[Freeciv] Re: Speeding Up Games

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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 01:43:27PM -0700, David Paigen wrote:

[...]

> But a big problem is how long it takes to play a game.  I
> have been playing on 50x80 worlds (or 80x50) and finishing
> a game (to around 1900 AD) takes several weeks.  The game
> gets in the way of my life.  But I thought, if a game only
> took a week or so to play, I could play one game a month
> and still get stuff done.

:-)

The biggest single thing yo ucan do is reduce the size of the map.
Other server settings can be used to speed up development.
 
> I realize that this is in the category of "how do I stop
> playing," but I am interested in what people do to speed
> up games.

See also

  http://www.freeciv.org/faq/#IDX37

> -David Paigen

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