Longest Turn ever in SEIV

Kamog · #1 July 13th, 2004, 12:16 PM

The longest turn I have had is maybe a few hours. That's when I was testing different ship designs on the simulator to try to come up with the best design to counter some enemy threat, and I tried different ideas. Other than designing new ships, my turns usually take half an hour or less. I don't use any ministers but usually I don't have that many ships to manage, less than 1000. Sometimes the battles take a long time if I use tactical combat in a desperate situation where I'm outnumbered, and I move all my ships and fire the weapons manually.

tesco samoa · #2 July 14th, 2004, 01:19 AM

multi add .. doh

capnq · #3 July 13th, 2004, 04:42 PM

Multiadd wouldn't have helped you, Tesco; it doesn't do facilities.

I remember my longest turn was over two hours, but I don't remember the details of why, save that it was a PBW game with a complicated diplomatic situation.

geoschmo · #4 July 13th, 2004, 05:09 PM

Try clicking the Next colony button, or Ctrl-C hotkey. Saves you having to go from system to system on the map clicking planets. And you can use the Q hotkey to go to the build queue screen.

You could setup a fill queue with your new facility , but that wouldn't help in those cases when you are removing or reordering exsisting queues.

kerensky · #5 July 13th, 2004, 06:57 PM

My longest turn happened in a sinlge player vanilla game I'm currently in. As the story goes, I'm building mostly baseships with some dreadnaught construction to reinforce my fleets. I'm using automatic move to so as to keep my ships in order. Normally only about 10-20 ships finish construction in a turn, so waiting for them to move is no problem. But then some rare occurence happened where nearly all of my construction yards finished constructing their ships at the same time and I ended up waiting for more than 20 minutes for my ships to finish moving.

atari_eric · #6 July 14th, 2004, 10:20 PM

Clearly Aaron needs to put more things in SE:V to be able to do similar things on multiple planets at a time. Like to be able to assign planets to Groups, or something. If possible, planets could be in multiple Groups.

Atrocities · #7 July 14th, 2004, 10:22 PM

I have been saying that for years.