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So I'm re-enabling some of the nastier AI functions for JUST the Arceans right now and only then at Intelligent and higher.
These were turned off because they're a bit CPU intensive and they can be pretty ruthless.
But I haven't seen too many posts from people sayign the time between turns is too long (which is surprising). We'll see how this goes. The beta is already available but not showing up for most people for some reason, tomorrow morning we'll make sure anyone with SDC who wants to play with the beta of GalCiv 1.02Z can give it a try.
The Arceans play a substantially different game tactically than its relatives. Watching them is pretty interesting with these functions back in. I had forgotten some. The Arceans have a concept of "tours of duty" which the others don't. Basically, when ships get damaged to certain point, they get sent home for refit while other ships come in and take their place.
There are other coordinating of attacks and starbase enhancements in there as well that should make things interesting. We'll have to see how they affect performance.
These were turned off because they're a bit CPU intensive and they can be pretty ruthless.
But I haven't seen too many posts from people sayign the time between turns is too long (which is surprising). We'll see how this goes. The beta is already available but not showing up for most people for some reason, tomorrow morning we'll make sure anyone with SDC who wants to play with the beta of GalCiv 1.02Z can give it a try.
The Arceans play a substantially different game tactically than its relatives. Watching them is pretty interesting with these functions back in. I had forgotten some. The Arceans have a concept of "tours of duty" which the others don't. Basically, when ships get damaged to certain point, they get sent home for refit while other ships come in and take their place.
There are other coordinating of attacks and starbase enhancements in there as well that should make things interesting. We'll have to see how they affect performance.
