So I really like this game eventho the playerbase is small. On Ico. Many of the new players dislike me because sometimes I kick them for better players. Some players I've played and tried to help and they ignore my advices and many of good players trying to give them advice aswell. This is sad but I know there is some people out there that want to learn. So therefore I'm making this thread.Earlier I've made a Daily replay thread,which I will continue with. There U can find replays from regular to skilled games and sometimes Highskilled.Now I'm gonna try to start a new 'project'Here noobs AND REGULARS can post their replays and ask for advice.At the moment the players that will review replays is Me, Ekko-Tek, Seleuceia and PlayerSlayer.Greg30007 will also do some occasional inputs and thoughts.So, now many of u new players think. "But how do I save replays and upload them?"So I've made a guide for you. Start of by going into Singe player mode. Start a game and press the menu button. Then Record and then check the box. Shown in the picture below.So, now Ur replays will be saved. They can be found in C:\Users\{name}\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\AutoRecord-MultiPlayerSo, How u gonna upload them?I recommend using 2shared It's easy to use and it's fast. Then u just post the link in this thread and if there is anything specific u want to know/improve, ask for that. Otherwise say u want to improve ur general gameplay and someone of us will check it as soon as possible and write you a review. As for manners on ICO and how to behave to be more accepted amongs the regulars etc. See this thread here. by ProtoplazmMany new players come into games and they're like "GO START NOW GO START GO START GAME FFA? GO PLZ"This will get you kicked.
Wow, you admit that in public? I respect you more now!
OK, my true story embarrassing confession: I forgot to put down a turret after settling a planet to take out the siege frigate. My shame is public, too.
Nayru's regular opening is 2 civic labs and culture right from the start unless he is in suicide spot. But it's definitely not advisable for new players.
LRMs against sb rush are wrong choice anyway. If he is smart he will pump corvettes after sb is planted and LRMs die to them way to fast. LF is better in my humble opinion.
Ok so here's my 2nd 5v5. http://www.2shared.com/file/7iZQySGf/AutoRecord-12212142.html
So here are my thoughts: 1. I'm so pissed because I feel like I opened pretty well and even with the rediculous three jumps without a planet I arrived at the pivotal choke before my opponent and had a chance to take it and probably win, but forgot to research ice! WTF! I feel like that's a game changing mistake and if I could have taken that choke point, which I was poised to do, I would have beaten him.
Also, I'm having to most trouble with starbases. Even when I tool around against the AI. Do I just go around? Starfish? I can't even park at the edge against and Orky, it'll just hunt me down. I obviously suicided my fleet against his defenses like a noob, but it's pretty much because I'm not sure what to do next after I get him to turtle up.
Anyway thanks for the constructive criticism.
Is anyone gonna review mine? I posted it 4 days ago.
http://www.2shared.com/file/CvKJdjFq/AutoRecord-12172103.html
If I get the time I will review both of them today.
Review of tnewton80 post #800-4Minutes: Looks great so far, U could scuttle the cap fac now to save time later and you should also micro the colofrig colonizing the roid so it can survive on the roid instead of jumping it away. This way u can grab the Moon(Kasuga) afterwards. 5-7 Min: By now you know that there is 3-4 volc nearby and that there is 3 uncolonizeable in a row. You should start putting up civlabs asap. and IMO you shoulda threwn in some discs faster with those vettes to counter flak to avoid unnecessary losses. 7-9 Min: U got 3 free logisticslots. 4 Counting with the cap fac slot. You're losing time. You should try to grab the neutrals asap. Send them ahead of the fleet with or wihtout support. 2 colo frigs idling on hw. Start upgrading Laser. You're having too much resources. 9-10 Min: By now you got enough intel by scouting to know that the enemy will not be able to rush you. You shoulda gotten the 2 civlabs earlier and by now u coulda had the volc and/or icetech,Culture,terran pop. Between 10 and 16 minutes, the only thing I thought about is that ur not getting the terranpop. You could also gotten the first 2 levels of metal extraction as you got some spares. Queue up all extractors on volc or pay more attention.17 Min: Fleet idling at neuts. Instead of trying to grab the ice. I woulda gone straight for volcanic as I would assume that my opponent woulda gotten that ice already. Stage from Volc is the best option here Imo. 18 Min: You upgrade infrastructure on ur new roid, but u forget the extractors. Still 2 extractors missing on volc. Still no laser or terran pop. 19 Min: Terran pop queued. you choose to go trough gas giant. Luckily, he isn't at ice yet. Sadly tho, you haven't planned ahead and you don't have the ice tech yet. Also if u watch the replay, you can do a count on numbers of neuts he grabbed by 20min, and the numbers of neuts you grabbed. It's something like ur 2 to his 10. You need better pace here. 20 Min: You got shitloads of resouces. U could research more. Ur fleeting from 1 factory and that factory is at homeworld. You would be better of getting 2 facs on roid untill you can produce from another planet. Saving 2 jumps. 22 Min: Scout ur opponent. If u woulda done that, you woulda seen that he got next to nothing. Ur fieldind around 40 vettes with some disc and a lvl 3 Halcyon meaning 5-6 Strikecrafts. If u woulda put pressure on him instead you coulda taken that ice more easily. Again ur wasting time sitting on a planet. If u don't want to be agressive, u coulda gone for the volcanic instead. 30 Min: The moment he put up his starbase at that ice. U shoulda gone back. If u wanna fight untill the Sb is finished, don't FF egg. Kill his fleet and start moving the Halcyon to the other edge instantly to avoid loss. If u wanna kill a sb, u need alot more Lf then 10. 31 Min: You're retreating. Imo in wrong direction. U should go for volc now.After that, You got tons of resources. U could scuttle the Cap fac, get 2 more mil labs and start with illums/bombers/destras. U could probably kill him easily if u would have a faster pace and plan ahead some more. Quoting Greg: 'Time is the fourth resource in sins'Also Alcari(roid) Coulda been grabbed 15min ago.
