So it really isn't something I'm doing wrong. This is a bit disappointing... But well, a good game is worth a bit of pain
Thanks for the patience you have all had with me tonight
I tab out to surf the web, read a book, watch tvSo it really isn't something I'm doing wrong
. This is a bit disappointing... But well, a good game is worth a bit of pain Thanks for the patience you have all had with me tonight But then how do you play if turns take so long? I mean I have been sitting here for about an hour now waiting on "my turn"...
You cannot always gauge an NPRs progress on your own. If you started with a conventional start, then it is entirely possible. Even with a TN start, the NPR may have had jump capability from day one.But then how do you play if turns take so long? I mean I have been sitting here for about an hour now waiting on "my turn"...
But is that process already this far after 30 years of gameplay? I mean I haven't even got jump-capable ships yet... (I'm slow)
Don't forget that while you are exploring, so is the NPR. And they can find more NPRs or spoilers. And they can find more. And so on.
Thank you very much for your detailed explanation. I am only about 30 years into my campaign and started with 1 NPR so I don't expect there to be too many NPR's just yet, right? Is it normal that after 30 years turns take more than 30 minutes?
"turns" can take quite a long time late-game, especially if you've got NPR's on. Especially if you're trying to do the 30-day increment. Even if you don't have NPR's, once you start getting lots of civilian ships it can really start to slow down.
There's not much you can do about turns taking a long time, short of getting a tool which will let you alter the processor priority of a program. If you get one of those, you can crank Aurora's priority up which will make it run quicker at the expensive of your other programs. And it can really slow other programs down, for example iTunes will hang sometimes while Aurora's especially busy.
You can totally alt-tab, just don't expect your other programs to run quickly either. Unless you turn down Aurora's priority.
I stopped the Aurora process and het a loading problem message. Maybe that's what was holding it up or did that happen because I quit?
are you saying trying to switch windows of aurora while it is trying to process turns?You mean to say you shouldn't alt-tab while playing aurora?
also aurora is HDD R/W speed intensive aswell
Aurora is single-threaded, so when it is calculating things for NPRs, Civs and yourself, it freezes all of the forms/windows for it. Until it is ready for user input again, it is non-responsive.But it's been stuck for about an hour now...
