I finally found some Elerium on my insane map. Pretty rare though. I recall having a lot more on smaller maps with the same settings. BTW - The Metaverse shows my games that finished as long ago as Jul 2 to be 1.1_2x, This was before the "unreleased" 1.12 posted on Jul 16. Maybe the new patch should be reclassified as 1.13. Could this be why it's all lopsijoggled?
[quote who="Petri Kokko" reply="20" id="3574323"] Another perfectly good game was ruined again today because I got four crappy planets on the other side of the galaxy Well, there's the "destroy planet" button in the Govern-screen which solves exactly that problem and let's you feel a bit better about it... "Cowards! You should have stood your ground and fought to the bitter end! Now burn! Burn, all of you, bu
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The Large Empire Penalty and approval can be ignored and you'll still be able to play/win the game. You'll have less production, but if you have high population, it'll more than compensate. You can build starbases to boost approval, but it's not that big of a deal. 100 billion unhappy people on a planet still produce a lot of hammers. When I see red sad faces on my planets (which I see several in my current game), I just say I'll cry a tear for
I'm playing my first insane map and haven't noticed any Elerium yet. I'm hoping I haven't explored enough, but your post has me concerned. I'll keep looking for it. My available opt-in says 1.11 too. I didn't opt-in since it looks like it's acting squirrely. They changed the thread to show that it's unreleased for now.
[quote quoting="post"] Hello everybody, I have not played the game yet but I think there is something wrong with the ideological traits (at least to my liking). What happens if I have maxed out one tree? I go for the next tree, right? This would mean that people who would like to be truly benevolent, malevolent or pragmatic have a disadvantage because the AI will probably max out all three trees.
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Those are some interesting numbers, Dan. Mine might not be exactly apples to apples because I'm not familiar with doing a soak test. I just loaded, hit end turn and clicked on whatever popped up. Your system seems to be able to get through an extra turn. Mine crashed at turn 502 while yours went to 503 before crashing. I assume that I'd need to make a shortcut and add "cheat" to the end in order to get to the console, bring the console up
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[quote who="Enzenx" reply="18" id="3572832"] I'll run some testing on this later to give you another data set. I've got a 4690k, 16GB of RAM, and a GTX970. E: Well I was going to run some testing but I can't get it to load. It just throws off a CTD about 20 seconds into the loading. Not really sure what the cause is. It's definitely not an out of memory crash since physical memory usage doesn't even reach 8GB (from a baseline of 2GB). Perhaps its crash
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[quote who="KD7BCH" reply="13" id="3572764"] Quoting MottiKhan, reply 7 Quoting dansiegel30, reply 6 With that much RAM, I
[quote who="naselus" reply="8" id="3572679"] As to the idea, well, what if influence buildings increased ideology production, but didn't generate it themselves? Give each cultural building +20% ideology generation per turn for each type. That way, they do nothing without the actual ideology improvements present, but a big cultural world can pump out a lot of ideology points over time. [/quote] That's a good idea. If you don't have the b
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[quote who="My Views and Muse" reply="10" id="3572723"] Well rats! The saved game will not load on my computer (Razer Blade 2014), it does not max out memory but starts the loading process then fails to desktop. [/quote] Yeah, he's doing an insane sized map with 100 factions. I doubt it would fit into 8GB RAM. Is the Razer Blade upgradable? I'd think 12 GB would do it. 16 for sure. My laptop costs too much to reasonab
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[quote who="a0152570" reply="13" id="3572610"] Quoting MottiKhan, reply 12 Maybe not a colony ship, but something of that size will infiltrate the upgrade box But i have done on ALL types & classes of ships, cargo, transports, tiny/sml/med/lrg/huge war ships. Everyone i don'
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I'm not familiar with WPA/WPR, but I did a recording session with the game. I'm not clear on precisely what the numbers mean, but the graphs seem to indicate that both cores and all 4 threads are being utilized pretty well. I overlaid my CPU-Z report so you can do an apples to apples thing. I had to interact with the game on some turns, which would add a few seco
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[quote who="a0152570" reply="11" id="3572561"] Quoting MottiKhan, reply 9 I obsolete the designs, but new ones keep popping up. It's not the same as the previously obsoleted design, but a new one that takes its place. I am still really confused here, or really dumb and mi
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[quote who="dansiegel30" reply="6" id="3572524"] With that much RAM, I'd create a ramdisk and disable VM, and get the HD completely out of the loop. [/quote] Actually, I tried that when I first upgraded the memory. There was no discernible difference in speed between the RAMDisk and the SSD. I'm sure the RAMDisk was faster in absolute terms, but I didn't notice a difference in the real world. I did a backup through Steam to my HDD and tha
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Thanks! When I get home (and after chores and such), I'll grab the WPA and your savegame and run a turn. My machine is on the opposite spectrum as yours as far as CPU cores. i3, so only 2 cores. It'll probably report 4 cores cue to hyperthreading. We'll see tonight. 32GB of RAM, so it should be able to run your map. Again, we'll see. My graphics card is a 2GB EVGA GTX 760 SC. A fairly close match to yours as far as speed. T
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As I put in your +1 Karma note - Outstanding info! I might be missing it, but what graphics card(s) are you using?
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I'd like to see an option to turn off the auto ship designer. I never, ever build a game designed ship, but when I go to upgrade a ship in the field, I have to scroll past those annoying designs. Maybe I'm missing it, but I only see and "ALL" tab when I upgrade. I'll look harder next time. I obsolete the designs, but new ones keep popping up. It's not the same as the previously obsoleted design, but a new one that takes its place. It'
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[quote quoting="post"] I bought the founder elite edition a long time ago but I don't recall getting an opportunity to name a star - was there an email or forum post or something i missed? - and I didn't see my name in the founder credits. Now I'm worried I'm not properly registered as a founder for the DLCs. [/quote] If you're an Elite Founder, you can check to see if you're properly registered by checking to see if you have the Map DLC. Elite
As for requesting games with fewer races involved, some of us can help there, too. I'm playing large maps with vanilla races, so I can't set a game up with double digit players. At least I don't know of a way to do that yet. I don't see a lot of the problems that are being reported, so I'm not sure what I can do, but I'm willing to try to duplicate them. I'm sure the majority of players are willing too, especially founders. We all have an
For ships, I go for more speed and then space. If you want more power, you can always add another weapon. I also just go for missiles and no defenses. Missiles are a great standoff weapon. If I have space for a shield or armor, I figure one more missile should fit there. Until I can get carriers. Then it's all carriers.
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I saw this yesterday after the unannounced update, but figured it was because I was playing a game that started before the update. Maybe something in that download did it?
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[quote who="Fred Cerequas" reply="4" id="3571477"] I purchased and downloaded this content. When I click on load maps I see all of the ones listed, except for Milky Way. Do I need to do something different to access this map? [/quote] I read somewhere, a while back that they limited the map size according to your RAM size. I tried searching and can't find the post, though. How much RAM do you have?
Doubtful, since 1.1 is still in opt-in mode. They need to get it squared away before starting a new one. There was, however, an update yesterday. My game had a CTD and when I tried to reload, the update had to download first. I didn't notice anything new.
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I did. I saw no difference zoomed all the way in on a blank spot on the map and zoomed out to icon level at the edge of the map. I loaded a game and ended the turn on the same turn in both instances and the time was right at 8 seconds. I underestimated my ship count. It was 87 at the time of the test. A lot of these are constructors and transports, but there are some survey ships and carriers wandering around too. [quote who="gmaxson" rep