The time of Diplomacy is over. The length of the war and differing opinions on what should be done to bring the war to an end has led to a splintering of the groups involved. The controlling powers-that-be have depleted arsenals and seemed to have exhausted all efforts of diplomacy. Trapped in a stalemate, sub-factions have rebelled and broken off the main alignments. Rebellion is upon us.
The exciting next chapter in the awesome Sins of a Solar Empire universe has arrived. A full-fledged expansion to the original, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion draws you even deeper into the galactic struggle for supremacy with appealing new factions, terrifyingly cool new ships of all sizes, enhanced lighting and particle effects for increased visual pleasure and all-new victory conditions.
“Rebellion is the first stand-alone expansion to the Sins of a Solar Empire universe,” said Brian Clair, director of publishing for Stardock. “Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion will add many new ships, refresh the visuals and integrate Impulse::Reactor features to support achievements, multiplayer leagues and much more.”
In the original award-winning Sins of a Solar Empire, developed by Ironclad Games, you are the leader of one of three civilizations embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for survival of your entire race against relentless foes. Your success will depend on your ability to manage your empire and command your vast fleets of starships to victory. Players will colonize new worlds, develop extensive trade networks, conduct research, fortify their empires with powerful starbases and fleets of ships, plus control the galaxy using the unique diplomacy system that reacts dynamically to the players’ actions.
New features of Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion include:
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wow! this sounds very interesting. and it is a big surprise for me, I did not see it coming at all.
some content questions:
will factions be dynamic? that is, do you have to fear parts of your empire breaking off? or is it more factions to pick from, e.g. like the factions in red alert 2 or to a degree in C&C generals?
if titan ships are so powerful, will you make changes to starbases? so far, they were able to hold off decent fleets and gave the game a defense charakter in places. I thought it was not so bad to be able to fortify a front and not worry about it too much for a time being.
will corvettes be smaller or bigger than frigates?
now, one comment on general gameplay: my observation was that with diplomacy this became a really complex game to play. there is so much going on and all at the same time that I have trouble processing this information, even on slower game speed. I know, I asked myself for this additional complexity, but I find myself constantly neglecting e.g. diplomacy because I have not enough time for all things. I could use pause more often and adjust gamestyle, but maybe it is something where thought can be put it. currently, it is to some degree combat almost like starcraft with a lot of 4x on top.
I will write more eventually, but I am really tired now.
Don't know yet, but if you can run Trinity/Diplomacy, you should be able to run Rebellion.
Cool cool, that's basically what I thought anyway.
The flipside is that instead of 1 or 2 players being ostracized for one reason or another(generally being jackasses is the most likely cause) you let the smurfs harrass everyone else and hide behind their anonymity. You know how many times I have had attempts to insult me tossed by random smurfs? I have been called "gayfox" hundreds of times at least not to mention the puerile attempts at insulting me in many other ways. All of this from smurfs that have no accountability whatsoever from the community because who knows who they even are. Smurfing does not give me the choice not to play with someone I know to harrass people or drag out game or generally being a douche. Personally their insults don't bother me because I am happy with my life and their feeble attempts at insults belong in junior high rather than something that will actually hurt me. As long as there are ways to manipulate stats then there will be little true benefit to counting total games. Certainly it will show you the truly green as grass players but past that who knows. Fixing smurfing one way or another would certainly be a step up for online though.
[_]-Greyfox
*has heart attack* NOOOOOOOO! Why has Ironclad forsaken that hope of mine?!
*collapses on the floor, twitching slightly*
Yarlen- Great because IM READY TO PREORDER!
Gotta Have It!
Love It!, I'm treating the text as flavor only as similar things are stated about Capital ships in the game manual. My guess is they'll be a little sturdier with multiple targets per bank while capitals are currently limited to the 1 target per bank. The cool thing will be if the AI is able to build and use them which will help mods that have been trying to go this direction.
Gotta Have It! How can you not like this. Maybe the vaunted Destroyer class...
Love It! Though, I'm not really sure what this means yet. Will Corvette class ships be anti Long Range Frigates? Will scout's be retired as combat units?
Like It! I'm not a big fan of some of the graphic mods, but a little more eye candy can't hurt.
Like It! The diplomatic victory condition was meh! If the new conditions are centered more around PvP play and ending games when they "should" end then I'm all for it.
Gotta Have It! I want this to mean "options" when leveling like Starbases have. CapitalShips of the same class and race could play differently as they reach higher levels as differently ability choices are made. Plus the modding ramifications are juicy.
