There are reasons we play we just normal fleet sizes in standard MP settings. If we wanted larger fleet sizes than we just turn up the settings.

1. Lag (this reason is self explainatory)

2. If it was just punching out through defenses than you would just guarentee the person with the best economy the winner since he would just outnumber you and be able to take as many loses as possible and we might as well leave the "tactical" part of the genre out.

Speeding up the game even more would probably break it since we will probably be a bit overwelmed at the pace at which is going thus micro would be much harder than it needs to be and thus we might ostracize newer players that are trying to get into the MP scene especially if they play on anything less than the fastest mode. I've seen players who almost refused to play at the fastest speed bc they just can't keep up with it. Making that standard would be dumb. The fastest mode to me is at the perfect speed.

Also while ULTRA quick start might be okay. I like to actually expand my empire from just this 1 planet. I feel a certain immersion factor might be ruined if we added this in.

A permement tech level is just plain stupid. Half the fun is growing and researching up to the highest degree. Putting a limit on that would just take that away. There are also balance issues there when you could completely block off necessary upgrades and units for the faction to put up a fight. Unless you rearranged per setting which would just be a waste of development time and money in my opinion. Say I put a tier 2 tech limit right now on Trinity. I would just make TEC overpowered since Advent and Vasari are just cut off from all the good stuff in their trees. While TEC gets them LRMs and Flak.

Also the MP speed is really just fine. Most games only last about 1-2 hours maybe a little more. It really isn't that bad when you compare it to like 10 hours AI comp stomps or w/e.

Cmon now... are you sure you read everything? I never said anything to the contrary.

The problem of assume defeat and just "GGing" is not due to actual game speed is more or less the actual size of the population. We have only about 100 players on average which is better than before thanks to steam. But we have people who wait a long long time just to get a game start lasting up to an hour or more. We try to get as many games in as possible without making it overwelming and actually keeping the the actual strategic and tactical part of the game.

And really if you know you are going to lose than you might as well surrender.

If we wanted to rush every game in about an hour or so than I would be playing something like C&C or SC2. The point of a 4xRTS game is build and manage your empire not nessecarilly go out to kill your emenies as quickly as possible.

Also this is the average of about 2 hours per game in a 5v5 single random huge map scenario which is our standard mode. The only times it gets longer is multistar where you can place 4 SBs to block off the entire system unless you are TEC and can spam 100 Orgovs.

No, its because of the length of the games. Furthermore, shorter games=larger community=smaller lobby wait times.

Actually some players WOULD like to be able to finish their games, rather than quit early because they think they are losing and dont want to have to wait an hour just to make sure, which they could very well be not possibly if they played their cards right.

No, it would be like sins (because it is sins), except faster.

Surrendering is a ingame mechanic thus quiting out when you think you are going to lose is part of the game and thus should be considered finished. A finished game is when the victory screen shows for the victors. If the emeny surrenders/quits than thats their choice.

Also we are usually pretty good at determining when a game is just over. I mean it's usually the situation where we take out like 2 guys leaving it to be like a 5v3 or less. By then it's impossible to actually win by then since your eco and military forces at least outnumber them to a large degree.

Essentially what youre doing is complaining against speed chess because it limits the amount of choices the player can make.

That arguement is a bit uncanny since speed chess does limit the amount of choices a player can make. It only limits their thinking time and strategy time which already happens with game speed. You still have a balanced game since everybody gets the same equal strength pieces. The rest comes down to player skill which is what you want in a good PvP community.

 SOASE units are unique for each one and thus balance is much more challenging. The tech tree is suppose to help you overcome those "inbalances". Sure there is tactics but useless if the emeny just completely outguns you with a much better eco and so. Thus limiting the tech tree isn't worth the effort since you would have to rebalance so much.

Um, no. Theres no reason for it to not be an official feature, especially since its completely optional.

Youll have to do a better job of explaining this.

Youll have to do better than that.

Im not sure what you said here either. I guess your saying... its hard to micromanage when things are going fast?

Really? I could have sworn it was /sarcasm

To you. To me, and actually 95% of the gaming world it isnt fast enough. Thats not to say I dont enjoy the length of the games, but its nice to be able to kick the speed of the game into overdrive when you just want to play a quick skirmish.

Its optional. If your computer cant handle such speeds, dont enable them then. That simple.

No. This is false.

Right now of what I have played of at the FASTER settings it almost perfect speed for the game online. Any more and you ruin the fundamentals of what makes SINS unique. Sorry, but really not much needs done to the game except balancing a few things and boosting the online player count via rebellion having good online match maker and manger.