If you own Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity and Sins: Diplomacy and haven’t gotten your pre-order in for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, you have until the end of September to lock in your discount. By pre-ordering now you save $10, but that special will end at the end of the month, so pre-order now!
https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/store#rebellion
Any new plethora of planetary abilities ... or planetoid/deep space etc map items?
The initial beta will not feature multiplayer. Reactor support is currently up in the air, but we're still planning on it if it's possible.
Thanks for the update!
AI updates??? Dear me, do they use better strategy now? Enough to rival the average player without tripling their income???
Excitement has filled my soul.
Well one maybe a Titan shipyard. Maybe.
Pre-ordered today to get in before the discount expires. In a world filled with gaming disappointments, Sins is one of the few standout titles that ranks with the best games of all time (and I go back to the 8-bit days). It is a true gaming classic. And, even better, it is one of the few titles the manages to provide a deeply immersive sci-fi experience every time.
As a cheap SOB, I don't say this lightly: Ironclad, it is a pleasure to give you my money.
I assume the 12 new ships are the titans and corvettes for each of the sub factions, new structures are likely a shipyard for the titan being that the current facilities are too small should one be required, and some static defense against said titans.
By chance would any of those triggers include the spawning of ships so I can set up pirate ambushes?
Don't forget the 3 new capitalships per race too. That only leaves 3 ships left for the corvettes, assuming they haven't been cut.
That's exactly what I am thinking too.
I saw too little info about this game to consider a pre-order.
A development team is as good as it's last product. Lots of dev teams went down the drain after one or two good products. Yes, of course, the original Sins was top-notch as was Entrenchment, Diplomacy though failed to impress. Looking at the features of Rebellion it looks like an expansion for the price of a stand-alone game. I'll wait for the reviews, perhaps i am missing something.
I feel the same way. I want to know more about the online multiplayer aspects of the game and how much they will promote Rebellion to people who've never played Sins before.
I also preordered.
I got Trinity since 2 months (still learning to master the game) and I regretted that I didn't bought it earlier. The game is fantastic and I was amazed to notice that devs are still supporting the game after so many years from release. There are a lot of companies out there that make good games, but few of them are offering support (bug fixing) for such a long time .
I can't believe some of the hard core online players are undecided because they haven't seen enough! What about the hundreds hours/dollars you've already enjoyed. You know it will be well worth the $30 bucks! Come on, its only 30 bucks, thats minor compared the value you've recieved, and shouldn't even be a consideration. Good Greif. You know its going to be an improved version of a game that you already know and love. Just even more features.
Come on Greg & Whip. I can't wait to wade into the throngs of new online Rebellion users, along with you.
(Devs, please also improve the Empire Tree.)
In terms of the cost of leisure, even if you have a pretty poor job that only pays $10/hour, for every hour you play Sins (whatever version) you're essentially giving up on $10. If the cost for Rebellion is $30 currently (for those with Trinity), that's only the equivalent of 3 hours. Just two or three standard 5v5 matches could take longer than that! If you play Sins regularly, the cost for Rebellion (3 hours) is negligible. (Or if you have a higher paying salaried job the cost would be significantly less, maybe only the equivalent of 1 hour)
Depending on your wage, you might be able to get Rebellion for the "price" of not playing a single 5v5 match on one particular night. Maybe it would minidump near the end anyway!
Just my economic-time perspective on things.
I am def pre-ordering I'm sure the game will be awesome, not to mention the new modding opportunities. I just want to know what the updated game engine will be capable of, or is it still the 32-b game that is able to handle more than 2gbs. Diplomacy is much, much improved, large maps are running good late game, but with all this new content how will it fair....
Excited anyway, look forward to seeing what's in store for us!!
Is the store going to be back up today? I had held off my pre-order to match my paycheck and would hate to miss it due to the store being unavailable.
Yup, it will be. The tech guys are doing some work on it at the moment, but it should be back up soon.
@Felkins: Sorry, it's still 32-bit - that kind of thing isn't easy to change. There will be some new modding options, however.
@SageWon: Agreed on Empire Tree. I'm really hoping we can look at this and do something. I have some ideas for how I would like it to be...
@DirtySanchezz: I can't speak too much as to multiplayer at the moment, but we are treating Rebellion like it's a semi-sequel and will be marketing it to new players.
Excellent. Thanks.
Ignore that keening sound, my credit card always makes that noise on payday.
We had horrible wind storms, much of the region is without power at the moment ... been that way since last night. Hope the store isn't down too long ...
Inquiry? Where....
Why are all the official responses coming from Stardock?
I do remember a time when Ironclad would chime in. Is this add-on being done in house at Stardock?
The pre-order page is gone and the store wants to charge me full price. Looks like I missed out on the pre-order discount.
I had hoped that it would have been extended to end of day today, but I guess not.
Just curious, who's associated with Ironclad on this forum? (If anyone?) I don't think I've ever seen them.
Yarlen,
I beg you to add Reactor support as top priority. Smurfing on ICO is ruining games. Maybe you guys can just lock down accounts so people can't delete old names on ICO to solve the problem as an interim measure?
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