Biggest PBW game ever?

Fyron · #1 July 3rd, 2003, 04:42 AM

If his email no longer works properly, it is one of the few options available. The other is to get the company to fix it, but that is not likely to happen.

Karibu · #2 July 3rd, 2003, 10:02 AM

In my current game I have 1700+ ships, 16000+ units and 1300+ bases and my ship -window opens in few seconds (800 MHz Athlon TB). Only when I am cloacking a fleets of 100 ships, it takes some time (1-2 min) to do this (I think there could be done some code optimization). Heh, I will see if I reach 5000 ships and 100000 units

If I do, I will take a screenshot of the scores and send it to the board

I have found that managing ships is not so hard if you develope some policies you follow. For example, use gathering points where all ships go when they are built. Keep them in fleets, not outside of them. Name ships so that you find them easily in the ship list, etc.

What I meant of reaching top limit of ships when it is not limited is that there must be a variable (word, double word or something) which is the hard coded limit for ships. Though it might be like 2 billion, so then it won't matter.

Have anyone reached a limit of how many ships can be added in a fleet (not meaning that you have 200 ships in a fleet when game ship limit is 200 ships)?

In one game I found out that ship limit counts also mothballed ships :/ So it does not help to make a huge mothballed fleet.

Asmala · #3 July 3rd, 2003, 09:41 PM

According to your commments it should work fine in my computer. Too bad my computer doesn't know it

PvK · #4 July 3rd, 2003, 09:48 PM

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Originally posted by Asmala:
According to your commments it should work fine in my computer. Too bad my computer doesn't know it

Are you using Win XP?

Karibu · #5 July 3rd, 2003, 09:49 PM

Asmala, I think the problem may lie in your computer in general. Is it slow and do you have to wait with other applications? If so, I recommend you remove some programs, make disk defragment, etc. computer caring.

One thing might be also the amount of RAM memory. I have 384 MB. If you have Win 2000 and 128 MB memory, I do not wonder it is slow.

Base rule:
Win 95: 32 MB RAM
Win 98: 64 MB RAM
Win ME: unlimted RAM
Win 2000: 128 MB RAM
Win XP: 256 MB RAM

and this is only for running OS. Running applications, double the amount of RAM.

[ July 03, 2003, 21:20: Message edited by: Karibu ]

PvK · #6 July 3rd, 2003, 09:50 PM

20,000 ships in space is the highest amount officially allowed. Of course, you could have two other empires surrender to you, and I think their 20,000 ships would also be given to you. If SE4 indexes with a 16-bit number, there might be overflow problems around 32 x 1024 or 64 x 1024.

PvK

Karibu · #7 July 3rd, 2003, 10:35 PM

Well, in fact I do have two surrendered empires under my control, but I don't think their ship limit is added to mine (it is defined for a player not for empire, I believe but Imight be wrong too). Though I think that if someone gets 20 000 ships, the game is quite finito then. It require about all the resources any galaxy produces. Ever.