Has anything really changed?

Q · #1 November 2nd, 2006, 02:45 AM

Never had this hangup on the end of turn processing so far.
So if you use the last savegame and go through it again, will it happen constantly or is it a random hangup?

Captain Kwok · #2 November 2nd, 2006, 02:50 AM

It can be both - but in the majority of cases even repeatable crashes can be averted by switching the AIs over to human control for a turn. Anyway, in theory most of this has been dealth with in 1.09-1.11...

Phoenix-D · #3 November 4th, 2006, 11:20 PM

Here's another concrete example:

In SEIV, many mods implimented "native" colonization tech- that is, if you started out as a Rock dwelling race, it was harder to research Ice technology, and vice versa.

In SEIV, this took three racial traits. In SE5, it can be handled with three tech areas, WITHOUT any interaction from the player at all. There's no confusion and no extra racial traits.

Fyron · #4 November 5th, 2006, 03:37 AM

Actually, it is possible to do it without any traits in SE4 too, exploiting the way unique techs work. Check out the Colony Tech Mod 2 over on SEnet.

Kamog · #5 November 2nd, 2006, 02:57 AM

I've had the end-of-turn game hanging problem happen several times, during the processing after all players. Now I use autosave for every turn and if it hangs, use CTRL-ALT-DEL to end the game and restart, then I can continue on from the last turn it saved.

But it also seems that the hanging problem only happens if I've played continuously for an hour or two. So I'm getting into the habit of saving and exiting the game every so often and restarting the game. I've also noticed that if I don't do that, the game runs more and more slowly over time.