gigantic has speed issues

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I played a game on the plane over the weekend, long trip, and the game became unplayable. Each turn was taking 2-3 minutes just for the AIs to make all their moves. There were so many ships floating around I couldn't keep track of my own ships much less the ships everyone else had so I'm not surprised the turn sequence took so long.

Perhaps there should be a limit to the number of ships you can build? A number of games out there set a limit allowing users to stress their machines if they want or find the level where they can still play the game. i.e. total units in game 600, 100 per player or something. A config option during setup.


Cheers,
Dominic

P.S. I was plugged into the plane power supply so it wasn't a case of my machine stepping down the CPU to save the battery.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Dominic,

Did you have "watch .... ships" (there are two of them) on? This slows things down horendously if you have a lot of ships in the game. I found that turning these options off it increased the performance of the game tremendously. And with all of the debugging stuff they must have in the code, and with the tuning that has yet to be done, maybe this will be a non-issue by the time the game is released.

Besides, I would hate to see them restrict the number of ships you can buikl. Most games that did this (and they were older games) did so because the machines then didn't have the resources to support more.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I've made a change to the pathfinding code that will hopefully speed things up. Now it only calculates the path for as far as it can move. I have a saved game on the gigantic galaxy and I haven't gotten much past the colonization stage of the game, so I don't have a problem with massive amounts of ships moving yet, but once I get there, I'll be in a better position to evaluate exactly what is taking up all the time...
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
i have turned off as many options as i can and it still takes forever. I'll send you the game Cari.

Cheers,
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
What is your maintenance cost? With that many ships it must be huge! This is also something that will effect how large your military can be. it's something we have to tweak in the coming months. I wouldn't worry to much about it right now. Just wondering what is the speed of your machine?