All of you saying "Give me Sins 2" without any ideas of what would be included in that is fairly useless.  I don't want a Sins 2 for the sake of a Sins 2, I want a SIns 2 becuase I want new options and features not in Sins today.  

Some ideas:

* different jump schemes (not just jump lanes between certain systems)

* Ship designers (a small scale ver of GalCiv III's)

* Massive new factions, with completely different abailties, research, etc

Great Idea's.

Because of you i whas more thinking lately of why not create you'r own faction like more and more games (example "Space empire V"}

I know its a old game but i mean you create a own specie by choices you get.

Also create you'r own tech tree, where you can choose before the game starts with way you wanna go and then you play the second tech buttons free till you create another new factory number 3 (you get the same question), and you get all other tech's under line 3.

With this you can create you'r own path, i think its more massive and a great idea.

IT TURNS OUT THAT THERE IS A UNIQUE CRYSTAL INDIGENOUS ONLY TO FEDERATION SPACE  AND  CAN BE FOUND NO WHERE ELSE --THIS CRYSTAL  IS CAPABLE OF CREATING A UNIQUE ENERGY SIGNATURE THAT IS "DEADLY"  TO THESE ORGANIC SELF REPLICATING ENTROPIES OF LIFE -"IT IS THIS ENERGY" FROM THE CRYSTALS  THAT WILL BE CREATED FOR EFFECTIVE SCANS AND WEAPONS -NO LONGER WILL THE ENEMY APPEAR "INVISIBLE" ON SCANS AGAIN-ONLY THEIR BLACKNESS SILHOUETTED WILL REMAIN TO SHROUD THEM IN THE BLACKNESS OF SPACE-HOWEVER FOR THE GAME YOU'D NEED TO HIGHLIGHT THEM CLEARLY SO THE ALLIES USES  "THE UNIQUE ENERGY" AS  IONISED GAS TO CREATE A REFLECTION ON THEIR OBSIDIAN LIKE GLASS HULLS-IT'S COINCIDENTAL THAT THESE  CRYSTALS WERE ALREADY IN R&D  BY  THE GOOD GUYS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF WEAPONS AND SCANS AND IT IS THIS UNIQUE ENERGY THAT IS USED BY A PROTOTYPE  SHIP TO IONISE GAS AND HIGHLIGHT THEIR FIRST SHIP

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it should start with a cinematic image of vasari space as a great black stain silhouetted against the light of other galaxies-as the camera zooms in closer you can see  other star's  light on the periphery of vasari space winking out one by one-the narrator briefly mentions that no one knows for now why  all the  star's  lights  blinks out  one by one because anything that goes in does not come  back out to tell the tale-The camera then pans in closer to one of the stars extinguishing and as it does so a huge black swarm can be seen silhouetted against the dying light as it leaves that galaxy for another-the camera then pans  a full 180 degrees towards our galaxy  and races close to the outer edges of our space-close enough to see another star-here the narrator explains that we are more fortunate than other galaxies because only a small force have arrived here-the huge capitol ships following the smaller scout ships as they get  nearer  to what's clearly  a planet with huge megalopolises populating it's surface-the picture fades to reveal the aftermath and the narrator explains that  the huge capitol ships have linked together to partly form a dyson sphere-until it's complete it will remain inert -the other small scout ships start replicating-dividing like cell mitosis---A small vessel with telepaths  on a ship  far away are able to see what's happening , they can hear  the alien's organic  communal hypnotic song of communications and quickly realises that if the dyson sphere is completed all life in the galaxy will be lost because the energies that will permeate out to others through a sort of quantum entanglement connection will enable the "instantaneous cell mitosis replication -geometrically reproducing until the various enemies they have will become over run by sheer weight of numbers-the telepaths sends this message to their kind who then decides to come out of hiding to warn the other races of their almost certain doom!!

the smaller ships( organic scout ships i mentioned) can replicate but in order to produce an higher tier ship it has to replicate enough ships so the hive mind is able to "calculate" the structural re-organising of the cells -when the hive  mind has enough numbered scout ships the neural connections through quantum entanglement connections increases (making it smart enough-equivalent to a quantum computer for  necessary DNA reorganised calculations) ,allowing for 4 ships to mould together-during this phase it's vulnerable and the other scout ships form a protective barrier of ships around these coalescing ships -When the 4 ships have coalesced together it forms a sort of  protective cocoon as the ships rearrange it's cells to metamorphoses  into a larger tier ship-For these organic ships to reach an higher tiered ship it will need that "EXCLUSIVE" higher tiered ship of 4 or whatever set number to coalesce into the next higher tire ship   for the game to  progress for the organic faction -The scout ships and some of the higher (mid level) tier ships do not have the ability to create "seeds" for invasion since they are a "kind of juvenile phased organic unit" and so it will only be the bigger "adult" tier ships that have the right "mutation gene addon" to have this ability of firing "seeds" on to a planet surface as described in earlier posts

you see "UNLIKE THE NORMAL FOOD CHAIN"  in which "DNA  IS NOT PASSED ON TO THE PERSON WHOSE EATING IT"-This version contains hidden in that DNA  ability to store energy the ability to pass it on to another organic( a sort of fail safe  "IF"  99.999999% of alien ship is destroyed with only the DNA of storing energy from another  completely different smaller  class ship available to harvest that ability which has remnants of  THAT DNA floating in space that the other ship can detect and harvest)

• Absolutely yes, the engine that runs ashes would open the game up dramatically 😁

Yup, I'd be down!

Absofrakenlutely

Figure with the Nitrous engine they used to make Star Control, an engine DESIGNED for modern and massive RTSes, the barebones are already in place. It's just a matter of adapting the SINS universe's gameplay and mechanics to what the engine is capable of.

I'd love to see selective planetary bombardment and surface to orbit weapons on planets, like in Imperium Galactica 2. Some screenshots of what I mean.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/922548170749380176/3725CE9FF4BFFCF0FD29810F8D3E4BEDA11AC1C6/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/922548170749378869/123174418479A905BF6D3DC05461E4C22D9B5D36/

I don't think Sins needs to be topped.  I agree that bloating your team isn't the answer.  I hope you're going more with slow build development when you have the time and have put enough concentrated thought and creativity into the design.   There seems to be a MMO creativity cold war of sorts as many largely anticipated titles are coordinating a huge hype cycle yet not fully delivering.   I see a lot of companies holding back and not wanting to release their prized works into this immediate market, looking to ride it out and into what's forecasted next. 

Any insight into this forecast would be great conversation, especially on this thread.

try advertising the product with the emphasis of "X-COM LIKE ELEMENTS"  by not mentioning x-com   but rather showing the mechanics of research in  the spoils(booty)  of a battle  OR MANAGING TO CAPTURE OR SALVAGE ARTIFACTS "DURING THE BATTLE" BEFORE RETREAT!!