Homeworld doesnt have hundreds of ships? Getting fed up of these worthless comments   

Lets put this to rest finally.

Consider a 6 player high unit cap game of HW2, where everyone goes for fighters within 5mins you could easily have 20 squads of 5-6 fighters x 6 players = 600 - 700 fighters plus capitalships plus resource collectors plus rocks. So yes the Homeworld line of games can and does have hundreds of ships + visible objects at the same time.

I'm not an Eve player so I can't comment on that, but I have had 300 ships in an X3 sector at the same time + 1000's out of sector. So yes a space SIM can and does have hundreds of ships + visible objects at the same time.

IC are close I feel to the happy medium between SIM & RTS regarding graphical quality but they aren't quite there yet as some objects are lagging behind others that have reached that standard.

Its not so much that the models aren't as good as they could be, lets not pussy foot about here, its that many of the models aren't as good as they should be. Some make the grade others do not and its a matter of opinion which and I personally do not want to see a fair number of these ships in the final release exactly as they appear now.

If some players have an average PC that needs to scale back on bump mapping, texture detail, polygon counts to keep acceptable frame rates then that needs to be an option.

I have a 3 year old comp whose harddrive has crashed 3 times..... Sins runs fine fine

Dude that is exactly the problem   a game due for release in 2008 should run on a 3yr old PC in a window smaller than a penguins arse 50m underwater.....

...or at least on max graphical settings that is.

frankly there has been a huge issue as of recent of people coming in with completely incorrect assumptions. its given spawn to the "its like HW!" and "the vaz are carbon copies through and through" comments, all sorts of dramatic bs. sad thing is it drowns out the expert minority who have an actual point.

*sigh* I've had to fight to avoid using the "noo" word. repeatedly.

You spell no, with two o's?

No, but he does spell noob...

Ron, you must hear that too often   

No, I get to say it

Anyone think the Kol looks just a little like the USS Sulaco from ALIENS?

nice catch, there are similarities.

the old Kol looked allot more so with its square front.

Anyone have a screen shot of the old Kol?

No, I don't really think they're very similar.

Well if your idea of “very similar” is a straight up copy then no they aren’t very similar. There is definitely an influence or just an unintended similarity.

Well, there's the pointy things at the end. And if you really want, a bulky rear. That's it.