I think you could do it with your current setup. The biggest cost is when the UI is up and when ships are at the same planet. If you disable the UI and start spawning ships at different planets you shouldn't have too much of a problem.

hmm, ill take a look at that

That looks very... matrixy...

That makes two of us!

And, good grief multi! I'm sacred of you now!

fox, its definately a fox.

what a phallusy.

well then you wouldnt have the nice walls of ships!

you sir are INSANE!!!

I want to try that with that new computer coming out in 2008 with 8 core processing, 4 GTX video cards, and 4 gigs of ram (8 after I add the ram from my own computer)

Cobalt's and the KOL has been added, and personaly i like the last screebshot the best, looks like a giant space alien that is eating the planet



NOW i demand your obedience

*begins to worship Multi*

All the ships...it's...so...COOL!  

P.S.: Those are tears of joy...I so want this game now...

Edit: I do know you can't get nearly that many ships in the regular game...but in a mod I could  

omg, we finally found the missing planet. . hey, i know this is out of topic but where did you guy's say planet Alcari was located at?

Madness?... This is SPARTA!! (sorry just couldnt resist that)

This is obviously modded. Its a simple change in the fleet supply/cap ship crew limits. I feel sorry for your poor computer. Did you have every fan in your house pointing at it so it wouldnt catch fire?

Don't bother putting in 8 gigs of ram if you aren't using a 64 bit OS. 32 bit OS's only support 3.5 gigs of ram. So those with 4 gigs are wasting 512 megs.

What is funny is the ships all MUST go to the planet then around it so i can imagine the clusterf**k of ships as they all bunch up to turn.

Not quite accurate. It will only support 4GBs of memory spaces, some of which are taken up by hardware on your computer, some of which has to go to video RAM, and the rest can then go to system RAM. Effectively, for most people that will equate to 3.5 or so, but if you're running SLI or a GTX, you could be using more than half a gig of that space on your video card alone.

It runs really slow on my QuadCore @ 3.2GHz + 8GB RAM + 8800 GTX KO

SoaSE was only using around 1GB of RAM & barely 25% of the total CPU power.

The bottleneck is somewhere in the code I think, obviously not designed to handle so many objects as is or in that manner.

How do you disable the UI? I'll have another go without it.

why do the fleets look so disorganised? Its like 2 yr olds playing soccer
No formations? Nothing.

Thankfully, I only said "might". So, uh, still no

Yeah was wondering too why it only used 1GB of ram, but with the KOL's i think it used more as i ran the game on full screen and was only able to see on my keyboard that the mem usage was 71%.

The 25% CPU usage is because it only uses one core.



use ctrl-shift-z



damn


oooh you think i modded it, interresting


Im using vista 64bit with 4GB of ram, but that aint the problem here.


It happened as i selected all ships and told them to move to the planet