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[a.fake.name]

So for those with massive lag in GC, I have an idea that may help.
Needless to say, not sure how much would be doable but worth a post at least......


Anyway, is it possible to add some method to have the game load week to week (or some part of a week) at a time.

Basically, rather than deal with the game going painfully slow, it just advances in time, complete with building/research/income advancing.

I'm wondering because the GC map basically goes super slow-mo for me, on my really old single core PC.

[evilbobthebob]

That's not really possible I'm afraid. Anyway, the loading times are long enough for many GCs to make that worse than simple playing it out.

 

We've been working hard on improving performance so hopefully you see improvements in the next version.

[a.fake.name]

That's not really possible I'm afraid. Anyway, the loading times are long enough for many GCs to make that worse than simple playing it out.

 

We've been working hard on improving performance so hopefully you see improvements in the next version.

 

Yeah, the latest version of PR is lots faster than the previous one on my PC.
It's more of a me issue than a PR issue.

[P.O._210877]

It's more of a me issue than a PR issue.

 

Don't hit yourself too hard with that stick Fake, 1.2 has been improved upon. So that makes it you AND the still optimizable PR that you're running.

[a.fake.name]

I'm not going to argue that none of it is PRs fault (other mods tend to run much smoother in GC), that said what PR adds to the game is worth it.

 

 

It's more of a me issue than a PR issue.

 

Don't hit yourself too hard with that stick Fake, 1.2 has been improved upon. So that makes it you AND the still optimizable PR that you're running.

 

I'm not saying PR doesn't cause some of the lag, I'm just ignoring that because it's worth it.

That said, I'm greatly looking foward to pay up front in 1.3
It shall make research less of a headache, since some go fast and some go slow.

[ashiruni]

You can do that now if you change the "<pay_as_you_go>True</pay_as_you_go>" value in gameconstants.xml (C:\program files\lucasarts\star wars empire at war forces of corruption\mods\phoenix rising 1.2\xml\gameconstants.xml by default) to false. I've found it helps a bit (not a ton, but a bit) with lag as well.

Edited by ashiruni, 18 April 2014 - 09:58 PM.

[a.fake.name]

You can do that now if you change the "<pay_as_you_go>True</pay_as_you_go>" value in gameconstants.xml (C:\program files\lucasarts\star wars empire at war forces of corruption\mods\phoenix rising 1.2\xml\gameconstants.xml by default) to false. I've found it helps a bit (not a ton, but a bit) with lag as well.

Thanks!

[a.fake.name]

You can do that now if you change the "<pay_as_you_go>True</pay_as_you_go>" value in gameconstants.xml (C:\program files\lucasarts\star wars empire at war forces of corruption\mods\phoenix rising 1.2\xml\gameconstants.xml by default) to false. I've found it helps a bit (not a ton, but a bit) with lag as well.

Further update:
This has changed the game for me.
The lag is almost entirely gone.

[a.fake.name]

And with a new game at around the 30 week mark, I'd like to confirm that pay as you go was the cause of a good deal of the lag.

 

[evilbobthebob]

Interesting result, not something I would have expected necessarily. I don't think we've specifically noticed that when we made the same change, but it happened along with a lot of others so anything specific there was difficult to measure.

[a.fake.name]

My guess is that is results in fewer things for lower end PCs to keep track of, resulting in less of a lag hit.

[skie9173]

I was thinking and had an idea that is a variation of something that's been put forth before, pirate/neutral stations spawning garrisons. One of the problems with this idea was that there is a cheapness involved with players being able to take out the station and retreat and thus avoid fighting the full garrison fleet.

Is it possible to make it so that certain ships would give a bonus back to the pirate base, space station ect to buff the station to the point where the player basically has to eliminate the ships first?
Example: The Empire moves to conquer a neutral Rendili. The Rendili defense fleet has a static number of Dreadnaught Heavy Cruisers in orbit, and the level 5 astroid base generates an Invincible-class and say several Neb-Bs. The "pirate" version of an Invincible-class give the level 5 base say +300% hull and +300% shields while the Invincible is still active, similar to how Han gives the Falcon or Wedge gives his fighter bonuses in previous versions of the mod.

This forces players to take down the pirate fleet before destroying the stations and taking control of the planetary space. It's not super elegant and I have more thoughts in mind but want to gage interest/feasibility before I rant more.

[a.fake.name]

I was thinking and had an idea that is a variation of something that's been put forth before, pirate/neutral stations spawning garrisons. One of the problems with this idea was that there is a cheapness involved with players being able to take out the station and retreat and thus avoid fighting the full garrison fleet.

Is it possible to make it so that certain ships would give a bonus back to the pirate base, space station ect to buff the station to the point where the player basically has to eliminate the ships first?
Example: The Empire moves to conquer a neutral Rendili. The Rendili defense fleet has a static number of Dreadnaught Heavy Cruisers in orbit, and the level 5 astroid base generates an Invincible-class and say several Neb-Bs. The "pirate" version of an Invincible-class give the level 5 base say +300% hull and +300% shields while the Invincible is still active, similar to how Han gives the Falcon or Wedge gives his fighter bonuses in previous versions of the mod.

This forces players to take down the pirate fleet before destroying the stations and taking control of the planetary space. It's not super elegant and I have more thoughts in mind but want to gage interest/feasibility before I rant more.

Personally I'd rather just make the fleet respawn each battle to prevent that.
 

[Gumballthechewy]

You can do that now if you change the "<pay_as_you_go>True</pay_as_you_go>" value in gameconstants.xml (C:\program files\lucasarts\star wars empire at war forces of corruption\mods\phoenix rising 1.2\xml\gameconstants.xml by default) to false. I've found it helps a bit (not a ton, but a bit) with lag as well.

I tried to edit this because I hate the way money trickles by default but my path ends here: "C:\Program Files (x86)\LucasArts\Star Wars Empire at War Forces of Corruption\Mods\Phoenix_Rising_v1.2" in the Phoenix_Rising_v1.2 folder I have a 'Data' folder, a 'pr' Icon, a 'pr_v1.2_manual' Adobe document, a 'pr_v1.2_readme' notepad document, and a 'pr_v1.2_uninstall' application. I tried a search for 'gameconstants.xml' but my computer found nothing. I'm a little stumped.

[megabalta]

Step into that 'Data' folder, and open config.meg with a program called FinalBig. A .meg file is a compilation of other files, therein you'll find the .xml you seek.

[a.fake.name]

Mega, you don't happen to have a list of various editable values such as that do you ?

[megabalta]

Nah, I'm just an eager amateur in xml editing. It's mostly like: I don't like this, how to change it? Oh there's the xml controlling it, let's see, could this line be it? Kcuf, it didn't do anything, oh wait it crashed the game. Where's the safety copy. Repeat. 

[Gumballthechewy]

Step into that 'Data' folder, and open config.meg with a program called FinalBig. A .meg file is a compilation of other files, therein you'll find the .xml you seek.

Cool, thanks!

Edited by Gumballthechewy, 14 May 2014 - 02:40 PM.

[Gumballthechewy]

Anyone got any other tips to maybe speed it up a bit? I thought I had a somewhat decent computer but GC, especially GFFA really bog it down.

[a.fake.name]

Aside from the obvious unplug the internet and kill all other possible processes (windows, too), no not yet.