop with 512 mb ram?
edit: Just looked back at the requirements and my 3 year old LP might right it instead of Episode 1 (vortigunts were all black as was the initial explosion and the Gman had no head)
I use Vista, and it's fine. And everyone else I've played with so far uses Vista, and they're fine. It's probably not Vista itself that's causing your problems. But just in case, check Windows Update for any new updates or fixes, as well as updating your audio and video drivers.
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Not saying it's necessarily Vista, but that's the first thing people would ask if I posted that error without it (well, except "has stopped working" is a Vista thing, but whatever).
I have a 512MB GeForce 7700 on this laptop, so I'll see what driver works best. Got it to work by running Windows Update for my card, but it put an older version of the driver on. Going to try the latest from laptopvideo2go.
Edit: seems to be working, although the initial load is long. Installed whatever driver they had at laptopvideo2go.com because Asus is a lazy bitch who doesn't update their drivers for this video card often enough.
On Vista when launching: "Sins of a Solar Empires has stopped working"
Fucking great.
uh-oh. I'm using Vista too. Almost done.
Me too. I'll post back whatever happens when it's ready.
I'm running Vista and it's working fine for me.
By the way, what someone mentioned about the differences between Beta AI and launch AI... I just found out the hard way. First game with Advent, Huge map 5v4v1 with Medium AI (yes, I'm on the 5 side, want to learn before the Oh No stage). I start building up a fleet at a choke point system a couple jumps from my home planet, when I notice a nice, juicy Terran planet right next door, guarded by a VERY large group of rebels. I eventually build up a fleet of a level 5 Battleship, supported by 2 Carrier Cruisers, 4 Defense ships and a group of 8 frigates. Jump in, start wiping the floor with the rebels, but take losses from the large number of Heavy Kodiaks they have. Get them down to 2 left with a collection of LRM Frigs in support in close orbit to the planet when I suddenly notice a large clump of Not-My-Color have just jumped in on the other side of the planet. I take a moment to check the enemy fleet, and find it consists of 4 Capital ships supported by a balanced fleet twice my fleet's size. My Battleship and 1 Frigate made it back to base. They proceed to colonize the planet that I just cleared the rebel fleet from.
I do not remember hating the AI as much as I did right then in beta...
(Thankfully, they then bit off more than they should have, raiding deep in my Ally's territory with half their fleet, letting me pop back in with my replenished fleet and raid three planets deep, wiping out their economy before falling back to that first planet as the Pirates I paid off hit them)
This was... interesting. I need to build units faster; I always get caught up in developing my economy/research that I fall behind. Of course, that may be a plus in a MP game if people divide duties...
That said, once people get this loaded up we should start a few 2v2 or 3v3 games, humans vs humans or vs AI or something.
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No.
You are wrong.
The Kushan are the... well... KUSHAN EMPIRE. They were an actual empire, I think in the India area. They were pushed out of their homes by someone, I don't remember who. Then after a few hundred years, they went back and kicked ass.
But then they were attacked by the Mongols, or "maygar"(spelling?) in their tongue. See: Homeworld 2.
Also I just finished my first little skirmish, on a small map vs an easy turtling Advent AI. I have to say, the easy AI was better than the best AI beta 4 had to offer. I hope the harder AIs don't hurt me.
All graphics set to max (1280x1024 res) on my Athlon X2 4800+, Radeon X1800XT 512mb, 2GB DDR system was mostly fine, with a bit of slowdown (around 20fps) during the biggest battle of the match (in which 4 capital ships and around 50 frigates were involved, plus some structures and turrets, that's friend and foe count). That seems pretty damn good to me.
(PS: Someone should set up an experimental AI stomp sometime to start out the multiplayer bonanza)
I will be there soon fellow starfighters!
I'll be downloading tonight after work...
Are you able to name 1)ships? 2)Your empire (as opposed to keeping the default names) 3)planets?
I always love the small customization aspects of strategy games, especially naming
1) Yes, but capital ships only
2) No (But you appear as your username in multiplayer games)
3) Yes
Also (not my work):
Those little white triangles? Standard ISDs to scale against the SSD.
More screens here.
If Carnivore's still around we could have him update the OP with a list of players if we go that way, otherwise we can just post in here with names of our accounts and figure out some way while ingame.
