An Open Letter to the PBW Community

Gandalf Parker · #1 January 23rd, 2009, 03:02 PM

Really? I didnt think it would be worse than other games I host with far many more players and larger maps such as Dominions 3. I have 64 copies of it running at the same time. Not to mention online worlds.
Come to think of it I should have asked first if it is willing to run on a linux server.

Captain Kwok · #2 January 23rd, 2009, 04:05 PM

I highly doubt that SE5 will run on a Linux system, even with command prompt turn processing.

Fyron · #3 January 24th, 2009, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

Really? I didnt think it would be worse than other games I host with far many more players and larger maps such as Dominions 3.

The map of Dominions 3 is much smaller than SE4, in terms of asset tracking. Even its largest maps have what, 60 locations? 100? SE4 has 13x13 locations per system, times up to 255. SEIV stock has about 9 planets per system, compared to 1 per territory in a game like Dominions, leading to many more resource/production objects to track and manage. Granted, its code probably isn't very efficient, but a system-based game is a bit more resource-intensive than a territory-based game.