jlederer

jlederer

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Reply to Sword of the stars expansion - born of blood in Strategy Sins Forums

The demo only gives you access to about 1/3 of the techs in the game, and I don't recall if you can build any ships bigger than a destroyer. But it will give you an idea. It doesn't include the content added in the expansion either, of course. I bought BoB online (download) at Gamersgate or Direct2Drive. I was able to save the downloaded files off to a CD and install from there, so I don't feel like I lost anything over buying at retail, other than only having the softcopy version of

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Reply to Sword of the Stars comparison? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Oh, I should point out that I usually play games with There was a routing bug with an earlier version of the game that went into an infinite or long-running loop and eventually usually crashed, so I suspect the pathing algorithms have been undergoing refinement over time. Seems to work very well now, though, as I said.

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Reply to Sword of the Stars comparison? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Hi Sh4dy, End-turn is very quick for me with SOTS, never more than a few seconds - unless going into tactical combat, of course :-) Do you have Born of Blood and latest patch level? Maybe that was a problem with the base game, or maybe an earlier patch level? I'm playing on two different machines, one is core due 2.5Ghz (desktop) and one is 1GHz Core duo (laptop, still 2GB RAM). The only thing that's slow on the laptop on SOTS is when ships explode and I'm zoomed in on them

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Reply to Sword of the Stars comparison? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I would say that the ships in Sword of the Stars are garishly colored (cartoony may be a little strong but gives the idea) whereas the ships in SOASE are cool-looking. However, the shields and weapon effects in SOTS are better and there is much more variety of weapon graphics to go along with the wide variety of weapons. During combat, the SOTS ships show location-specific damage which represents real loss of functionality. I haven't noticed if turrets stop turning (or are blown off)

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Reply to Sword of the Stars comparison? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

In SOTS you can speed up the combat to 8x, so if for example you have the real-time combat set to run for 4 minutes, so assuming you choose to fight a battle (trivial one-sided battles I would choose the auto-resolve option) you can still zip through it in 30 seconds if you realize it's going to be pointless to micro or completely one-sided for some other reason). I have seen a few complaints here about the developers dissing people. My experience in the forums (granted I've only been

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Reply to Sword of the Stars comparison? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Some observations I made after picking up a copy of Sins: http://www.kerberos-productions.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4713&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45 Basically, I concluded that Sins is ok, but I prefer SOTS at this point. Maybe Sins will grow on me as I get some more play time in. I played the tutorials and a 10-planet 2 player game against the computer. That took me about 6 hours to play. It was fun enough to keep me playing to see how it would come out (the last hou

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Sword of the Stars comparison? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Can anyone who has played Sword of the Stars (ideally with the Born of Blood expansion) offer some feedback on how they would compare the two games. SOTS doesn't seem to be well known based on what I'm reading in these forums - a lot of the people seem to be looking for things in SOASE that SOTS has. I got SOTS about 6 months back and have been playing it a lot and really enjoying it - I'm trying to figure out if I should invest in SOASE as well. SOTS feels like the spiritual successor to MOO

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