The only thing that po's me ....

[pathfinder]

is sometimes the AI can take up to 10 minutes a turn....

yeah, I know that is the way it is in turn-based but ahm impatient!

back to the pits now, rant off...
maybe I'll be able to kick that crystal's hiney

[Courageous]

This sounds distinctly like you don't have
enough memory. I have a 500 mhz K7 with
256 megs of ram. Turns go in 30 seconds or
so with 14 or so AI players and a fully
populated late-game universe with many ships
and units.

C//

[pathfinder]

128 MB here, pc-100...
and an Athalon 500 mhz..

and it was a bit populated....I had only 10-15 ships of various sizes but almost 100 planets...
had just engaged the AI in an intel "war"...

[This message has been edited by pathfinder (edited 16 December 2000).]

[Lupusman]

Me too, my machine is slow as crap. Especially when playing with max AI's and 200+ systems. What you have to do is find a good book between turns.

[eagleton]

I think it's not mainly memory. I have only 64 megs of RAM, but a 710 Celeron processor, and it's mostly pretty fast when the AI has its turn. I can hardly hear my harddrive working then, so the processor seems to be "the thing".

[Lerchey]

It's almost definitely a memory problem. I play on a 180mhz dell with 128 MB of RAM. Turns with 14 players and a LOT of ships take about 1 1/2 minutes. Since the machine is a piece of ****, that doesn't bother me. My office machine has both a faster processor and more ram (256MB) and turns there run in under 30 seconds with the same galaxy (I play the same game on both machines).

One of my earlier playtest machines was a 180 with 64 MB of ram. That was really slow. Memory does make a difference.


John