Any suggestions for speeding up turn processing?

[Tim_Ward]

I don't really understand why strategic combat is limited to the same speed as tactical. The whole point of stratagic combat is to get the combat over with as quickly as possible, for combats that are massively in favour of one side or another and therefore aren't worth watching/controling. As it is, you might as well pick tactical every time.

On the subject of turn times, let's not get too hung up on combat. The turn processing speed is still far to slow even without combats, at least on lower spec systems.

[Suicide Junkie]

Think of it this way;
At least when there are hundreds of ships fighting in a late game battle, it won't take much longer to process.

[Uncle_Joe]

At an average of 3 minutes per turn (being generous)and say about 100 turns to get to having hundreds of ships fighting in a late game battle, I will have wasted over 4&1/2 gaming hours watching the turns process...umm, no thanks. I cant see that as being tolerable.

[Suicide Junkie]

It is only wasted time if you sit there in your chair staring intently at the progress bar.

Visit the IRC channel...
Check the forum...
Take a bathroom break...
Read some webcomics...
Check your email...

[Slick]

Too bad that the game won't continue to process the turn with the game minimized. I hear it will run in the background in windowed mode, but windowed mode sucks.

[Suicide Junkie]

I asked Aaron about adding higher rez windowed modes.
He liked the idea, but it couldn't hurt to remind him a few times.

[Slick]

Strangely, not being able to have a turn process with the game minimized (like SE:IV allows) is the single most annoying thing to me that I'd like to see changed. Yea, there are bugs and yea the UI needs lots of work, but not being able to browse these forums or do other things while turns process is unbearable to me. The fact is that it is inevitable that games will get big enough to require several minutes or more to process turns, even if the game engine is optimized. SEV calculates a lot more stuff than SEIV, so no matter how you cut it or how fast your computer is, turn processing will take time as the game progresses. Ironically, there are more things to like as turn number increases because of increased research, production, expansion, etc.; but waiting for turns to complete actually makes it less fun as turn number increases.