By your logic we wouldn't request anything that improves performance, and the existing video nerfs would be removed. Then only people with absolute top-end rigs could run the game, and the eligible player base would dwindle to an even tinier percentage.  I doubt that's what you really want.

I bought this game to play big battles.  To maximize my ability to do so, I want to turn off some more of the impressive but (like shadows) totally useless eye-candy e.g. PHC dreadnought and repair bay drones.  With 100+ dreadnoughts on the map, it matters - or so I suppose.  It's a reasonable suggestion and perfectly appropriate for me to make.

Thank you, Tictoc.

I've now tried the graphics tweaks mentioned there and see little improvement in the cases I was mentioning.  So it may be that my basic problem is CPU load, not GPU.

Reducing the drone swarm density, especially when there are bunches of dreadnoughts, still seems to make sense in terms of reducing unnecessary load.  I leave it to the devs to do what they want.

hahahahaha ms-toxic-i-wanna-play-alone-elitism strikes again. hahah really? u actually want people with low end rigs to NOT play? do u not realise that those people actual make up the majority of players? aka u dont want stardock to sell to more consumers?

i think thats a good idea, even if for u as the player u wouldnt get to see much of what the drones are doing at least ur rig would run better. i think they generally limit the amount one can downgrade the gfx of a game so that certain types of people dont play the game and then complain that the gfx is awful meanwhile their system's are just too weak to run the game..

but from what ive seen a lot of people didnt even buy ashes since they assumed it wouldnt run on their rigs, so if what u propose was brought forward it might possibly encourage more people to try it

how does ur PC fare vs the minimum requirements? https://forums.ashesofthesingularity.com/470503