just because it looks cool

VIPznork

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13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 4:54:23 PM

poor devs her they work hard tp balance the game and we just change everything

Skid

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Skid

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13 years ago

May 19, 2012, 9:57:50 PM

In fact if you don't mind, I'm going to borrow your save file, I wanna try something with it.

Edit: OK scrap part of what I said above, although they could implement it that way, the lag you was experiencing wasn't graphics related, its engine related, my tri of 6970s were running at less then 20% the whole time, with one CPU thread hitting about 80%. It could be a CPU parallization issue in the battle scene, but ether way nether my GPU nor CPU was fully taxed and I got 5-10 FPS regardless, the engine can't take the strain captain.

Skid

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Skid

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13 years ago

May 19, 2012, 9:51:33 PM

There is a reasonally easy to way to implement this without breaking the game, what you do is add an option on game setup to enable large scale fleets, then do one of two things:

1: Each ship in a fleet is attually a multiple, so if the multiple was 5, every ship in your fleet spawns with 4 other clones of itself, costs then remain the same, and compariable fleet sizes remain the same as well.

or 2: Increase the CP limit by a multiple, so again lets use 5, and then decrease the cost of ship production by the same factor.

Both variants would keep relative fleet sizes, costs and power the same as they are atm, just eats up more GPU and CPU processing ^^

Think of it this way, a fleet which has a CP of 1 goes up against a fleet with a CP of 2, so thats 2 to 1. Multiple that by 5, is 10 to 5, which if you then turn into a fraction 10/5 and simplify to its lowest form, its still 2 vs 1.

jordanjay29

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jordanjay29

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13 years ago

May 19, 2012, 9:36:19 PM

BlueIce wrote:
...or a Star Wars mod?!?! lol On that note. what if the battleship/dreadnought released fighters. They don't necessarily have to do anything (or they can), just for battle sequences in only the mid/final combat stage

I'm already humming the Imperial March. I think Strikecraft support would be a must before this happens, but it would be EPIC to see this kind of mod.

kokonite

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kokonite

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13 years ago

May 19, 2012, 9:10:39 PM

First I was like, "Geez poor guy that bug sucks!"

then the camera switches side and I see both fleets... then I'm like "Oh my... sweet!"

BlueIce

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BlueIce

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13 years ago

May 19, 2012, 1:13:45 AM

Smight wrote:
I'm sensing Massive fleets mod in the future

...or a Star Wars mod?!?! lol On that note. what if the battleship/dreadnought released fighters. They don't necessarily have to do anything (or they can), just for battle sequences in only the mid/final combat stage

Krases

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Krases

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13 years ago

May 18, 2012, 11:39:46 PM

Gives me hope for a Legends of Galactic Heroes mod someday, just needs to let us give out tactical formations in the same way we select cards. Of course, LoGH had battles with 100k ships, so that may be a bit much. :rolleyes:

werewolf_nr

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werewolf_nr

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33 300g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 7:30:50 PM

I'm glad the devs made the battles able to handle an arbitrary number of ships per side and that the engine didn't just curl up and die with that many shots in flight. I assume that you edited a save file to get such numbers?

Sebbers

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Sebbers

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13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 6:35:10 PM

Apotheosys wrote:
nice

maybe there should be an option to implement something similar naturally - like in Total War. So that every ship you build in game is actually a small flotilla of n ships or so. Would make for some epic battles.

+1

-ES space battles never feel epic enough with a couple of ships.

-Would also add to realism...makes no sense that galactic empires are in control of so few ships.

-Considering the engine coped that well with those 100s of ships, I'm sure it would mange fine with say a maximum of 50 ships.

mokaiba

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mokaiba

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13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 10:56:29 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doOVzC2jB1g&

here is the game save if you want to mess around with it:

HISSHO - 100sfleets.zip

Smight

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Smight

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40 000g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 4:34:38 PM

I'm sensing Massive fleets mod in the future

Bugg

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Bugg

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13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 1:25:54 PM

Woah, I had no idea the game could render fleets of that size! Possible future modding prospect?

craigbic

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craigbic

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13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 1:16:48 PM

That....was.......AWESOME! I'm a noob to ES so that was particularly impressive to me!

Inquisitioner

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Inquisitioner

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13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 12:17:38 PM

tamair wrote:
It does look cool :]. Your computer seems to have trouble to handle it though.

So this... Hah..

tamair

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tamair

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13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 12:06:42 PM

It does look cool :]. Your computer seems to have trouble to handle it though.

fixou

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fixou

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13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 11:56:34 AM

wow, the engine do a lot better at managing huge fleet that i expected. I completly support the idea of flotilla of ships made by Apotheosys

Vaux

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Vaux

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13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 11:13:16 AM

Or just have the same ship than actually but have 10* more CP

Apotheosys

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Apotheosys

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13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 11:05:11 AM

nice

maybe there should be an option to implement something similar naturally - like in Total War. So that every ship you build in game is actually a small flotilla of n ships or so. Would make for some epic battles.

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