Long Solo Game Bail Out Problem

[Nightblade]

The maximum battle i had in a end game situation , being LA Ermor on the Aran map, was +/- 2400 undeads (lead by a -very- lots of non-magic users commanders, so there were no summons adding to the number during the battle) storming a castle protected by a pretender and a magic user with their +/- 10 remaining militia.

After clicking the turn button, i worried if wanting to assault with such huge number of troops could make the game calculation to be stuck on my not very high end system, especially with the castle taking some places.
Fortunately it played and ended correctly and viewing worked after.

So does a crash related to the amount of troops can happen only if -both- sides are very numerous ?

[Loren]

Nightblade said:
The maximum battle i had in a end game situation , being LA Ermor on the Aran map, was +/- 2400 undeads (lead by a -very- lots of non-magic users commanders, so there were no summons adding to the number during the battle) storming a castle protected by a pretender and a magic user with their +/- 10 remaining militia.

After clicking the turn button, i worried if wanting to assault with such huge number of troops could make the game calculation to be stuck on my not very high end system, especially with the castle taking some places.
Fortunately it played and ended correctly and viewing worked after.

So does a crash related to the amount of troops can happen only if -both- sides are very numerous ?

I have had a crash with something in the ballpark of 1000 troops against a castle that didn't contain much of anything. However, my troops were minotaurs, they took up more space.

I don't think it's the number of troops but rather the numbers of squares on the battle board. Exceed that and boom.

[NTJedi]

Loren said:
I have had a crash with something in the ballpark of 1000 troops against a castle that didn't contain much of anything. However, my troops were minotaurs, they took up more space.

I don't think it's the number of troops but rather the numbers of squares on the battle board. Exceed that and boom.

For dominions_4 the developers should use what was done within Lord_of_the_Realms_2.{{not_Rings}}
Here troops of the same type would merge on the same square and increase by 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64. It's difficult to explain so if someone's curious they should briefly play the game.

[mivayan]

Loren said:
I don't think it's the number of troops but rather the numbers of squares on the battle board. Exceed that and boom.

The solution I'd like in dom3 is that when the game cant place any more units on the battlefield, it stops trying and the ones that dont fit are just ignored. If the battle is won they'll be in the province afterwards, otherwise they'll be in neigbouring provinces like normal routing units.

[Gandalf Parker]

Yes I think it would have to be the grid. Too much of the battle results relies on positions, weapon length, area affects, etc.

The "overflow" (or probably just "left behind") thing might be ok.

Maybe, as long as something has to be done anyway, Johan might work in terrain info. The provinces have terrain settings such as mountain, woods, plains. And also settings for large and small which is only used to figure population I think. Maybe the game could figure out that a small woods province wont support the size of army battles that a large plains province would. That would add another layer of strategy to the game.

Gandalf Parker