Decreasing Turn Time

[Starbucking]

Ive gone through the forms and seen several posts about it. The patch looked interesting and im gonna take a look into it. But shouldn't computer power factor into the equation as well?

Im running a Ryzen 7 5800x 32gb Ram on a 1TB SSD with a 3080TI card. By all accounts my PC should have no problem with a game that is almost the same age as me.

[thunderchero]

no, it is a limit of the code of the AI calculations. in most cases it will run same code hundreds of times to make a single decision. So with thousands of decisions it just take time. and as we increased map size and more ships in game, this just made code issue/turn processing worse.

sad part is AI sucks.

[slickrcbd]

There was a slight difference between playing it on my Dell Optiplex GX110 with a 1ghz processor and 512mb of RAM and my Gateway 4200DX with a 2.5ghz processor and 6gb of RAM.
Not as much as I was expecting, but the 4200DX is 9 years newer than the Optiplex GX110 (which is now old enough to drink). I haven't tried it with anything more modern.

[Starbucking]

There was a slight difference between playing it on my Dell Optiplex GX110 with a 1ghz processor and 512mb of RAM and my Gateway 4200DX with a 2.5ghz processor and 6gb of RAM.
Not as much as I was expecting, but the 4200DX is 9 years newer than the Optiplex GX110 (which is now old enough to drink). I haven't tried it with anything more modern.

On turn 174 of UDML turn time was 60 seconds. I know on some older games you can increase the number of cores used so i was hoping I could do that here.

[Deimos]

no, it is a limit of the code of the AI calculations. in most cases it will run same code hundreds of times to make a single decision. So with thousands of decisions it just take time. and as we increased map size and more ships in game, this just made code issue/turn processing worse.

sad part is AI sucks.

It's a shame because the game could be fantastic if it didn't have that underlying issue.
Couldn't a restriction be somehow introduced to run said calculations a max of X times then make a decision?
Is the calucation purely for ship movements? or does it encompass every decision like what to build etc? I notice when I and the Ferengi had a huge fight (they had 300 ships, I had around 200), after the battle was over, the turn time decreased a fair bit.

[Spocks-cuddly-tribble]

Couldn't a restriction be somehow introduced to run said calculations a max of X times then make a decision?

There is sort of a workaround for AI ship movement calculations on the main map, but we got kind of mixed results: viewtopic.php?p=54732#p54732

[Tethys]

Ooooh, a very missed topic from my extended absence!

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