Re: Chronicles - Inspired by Baalz, engineered by Lokean - Pre-game discussion
 

You'd have to check with one of the more technically proficient Dom3 players, but I believe there's command line switches that reduce the rendering for battles, which might make it tolerable...

EDIT

Yeah, try starting it with -xxx as a switch. It makes the game hideously ugly, but it speeds up battles. Other switches that might speed up battles are:

--nolightfx
--partamount 1
--renderpath 0

But I'm not sure if they're included in the general graphics quality switch.

Re: Chronicles - Inspired by Baalz, engineered by Lokean - Pre-game discussion
 

The most important one is probably --nograss, and you can press the number keys during battle to set the amount of battle background detail (lower is less). If all else fails, use "w" for background off.

Re: Chronicles - Inspired by Baalz, engineered by Lokean - Pre-game discussion
 

So, the wiki says we are using cumulative VPs? When we were discussing them earlier for some reason I thought we were talking normal vps. How many points would it be to victory then?

Re: Chronicles - Inspired by Baalz, engineered by Lokean - Pre-game discussion
 

Wouldn't late game battles benefit most from reducing the particle count and the render path?

Re: Chronicles - Inspired by Baalz, engineered by Lokean - Pre-game discussion
 

No, sorry to have confused you. Victory is by accumulating victory points, but victory points are not cumulative. You need to be sitting on 16 victory points worth of provinces in midsummer in order to win. I'll go clarify that, shall I?

Re: Chronicles - Inspired by Baalz, engineered by Lokean - Pre-game discussion
 

For those still generating their god and trying to get the epithets (titles)right then Ive posted a tip on using a macro program. (in WinXP)
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=41656

Re: Chronicles - Inspired by Baalz, engineered by Lokean - Pre-game discussion
 

If somebody depends on specific pretender titles for the story, I could just give them out, too, though, before you waste too much time on this. Don't get too creative though. :P

Re: Chronicles - Inspired by Baalz, engineered by Lokean - Pre-game discussion
 

Ich,
I thought the "no grass" prevented your mages from smoking dope prior to spell casting. ;)
-SSJ

Re: Chronicles - Inspired by Baalz, engineered by Lokean - Pre-game discussion
 

Hey, those commands worked great! I'm in again if you still want the old Tifone with you. :) Thanks a lot

Re: Chronicles - Inspired by Baalz, engineered by Lokean - Pre-game discussion
 

I've heard nothing from Pythium in here, so I'm going to have to remove them.

I'm about to create the game, initial hosting will be 48 hours.