Yup.

Not publicly. The studio that made Sins and owns the property rights, Ironclad, is making a new game called Sins of a Dark Age, but it is more like League of Legends than this Sins. My bet is we won't hear anything until that game is complete.

The question is do they even need a kickstarter?

Ironclad is an established studio with a publisher (Stardock) very willing to support their efforts for SoaSE 2 I would assume. Especially considering SoaSE is one of the most successful games for Stardock as a publisher probably.

The issue is not 32/64 bit, the problem is the game is single threaded. Your game chugs down but only uses 25% because you have a 4 thread CPU but Iron Engine 1 only runs on one core at a time so the others just idle. Therefore, your max speed is limited entirely to your IPS (clock/pipeline.) Optimizing something to be multithreaded is hard enough, retroactively adding it to an existing engine is much harder. If you want to play large games, try setting small fleet size and/or overclocking your CPU (at risk of damage and warranty loss if done improperly.)

We have. As the above poster said.

This is indeed the case. Ironclad first started making this engine around 2005 with a team of less than 10 people, I doubt they'd think their game would still be so popular that expansions would keep the title in active development until 2013. I'm pretty sure a dev said at one point that the amount of work to make Sins multithreaded would be almost as much as making a new engine from scratch, I.e. we may as well make a sequel. I'm a novice coder myself and I am not surprise, nor are most people I know with coding experience.

Maybe the have that market share because of lack of credible alternatives.

You do realize of course that is the exactly the path EA follows? Is this now the 15th or the 20th Need for Speed?

If you also follow a post made by Frogboy a while ago, he said that the large amount of people still running 32 Bit are a significant hinderance for programming an all new engine in 64 Bit just yet.

Last but not least, it is always a good business decision to focus on more than one thing. Sins 2 could fail and that brings the developer into significant trouble quite quickly. Much easier to talk with your bank or publisher about more money when you have something in your portfolio that currenty does work.

Part of GPGs downfall was the failure that was Sup Com 2. A desaster on any accounts. Old fans seething, and an average RTS on a highly competive market.... the results are that now Wargaming owns GPG.

I'd definitely help out for sins2 game.

we need 64bit mechanics (far fewer 32bit players now then a yeear ago),

better multithreaded engine and AI.

3rd dimension - homeworld way?

coop modes - emperor, admirals, commanders...in one team, and same other team.

That when done good would bring pure awsomeness to the series.

New single and coop campaign. Even multiplayer campaign?

I think stardock could pull it off.

Add a bit of tactical fights in RTS on planets, reduce and punish use of superweapons, make huge tech tree that noone can reach during normal multiplayer games, add a chance/race specifics into tech trees, improve diplomacy and binding agreemens in it like territorial and area opf control agreements, bring a bunch of resources linked to technologies, like Endless space has, add intergalactic and system trade markets like Hearts of iron and EUniversalis have,

add genetic manipulation into tactical units development,

add new races, thing David Brin's Infinity shore books or something,

add living ships, stations, (Thinking like Hamilton's  Neutronium Alchemis saga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neutronium_Alchemist)

diversify races and add genus of races, so that intermingling can be possible and enabling races progress if geneticaly manipulated by player,

space monsters and random fenomena

more exploration (get us to the point of no return if like dwarves we "delve too deep...." awakening a space biatch that hunts all of our race to extinction),

add non playable NPC monster race like Antarans that require all players coop to kill even if it's a FFA multiplayer game - or they all die.

Add unstable space lanes as natural phenomenon, add lanes destabilisation engines, add planetary fight options - shields, phase rellocators, arcade (for coop MP) orbital cannons and fighters....

Gawd, I can't stop dreaming, can I?

Stardock, we love oyu.