Forthcoming patch notes

[NTJedi]

Sombre said:
1. Why do you think they have a 16 month year?

2. How does 1.3 = several even if they do?

Discussed in previous post... it's actually 1 month per turn as pointed out by Tifone.

Night without sleep. Thus I shouldn't have used the word 'several'. Again... last night I had no sleep.

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A game turn is one month... still a huge difference verses 50 turns on a battlefield. Literally the attacker(and sometimes the defender) are sometimes fighting against a game clock during large battles because of the 50 turn limit. Increasing the game turn limit helps remove this unrealistic variable for battlefield strategies.

[Xietor]

without a new game engine, i imagine increasing the length of battles may make the delay between turns unbearable in large games.

But that is just a guess.

[NTJedi]

Xietor said:
without a new game engine, i imagine increasing the length of battles may make the delay between turns unbearable in large games.

But that is just a guess.

Depends on the computer, which is why an adjustable battlefield turn setting would work best.

[WraithLord]

I second NT Jedi and concur with his reasoning.
I suggest a humble increase of the turn limit to 100, and optionally (hopefully also) make it adjustable.

[Gandalf Parker]

Keep in mind when you talk about increasing things that you are talking globally. You arent talking about increasing the number of units and turns in a battle. You are talking about increasing the number of units and turns in 1500 battles.

Actually I guess its even more than the # of Provinces limit since you can have 2 or 3 battles in some provinces.

[llamabeast]

Only a small proportion of battles last 50 turns, so only a small proportion would be affected. Also, the majority of the processing time is often spent on the early turns of a battle, when there are more units alive and more mages awake.

So I would suggest that the effect on the processing time of a turn would not be that large.

Personally, I would be very much in favour of including an option for the battle turn limit. I can't see any disadvantages, and I expect that the majority of multiplayer hosts would choose a higher limit than the current 50 turns.

[Gandalf Parker]

Im not sure how such things are handled in the code but if any part of it involves having to have an array large enough to handle the maxs then it would have overflowing impacts. We didnt realize all the different maxs that had to be increasd when we increased the number of provinces. It took a long time to find all the crashes that could generate.

But in general I also wouldnt mind a setting for it.