Decided to make a thread while Uber servers are generating my planets? What the heck is taking so long,
i tried to load 2 metal, 2 moons, gas giant, earth and a tropical, 4 ai's vs myself. Edit, one desert
7 planets? Large and 4 AI? That's currently rather questionable. Try to play not that many planets. The game can be quite fun with 2-3 and a small moon already. More planets doesn't really add anything gameplay wise.
That's a fairly big system. Gotta have a solid computer. Also, make sure all of your drivers are up to date: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/how-to-improve-performance-all-video-cards-driver-links.53165/
Drivers are fine, system is fine Operating SystemWindows 8.1, 64Bit, English Memory16GB DDR3L at 1600MHz (2 x 8GB) Video CardDual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 880M graphics with 16GB total (2x 8GB) GDDR5 - NVIDIA SLI® Enabled Hard Drive1TB/5400 RPM + 80G caching mSATA ProcessorIntel® Core™ i7-4910MQ processor (Quad Core, 8MB Cache, Overclocked up to 4.1GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
16gb should handle it... SLI and cpu in general doesn't require much to run at max. However, that is a lot of planets. Trust me, you would not even like playing on that many or that large planets. A single planet can be 800 and accomodate spaciously 6 players. Someone did the math, surface area is 8x exponential. So I believe 5 400s have the same playable space as 1 1200.
Was the server still loading the planets, or were you? (The loading icon by your name is yours, the one by the "new system" and "browse" button is the servers loading icon) If it was the server, it's likely you just gave it more than it could handle for some reason.
I didn't know 800 would fit 6 players. A few of the planets were 1000 with height map of 800+ I was trying to settle into a nice 5 hour siege. I'll retry again tonight
Yeah keep the radius down a bit. Gas giant is ok for it to be big as it has no surface (so R1500 gas giant is fine for example). If you want large 'normal' planets then moons are the best as they are simpler so use less memory. A good set up for a decent system that should work: 3 main planets in range of R500 to R800, 1 gas giant (radius doesn't make much difference) and a couple of moons R200 for smashing. If you want to reduce orbital transfer times, have the planets orbiting each other rather than separately around the sun (you can adjust what can orbit what by changing the 'mass' of the planet in the system editor, set the mass of the 'main' planet to maximum).
Yeah, a Greek guy several thousand years ago. The area of a sphere is 4*pi*r^2, where r is the radius. So it'd take 9 400's to equal a 1200. Forum doesn't let me post a link...Greek guy ==http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes
I'd recommend at least starting with one of the pre-made systems to check everything's working as intended. Then work your way up to larger to see what your system is capable of.