Gotta Have It! ICO needs retired and the new era of Reactor needs to begin!
maybe some of the corvettes will be anti-bomber?
I mean... bombers now counter starbases, structures, 6 capital ships, heavy cruisers, and (maybe?) titans...
bombers already need some de-loving... idk.
True but if LRF's had a true counter (not the soft fighter counter) then LF could target AF thus allowing fighters to properly counter bombers maybe. What counters corvettes in either scenario?
shrug.
Heavy cruisers are supposed to be the counter to LRFs... but fighters are a preety decent counter to lrms... I mean, carriers filled with fighters will destroy an equal fleet supply of LRMS...
The big thing though... is the cool down vs movement with the fighters.
Heres the thing:
When you have a MASS of fighters... they all tend to target a single lrm. When they make a pass, it pops... and they all have to turn around to try and take on a second lrm. Some times they are smart... but most of the time a significant portion of the potential dps of the fighters is wasted do to movement. This means that above the quantity of fighters required to 1hko a LRM, added extra fighter carrier adds very little firepower, unless you are microing them.
I think.
Bombers already have a counter in the form of Flak frigates. Regardless of how effective you think they are (opinion varies) they're there. I think Corvettes will most likely be some form of Monitor type ship, a small lightly armoured ship with disproportionately large guns.
It's hard to get there though with LRF/AF/Bomber builds especially as LRF are "good" against almost everything.
Ya, I get it. It's still techically a soft counter for the following reasons. Fighters counter bombers and bombers are their primary target. Fighters require micro to engage LRF when Bombers are on the field. Any amount of flak negates most fighter hords making it nearly impossible to build LF in any meaningful amount making it extremely difficult to clear the flak.
It's rare to seem someone spam only LRF and not add any AF into the mix. Although when it happens they are screwed if you micro like that.
Yay!!! So there will be a discount for Diplomacy owners.
Will there be some sort of additional discount for pre-ordering? Do you guys have any estimate on when the first Beta will be available?
What if I only have 2 GB of RAM on my computer? I hope you guys will put a lot of effort into reducing the CPU and RAM demands so that more people can get better performance, including on laptops.
you only have 2 gig? please tell me your talking about a netbook or something...
Well, RAM is really cheap right now... Just bought 4 more high speed DDR3 ram from microcenter for $80 bucks. Could have gotten a hair slower for 50-60 bucks. Given half the RAM is reserved for the OS (32 bit) it's worth having 4 gigs to free up more for gaming.
Webellion? Execute them all, centuwion!
So what happened to whatever was chasing the Vasari? Did it give up? Maybe it got bored, if it's intended prey han't invented anything useful in over 10000 years apart from how to get more mileage out of Scramble Bombers. I suppose if it involves a type of madness, rebellion could be a first sign?
More seriously though, this could be an opportunity to rewrite the Sins lore, which hasn't really done a great deal for the franchise so far.
What you need is an explanation for why three different cultures have set up a base in a star system or star cluster at roughly the same time, why they can't detect any of the other orbital bodies without sending a scout and why their technology is limited at the start.
So- the various rival empires have long known of an inaccessible cloud containing a star or stars, but their instruments could not determine anything more. They suspect from some of their readings that it was once the home of an ancient dominant culture. However they also discover that a temporary discontinuity in space-time (the dimensional cascades) will allow them to send a very limited exploration party to the system, equipped with the minimum necessary to begin a colony on a terrestrial planet revealed to them by means of its beacon- or warning. The exploration party discover that their instruments will not penetrate the space cloud even from the inside, but they can detect phase lanes radiating away into the unknown.
How about that for a first sketch? Not really in keeping with a Rebellion theme, but then neither are super-giant starships.. they seem more Late Imperial than Rebel to me? At least it covers how the game is played out though?
Lastly, to all those who claimed that the Unity could never be broken when I raised the topic many moons ago- ha.
I don't usually post, but when I do I like to post in epic threads with epic news.
Like this one.
Keep Sinning my friends.
I get paid tomorrow! Time to preorder this and Portal 2
Oh hey guys a new Sins expansion has been announced, time to make stupid suggestions and ridiculous requests for the next 10 pages.
This has just been nagging me all day, should I go out and get Trinity now? Or will this be like Dawn of War II: Retribution, where nothing is carrying over so there's no reason to get the first 2 games? 'Cause if all I get is a discount, then I'll just wait until it comes out, and enjoy the full experience of all 5 factions and all the ships.
good plan.
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