400 Turns of Civilization V 320
Wes found a preview of one of the most anticipated upcoming releases by the inhabitants of my office: Civ V. It starts "This preview of Civilization V is incomplete. It takes more than nine Earth hours, you see, for the great Arabian empire — land of Mecca, Rio De Janeiro and Beijing — to assume dominance of the globe."
It's true, I'm perverted (Score:3, Informative)
I want to have sex with this game.
I want it to bear my kittens.
Re:Only Nine Hours? (Score:3, Informative)
And that he didn't actually finish in that time.
Re:meh (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Time to repeat the brief love affair. (Score:5, Informative)
Did you play Civ IV? There absolutely was no "one true path" in that game. Particularly with all the expansions and on the hardest difficulty, you absolutely had to play to your particular civs strength, and trying to get different victory conditions with each of the different civs was always a challenge. On top of that, playing the same civ with a different leader could be a very different experience.
Re:C64 (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Time to repeat the brief love affair. (Score:3, Informative)
Mods. Try "Fall from Heaven 2" -- for Civ4/BtS/Warlords. It was on huge discount when Civ V got announced on Steam, but it looks regular price now.
Re:Linux? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Peeking down the Casual Gamer avenue. (Score:3, Informative)
It isn't. The GPU draws the wheat field, the CPU handles AI and such.
Anyway, I suspect that the 5000x3000 squares map you wanted would require making the game 64-bit. That's 15,000,000 squares; if you store just 287 bytes of info per square, you exhaust the memory space of 32-bit applications - and even that would require running on a 64-bit machine and having the proper executable flags set.
Once you have reasonably spaced cities, military units, resources, improvements, borders etc. on the map, that 287 bytes per square starts looking pretty small...
I remember each turn taking 15+ minutes with SimLife :). Someone really should make a modern version.
Re:meh (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Yay, FireAxis (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Civ V: Off The Grid! (Score:3, Informative)
I had one of those cards when Civ4 came out 5 years ago... and it was awful even way back then. I bet you could find a much better card for less than $30 now.
Re:Yay, FireAxis (Score:3, Informative)
The funny thing is, most malware these days is designed to be stealthy. It mustn't slow down the system, or consume too many resources, otherwise it gets noticed too quickly and becomes useless after the next antivirus and antimalware definitions are released.
I'd like to bet most malware these days is a hell of a lot better designed than Firefox, in terms of CPU and memory usage. You might not like what they do, but you have to give the malware writers some credit for coding skills.