Has anything really changed?

RonGianti · #1 November 1st, 2006, 06:53 PM

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Q said:
I have a turn based test game with 203 systems run on minister control till 2402.5 without problems. When did your End of Turn Processing bug show up?

Well, out of 4 modded games I played where I only changed the max systems, 3 of them hung around turn 50 with End of Turn Processing.

The more I think about it though, and this is just a wild guess, I think that troops and ground combat cause this issue. I'm not using troops any more (I just glass the planet and recolonize

) and I dont' get the End of Turn processing bug.

Maybe I'll reuse my mod and try a big game again and try and narrow down the issue...

Desdinova · #2 November 1st, 2006, 10:19 PM

i do not use ground forces and my games still hangup on the end of turn processing. i have not played on a small map so did not realize the size may be part of the delay. i have had games start having problems as early as 2401.0 and 2 last until around 2420.0 b4 having problems.

Q · #3 November 2nd, 2006, 02:45 AM

Never had this hangup on the end of turn processing so far.
So if you use the last savegame and go through it again, will it happen constantly or is it a random hangup?

Captain Kwok · #4 November 2nd, 2006, 02:50 AM

It can be both - but in the majority of cases even repeatable crashes can be averted by switching the AIs over to human control for a turn. Anyway, in theory most of this has been dealth with in 1.09-1.11...

Phoenix-D · #5 November 4th, 2006, 11:20 PM

Here's another concrete example:

In SEIV, many mods implimented "native" colonization tech- that is, if you started out as a Rock dwelling race, it was harder to research Ice technology, and vice versa.

In SEIV, this took three racial traits. In SE5, it can be handled with three tech areas, WITHOUT any interaction from the player at all. There's no confusion and no extra racial traits.

Fyron · #6 November 5th, 2006, 03:37 AM

Actually, it is possible to do it without any traits in SE4 too, exploiting the way unique techs work. Check out the Colony Tech Mod 2 over on SEnet.

Kamog · #7 November 2nd, 2006, 02:57 AM

I've had the end-of-turn game hanging problem happen several times, during the processing after all players. Now I use autosave for every turn and if it hangs, use CTRL-ALT-DEL to end the game and restart, then I can continue on from the last turn it saved.

But it also seems that the hanging problem only happens if I've played continuously for an hour or two. So I'm getting into the habit of saving and exiting the game every so often and restarting the game. I've also noticed that if I don't do that, the game runs more and more slowly over time.