seriously STOP COMPLAINING!!!  if you think its too expensive dont buy it!! i will be buying at least two of them

good job ironclad

i want to buy but i just dont have a need for online buying im patient, ill be buying it at the store next summer.

The five stars in the reply above didn't seem like enough, so you get the Boom-Da-Yada award!

Provided the quality is up to the standard of the rest of the game (which I'm sure it will be) count me in for Entrenchment.

Are there any improvements coming to the online experience? Support for clans? Soundex validation of usernames to help against impersonations? improvements to the chats? Help with official ladders / tournaments?

So by next summer, will the next major expansion be already out.  I think Kryo said in one of the earlier thread regarding a major expansion, the earlist date we can expect to see one is sometime next feburary. 

3 new buildings and a couple of upgrades for $10? no thx

Could this screw the AI?

I will be soaking all of this up XBOX style.... if they are really good addons..... with lots of content

What i do not want to be doing is XBOX style, be paying $10 for a single skin or other silly accessorie.

Do Not like the idea of not being able to use extra content VS people who have not purchased it.... but this os ok really and necessary to give everybody a fair go. It will result in nobody playing with you if you did not get all of the upgrades though.

This does not sound like a complete solution in my opinion, as while yes we can still play with others without the expansion packs, if the expansion packs add so much to the original game (such as the seemly sorely needed aspects which the expansions seem to be aiming for) these expansions will set such a new standard in Sins gameplay that the players who have the expansions won't want to experience the game without them.

I can already see it now, players who do not wish to buy the expansions will be kicked out of many a game because players only want to play games with all the content that they purchased in the first place.

Its a double-edged situation sadly, with no clear solution. This is from the multiplayer side of things of course, from the singleplayer side there is nothing but advantages in regards to the DLC proposed.

QFT, this will happen, I've played enough online games to have experienced this. Fragmentation will happen, as it always does when there are different versions/flavours of a game, usually to the death of the game. Not a clever move by the devs.

When you guys wrap all three of the expansions in one will it be sold in stores ? I really hope so cause i dont feel comfortable paying for things online.

It's not like UT2004 or something where there are 500 different types of game and 3 people playing each.  Some people will like the improved defenses and some won't.  These people won't want to play each other anyway.  I think Sins can handle a couple different types of online play without becoming so fractured that we can't find opponents.  The upcoming mods may create additional options, but from the sound of it, better diplomacy and more unit types will be something that most everyone wants.

edit: Oh yeah, and I'm definitely in for this one.  Just pre-ordered, which is a first for me.

Same here with the pre-order.

And I agree with both points, I think MP players will still find enough opponents, but I do think it will thin the ranks somewhat, so to speak. Me, I don't play MP so 3 new (defeinsive) structures and some upgrades are just what I needed, 10 bucks is nothing.

Someone did pose the question as to whether or not the AI will use these new features...

Sweet cant wait

Boo no retail release. Looks like I won't be getting this. (No Internet access @ home)