Thanks Ruby. I appreciate that when you critique you focus on solutions and not just problems. Too many people just say that you did this and that wrong, and never really say what the right thing should be and how to improve.
Here's another one that I played with some guys from the SoSE group on Reddit. It was a 8 player FFA iirc and was my first FFA so I opened fast culture instead of aggression since I figured the people here weren't going to be ultra badass.
The person that I paired up with had the best W/L ratio out of everyone, but from what I hear that doesn't actually mean much as it can be manipulated. Anyway I feel like I did pretty well (finally stomped my person), but the TEC player on the other side of me essentially eco'd up to his heart's content without being bothered at all and then the climax... I won't spoil it, but it wasn't pretty.
http://www.2shared.com/file/7A2hz43f/AutoRecord-12222341.html
All comments welcome.... especially how to avoid the disaster at the end from happening again.
U colo ice before any of 2 roids connected to hw. 11 min to colo first roid. You are not building resource roids on all of your planets and you research to many things... ilums + guardians 25 into the game ????
While you pushed him back instead to push him deeper into his territory you decide to go for roid instead for his factory planet and you are letting him build star base in your gravity well... while fighting blue TEC you ADVERNT need to use strenght of advewnt which is weapons on all sides.
While you and yelow were parked to defend planet I would split fleet and send yelow or urs fleet to planet ahead .... That would force them to fleet more or opened sb which was still quite weak.
50 min into the game you are sitting on a lot of res that could be used for research.
When you saw blues titan I would invest in repulse....
TBH if mags had any idea how to play this game u would have lost .....
Ok here's another multiplayer game for review. It's a respectable showing in a skilled 5v5 game.
http://www.2shared.com/file/1oU0BKsg/AutoRecord-12302129.html
Since I tend to push out aggressively at the beginning, I've been able to force my opponents into a defensive position forcing SBs etc. My question is, how to I properly capitalize off of this monetary and positional advantage when I establish a foothold at the front door and they turtle. TL:DR having problems with SB.
This page is bookmarked! I'll be posting some replays soon. Thank you so much for this!
Denchfeng
Edit: I am focusing on Loyal Vasari.
denchfeng i remember you... You were fighting me as DieHard.
Well first step is to recognize what kind of ships opponent is building . Second at least in game we played you put to much in capital ships and you do not retreat when they get focus fired. Third you need to recognize deadly abilities (like missile barage on marza) and their counters.....
Another skilled 5v5. Still feel like i'm improving, if only in baby steps. I still think positional play is something i need to work on and not getting my Caps focus fired down :/
http://www.2shared.com/file/NKiAuFR0/AutoRecord-01061441.html
Please any feedback on this or my previous replays would be appreciated. Seems that Ruby is in the middle of some life shit, but I know there are quite a few other higher level players that can throw in their two cents. The more perspectives the better.
Thanks.
OK, one last replay link before I get some feedback... and only because I actually won in this particular game.
http://www.2shared.com/file/7s7Krg-J/AutoRecord-01062326.html
Was in eco, so didn't see a ton of action. Fed my teammates mostly, and by the time I got my Titan up and ready to push with it, they called GG.
I moved to norway last week and the internet here sucks. I will download the replay and watch them tonight or tomorrow. Regards.
Here's two games I recorded. I'm light green in both.
http://www.2shared.com/file/dUrKW9TB/AutoRecord-01071219.html
This is a 2v4 (me + an experienced player vs 4 noobs).
The match ended when the enemy team rage quit and started their own 3v3. I joined it, and this one is that 3v3:
http://www.2shared.com/file/iW-fbv2p/AutoRecord-01071258.html
Is this thread dead? I posted 2 games a week ago...
Sorry I just moved from sweden to norway and I'm living in a place where the internet connection isn't so good. I'm working like 200% right now and I don't really have time to review replays. Tho I would appriciate if Slayer, Ekko, Greg, Sel, Star or someone else skilled would care to do a review of the replays.
Ok, no problem.
How to in at sins rebellion?
it's laughably easy right now:
Step 1: Choose VL
Step 2: Build Vorastra
Step 3: Wipe out pirate base to level Vorastra
Step 4: GG you win, doesn't matter if you opponent has bigger fleet, better tech, stronger econ or whatever. Because you have the ultimate wall with 3/4 attack defense orkulus at your borders, and a titan that wins the game all by itself.
It's a joke, I'm not playing any games with vasari in them anymore if I play this game at all anymore. Yes I just lost to VL guy while playing TEC rebels. I had bigger fleet, more caps (mostly dunovs that tried and failed to EMP bomb cuz 1-2 Kortuls will *passively* kill my antimatter fasterr than theirs), better econ, and basically #1 in every stat on the empire ranking page other than defenses (lol orkulus spam) and diplomacy (lol what's this for?). There is no counter to this damn titan in a late game scenario, espescially when it's got a few levels and benefitting from advanced weapons and armor research. This stupid ship needs a homerun swing of the nerfbat. Orkulus needs a serious lookover too. /rant off
Bomber / corvette spam?
You should review one of my replays ruby..
Doci
You speak like someone who lost to a more experienced player and rather than take any initiative to understand the game or to improve yourself you are screaming "OP! OP!"
How bout you try the same strategy you say is the free win method and see how well you do? When you lose will you suddenly be saying "Man, those AL are SO OP!"
VL has its own weak points and if you play A or T and allows VL titan to get to high level....thats your own or your teammates fault. Every race is meant to be played differently. Go play VL and see if you can do the same thing vs a pro A or T player before coming to a conclusion.
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