EB II - Will it be laggy?

[Hellenic_Hoplite]

First off I want to say I love EB and have enjoyed countless hours of playing it, so please don't take this to be insulting by any means. I know EB could be very laggy on older computers (it ran ok on mine) and that was just for RTW. I was wondering how laggy EB II will be since it's for a much larger game?

[Foot]

We will once more be pushing the engine to its limits. Hopefully, however, the interesting scripting options will help us cut down those areas. There is no way to say, as we don't know what EBII will contain or how we will implement it. But the slowness in loading times mostly came from description files being so large, which will not change and will in fact get worse (due to the number of buildings allowed by the game being doubled). Turns will hopefully not be so bad, but again its impossible to say at this point.

Foot

[Kikosemmek]

I will cast a vote of pessimism and say that it will lag to hell, but you know what? EB1 lags right now on my best computer and I don't really care, because I've been modding for over a year without playing RTW or EB at all. When I finally installed EB 1.0 I fell in love with TW again. I can wait a few years and get a badass machine for EB 2.0. I'm not exactly in a hurry :)

The way I see it, the work the members put into this mod is amazing. I took a small part but I don't think it was anything compared to what others contributed. My enjoyment of a laggy EB 1.0 pays testimony to their great work, and I know I won't be done with everything 1.0 has to offer for quite some time, anyways. 2.0 will be amazing and huge.

I think it's actually good news that it will be a system hog. That means we put a lot of stuff into it. Content is the name of the game for games like TW.

[hellenes]

This is a sad price to pay for free user content on this level of complexity...I bet it would take faaar more budget and sleepless coders to oprimise the code to cope with the weight of scripting...
Sadly SEGA doesnt share even 1% of the vision of the EB team...:no:

[Copperknickers]

Remember stele 3, barebones. It will be a lot better than now, if not quite as good as the original.

[monkian]

This is a sad price to pay for free user content on this level of complexity...I bet it would take faaar more budget and sleepless coders to oprimise the code to cope with the weight of scripting...
Sadly SEGA doesnt share even 1% of the vision of the EB team...:no:

Games companies should always use the best technology avaliable otherwise nothing would progress and we'd all still be playing Doom....

[Elthore]

hellenes, why do you advertise genocide in your signature?

[hellenes]

hellenes, why do you advertise genocide in your signature?

Because in this case it isnt known as some other "genocide" of the current rulers of the planet...

[Elthore]

i thought i'd censor myself before somebody thought me offensive

[hellenes]

well maybe you should explain instead of flashing a cheap 'porno-ad' type graphic about it then? its like a seeing a holocaust banner flashing around. You should use some proper text and maybe link to a trusty site with info.

just trying to be constructive, as i saw it the other way initially

The website is curruently down I used to have a link going with it...