- Dec 18, 2003
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So I played a few small games to get the hang of it. All single player against default difficulty. The longest took about 6 hours, and that was a 4 player FFA. Then I took it up a notch and am playing on the biggest random map, high resources, 10 players. something like 120 planets?
There are 5 stars, each with ~25-30 planets around them. It took 8 hours to take over my starting system. Now I'm up to 12 hours and have almost taken over the 2nd system. Crikey!
Thoughts:
-needs a higher unit limit cap. With a game as large as this, I have 3-4 main attack fleets with 11 or 12 capital ships total (all level 10 now) and a few small defense fleets. The cap needs to be about twice as high. (maybe make it scale with map size?)
-does not use the GPU. At all. If I monitor GPU usage while playing, it never goes over 5%. Only conclusion is that it uses software rendering. This is fine. However, in huge battles my fps drops to shit (Q6600 @ 3ghz). It is not multithreaded either.
-computer players are annoying, every damn time you try to get in a nice battle against their fleet, they run away. (fun to set up traps though)
-pirates are just annoying. pirate raids are obnoxious.
-too much metal and not enough crystal in early stages
-where are the screenshots stored?
-unit movement speed around stars is obnoxiously slow
-autosaves don't auto delete. The autosave folder is using 251mb after playing for 3-4 days.
There are 5 stars, each with ~25-30 planets around them. It took 8 hours to take over my starting system. Now I'm up to 12 hours and have almost taken over the 2nd system. Crikey!
Thoughts:
-needs a higher unit limit cap. With a game as large as this, I have 3-4 main attack fleets with 11 or 12 capital ships total (all level 10 now) and a few small defense fleets. The cap needs to be about twice as high. (maybe make it scale with map size?)
-does not use the GPU. At all. If I monitor GPU usage while playing, it never goes over 5%. Only conclusion is that it uses software rendering. This is fine. However, in huge battles my fps drops to shit (Q6600 @ 3ghz). It is not multithreaded either.
-computer players are annoying, every damn time you try to get in a nice battle against their fleet, they run away. (fun to set up traps though)
-pirates are just annoying. pirate raids are obnoxious.
-too much metal and not enough crystal in early stages
-where are the screenshots stored?
-unit movement speed around stars is obnoxiously slow
-autosaves don't auto delete. The autosave folder is using 251mb after playing for 3-4 days.