The Truth About Space Empires IV

[Atrocities]

PC: $1,200
ISP: $45.00
Babysiter: $25.00
Space Empires IV: $50.00
24 hour turn fest: Priceless

[Aiken]

Cost of ownership

[Fyron]

That is one expensive PC, especially for SE4.

[Thermodyne]

Well, if you put a bunch of AI's into a game with one of your maps, turn processing starts to take a while. I had a game that was taking about 300 to 400 seconds on my old workstation. Moving it to the FX cut the turn around down to less than 60 seconds.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

And in ten years, twenty ai's and a 255 system map with full tech and sphereworlds all around will take no more than 20 seconds.

[Arkcon]

Imperator Fyron said:
That is one expensive PC, especially for SE4.

I dunno, my 733 Mhz Pentium cost me 'bout $2000. When I bought it. That was in 2000.

Yes its less powerful than an AMD system I could build from parts costing $500 these days.

Saturday I'm off with a friend to a computer fair. I'm going to see if I can get a computer or the parts to build one -- cheaply enough that his wife doesn't skin us alive.

His Compaq Presario just doesn't cut it any more.

[Edited to correct values-found the reciept]

[Atrocities]

Man we have come so far so fast when it comes to CPU power and the size of memory and Hard Drives.

In 1996 I bought an Acer P75 with a whopping 840 Meg hard drive, 4 Megs ram, and a blazing fast 14.4 modem.

Just 8 short years later, and many rounds of Moore's Law, and we are sporting 4 Gig CPU's with an average of 1 gig of Ram and 250 Gig hard drives with 512 meg Video cards as the norm.

We have come a long ways, I wonder what the next 8 years will bring.

[Kamog]

I'll have to buy a faster computer when SE5 comes out...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I only have 40 gigs total hard-drive and 256 megs of memory. And I doubt my graphics card has near 512 megs.

[Fyron]

Graphics cards are only at 256 MB max...