Sins of a Solar Empire ( and a bit of ME3 )

Advent stations, on the other hand, are beautiful and curvy and awesome, and will mothereffing KEEL YEW WITH ASTEROIDS!

Nice idea though, I'll definitely start playing exclusively Hard Advent in singleplayer to figure out a backdoor

Might want to crank it up to unfair or brutal to simulate actually playing against my steamroller

I thought hard was the maximum?

not for trinity, i think

Well then.

Easy.
Normal
Hard
Unfair
Cruel
Vicious

As soon as I am able to beat a Vicious AI I'll be ready to 1v1 you or Shiva. Kinda scared that Sins will let the AI cheat, though. That's just cheap but it's featured in a ton of RTS's.

I really hate that

Tiel wrote:

As soon as I am able to beat a Vicious AI I'll be ready to 1v1 you or Shiva. Kinda scared that Sins will let the AI cheat, though. That's just cheap but it's featured in a ton of RTS's.

In Starcraft / Warcraft, raising the difficulty of the AI will lead to then winning more resources per node. Instead of say 10 per second, it's 15 or 20.


I'm gonna go play that Vasari game. Tiel, you coming with me?

In class right now, sorry

Tiel wrote:

In class right now, sorry

Get up, scream something about the Unity coming to converge us all, then run out of class screaming like a madman.

Ugh I hate the Vasari's voices!

ikr

That's the main reason why I don't play them.

Haha! Advent repair stations are better than Vasari ones.

Hehe, get the Vasari siege capital ship, close your eyes, and click on it. Make sure you're wearing headphones.

And of course they're going to sound bad, you're used to listening to a disembodied female voice talking about the Unity

Tiel wrote:

Hehe, get the Vasari siege capital ship, close your eyes, and click on it. Make sure you're wearing headphones.

And of course they're going to sound bad, you're used to listening to a disembodied female voice talking about the Unity

Even without having heard the Advent first. The first race I tried was the Vasari and I quit the game after 5 minutes because I couldn't stand their voices.

Also, it makes me wonder where all the Advent men went.

If it's like the night elves, then they're all sleeping somewhere while the women kick ass.

omfg, pirates. I just started up a game, had a small fleet of a cap and a few frigates, and then the pirates warp in with a freaking battlegroup, even though I have a bounty of 0. They make absolutely no sense in Trinity, they were much better in Sins imo.

Tiel wrote:

omfg, pirates. I just started up a game, had a small fleet of a cap and a few frigates, and then the pirates warp in with a freaking battlegroup, even though I have a bounty of 0. They make absolutely no sense in Trinity, they were much better in Sins imo.

Why does everyone have so much trouble with pirates?

Build like 3 Missiles platforms / Beam platforms / Gauss platforms and make sure your fleet stays around them and the pirates will get torn to shreds, even if you've only got like 1 cap ship and 4-6 frigates.

The first defensive structures are absurdly powerful for their small price.

A repair platform, also very powerful for a small price, can make a huge difference, especially if your cap ship is taking a pounding.

By the way, I did a comparison and the phase lanes created by phase stabilizers don't make your ships go slower than regular phase lanes. They're the same speed baseline, and can be upgraded to be even faster than regular phase lanes, thus putting emphasis on the Vasari's mobility aspect.

Vasari ships take so long to build D:

I made my fleet jump out, and then had my drones build some defense platforms. Hehe, 5 of those are cheaper than a Starbase and do twice the damage of an unmodified one. Me gusta.

And it's not so much the speed of vasari ships building, it's the price. I'm not sure myself whether the Vasari are supposed to have an early game advantage or a late game one, as the basic frigate costs a lot, but if you wait too long the enemy will be able to make a fleet capable of pummeling you to the ground.

Pat (the) Best wrote:

Tiel wrote:

Hehe, get the Vasari siege capital ship, close your eyes, and click on it. Make sure you're wearing headphones.

And of course they're going to sound bad, you're used to listening to a disembodied female voice talking about the Unity

Even without having heard the Advent first. The first race I tried was the Vasari and I quit the game after 5 minutes because I couldn't stand their voices.

Also, it makes me wonder where all the Advent men went.

If it's like the night elves, then they're all sleeping somewhere while the women kick ass.

ehh, I always assumed since they share one mind and they'r a quasi-cult, the female voice is to seem more attractive, calm, and soothing (or something) to the masses

or maybe they eat the men after they've mated(star trek episode...?) who knows

Well at least for the price, your ships are more resistant and deal more damage. Your Ravastras got at least 50% more health/shield and damage than my Disciple vessels.


BUT, having now played all three races at least once in a game where I looked at the tech trees, I notice that the Advent economy is the hardest to set up from the three by a pretty large margin.

Both TEC and Vasari have early access to resource increases, and late access to trade income increase.

Advent have to rely on trade stations, which they can't increase, for both trade and resources. I guess it's a + in a way. You can have trade stations and switch them between either increased metal / crystal or increased credit.

But you need the final upgrade for the mineral / crystal boost to be worthwhile.

coalminingalchemist wrote:

Pat (the) Best wrote:

Tiel wrote:

Hehe, get the Vasari siege capital ship, close your eyes, and click on it. Make sure you're wearing headphones.

And of course they're going to sound bad, you're used to listening to a disembodied female voice talking about the Unity

Even without having heard the Advent first. The first race I tried was the Vasari and I quit the game after 5 minutes because I couldn't stand their voices.

Also, it makes me wonder where all the Advent men went.

If it's like the night elves, then they're all sleeping somewhere while the women kick ass.

ehh, I always assumed since they share one mind and they'r a quasi-cult, the female voice is to seem more attractive, calm, and soothing (or something) to the masses

or maybe they eat the men after they've mated(star trek episode...?) who knows

Knowing the Advent, they probably don't need to rely on mating to reproduce. Knowing the Advent, they probably mate anyways.