#GALACTIC CIVILIZATIONS 3 FORUM PLUS#

I quickly purchased 2 colony ships and sent them out that way.ДЄ bit more teching up and scouting and we managed to come across some Humans, our first species to meet. However, a bit of luck came my way as I was able to find 2 nearby nice planets, both close enough to my homeworld to share the shipyard. This is why you shouldn't send them out alone, hopefully it won't set me back too far. Quiet start but my first big mistake of the game, my initial colony ship met up with some pirates and got destroyed. If anything it may help out a bit in the early game. I'm kinda thinking of going with large fleets of smaller ships, but we'll see how it goes. To begin I've decided to start up a new race (called the Antarans of course!) We're good at making ships is sorta the path I'm hoping to take here, with a bit of help in research.

#GALACTIC CIVILIZATIONS 3 FORUM PLUS#

I'm playing on 'tough' difficulty with a 'large' galaxy and 8 other races plus minors. So now you know why we keep trying to roll back those big maps.I've never tried an AAR before but I thought it might be about time to try my hand at it, so here it goes.ДЇor this I'm playing Galactic Civilizations III, which if you're not familiar with the franchise is something like Civ in space. In version 3.0, we will be listing these requirements when you pick the map size to help players keep themselves out of trouble. Going forward, I highly recommend not going beyond Gigantic unless you meet the specs above. However, I frequently get saved games from players who have 4 core machines with 8GB of memory trying to play on these ludicrous maps with 100 players who have given us a negative review because 'obviously' we have a memory leak. So if you have an 8 core machine with 16 logical threads, you're probably fine with 32 players. But again, even if you have 32GB of memory, if you have 50 players but only a 4 core processor, you're going to be in for a world of hurt.ДЇor optimal performance, you shouldn't have more than 2 players per logical processor (usually 2X your cores). Luckily, GalCiv III has a multicore AI which means that each pathfinding task can be distributed to your CPU. Path finding is what most of your turn time gets consumed by. Why? Because you need 32GB of memory to play it well (or else you'll be swapping out memory constantly to disk).Д®ven if you have enough memory, picture the pathfinding for 50 players (and GalCiv III supports 128 players) if there's 650,000 tiles to potentially go through. But what frequently happens is that people with perfectly good gaming systems will paly on the Ludicrous size and find it very slow. Until you get to HUGE map sizes, you don't really need a crazy system to play Galactic Civilizations III. More tiles isn't better, it just means the maps are much bigger and more to the point, and the memory requirements go way up. That's right, the Ludicrous map size has 100 times more tiles than the largest Civilization VI map. Let's take a look at Galactic Civilizations III: Map Size So, the largest map size in Civilization VI has around 7,000 hexes.

The largest map size would require around 2GB of memory (on average). For Galactic Civilizations to pull off the same thing, as a tile based game, means a lot more tiles and a lot faster (late game) ships.ДЇor reference, here are the map sizes for Civilization VI: Size If you want your space game to appear to have an epic scale, then you need to have stars that appear to be very far from one another. There's a good reason why they do that: scale. Virtually every space strategy game is point based (you travel across the galaxy from point A to point B without going in-between). Galactic Civilizations, like its inspiration, Sid Meier's Civilization, is a tile based game. And each time we have attempted to do that, we have ended up with a very vocal outcry of anger.Д«ut large map sizes come with a significant memory cost to be aware of.

On a number of occasions, we have tried to reduce the the largest map sizes down to improve performance and shrink memory requirements. One of the biggest challenges we have faced in developing Galactic Civilizations III has been map sizes and the memory they require.

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