Thrawn's thoughts... v1.5

v2 is reserved for beta 2.

Well, truth be told, I haven't played SINS in awhile. I played before the most recent update. Now, after updating and play for awhile, I've noticed some changes. I've also thought of (yes, I do think. Surprisingly. ) some suggestions on what to change in SINS (nothing major, don't worry).

When did the coloney frigate change?

To this?




Same with the Sova carrier:


The Marza looks slightly different (wider), but it could just be the faction colors.



Did the solar systems stop having different colors besides black (I mean the clouds thing).
Old.

Now (could be just a coincidence that I keep getting black)


Onto the what I would change part. Ok, so this may be kind of big. I would make planets tof the same type look different. All the terran planets look the same. It..disturbs me.



Can you rename planets and capitals in the beta? I think it was Kosc who said the button above the picture allowed you to rename it...but its diabled. Will that button work in beta 2?


Also, I would tell what each capital ship gains each level (health, shields, cost/ exp to next level) in the booklet, for when the game comes out, or in a readme if you put it in one of the betas. Its just convienient.

Also, do all the players start in the same solar system? I would split the players evenly between the systems.

One last random question: Is the backround to the combat tech tree Advent?



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And for those of you who don't have the beta, here are some screens of most of the ships!

Bomber


Fighter


Coloney Frig (nice flames coming out of it, BTW)


Flak Frig


Planet bombing frig


Kol Class Capital Ship


Marza Class


Sova Class (Carrier)


I forget the name class


Constrution Frig


Frig Ship Yard


Capitol Ship Yard


I'll get more pics of buildings and ships later.
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Reply #1 Top
Nice collection of pictures

But about the change of ships, well i dont recall how long it was precisely, but its about 1 month or 2 ago i guess.

The background you get, depends on what teamcolor you get.
I usely try to get the teamcolor red, i mostly get the black/blue background.
Try changing your team color and see what happens
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Oh, ok. I didn't know that! Thanks Multi! (I'll try picking different colors and see what colors correspond with what solar systems).
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i like orange as my team color, and its the last color multi will see before he dies......
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I forgot to add something. Please make it so that you can disable the begining "movie" and instead of that it just starts with the view of the whole gravity well. It slows down alot with the begining movie.

Reading the interview, I'm sad that there won't be a campain because that means no cut seens! This game looks so good and I think it would be awsome if it had killer looking cutseens with TEC Generals stressing out about the invasions and cutseens of battles!! And planetary battles too (even though they don't really exist, all the factions just wipe out the planet from space).
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there will be a campaign, just what, is not known yet.

Making lots of cut seens would be cool i agree, but i also think it cost alot of money , that could be used on gameplay or better graphics

Planetary battles would also be a cool thing, but compared to eg. Master of Orion 2, where you had the time to see those animations. Sins is realtime, and the scale of sins makes it very hard to just concentrate on a single planet. If its a 100 planet game, it would take long time to watch or play the onground battles yourself.
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Thanks for thinking about us, the ones that are not beta testers
Those screenshots are nice!
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Planetary battles would also be a cool thing, but compared to eg. Master of Orion 2, where you had the time to see those animations. Sins is realtime, and the scale of sins makes it very hard to just concentrate on a single planet. If its a 100 planet game, it would take long time to watch or play the onground battles yourself.


I don't mean everytime you take over a planet. Maybe if you captured some special planet in campain mode, not skirmish mode.

Sorry, I've asked this question three or four times, but how to you toggle the UI?
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Sorry, I've asked this question three or four times, but how to you toggle the UI?


ctrl-alt-z
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K, I got some more screens.

Two Scout Frigates


Two Capital ships (Donov and... I'm bad at remembering names)


Gauss Cannon


Hangar Defense


Repair platform (hard to see. Its on the night time side)


Trade Port


Trade Ship


Research Center


Broadcast station (you can see the repair platform better)


I think I only forgot the Refinery Station thing.
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I can't wait to see if they changed the Gauss cannon in Beta2... It looks/acts like crap in Beta1...
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Two Capital ships (Donov and... I'm bad at remembering names)

you have four there, the Dunov, Akkan, Sova and the Marza offscreen to the right.
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Nice collection in deed.

I still love the black and light purple color scheme because always look ominously sexy to me.
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I can't wait to see if they changed the Gauss cannon in Beta2...

Yes, yes they did. And not only does it look nasty, but it can dish out the pain too.

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ooh good , as before it dished out 2 measly shots of nothingness...

seriously 2 shots should take out a frigate! hence the need for bombers when attacking it!

oooh just had a brainstorm, wouldn't it be cool if the gauss cannons had an option to fire an EMP ?
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Well, it's not two shots, but one managed to wipe out three of my four frigates before going down.
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Well, it's not two shots, but one managed to wipe out three of my four frigates before going down.


hmmm thats acceptable, as I usually build them in sets of 3 to protect each other!