The Truth About Space Empires IV
 

PC: $1,200
ISP: $45.00
Babysiter: $25.00
Space Empires IV: $50.00
24 hour turn fest: Priceless

Re: The Truth About Space Empires IV
 

Cost of ownership http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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That is one expensive PC, especially for SE4. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Well, if you put a bunch of AI's into a game with one of your maps, turn processing starts to take a while. I had a game that was taking about 300 to 400 seconds on my old workstation. Moving it to the FX cut the turn around down to less than 60 seconds.

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And in ten years, twenty ai's and a 255 system map with full tech and sphereworlds all around will take no more than 20 seconds.

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I dunno, my 733 Mhz Pentium cost me 'bout $2000. When I bought it. That was in 2000.

Yes its less powerful than an AMD system I could build from parts costing $500 these days.

Saturday I'm off with a friend to a computer fair. I'm going to see if I can get a computer or the parts to build one -- cheaply enough that his wife doesn't skin us alive.

His Compaq Presario just doesn't cut it any more. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

[Edited to correct values-found the reciept]

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Man we have come so far so fast when it comes to CPU power and the size of memory and Hard Drives.

In 1996 I bought an Acer P75 with a whopping 840 Meg hard drive, 4 Megs ram, and a blazing fast 14.4 modem.

Just 8 short years later, and many rounds of Moore's Law, and we are sporting 4 Gig CPU's with an average of 1 gig of Ram and 250 Gig hard drives with 512 meg Video cards as the norm.

We have come a long ways, I wonder what the next 8 years will bring.

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I'll have to buy a faster computer when SE5 comes out... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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I only have 40 gigs total hard-drive and 256 megs of memory. And I doubt my graphics card has near 512 megs.

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Graphics cards are only at 256 MB max...