Legends Question / Comments

[Erik Rutins]

Were you at war? At war exploration ships are often re-assigned as scouts and told to wait in enemy systems to observe operations.

Regards,

- Erik

[geosch]

OK, I think that was it.


The panel says that they are waiting, but with their flight plans showing - you can see that they arte going towards enemy planets. Thanks a lot, that was a mystery.[&o]

Now, how about another question - how can I make a military ship stay at one location for an extended period of time. Usually, after a minute, they claim that the mission (say patrol) is done and they want to fly off elsewhere. Blockades work, but not all places can be blockaded.

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Were you at war? At war exploration ships are often re-assigned as scouts and told to wait in enemy systems to observe operations.

Regards,

- Erik

[WiZz]

Just turn off automation.

[geosch]

ORIGINAL: Nedrear

The demand is "per now" your current plans of building things. Nothing beeing build = no demand.

So with a stock of 50k Loros Fruit with a 0.5k demand, you all are telling me that I have stocks of 50k - but a demand (based on my current building plans) of 50.5k? Leaving a shortage of 0.5k? Hmm..

Thanks. I understand your explanation as it applies to strategic resources, but how does it apply to luxuries? Some luxuries I show no demand, while others I show a demand - and luxury demand doesn't relate to my building plans, or does it?

[Nedrear]

No... a demand means it is used in THIS moment. Regarding strategic resources it applies to the building queue. Regarding luxury ressources it is consumption in X ingame days. Your sotck is a stock and can puffer a higher demand than the production for a certain time.

[vince0018]

I ended up buying Legends today and was excited since I heard there were performance improvements.
However when I started up a new game I noticed the same old issue still exists, zooming in and out of any
nebula causes major slowdown.

This definitely puts a damper on my excitement but maybe I can force myself to get past that and still
enjoy the game.

[Erik Rutins]

Hi Vince,

Performance is improved a great deal, but we did not specifically address anything with nebulas. If those are causing a performance issue for you, please turn them off in the options. I think you'll see that performance in a great many areas is improved, both in terms of memory usage and multi-core usage in larger galaxies and large battles.

Regards,

- Erik

[vince0018]

Don't get me wrong, the additions in the expansion are great and I look forward to playing.

But the nebula's I'm talking about are the ones in deep space. Turning off the nebula's in
solar systems helps a great deal but the ones out in space are a nightmare for me when it comes
to needing to be anywhere near them. If there were an option to turn those off that would make
things so much easier.

When I use to play I actually use to edit the map and shrink all nebula's to such a small size they couldn't
be seen. But this would take hours. Eventually it got to the point where I stopped playing the game all together
because I couldn't stand it, so I was disappointed when I found the issue still persists.

[Nedrear]

Not to sound harsh, but your PC is really far down the ladder. Mine is not the youngest and is capable of that with ease. I would propose getting a new graphical card. A good Geforce in Europe currently costs about 80 Euro and is nearly ten times as good as mine. I would not recommend the expensive ones. This one is a charm in itself... moment the name is:
 
Nvidia Geforce 9600GT 
1GB TC
1024MB DDR3
PCI-Express

[vince0018]

Here are my PC specs:

Windows 7 x64 Home Premium
Intel Core2 Quad Q8200; 2.33Ghz
Geforce GTX 460 768MB
8GB DDR3 RAM

[Gelatinous Cube]

Wow, you can play on that thing Nedrear? I had trouble on the larger galaxies with my old Laptop, which had 4gb of RAM (DDR2) and a GeForce 9800M and a 2.2ghz Dual Core Intel.

With my current system, however, I have noticed absolutely no slowdown of any kind on any setting. But that's because I designed it for SotS2, which has ridiculous requirements. With that game being a bust (for now, at least..) it has turned out to be pretty fantabulous for DW.

[Erik Rutins]

Hi Vince,

I'm not sure why you're having such a performance issue with the nebulas, but I'll see if we can turn the other ones off too. Just FYI, they cause no performance issues here on much lower end systems, so you might check your system and driver settings as well.

Regards,

- Erik

[Nedrear]

ORIGINAL: Gelatinous Cube

Wow, you can play on that thing Nedrear? I had trouble on the larger galaxies with my old Laptop, which had 4gb of RAM (DDR2) and a GeForce 9800M and a 2.2ghz Dual Core Intel.

What do you mean "that thing"?

