Do you play custom games?

[Winetoo]

i finished the story, but want to play some more..
Created a custom game, with 6 AI players, but around the day 120 the game got unplayably slow, i had to watch a movie just to not turn it off during the enemy turns, and that just to confirm a move of my units (that will take 6 days to finish...) ... feels kinda weird, how are you supposed to play when enemy turn takes 3 minutes? I also had to turn the map animations off, to speed up the enemy turn phase, but it still takes super long to finish.

I use a lot of mods, so i can have more options for map creation, but so far, smaller maps were too small, and big maps like this one, will take too long for turns to finish after some ∿100 days... Considering how far i was in the game, it would easily take 100 days more to finish.. i can't even imagine how long the enemy turns take at day 200+.

Do you play some custom games/maps? What settings do you use? Should i try simultaneous turns?

[Fyre]

I mean if smaller maps are too small and larger maps are too large... have you tried one in the middle?

I've barely touched the story and only for some easy achievements. The regular maps they make for you are just fine, sometimes I add in a presence but otherwise just standard 7-players and hit play.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Winetoo:

Do you play custom games?
i finished the story, but want to play some more..
Created a custom game, with 6 AI players, but around the day 120 the game got unplayably slow, i had to watch a movie just to not turn it off during the enemy turns, and that just to confirm a move of my units (that will take 6 days to finish...) ... feels kinda weird, how are you supposed to play when enemy turn takes 3 minutes? I also had to turn the map animations off, to speed up the enemy turn phase, but it still takes super long to finish.

I use a lot of mods, so i can have more options for map creation, but so far, smaller maps were too small, and big maps like this one, will take too long for turns to finish after some ∿100 days... Considering how far i was in the game, it would easily take 100 days more to finish.. i can't even imagine how long the enemy turns take at day 200+.

Do you play some custom games/maps? What settings do you use? Should i try simultaneous turns?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2976522470

Long story short: your PC's power is the biggest influence on how long or slow it takes by the end of the day. From your description I recommend you start with maps with four players at max and then see if you increase it to five.

In general mods should not be a big deal, but it would help if you list the mods you are using to see if anything stands out there. And please share your map settings you have issues with. If you want to go the extra mile you can provide the developers with your savegame for them to use your data to improve the game's performance
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1669000/discussions/0/3843305519475124551/

[H3llF!r3]

or just play TWW3 283 tribes same big map, dosnt take 5 min to end a turn :)

'6 players' and customer pc issues LMAO

[suejak]

What is the title getting at...? Our multiplayer games are often mostly over by turn 70ish. Custom games in AOW4 are really cool due to the map modifiers. It will be nuts if they add more and more modifiers in every DLC.

Anyway, OP's core complaint is valid that the game poorly supports the "play forever" playstyle, especially if there are technical reasons for it not working (beyond the obvious design reasons).

However, in the game as it exists right now, long campaigns are not supported by the game design itself. Custom games are definitely not competitive for as long as OP wants to play.

[Winetoo]

Originally posted by H3llF!r3:

or just play TWW3 283 tribes same big map, dosnt take 5 min to end a turn :)

'6 players' and customer pc issues LMAO

Originally posted by suejak:

What is the title getting at...? Our multiplayer games are often mostly over by turn 70ish.

As i mentioned, i use mods - i have extra map modifiers, and extra map size, so that might be a part of the issue.. but i like long games, i don't want to finish at 70 turns :p but the game is getting unplayable somewhere past 130 turns, so i was wondering what other settings for the custom games people use.

Good that you mention TWW3, cause it's weird that turns work basically the same way but i don't have issues there :p

Originally posted by suejak:

the game poorly supports the "play forever" playstyle, especially if there are technical reasons for it not working (beyond the obvious design reasons)

yeah, that's why i'm asking what settings people use.. it's weird, because i don't see why the game should become so slow lategame, especially when there are other games that don't have these issues, or at least not so soon

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Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Winetoo:

Do you play custom games?
i finished the story, but want to play some more..
Created a custom game, with 6 AI players, but around the day 120 the game got unplayably slow, i had to watch a movie just to not turn it off during the enemy turns, and that just to confirm a move of my units (that will take 6 days to finish...) ... feels kinda weird, how are you supposed to play when enemy turn takes 3 minutes? I also had to turn the map animations off, to speed up the enemy turn phase, but it still takes super long to finish.

I use a lot of mods, so i can have more options for map creation, but so far, smaller maps were too small, and big maps like this one, will take too long for turns to finish after some ∿100 days... Considering how far i was in the game, it would easily take 100 days more to finish.. i can't even imagine how long the enemy turns take at day 200+.

Do you play some custom games/maps? What settings do you use? Should i try simultaneous turns?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2976522470

Long story short: your PC's power is the biggest influence on how long or slow it takes by the end of the day.

I have an i9 3.5ghz processor on an Asus Rock with 32 gb of CORSAIR RAM and an RTX 3080 Ti with 10 gb of Vram on it and a heat sync with 3 cooling fans in a vented case that keeps it consistently below 60c at almost all times.

I'm running into the same late game issue with research lag. A lot of people are. It's a problem with the game.