How to make units move animation faster? |
Seeing as I have more and more ships, its so boring to see them traveling around every turn all the time when nothing significant will happen... That animation when they get to their destination, is there a way to speed it up? I mean that animation when they get from one hex to another, that its faster and doesnt take so much time!
Re: How to make units move animation faster?
Turing off "Display Movement Lines" in Empire Options also helps.
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Re: How to make units move animation faster?
Thunderhit, This is a great point... I think the ship movement should be limited to only show the final system movements. What i mean by this is that if you have a ship moving across your empire, I don't want to be bothered by it until it reaches it's final system, then show me it's movements.
The other improvement I'd make to how turns progress would be have choices like planet colonization happen after all the ships have moved. So You could just leave the computer while it moves all those ships. Then come back make all the colonizing choices and your ready for your turn. Right now you make a colonizing choice and then there are more ships moving around...
SEV, more than a feeling.
Re: How to make units move animation faster?
The problem is that new objects might crop up on sensor coverage that might necessitate user intervention. If ship movement is not displayed until the final movement, then the player might miss these objects.
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Re: How to make units move animation faster?
You could always play in Simultaneous movement mode, which bypasses the need to watch ships move at turn start altogether (unless you want to watch the movement replay). 
Re: How to make units move animation faster?
Go into options and set the "System Icon Movement Speed" option to the highest setting( Very High, I think ). It's possible to increase it even more using the settings.txt file, but I don't think it actually makes any difference; the pathfinding system in the game is rather slow, which limits how fast the ships can move depending on your CPU speed.