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Sins of a solar empire - AeternusDoleo - 10-18-2011
It's sad that the game cannot handle a huge empire. I tried a 4 stars with a ring of planets and a single desert world/pirate base chain to connect it to the star (basically a fortress) in Entrenchment and Diplomacy, but rarely finish these games because the game slows to a bloody crawl by the time you have 50 worlds built up.
Engine lacks optimization and I haven't found any tips to improve performance.
Sins of a solar empire - DAnvilFan - 10-18-2011
Biggest flaw is that you can send bombers to waste planets while chasing them across multiple star systems.
Battles with AI were either easy or annoying because the enemy ran every time they saw a ship. Where's the in between?
Sins of a solar empire - ian - 10-19-2011
' Wrote:It's sad that the game cannot handle a huge empire. I tried a 4 stars with a ring of planets and a single desert world/pirate base chain to connect it to the star (basically a fortress) in Entrenchment and Diplomacy, but rarely finish these games because the game slows to a bloody crawl by the time you have 50 worlds built up.
Engine lacks optimization and I haven't found any tips to improve performance.
I have tried 8 stars, each having planets and all linked up with wormholes etc etc and i have never experienced any performance issues especially when having a giant fleet.
I guess that would happen if you had 8 empires un-allied all sending a maxed out giant fleet all into the same system for one big giant 8-way free-for-all brawl. that would get ALOT of lag and performance issues even before people zoom into the middle of it!.
Also the engine is a fair few years old now. they did look into multi-core threading and stuff but they coulden't find it possible to do because the engine wasnt capable to do it.
Sins of a solar empire - Veygaar - 10-19-2011
Real men play Homeworld... Still my all time favorite Video Game series.
Sins of a solar empire - Lennox - 10-19-2011
When I got insane by the game I created a 50 stars universe and colonized every planet. Took weeks before I finally broke it up...but it was fun to see how all the ships were moving with less than 10 fps...good training for patience imo.
Sins of a solar empire - AeternusDoleo - 10-19-2011
' Wrote:Real men play Homeworld... Still my all time favorite Video Game series.Quite. And the soundtracks are a whole lot better too. HW 1, Cataclysm... and a bit HW2 as well. Smidgen annoyed at the lowish fleet sizes you can have in the single player campaigns though, unless you use salvage corvettes liberally...
Sins of a solar empire - Veygaar - 10-19-2011
' Wrote:unless you use salvage corvettes liberally...Always kept 8-10ish on me at all times;)
Ah the good old days