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ORIGINAL: Siddham


There is another space 4X recently released that has more shiny graphics...
but I prefer the look of DW
There are no doubt some graphical improvements which could be made inexpensively
for instance the ship and object models are relatively low res
so they could be improved easily
the present look of the game (which I like very much) could be sharpened-up
I dont think that would cost all that much in development time or expense

ORIGINAL: HerpInYourDerp

Frankly, by far the most important updates this game really needs before anything else are 64-bit & multithreading support. A lot of people don't realise that the game barely touches the graphics card as it is right now and that's almost completely due to the very basic graphics it currently uses; the low-fi graphics may grate a few and seems to be constantly brought up in the wishlist topic, but it's sufficient for the job right now and is more a fluff upgrade than anything else.

What is actually serious and where the game gets really bad is the severe slowdown and lag/poor responsiveness when you have a lot of ships & colonies active in a game, especially if you want to zoom in to system-range or closer and this is precisely down to the game utilising only 1 thread. Even if just simple things like drawing the menus when you bring up charas/diplomacy/colonies etc. were offloaded to a second thread, it would still noticeably improve gameplay performance.
I'm well aware that it would require a major overhaul of code, but that along with 64-bit support to access more RAM are the two things which would universally improve the game more than anything else.