Maybe there. It's largely dead elsewhere. It's a declining market, it'll be worse when Rebellion comes out then it is now, and last year they had real problems getting Elemental onto shelves (it was next to impossible to find at retail anywhere outisde the US).

At some point people are just going to have to bite the bullet and accept that boxes are going away.

There better be a physical copy...

Not to mention ecological impact for earths resources and waste i the end.

Earth need a little   othervise it will 

I am glad that works for you... That does not work for me, or at the very least gets old very quick. I like to know whats going on and why. I like STORIES. The biggest flaw for the sins series in my opinion has been the lack of a campaign storyline.

I have said it before and I will stay it again, a campaign would make the Sins franchise into a masterpiece. There is already quite a bit of lore out there in the map descriptions, see post 14, but it could be even better.

I have a few questions about the new expansion.

1. Is it possible to start as a TEC Corp/race  and then become an offshoot as rebels or merge into the Alliance of TEC?

2. Will exploration get changed, as in no phase lanes, but you can only jump a certain distance before your engines or reserves need to refill. Instead of new phase lanes being shown after your ship exits phase space, you must colonize, or scout the planet/get intel of new coordinates for more planets.

3. Will planets, stars, ships finally be scaled properly to actually have it look realistic?

4. If phase lanes are removed is it possible to be able to exit phase space anywhere, or at certain distances, and build starbases there that act like a gravity well of its own.

5. Will planets get more options to interact with them better? Send troops to sabotage enemy planets, mining from planet, ships can land on them and hide them from enemies (or get repaired on the surface).

Well since they are using the same engine, 99% sure these will be no. 2 has been kind of done with a mod, they've made maps with phase lanes connecting every planet in a solar system and made the lanes invisible.

What happens if I already own Diplomacy and then buy a boxed retail copy of Rebellion?  Would it just install over my current copies of Sins, Entrenchment, and Diplomacy?  Would I end up having two separate installations and two separate CD keys (allowing my laptop to be on ICO Diplomacy on one CD key and my destop to be logged onto ICO Diplomacy on the other)?  I'm not planning to do any of that, btw, I'm just wondering.

@DirtySanchezz: It will be a seperate Version, i dont know if Sins allow multiple Installations on one PC but the Key is different. The difference between a Digital and a Retail Version is the Launcher, the Game is the same.

what do they mean by stand alone?

that means it includes everything from diplomacy and entrenchment? 

or jus pure sins plus rebellion units?

and will diplomacy players be able to play with rebellion users?

*eye roll*

It will include EVERYTHING.

people without rebellion will prolly not be able to play with rebellion people... considering the whole multiplayer system is being redun.

Hmm, maybe just semantics here... But, the way I've read and assumed this would mean it will NOT contain Entrenchment and Diplomacy (i.e. the separate executables). My assumption is Rebellion will be built on the Diplomacy game engine and will extend and reuse the existing assets but you won't get the two previous expansions as playable exe's with Rebellion.

Good strategy. If they can't do a great campaign, then put the time towards an area they can do really well in. I'd rather have no campaign then a poor one.

ya, your right, you wont be able to play the old things seperatly, but why would you want to?

What I mean by everything, means, all the content.