[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Freeciv is too slow

[Paul Zastoupil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:16:25AM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > I used to love playing a lazy game of Freeciv where you just press turn
> > done over and over. I could play a game against 30 AI in under an hour.
> > Now just playing about 60 turns takes an hour because its SO SLOW.
> >
> > I don't know whats slow, or what is causing it, but its been getting
> > slowly worse over time.I'm running on a PIII-800 with 9 AIs and its
> > not fun.
> >
> > Just needed to vent a bit.
> 
> That is not very helpful unless you describe _what_ is slow. Is it the
> end-of-turn, or watching the units move, or what?
> 
> You can know if it is the end-of-turn by pressing 'enter' in the server
> console - if the server is not responding it is doing end-of-turn, if it
> is responding, it has done its stuff and is waiting for your client to
> catch up :-)

Its most likely end of turn.  In this game I only have 2 cities, and 2
units (well, 6 really but 4 are fortified explorers).  The 2 units are
settlers and neither are on auto or goto.


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Paul Zastoupil