So like the intro to Diplomacy will you put on the website the intro movie to rebellion. If so will you have all three intros on the site so we the players who come to the site can look at how the game Univers has evolved in the storie.

I think the Titans in Sins would be look more massive like a giant moving Station but we will see (hopefully before the Beta starts).

I wonder if Entrenchment and Diplomacy will still be active when also having this new expansion on....I hope so!

Rebellion builds upon Entrenchment and Diplomacy, so it will have all the prior Sins content included.

Broken spacebar... Lets see if I can go without many typos...

It may sound dumb... But with how many nukes and bombs you bombard planets with in the game, could this new expansion have the option to actually blow up a planet? For example they can only handle so much, or maybe the titan has a planet destroying weapon that can destroy a planet, but takes a while to prepare for and a huge cool down rate? Or the ability to self-destruct planets? As I said, it may sound stupid, but I can see it holding a whole new level of strategic advantage... However then there's the issue of phase lanes... New ones would have to be made or you would wind up with planets floating in space not attached to a star.

I have been a sins fanatic, and still play Sins to this day, have since it first came out, and that was a while ago. But 12-40 hours into a single game, things would get super laggy, because you would have run a single processor at 100% for way too long, etc. (I shouldn't have to go into detail, most who play should understand.)... Could the multi-processor support be re-thought? Or the x64 support?

I only ask this because, yes it is a bit costly, but it could be an update later released after the primary release of the stand-alone expansion, and I honestly dont know if there is a sins of a solar empire 2 on the horizon or not, but if not, with the evolving technology rates... Sins may be soon out-dated. I'm already struggling to play C&C, especially since I'm running a brand new gaming computer with a 8 core CPU and a x64 version of windows 7....

Well, to cut it out short, as I lost track already (in certification training, on break), will 64-bit OS' atleast be able to still run the game? If so, I'll buy it in April, but if not... I do not wish to go through the hastle of modifying files just to force a game to half-work on my PC...  But I would like to be able to take advantage of atleast more than just one core on my CPU, and bring them both to 100%, to atleast cut down the lagg invested in a basic long-run Sins game, and honestly, I dont know how the game could be expanded upon any further without such support.

But I would like to find out whats coming out, I'll probably get the game anyways, but it may be more in the future if it isn't as appealing as it seems . But if I buy it, I'm forcing my friends to buy it as well, lol, can do a LAN game over the net using Hamachi (for those of you who cant stand the lagg).

Typed allot... Kinda gibberish, but I'll make it more appealing, and turn the text bright magenta.

~Annarchy

awesome cant wait for this

So, assume that I format my HD and go to install Sins.  There will be no need for me to install my previous SotSE and the following expansions because all the content will be installed when I install Rebellion itself?  or to ask differently? I might as well toss in the trash SotSE when I buy rebellion? Just making sure so I don't have two of the same games installed eventually.  I never get how this type of expansion works.  I might as well uninstall the previous game first? Also, I am excited for the new expansion.

This expansion had better be polished. I don't want to turn it on and find a million things wrong with it. I don't have that kind of patience for you guys anymore...

They want $30 for it for those of us who already have Diplomacy.  The question rising in my mind, is, "If they don't improve the ICO servers and the lag becomes worse when Rebellion is released (with an anticipated increase in online multiplayer player counts), would I want to spend $30 on it?  Would I want to spend $30 on a game that is essentially unplayable online?"

It seems like the lag on ICO has gotten worse since the last patch, and it's becoming a real issue for people.  Almost everyone has been complaining about it.  Also, now when someone minidumps or loses their connection, it seems like the game hangs for two or three times as long.

On behalf of the online multiplayer community, we would really like to see some acknowledgment of this issue from Stardock/Ironclad.

I look forward to having hundreds of people online at once again, and I hope it happens, but at the same time I am concerned that the ICO servers could have a laggy meltdown and that online game play could grind to a laggy halt.

JA_394, 

"Nothing to gain by helping the online community?"  I going to excuse this comment because you've only been a member since February. SINS was built on community involvement and we've been supporting this game far beyond the expected duties of a developer.  We hate the spammer as much as you do, but spamming complaints and rumors about our company doesn't really help out.  

The spammer no longer shows up much.  Right now the biggest concern people have is in-game and out-of-game lag on Ironclad Online.  Also, it seems like the game really "hangs" now when someone minidumps or otherwise loses their connection.

I'm excited about the prospect of Rebellion (which I see as a "Sins 2") being back on store shelves and receiving fresh marketing and publicity and hopefully hundreds of new people online, but I'm worried that if 250 people log onto Ironclad at once that it will suffer from severe lag.  I really think that lag is the largest issue confronting online multiplayer right now.