OT: Building a new computer...

[Raapys]

It'd definitely work better with simultaneous movement, that's true. However, the best approach might be something similar to how Master of Orion 3, which also uses simultaneous movement, processes turns. It basically finishes all movements for all empires, then stores all potential combats.

This way the game could just go ahead and process all empires' movements at once, using all the cores. When that was finished, it could then go ahead and split the combats between the different cores. This way, the only thing that would have to wait would be those combats dependant on the results of previous combats the same turn.

[Fyron]

You can't do that without eliminating the ability to move in sectors of a system; MOO3 had a really primitive movement system, without any ability to move more than through part of a warp lane in a turn. Systems are just a generalized location, without any internal locations. This can't work for SE-style location systems, because ships can move, fight, move, fight, etc., all in one turn. You can't postpone things pending a later combat resolution, since literally hundreds or thousands of objects' movements can be affected by a single combat.

[Fyron]

Yet another nail in the latest AMD architecture's coffin today...

[Xrati]

So, they're still around. They must be doing something right to continue to survive...

[GuyOfDoom]

I always appreciate when a larger business admits to a stupid mistake. It's much better than passing the buck.

In terms of speed I'm not going to cry over 0.1 Ghz.

All I know is any computer company needs competition to keep prices down or you get the ridiculous prices of software such as Windows.....

[Fyron]

Yeah, man, $180 for the most expensive version is just too much to handle... Not to mention $110 for the version people actually need for home use. You want to talk about ridiculous, look at Photoshop, Quickbooks, any commercial rendering software...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Because, of course, two to five times the cost of one single game for a whole operating system is absolutely horrible.