I see what you mean, but i still think in the expansion there should be more types of capital ships with new abitities.

can we get sphere formation on the expansion pack? along with wall formation, kamikaze mission, scuttle while damaging nearby ship explotion, unman aerial vehicles, and ofcourse lessen the upgrade or special ability effects so we don't have to watch the whole screen lit up with stars and stripes without any battle scene distortion.

btw, will the intity thats chasing vasari will be on expansion pack? or sins of a solar empire 2: vasari confrontation.

also, how bout the possibility of having a solar system on every map with planets orbiting around the sun with moons and maybe real asteroid belts like the ones we see on our solar system?

there are planets out there with multiple moons, its just smaller compared to planets.

this game is so epic and free of exploiting rts-4x genre that you can put anything that has to offer in regards with rts-4x genre.

imagine the depth of this with no lag would really set a brick stone for future generation. i sure do would agree myself.  

also: how bout a special graphic ability to make missles really look like they are entering the ozone layer and watch it get smaller before hitting the planets/moons surface? that would really rock  

Note: i asked about this when i was in the beta and i was told that it would make the game extremely slow because of all the crap going on.



who are u kidding? my game don't lag AT ALL.
get some more RAM or a better graphics card, they are honestly not that expensive (compared to previous years)

There definitely needs to be more capital ships, a campaign, new planet types, new ship types, and new research, and buildings. These are the main concerns of most sins players. Thanks in advance Stardock/IronClad  P.S. Sins is great as it is, but the expansion pack will make it a lot better.

The game is static i hope the expansion makes all ships move while fighting and the z-axis fixed

Moons would be nice but they'd be basically a graphic effect.

Unless, you made them extractor points or something, or gave bonuses to planets with moons.

If you go on youtube and type in sins of a solar empire beta and look through some of the videos you will see that in the beta there were diferent type of capital ships. I know these may just be older versions of the ones seen in the full game, but still my point still stands. these ships could be made into new capital ships or crusers with new abbilities and weapons.

I know people say that if there was a ship builder in sins it would be to time consumming but i think i would be a cool bonus which could be added to the map maker perhaps.

They've already stated they don't have a ship builder because it would take too much time.

I love sins but the game get's repetitive, example: 1.Colonize 2.Research 3.Fight. This is a good formula but there needs to be more variety in it since when looking at the colonizing area there are only 4 colonizable PLANETS and asteroids are useless for credits and die quick. When looking at the research area most players play the same way over and over for example, (not me talking) "Well when I play first I do this research then this then this then this," and so on. When looking at fighting there aren't that many ships and some I never even build because even though they are great having other ships built in their place are better. By this I mean I would rather build more light ships in place of support ones that heal ships since they are cheap fast to build and can be built in greater numbers. I never bother using colonization ships like the missionary vessel (the ships that colonize other planets I forgot their names) since I just build one or two capital ships that have the ability to colonize and they also do damage. I only build a missionary vessel etc, if I want to capture extractors. I would rather see more frigates and cruisers than capital ships as well since my fleets usually only have the max of 1 of each type of cap ship and the rest is mostly light frigates, anti-fighter bomber ships and heavy cruisers along with the long range. As you see that's only 4 out of the at least 10 types of ships in the game that I use. I might not be good at the game in some peoples eyes so my strategies might not be so good but that's how sins is to me and many others who play the game casually. There should be research that let's you colonize gas giants since anti-grav must be a reality in the future and gas giants should have big population since their giants. I also agree with some of the posters that the scale of the game is off. Stars should be 2 or 3 times bigger than they are now. Planets should be able to come in a random size, example, some planets spawn bigger some planets spawn at a smaller size but this is purely random. Gas giants should be twice as big as they are now since they are huge or maybe 1.5 times bigger. Moons should also be added to the game, not only for graphics but for gameplay. The way I picture moons should be is a moon should go around the planet for sure but act like a planet as well. By this I mean that you should be able to research something that is called moon colonization and then you can go to the moon with a ship colonize it and treat it like a planet but on a smaller scale, example, you can click on them, upgrade them with planet upgrades like exploration and population, and they have all the looks that a normal planet has like the cars going around them and the planet elevators. Of course moons would have much less population but still more than an asteroid and moons would be used for credits only since the planet gravity well has the resource asteroids in them already. This would also work well with the random planet size generator I mentioned above since the bigger the planet the higher chance to get moons and the higher chance to get more of them. A max moon count should be set though so you don't end up with like 10 or 20. Rings would also work great with the random size generator to since the bigger the planet the better chance that you might get rings. Rings in the expansion might serve a purpose as well for example. You could research something called ring salvager and once researched click your planet, click salvage rings and once done you might find crystal or metal in the rings. The ring would then give a constant trickle to crystal or metal just like a resource asteroid. I would like to see terraforming but I know this would mess up the gameplay so I guess you should keep it out. However if oyu did add it in here are my ideas on what it could do. You research terraforming and there could be 3 levels to it each speeding up the process of terraforming the planet. Once researched you go to planet upgrades click terraform and it would do just that. A gas giant could not be terraformed but a volcanic and ice planet could be terraformed to a desert planet then terraform the new desert planet into a terran planet. The benefit of doing so would be to increase population to get more credits. Terraforming would be a very high level research choice and extremely expensive to balance the game so that players would only terraform very important planets. I would love to see more variety in the planets as well like seeing the toxic and oceanic planets in the expansion from Sins Plus by Uzzi as those types are very realistic and would add more variety. Other planets from his mod though please keep out as they aren't realistic and some are just stupid like the old naval base planet. (no offense Uzzi) More textures for planets is a must too since whenever I play a big map I see multiple textures for the planets that are repeated most noticeably in the terran and desert planets. It would also be nice to see an ad-on for the graphics of planets like it was done for the stars to add the boiling effect. For planets you could make the clouds on the terran planets move very slowly all over the place and for volcanic you could ad a very slow boiling effect to the lava textures. For toxic planets you could make the purple clouds move and for oceanic I can't think of anything but there must be something to add to them. It would be nice to see more stars as there are no dwarf or giant stars as the stars in the game are all mid sized. There needs to be more colors such as purple, white and different textures for the current ones so that yellow stars for example could have a brighter and darker texture as well to resemble shades. Most of the things I've listed are for graphics and a few for gameplay but I hope I've given some good ideas. It would be nice to see a new race added the one that comes to mind would be the race that was chasing the Vasari.

I understand this would be a huge revamp to the game but it would make it so much better and funner to play.

I really hope someone from Stardock or Ironclad reads this so it might be added into an expansion. Thanks for reading.

heh.. LoL!

Perhaps directional armor?

More colours to choose from. the currant colours are a bit cartonish(bright). more dark colours would be nice.