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October 5th, 2006, 08:09 PM
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Re: Just an idea of mine - the Dom3 Q&A thread
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Okay, I'm at year 6 or 7 on the hugest map. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't an issue on my end.
Would increasing the size of my page file accelerate the process? Thanks for your reply!
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You could use some extra memory. 
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October 5th, 2006, 08:12 PM
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Re: Just an idea of mine - the Dom3 Q&A thread
I've got 2 GB, it's not like I'm trying to run this on a Commodore 64 or something!
I can increase my page file another 1000MB, I'll do so tonight and report the results.
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October 5th, 2006, 08:19 PM
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Re: Just an idea of mine - the Dom3 Q&A thread
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I've got 2 GB, it's not like I'm trying to run this on a Commodore 64 or something!
I can increase my page file another 1000MB, I'll do so tonight and report the results.
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I see.
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October 5th, 2006, 08:46 PM
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Re: Just an idea of mine - the Dom3 Q&A thread
Hosting time is to keep us from starving or dehydrating or bursting our bladders. 
Ive been able to get the hosting time up to ten minutes. But that was 1500 provinces and 79 nations after 50 turns into the game And 20 minutes 70 turns into the game.
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October 5th, 2006, 09:02 PM
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Re: Just an idea of mine - the Dom3 Q&A thread
Wow that's a big game... mine is at 300 provinces or so (the largest included map). How do you get 79 nations, are most of those independent?
I'll increase my page file to 4000 MB and see if I notice any difference.
Okay, another question- is there a limit to how many of those magic places you can find in a province?
For instance, I've found two places of magic in one province, a sunken ship and I think an oyster breeding ground or something. Could I discover more in the future with a mage of superior ability?
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October 5th, 2006, 09:05 PM
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Re: Just an idea of mine - the Dom3 Q&A thread
4 magic sites maximum.
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October 5th, 2006, 09:32 PM
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Re: Just an idea of mine - the Dom3 Q&A thread
Remember that random events (possibly other things, like scales shifting) get evaluated for _every_ province, so large maps take longer even without extra AIs. Adding in a full quota of nations and it'll get ugly fast. Happened with Dom2 also, was noticed easily on the Forgotten Realms map.
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October 5th, 2006, 09:34 PM
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Re: Just an idea of mine - the Dom3 Q&A thread
Dominions lets you create games of era 1 or era 2 or era 3, and about 23 players in the game. That includes human or computer players.
But the map commands allows you to add AIs. There are 79 nation slots. Some are special monster nations, some are unfinished nations for the modders to work with so they dont overwrite the games nations. Anyway, I go ahead and add them all. All 3 ages, specials, modder slots. Its pretty insane. Its possible altho most players wont be doing it.
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October 5th, 2006, 08:13 PM
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Re: Just an idea of mine - the Dom3 Q&A thread
Even with 1.5 gigs of RAM on mine, the processing time on such turns is pretty long. I think it's just to be expected, given the complexity of crunching all those numbers in sequence.
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