SE:V v1.60 History

inigma's 1.60 version casual comments:

3. Fixed - Planets would grow unhappy from enemy ships that were not visible inside storms.

Maybe the casual merchant ship would report back to the tabloids about incidents of other merchant ships disappearing when they enter the Bermuda Nebula.

6. Fixed - Ships moved by a spatial anomaly would disappear completely.

What's so wrong about that? Some spatial anomalys in Star Trek did far worse things to ship and crew.

10. Fixed - Sometimes game creation would add two identical random empires to a game.

Maybe the computer thinks the grass must be greener. Talk about keeping up with the Joneses - or maybe some mirror universe invasion.

And the good times keep on rolling

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Huzzah for number 8 and 9! No more scrap spam in my mod!

"Only by being constantly at war with evil in all things, including yourself, can you truely know peace."
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Are spelling and punctuation errors considered bugs?

ha ha ha. of course!!! everyone needs an editor to read over their work
send him an e-mail with locations for spelling errors and i assume he'd fix them.. time permitting. spelling isn't exactly a huge concern of mine... especially with memory leaks and such.

Here's one, the Biggest bug of all: Loooong turn processing times. lol

I have one. In system view the (destination) name of the warp points disapear after using the key for showing all names.

In this case not a bug, but confusing... the font sizes are to big!

(Apologize my bad english)

Under empire options you can choose what names get displayed on the system map. And yeah, the fonts are too big (they get clipped a lot on the lower resolutions) but you can change them yourself in data/mainfonts.txt

I believe it's the GAME_FONT_QUADRANT_MAP line that decides the system font.

Are the ruin icons returning this time around?

Crian wrote:

Here's one, the Biggest bug of all: Loooong turn processing times. lol

Yep.. for singleplayers, who cares if there are mods that make the game godlike, but its senseless if turns take 15minutes! And then its not even late game or so!

Fixing the performance problems should be one of the highest priority, but well, what can you expect of a one man developer.

He's working on it. its slow but he's working on it. give the guy a break.
even from 1.33 processing time is HALVED at least.

I miss the epic 16 empire games I use to have in SEIV.The turn processing times are a nightmare.

I haven't played many SEV games for several patches, stuck with SE4 due to Vista having little love for DX8, but if he's reduced turn process times by half since 1.33 then considering everything that goes on in the game I think it's pretty good. The combats are what would slow my turn gen's down the most.

Then again, I play with a Core 2 Duo @ 2.8ghz burning through the turns. Perhaps on an older 2ghz P4 or so it might be painful.. but then again, Crysis would be too.

Does this #5 fix with the note meen that simultaneous games will not work in 1.58 version? Players in a PBEM game I'm hosting cannot load there turns. Nor can they load a new PBEM game. Me or someone else as host.

Caius

Note that SE5 can't use the other core to process any faster..

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With SE4 I played it from about 2000 I think up to this year and over the course of maybe three or four different computers getting quicker and quicker all the time. With CPU design seemingly focussing on more cores rather than raw clock speeds it means that SE5 isn't going to see the same benefit as we upgrade our computers. Which is unfortunate.

Multi-threaded code is somewhat tricky to achieve well as an addon, alas. But then, it may yet happen, once he's got the real problems out of the way.

And a ruin icon would be very nice. Very nice indeed.

Of course, each core of a core 2 duo processor beats the pants off of a pentium 4.

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Crian wrote:

Here's one, the Biggest bug of all: Loooong turn processing times. lol

Maybe its not a bug but a feature to help remind us of life outside of the computer

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It's not all focus on cores.. check out the benchmarks for Penyrn; significant improvements in IPC. AMD hopes for similar improvements with Phenom. Massive gains with SSE4 for apps that can use it.

Of course, apps that can use more than one core can reap even larger improvements.. but they're not abandoning whats brought them this far either. Which is good for us! I dont know if independent game devs like MM will be able to do the fancy (expensive) stuff necessary for multi-threaded games for a long time.

And then there is overclocking too..

What exactly is expensive about invoking several threads with well-thought out purposes and using inter-process communication to synchronize them?

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In a game with as many other niggling bugs in it already?

Getting it to work.

No, in a new project, as was being alluded to.

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Impossible to tell without looking at the existing code.

For this sort of work, turn-processing tasks can be broken into two groups: those which can be performed in parallel, and those which cannot. If these groups of tasks are intertwined too much in the code then it is very expensive to refactor them for parallelization. But if the tasks are already somewhat separated then it is relatively easy to make the application multi-threaded.