Currently DMing: None
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edit: ok I decided not to be lazy and looked it up:
Minimum Requirements:
Windows XP SP2 / Windows Vista
1.8 GHz Single-Core Processor
512 MB RAM (1 GB for Windows Vista)
128 MB DirectX 9 3D Video Card (Radeon 9600 / GeForce FX 6600 and above)
DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound Card
DVD-ROM Drive
3 GB Hard Drive Space
Keyboard and Mouse
DirectX 9.0c
Recommended Requirements:
2.2 GHz Dual- or Quad-Core Processor
1 GB RAM (2 GB for Windows Vista)
256 MB DirectX 9 3D Video Card (Radeon X1600 / GeForce 7600 and above)
I wonder if my P4 1.6 would be cutting it too close?
2nd question, I think.
Also, if my laptop runs it cleanly, almost any computer that has successfully run a game in the last four-five years should run it just fine.
The only thing on my laptop that concerns me regarding system reqs is my nVidia graphics chipset. I expect I'll be running everything at low, but it's not such a huge deal.
Is Sins game replay capable? I enjoy watching a good PvP match in RTS games almost as much as playing skirmishes.
I've been keeping my eye on this game but holy shit am I a star wars nerd and goddamn those screenshots make me giddy.
It's an nVidia GeForce Go 6150 (laptop here) -- it has SM 3.0 architecture, but won't run it all that all that fast unless I drop the resolution down to 800x600 or so. I can run MTW2+Xpack on it just fine, Hellgate does alright, and not quite enough FPS to run Crysis on the lowest settings.
But I digress.
This graphical awesomeness has me pining for a kick ass video card and more time so that I could mod the ships of the Exo-force, the pirate clans, and the Neo-Sapien empire. I just loved that show so much that awesome games like these makes my heart tingle.
So, how bad would it be if I played it with a 1.7 ghz processor?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Also, this looks like the type of game thats going to have a lot of semi-hidden synergies; I predict there'll be a few weeks of "wow, this really affects gameplay more than we thought" until people figure out formulas and suchlike as they always do.
Now to play for real. Hurray!
I have a 1.7ghz processor and it runs great.
Fucking great.
uh-oh. I'm using Vista too. Almost done.
edit: Just looked back at the requirements and my 3 year old LP might right it instead of Episode 1 (vortigunts were all black as was the initial explosion and the Gman had no head)
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Me too. I'll post back whatever happens when it's ready.
I have a 512MB GeForce 7700 on this laptop, so I'll see what driver works best. Got it to work by running Windows Update for my card, but it put an older version of the driver on. Going to try the latest from laptopvideo2go.
Edit: seems to be working, although the initial load is long. Installed whatever driver they had at laptopvideo2go.com because Asus is a lazy bitch who doesn't update their drivers for this video card often enough.
I'm running Vista and it's working fine for me.
By the way, what someone mentioned about the differences between Beta AI and launch AI... I just found out the hard way. First game with Advent, Huge map 5v4v1 with Medium AI (yes, I'm on the 5 side, want to learn before the Oh No stage). I start building up a fleet at a choke point system a couple jumps from my home planet, when I notice a nice, juicy Terran planet right next door, guarded by a VERY large group of rebels. I eventually build up a fleet of a level 5 Battleship, supported by 2 Carrier Cruisers, 4 Defense ships and a group of 8 frigates. Jump in, start wiping the floor with the rebels, but take losses from the large number of Heavy Kodiaks they have. Get them down to 2 left with a collection of LRM Frigs in support in close orbit to the planet when I suddenly notice a large clump of Not-My-Color have just jumped in on the other side of the planet. I take a moment to check the enemy fleet, and find it consists of 4 Capital ships supported by a balanced fleet twice my fleet's size. My Battleship and 1 Frigate made it back to base. They proceed to colonize the planet that I just cleared the rebel fleet from.
I do not remember hating the AI as much as I did right then in beta...
(Thankfully, they then bit off more than they should have, raiding deep in my Ally's territory with half their fleet, letting me pop back in with my replenished fleet and raid three planets deep, wiping out their economy before falling back to that first planet as the Pirates I paid off hit them)
I need this game right now.
50%
Everything is fine on my Vista.
That said, once people get this loaded up we should start a few 2v2 or 3v3 games, humans vs humans or vs AI or something.