The Truth About Space Empires IV

[Atrocities]

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

[Aiken]

Cost of ownership

[Fyron]

That is one expensive PC, especially for SE4.

[Thermodyne]

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.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

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.

[Arkcon]

Imperator Fyron said:
That is one expensive PC, especially for SE4.

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.

[Edited to correct values-found the reciept]

[Atrocities]

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.

[Kamog]

I'll have to buy a faster computer when SE5 comes out...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

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

[Randallw]

Atrocities said:


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

I recently heard of near future technology where computers will utilise Quantum Entanglement (my understanding is whatever happens to one atom occurrs to its twin at the same time...same thing as information teleporting). This will allow the next generation of computers to be billions of times faster just by using a small number of atoms such as 16, althogh I may be commiting hyperbole it is a huge number like that. New quantum computers, private space ships, when younger I used to fantasise about being reincarnated in the future so I could see the future technology. I now believe perhaps I made the same wish 50 years ago