Tackle the Tower

[HoneyBadger]

Yeah, I'm working on a map for this now. It's a bit tricky, but it should turn out nice. I'm starting to go into project-overload, and I start 10 hour shifts at work next week, so it may be a little late in coming.

[Epaminondas]

Gandalf,

Do you have a state of art computer or something? I can't imagine how people could play a map with 15000 provinces--or even 300--with the turn generations lasting over 10 minutes late game!

[HoneyBadger]

1500 provinces actually isn't too bad, for SP. I've got a laptop, and while it's a powerful laptop I had custom-built, that was 3 years ago, and it wasn't by any means state-of-the-art at the time. Turns take maybe 15-30 minutes to process, tops, by mid-game, which means you can get a few things done while you wait.

[Gandalf Parker]

Well I have a decent desktop computer (only a couple of months old in fact) but I cheat. I set the games up on my server machine and play them from my desktop machine. That way the turn generation is done on a completely different machine. I can easily jump in and out of other programs

[HoneyBadger]

I can't do that at the moment, because all I've got is my laptop and my work computer, and I don't download anything on that. It might be worth it at some point to invest in a separate computer, but it'll probably be years until I can afford it-we're currently looking for a new house. Still, for those who can, it's a good idea.

[Gandalf Parker]

Just wait until you have your first major upgrade.
The computer that cant run the latest greatest games can be a linux server capable of replacing all of your internet services.
http://any1can.blogspot.com/

[HoneyBadger]

That's what I use my work computer for, the internet. I have to switch over to laptop when I want to download anything. Really though, I have little trouble and not terrible delay running even 1500 province SP games.