Idea for Speeding Up Aurora

[letsdance]

You only really care where each individual ship is when an enemy is detecting them.  (...) so why bother even tracking it most of the time?

because if you don't know where it is, you don't know if an enemy can detect them.

[Barkhorn]

But you could know if the route is within alien sensor range.  Then it's just a weighted chance on if they detect one.  My idea is that the route has a ship density calculated from the length of the route and the number of ships that use it; and the higher that density is, the more likely any aliens are to detect a ship on said route.  Then if aliens do roll high enough and detect one, that's when you spawn a ship.

[Shipright]

I brought this up in another thread and nobody commented but since this one is dedicated to the topic I'll post it again:

I feel like you could probably make this easier. If the event doesn't trigger a player log entry (other than the interrupt message itself), ie something that affects the player's assets, the game continues to auto cycle through whatever increments the AI needs until you reach the turn increment the player chose. Technically you are still going to run through all the interrupts for AI purposes but at least the player himself doesn't have to sit there hitting next turn.

I don't personally mind long turn processing times. What I do mind is hitting the button, assuming and accepting its going to take a few minutes to process, go get a snack/make dinner/kiss the wife, come back and find out instead of running a turn for ten minutes to get to the increment I selected it got interrupted one minute in and was just sitting there waiting for me to hit "next" for the other nine.

I realize this does not address the delay due to calculations of the various game assets but I would weather those better if I wasn't getting interrupted all the time.

[MarcAFK]

Auto Detection when NPRs are in the same system, then normal detection when a player enters would be my vote.

I like exploring and finding wrecks at battle sites

This seems pretty reasonable to me.

[ardem]

Not understanding the code, I do not know if this is possible. The issue of the really is not so much the detection I think it is the battle that comes afterwards that really slows everything to a grind.

I think leave the detection and make pseudo battles, give ships a rating score based on speed, armour, tech and weapons systems. Then if you want add a random variable in there and blow up the ships on the losing side this is done with one calculation. Now if the speed of the enemy vessel is higher and then decide to run, then give them an instant jump ability to the next system to stop further sensors sweeps.

I do not think players have an issue with one or two 5 sec interrupts the issue is when you see 50-60 of them.

Yes it is not as realistic but from a player point of view it is about as realistic as it gets.

[CharonJr]

About the detection flags for systems (which sounds good to me): How about having no detection checks as long as there are no foreign ships in the system and switch to normal once they are. But I have no idea if a check for any occupants whenever a ship changes systems will actually improve performance,  but it seems likely.

[Theodidactus]

I brought this up in another thread and nobody commented but since this one is dedicated to the topic I'll post it again:

I feel like you could probably make this easier. If the event doesn't trigger a player log entry (other than the interrupt message itself), ie something that affects the player's assets, the game continues to auto cycle through whatever increments the AI needs until you reach the turn increment the player chose. Technically you are still going to run through all the interrupts for AI purposes but at least the player himself doesn't have to sit there hitting next turn.

I don't personally mind long turn processing times. What I do mind is hitting the button, assuming and accepting its going to take a few minutes to process, go get a snack/make dinner/kiss the wife, come back and find out instead of running a turn for ten minutes to get to the increment I selected it got interrupted one minute in and was just sitting there waiting for me to hit "next" for the other nine.

I realize this does not address the do calculatioelay due tns of the various game assets but I would weather those better if I wasn't getting interrupted all the time.

I think this is true of me too.

I really have no problem with the speed of the game, because usually in aurora you're not "doing" anything so much as winding up and letting things go. In the rare instances where you are making minute-by-minute decisions, the space-time bubble fixes everything. So it doesn't matter that advancing by 30 days takes an hour, or whatever. I can read, cook dinner, grade stuff, watch movies, ect. The inconvenience comes from interrupts and having to constantly check the game to see if its finished a loadcycle.

[Vandermeer]

I think this is true of me too.

I really have no problem with the speed of the game, because usually in aurora you're not "doing" anything so much as winding up and letting things go. In the rare instances where you are making minute-by-minute decisions, the space-time bubble fixes everything. So it doesn't matter that advancing by 30 days takes an hour, or whatever. I can read, cook dinner, grade stuff, watch movies, ect. The inconvenience comes from interrupts and having to constantly check the game to see if its finished a loadcycle.

...I am so glad I have not encountered these kind of speeds anymore since my second game.^^ It was always less than a minute for 5 day intervals since then, but after I recently discovered the manual processor assignment trick, I have it down to about 10 seconds for one production turn at year around 2280.

[MarcAFK]

I've already forgotten where the time bubble option is

[Vandermeer]

You need to be in SM mode, then reload a fresh F3 window, and then you will find it at the bottom of one of the tabs left. I have never used it before though.

[MarcAFK]

You need to be in SM mode, then reload a fresh F3 window, and then you will find it at the bottom of one of the tabs left. I have never used it before though.

Oh, I think it's in the galaxy map window, and barely visible on my screen resolution.

[Vandermeer]

Possibly it is in the galaxy map simultaneously, but here it is under contacts in the classical system view:

[83athom]

Yup, for laptop users that check box cannot be seen.

[MarcAFK]

Ah, that's right, the screen is cut off just under the tac intelligence button.

[Vandermeer]

Yup, for laptop users that check box cannot be seen.

My computer is a laptop, but with 1080p.