Dominions 3 on Dual Quad core machines

[Griefor]

Actually, random numbers are a good point. I hadn't considered those.

Unless the reverse engineering I did in my mind is wrong, Dominions relies on the deterministic nature of its code to produce the same battle results on every machine a game is played on. Without prerandomized numbers, a random number generator (one of those pseudorandom generators which produces the same results if you seed it with a static value) would still suffer from the same problem - it's only deterministic if all the calls to it occur in the same order every time.

As you said I'm sure it's still a solvable problem, but it's definitely something that would have to be thought about.

I *still* think it wouldn't be incredibly difficult to implement this, but I also don't think it's really necessary enough to warrant the work anyway. In my big SP game experience loading times were really not all that horrible. Although if it's just for SP, a simple pseudorandom generator that isn't deterministic would probably be sufficient anyway.