Question: Anyway to improve between turn speed?

[jutetrea]

I haven't seen a noticeable drop in speed from the vanilla game. Most of the mods (not sure about standards, or mytheology) are relatively small.

It just seems that as the game goes on and more magic is utilized the turns take longer, sometimes actually stopping for a sec on each round 1, round 2, etc.

Running a year old dual core 3800+ with 2gb of ram and a 7800 GTX.

Mostly wondering what actually happens behind the scenes - does the game actually run the battles a la the replay vids, or does it just run statistical simulations a la just numbers? If it runs the replays.. would dropping graphics help? Or someway to reduce feedback?

Me to, how do I get to the debug logs?

[jutetrea]

Is this the log? Best way to read it?

whoah! (just clicking the attachment link is a better view than via .txt) There is A LOT of info in there!

Kind of cheating to look at it in certain respects

[Gandalf Parker]

Like everything else about the game, it tends to do things in linux mode. So the carriage returns dont work so well. Try reading it in WordPad instead of NotePade (from the paths at the beginning of the log it looks like you are a windows user)

A host could really abuse it. It looks like you ran it with a -d but if you add more d's it increases the output. Be careful though, when I first played with it I created a log so huge that it made my machine puke.

It does seem to spend awhile loading new items, new units, new sprites. And since the game is setup for pbem it might be that it reloads those all at the beginning of each turn.

There are many facets to reading the log. What I love is seeing the AI thinking. You should see the logs from my games with 75 AIs