AMD Dual Core 2,8 Ghz
2 GB Ram
GeForce 9400 GT

It is not my fault that Nvidia threw a fist and decided their next gen card needed to be a miracle. The 9600er series and the 9800 GT are ten times stronger than mine. And mine can play this game!

[Gelatinous Cube]

ORIGINAL: Nedrear

ORIGINAL: Gelatinous Cube

Wow, you can play on that thing Nedrear? I had trouble on the larger galaxies with my old Laptop, which had 4gb of RAM (DDR2) and a GeForce 9800M and a 2.2ghz Dual Core Intel.

What do you mean "that thing"?

AMD Dual Core 2,8 Ghz
2 GB Ram
GeForce 9400 GT

It is not my fault that Nvidia threw a fist and decided their next gen card needed to be a miracle. The 9600er series and the 9800 GT are ten times stronger than mine. And mine can play this game!

Make no mistake, it is admiration and not derision! There's a ton of fantastic games out there you can run on a 9400GT, as long as you've got the RAM and the CPU. Throw 2 more gigs of RAM in that baby and you could play anything Paradox makes pretty comfortably.

[vince0018]

It would be truly a life saver if you could add an option to disable those deep space nebula's also and
if they could still somehow remain functional.

And my PC has the newest drivers for all components, Bios, videocard, CPU. So I have no idea what the
issue could be.

And sorry for all the trouble everyone, I truly love this game, it's definitely my favorite space game
of all time and worth every penny.
edit: Maybe that's why the lag issue with nebulae bothers me so much, because this game is so awesome and
I enjoy it so much I just wish I could play it flawlessly.
But seriously if the lag from nebulae were removed in whatever way possible, even it were through an option
to remove the nebulae entirely, I would be extremely happy and could finally fully enjoy the game.

[sabre1]

Has anything changed in the tutorial from the original DW?

Thanks.

[feelotraveller]

Vince I don't know if you already use it but (thanks to J HG T for recommending this) Gamebooster made a big difference for me. Increased my performance about 44%. Improved some lagging issues and allowed my fan to stop working overtime so much.

http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4842-game-booster.html

Not sure it will solve your problems but it may well help out quite a bit.

[vince0018]

Actually I've been using Gamebooster for quite awhile, bought the full version until I was forced to reinstall
windows awhile back, have to dig up my key or something to get the full version again so I've been using
the trial.

It seems it's worse than I thought too, zooming in and out of solar systems with more than a couple planets causes
lag as well as being around many objects. Even just zooming in and out of my started planet after just starting
a new game causes lag. My planet is there, rotating around a larger planet with several ships flying nearby.

I've tried as many things as I can think of to fix this, reducing the resolution to minimum, forcing the game
to run on a single core, compatibility modes, I've run out of ideas and have no idea what it is about my
particular computer that struggles to run this game. For the most part I can run other high-end games just
fine.

[feelotraveller]

Did you used to have to pay for gamebooster? This version is freeware without any limiting trial period. [:)]

If you haven't already try playing with the zoom/scroll speeds. There is a slight delay after giving the zoom order. You get used to it though. But maybe your problems run deeper than that... [:(]

[vince0018]

Ok maximizing the zoom speed seems to help 'bypass' the lag so it's not so noticeable. Though I still have one
issue in that regard.

Zooming in happens much faster than zooming out. So I can zoom into a nebula and avoid most of the lag, but
zoomin out still happens relatively slowly so it takes much longer to zoom out and I still experience a great
deal of lag.

This is most noticeable if I start at a medium zoom level, then roll back the mousewheel one 'click' or level, then I zoom in one level, then out one level. The game ends up zooming closer and closer at a fast rate.
If both zooming levels were identical the screen would remain at the same distance after one zoom in, then zoom
out.

I still get a little lag when scrolling side to side when there are many/large objects around, however the lag
is minor in comparison to the zooming lag. So if the zoom out speed were as fast as the zoom in speed I think
I could consider this issue fixed and enjoy the game.

Has anyone else has this zooming issue where zooming in is faster than out, and maybe knows a fix for it?


In regards to Gamebooster I remember I paid $10 for it when it was Gamebooster 2, I'm using 3 right now and haven't
updated to the newest version yet, but now that you mention it I haven't noticed anything that actually says it's
a trial or anywhere that says I can buy it, so I guess they did make it free.