thanks, psy. i stuffed up a little

when i downloaded from the link i got soa2 0.4.2e.  must have been updated without me realising.

will try the 0.4.5e patch again on the 0.4.3e mod

Attention All

We on the team have started the migration to diplomacy. Stay tuned for future updates.

thanks

Soa2 mod team

Thanks psychoak that should do the trick I see where and hoe there link to the dame options so I'll set Slow to super duper slow. One more question though anyone know where the pirate spawn rate is since fleets and defense will tack longer to build 20 or so pirate ships coming in every ten minutes or so will be pretty hard to defend against with none then one ship ect.

PS see how long it took me to reply that gives you an idea how much time I got to play ha ha

Yeah I know there pretty worthless like pesky gnats really and I suppose I could just turn them off too but its nice to know anyway, now I am just tinkering with the warp speeds my current setup has build, research and economy going about right but warp speed has me discovering nearly the whole galaxy before I even get a Capital Ship built. Again Thanks Psychoak you have been loads of help.

I knew I forgot something when I was updating strings...

I'm such a bastard...

They're not actually sure fire, play against people that get the hell out of dodge before it goes to crap and you wont be stealing them like that.  They only flip after losing shields for eight seconds while it's running.  You can also knock the ability offline early if you do enough damage to the ship.

see that is the wonderfull part...  i disable the ships befor i cutting beam them lol

Last cap ship that tried to run  had its warp drive taken offline..      and my personal fave is warp inhibitors lol

the cutting beam in this version  pervents ships from running away,   i just stack 2 or 3 ships casting it at the same time to assure a capture

one issue i have and im not sure what its related to ..    wierd game pauses..    plays 5-10 seconds fine  then does a 2 second pause   constantly..    odd thing is my last game   on the same map  i never hit this issue and had far larger fleet compositions ,  curious if there is some spesific item built  by the AI that i never built causeing it   Anyone else have this issue?

Memory usage is probably the culprit.  Say you play a 10 player game with all the sides the same, you've got lots of cpu usage running all those AI, but only art assets for that one side are being used.  A four player game with four different sides would be using more.

If that's not it and you find specific sides to be presenting a slowdown, let us know.

psychoak,

  Ever think (if it's even possible) to link chance of assimilation (in addition to current rules) to culture levels?

    If I'm in friendly territory with culture levels in the high 90's it should be less likely to be assimilated then if I'm in the new frontier with levels in the teens, or enemy territory.

your probably right there psy..   altho the comp borg had an insane fleet..vs me..    Im gonna have to play a bit further in with this delay and figure out what exactly is causeing it for me...  one thing that is different..  Im looking at cubes   instead of fed ships,  makes me wonder if my vid card just hates a special effect used on the meshes.. simple to test tho..  play my fed side and watch borgs  lol

He means that if there are 10 players, all federation, then it's less memory because the game only uses the federation resources instead of feds, borg, klinks, rommies, AND dominion resources all at once.