Any suggestions for speeding up turn processing?

[Uncle_Joe]

It's only a 3ghz P4 HT, so not much to brag about.

Hmm, thats what I've got too. I have 1gb of RAM if that makes a difference. Graphics card shouldnt matter at all for this type of calculation since it isnt actually displaying the battles (I've got an ATI9600 if for some arcane reason it DOES matter).

This is what makes me think I have a different setting or something than others. I cant imagine anyone actually playing this game with the wait times I'm seeing.

Have you adjusted anything with combat in your Settings?

[Raapys]

It's basically the original Settings.txt file that follows with the Balance Mod.

I've made two changes. I've disabled combat replays, although that particular change hasn't made much of a difference, and just for fun I turned the "Main System Display Icon Move Speed Points Per Second Very High" setting up to 50000, but that didn't( unsurprisingly ) have any effect either.

I'm sort of wondering if modders could make a difference by making all ships move twice as fast( in combat only) and fire at double the rate: but this would only help if AI combat is limited to 8x time rate like human combats, which I'm unsure of.