Speeding up the turns

[landser34]

Is there anyway to speed up the turns playing on a large planet once you start getting around 30 + turns. The turns take over 10 to sometimes 15 mins. I know its not my system .I have a 2 TB SSD and 32gbs of Ram and this is nowhere near taxing my graphics card. I love this game but if you can only get around 3 or maybe 4 turns an hour it kinda sucks.

[athelasloraiel]

Cpu?

[Grognerd]

The big issue seems to be planet size, which translates to more factions, free folk, beasties, etc. I got through a large planet run to T120 which had long turn times similar to yours. My latest game is a planetoid with only 3 majors, and turn times have been reduced to about 10 seconds!

[landser34]

Originally posted by athelasloraiel:

Cpu?

Ive have intel core I7 9th gen.

[maerchen]

Planet size and amount of starting regimes is the speed defining parameter. A fast CPU helps, though.

[smidlee]

Vic the developer mention in another thread he hope to increase AI times in the coming months.
Since the game doesn't take advantage of multicore yet (it uses very little CPU) you can easily play another game during AI turn. You could even make two copies of Shadow Empire and run two games at once. I have played AI Wars 2 between turns. I turn off AI movement which gives the option to minimize the game as well turn off SE music.

[Frosty]

Theres an option for giving AI more time to 'think' of better turns which make turns longer. Try turning that off

[Boernes]

Yeah, It's the planet size that make turn times in mid- to lategame a nightmare. As others have pointed out, larger planets mean more AI units and factions, which means more stuff to calculate for the game.

Its less your PCs performance but how the game utilises them. You could propably run the game on a super computer and still have 15+ minutes of waiting time between turns. Really not much you could do on your end to improve that, other than playing on small maps and/or waiting (hoping?) for future patches to tackle this issue.

[maerchen]

I am doing other stuff while waiting. Learning a language, doing my chores. But boy, I love my epic 11 major 111 minor game.

[Boernes]

Never tried playing on a smaller map, so honestly I dont know how good or bad the turn times are on those. but I love playing on a large map, it more feels like actually taking over an entire planet

It just feels bad that in the late game, I spend more time waiting and not playing the game than anything else. I noticed that I am "artificially" inflating the times I take for my own turns by checking everything 2-3 times over, just to hopefully not forget anything. Even if its only a turn where all I do is wait for construction to finish or resources to build up.
when the turn times are 20+ minutes long an "meh, I'll just do it next turn then" attitude isnt really viable