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Gandalf Parker · #1 October 18th, 2006, 02:21 PM

Background processing would be difficult for a game that is built on PbEM. Turn processing is often done on a different machine than the person is playing on.

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Sindai · #2 October 18th, 2006, 03:30 PM

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Gandalf Parker said:
Background processing would be difficult for a game that is built on PbEM. Turn processing is often done on a different machine than the person is playing on.

Well, it's not an issue in MP in the first place. He was proposing the change specifically for SP.

But I bet it wouldn't help very much in SP anyway. GalCiv 1 and 2 are suited for background processing because most of the work is in the AI and it's igo-yougo, so it can "think" during the player's turn. Dom3 is wego and most of the turn processing seems to be spent in battles, which can't be calculated until you know whether or not the player's orders will disrupt or change them in some way, so it's very ill-suited to background processing.