*recovers from Annatar's usual brute force and meanness* 

Word of warning to folks with installed mods.  If it's not in one of these countless Entrenchment threads, make sure you remove the mod before trying to launch Entrenchment.  The auto-load settings for mods were causing me to go to a permanent black screen when running it.  I deleted the data inside the Mods folder and removed the modname line from my user settings file and it opened right up.

Just figured it might save some people some swearing time if they didn't make the same mistake I did.

Edit:  Ahahahaha!  I can't wait to see the reaction to some of these defense tech research options.  As usual, I've only seen TEC, but my jaw dropped at some of them.

thanks for the warning. but as long as auto load is off it should be fine, no?

and flame! for the teaser. you're almost as bad as the devs.

Silly question, but are we allowed to talk about the beta here?  Is there some agreement you have to accept when you install it that you wont go on the forums and post about advent starbases, Vasari defense trees or the power of Marza?

Just curious, I dont want to get banned because I didnt read something.

I don't think anyone will mind and in fact I'm sure the worker drones would love to be able to hear more details about what others are experiencing as they toil away watching the clock move so slowly as to almost start ticking backwards.

I mainly just didn't post details about it as I've only played a few minutes and am at a loss as to what exactly to even comment on, heh.

Surely.  I just wasn't that smart in my eagerness to commence.

There is no current rule against about talking about the Sins beta.

Please check out Annatar's stickied thread about providing feedback to us about the beta:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/319171

That is quite correct. If you have purchased the beta you have not actually been charged for it yet. Once they process your order you are then charged for the game and the email goes out with your account information. Then it is just a matter of downloading the beta through Impulse. Even at the time of this writing orders are still being processed.

Yeah, unless you signed away your soul in blood on an NDA, you're fine

Wow, I'm loving the mine mechanics.  Haven't had a chance to see them detonate yet, but no tactical slots, 1000 credits, 250 metal and 100 crystal get you 10 mines placed randomly in a small circle where you click.  TEC ones are listed as doing 1200 damage each.  

Edit:  Correction, I have now very much seen them explode.  Two assailants made the mistake of jumping in.  Two mine explosions later, and they were space dust.

Mazuo - I have even bigger fish, you know.

if I Buy Entrenchment now, will I get access to the Beta?

Yes you will.

I will just post some very unfair behavior:

I Preorderd one month ago as many others too...

I was on the sinschat and heard about some people preorderd just 40 mins ago and they already have his entrechment...

So i spend some money to give it a try. I bought another copy of entrenchment over impulse via paypal and get INSTANT Access to the entrechment download.

I Think that realy not fair to the customers who preorderd month ago..

I canceled my first preorder now. Hope they will accept that....

but now i have to go.. have to play my 2. version of  Entrenchment....

I need help big time guys, anyone know how to fix an error that goes like this

"The procedure entry point _BinkShouldSkip@4 could not be located in the dynamic link library binkw32.dll"

It's stopping me playing Entrenchment