Spaceships Ahoy - Sins of a Solar Empire [Feb 04, 2008, 8:24 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Launch Day
Is Here announces the Stardock Forums, announcing the release of Sins of a
Solar Empire, Ironclad's new 4X space strategy game. They have a
Launch
Day FAQ describing how to get your hands on a copy online, in stores, or if
you have preordered. The FAQ mentions a version 1.01 patch that's an 11 MB
download, available automatically.
So the videos look cool - but still looks like it is an X-Y axis game? Appears to by X-Y-Z, but it looks to be a ruse...
Can anyone elaborate?
You can go into the Z-axis manually by holding down a modifier, similar to Homeworld. The AI uses it to be exceptionally annoying while retreating capital ships that it's trying to bail out of the sector. If you really want to kill that capship, you need to chase it up and away, increasing your distance from the rest of the targets of opportunity, and then giving them more time to escape when they decide to bail out when the capship is out of the picture.
Haven't seen what a human intelligence can use it for. I imagine there's griefing potential there though. If the AI can be annoying, a human can be 10 times worse.
This comment was edited on Feb 6, 15:49.
Can anyone elaborate?
You can go into the Z-axis manually by holding down a modifier, similar to Homeworld. The AI uses it to be exceptionally annoying while retreating capital ships that it's trying to bail out of the sector. If you really want to kill that capship, you need to chase it up and away, increasing your distance from the rest of the targets of opportunity, and then giving them more time to escape when they decide to bail out when the capship is out of the picture.
Haven't seen what a human intelligence can use it for. I imagine there's griefing potential there though. If the AI can be annoying, a human can be 10 times worse.
This comment was edited on Feb 6, 15:49.
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