New SJ mod

[Fyron]

SE4 didn't let me start a game after it finally finished loading. Used up around 470 MBs of RAM in the end.

[Alneyan]

Same here; SEIV can load the mod in a few minutes, but will not allow me to do anything but quit.

Could it be that there is a hard limit on the maximum number of components? (Perhaps not the magic number of 65,000 and some here though)

[Suicide Junkie]

I got it!

It appears that SE4 has a limit of 2^15 (32k) components.
Attached is a techarea.txt and components.txt which will give you 30000 weapon components (with the 5000 quantum components stripped out)

[ironman]

I've givin it a try and with all tech it takes a few sec's to get the Ship Design to come up but, I think it's still TOO big

And still no weapons for the Weapon Platform's

For the most part I like it

but like all mods (needs a good working AI)

[Suicide Junkie]

Planets are intentionally given no surface-to-space weaponry.
The other side of this is that bombardment is very supply and time intensive.

Ground combat is where its at. The best way to damage a planet's hitpoints is to let your tanks bLast away, since they come in large numbers and don't need to resupply. Plus as a bonus you get to capture the planet when you win

PS:
About the huge components, yes I'm aware that it is insanely large.
I'm going to cut it back to perhaps 5x5x5, so its 1/8th the size. Should help keep the game out of the swap file on most PCs.

[Alneyan]

I didn't see your update about the grid until now. If you have patient players, it should be fine; after all, what is to prevent us from doing something else, like opening a second SEIV game, while your mod loads?

With a few programs running (Firefox and Thunderbird), it took me five minutes to load SEIV, and nearly thirty seconds to open the Design window. My computer has an Athlon XP 1500+ and 3X256 in memory (not sure what sort of memory).

[Suicide Junkie]

Alneyan said:
I didn't see your update about the grid until now. If you have patient players, it should be fine; after all, what is to prevent us from doing something else, like opening a second SEIV game, while your mod loads?

With a few programs running (Firefox and Thunderbird), it took me five minutes to load SEIV, and nearly thirty seconds to open the Design window. My computer has an Athlon XP 1500+ and 3X256 in memory (not sure what sort of memory).

Well, I did have to delete 5000 components in order to get it to load. 32k is the most SE4 handles, and at 10x10x10 I had 35500 or so.
SE4 also gobbles up 500 megs of ram loading to its limit. Even your machine would probably end up swapping to disk if you multitasked much

I'm going to have to update my tech gridder to run batch operations, and once that is done, it will be easy to make a 5x5x5 Version AND a 9x9x9 Version for the supercomputer folks