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Ive got the latest version of atgold even playing on small maps with 2-3ai players i find when the map gets busy ie lots of counters and the current battles are about attrition the turn time takes 5 min +.What ways are to speed up the turn time ?

Basicly there are 3 main ways to speed things up.

1. play on smaller maps

2. with less AI players.

3. get a faster PC

though i must say 5 min+ for a small map seems excessive to me... if you want a benchmark send the game to me at vic@xs4all.nl and i'll tell you how long the AI takes on my computer.

best,
Vic

hi,
If your talking about the AI's turn, mine was taking 10+ minutes on med map with 4 ai players. Mine laptop is not cutting edge or even close, but i turned off the real time AI and it cut the AI turns to a couple minutes. Thought i was never going to play any larger maps, but i'll give large maps a shot when i'm more used to the game. Thx Vic.. the new patches cut the start up time a great deal also.
budd

This game is a two ai vs 1 human player it started off very quick under 20sec to process the ai turns and now many many turns later and many units later its more like 5 min at a time which is slow even for me considering its only a small map.I hate to think what it would be if it were on a medium or large map.Is it acceptable to play your turn for say 5 mins during which you move a few counters research some stuff,build some stuff and then wait for over 5 min that would take for ever to finish a battle against a big map.I thought atgold was gonna have some heavy optimization done to speed up the ai and make a game playable in 1 sitting.

What times do you guys get when playing the next turn in this game myne is 6 min 34 sec ?


http://www.mediafire.com/file/frac1syc61m918h/game.at2

Thanks for the heads-up on "real time" AI turned-off. I'll have to try that...

I just ran your turn and it took my comp 55 seconds

1 min, 26 seconds for me. Much longer than I expected. It seemed to take a long while to get going but once it was running it went fast.

Thx for doing the tests guys must be my machine!

How long is too long for you to wait for the ai to do its things during its turns 10min-15min ?

You generally decide that when you start a new game. If you decide to play on a big map with many AI regimes you have to be prepared to take a tea/coffee/cola/beer break every turn to let AIs move

I usually pay bills, watch tv and browse the internet between turns

thank for sharing ..leraning more ![;)][;)]

Ran the turn and it took around 50 seconds.

Did you say what type/speed of processor that you have?


Alan

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27.85 seconds here.

It's always been quick for me, but I wouldn't mind letting the AI take awhile. It'll still be faster than I am, and faster than waiting for a PBeM response.