Feelin' burned out

[Pankatron]

At first, I played this game for days straight, but now I boot up a game for 10 minutes, get annoyed, and exit.

I'm just wondering why I feel this way. Maybe it's the amount of stuff you need to fix: your cabinet, metal, IP, income and all the leader RNG rolls until you get a good one. Even with corporations/religion turned off for some reason it gets to me. Then there's unit models that you need to re-RNG half the time and grind their field testing all of the time. The governance rolls are almost always set to give you a bad event unless you have someone CAP 3 and up to sort it out, so you go back to grinding RNG leaders, again.

Maybe the games needs more fun early game? Honestly, after a month of not playing, it still feels like coming home to a job rather than a game. I have a really cool planet generated too. It has reached the point where I just think that generating a planet is more fun than actually playing on it.

[mattpilot]

I know how you feel. I still love the game, but just recently the fact that the combat rolls take 'so long' started to irrationally annoy me. I wish it would go faster, but having to listen to 10 rounds of combat sounds now annoys me to the point where i tab out.

[Pankatron]

I know how you feel. I still love the game, but just recently the fact that the combat rolls take 'so long' started to irrationally annoy me. I wish it would go faster, but having to listen to 10 rounds of combat sounds now annoys me to the point where i tab out.

Oh that too, what's going with those AI think times? Just one turn is taking 10 minutes to process... Is this an engine limitation?

[mattpilot]

I know how you feel. I still love the game, but just recently the fact that the combat rolls take 'so long' started to irrationally annoy me. I wish it would go faster, but having to listen to 10 rounds of combat sounds now annoys me to the point where i tab out.

Oh that too, what's going with those AI think times? Just one turn is taking 10 minutes to process... Is this an engine limitation?

Thats not quite what i mean ... At least i think its not affected by AI think times. The only option i found in regards to 'my problem' is either to do 'step by step' calc based on user input (you hit a key to get to next combat round), or it does it automatically ... and i wish this automatically were near instant.

The AI think times during the round i dont mind so much -> you have, i think, 3 options to set for how much processing power to give the AI during these cycles. I generally set mine to medium/high in the hopes of getting a better AI opponent. I dont know how fast the lowest setting is though.

[eddieballgame]

Might I suggest a multiplayer game; playing against other humans is a great experience, imho.
I have been involved in numerous 'pbem' games for the past 4 years...it never gets old.