Problems seen in Alpha 7
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My first game started with the difficulty slider about 1/4 up from easy. After about 100 turns I was being clobbered by alien battleships. I died shortly after that. Defenders have no chance against battleships. Seems to me to way to difficult at low setting on the difficulty slider.
So I put it all the way on easy, I wanted not to get hit by battleships so soon. I think there are still problems with what happens if multiple things complete at once. Game locked up several times, only way out was go back to desktop and do an end task. Since I save every so often I could start close to where I left off. After a while I notice things getting really slow. Each turn was taking about 5 seconds. This is on a PIII 500 with a small universe. (Very late in the game when I have taken over everything except one star system it was very fast again.) I also noticed that if I was on the research screen and the item finished, if I selected another item and pressed turn things appeared to be hung. (The turn would never complete) However if I hit display the sector map then the map would come up and the turn would complete.
Also for some of the higher techs the ablities call out something that is not found and you get the title "STRING NOT FOUND"
All in all each drop gets better and better. Graphics look much better this drop. Oh, I got one of my planets to a level 32, seems to be no graphic for that, it was just a blank black circle.
So I put it all the way on easy, I wanted not to get hit by battleships so soon. I think there are still problems with what happens if multiple things complete at once. Game locked up several times, only way out was go back to desktop and do an end task. Since I save every so often I could start close to where I left off. After a while I notice things getting really slow. Each turn was taking about 5 seconds. This is on a PIII 500 with a small universe. (Very late in the game when I have taken over everything except one star system it was very fast again.) I also noticed that if I was on the research screen and the item finished, if I selected another item and pressed turn things appeared to be hung. (The turn would never complete) However if I hit display the sector map then the map would come up and the turn would complete.
Also for some of the higher techs the ablities call out something that is not found and you get the title "STRING NOT FOUND"
All in all each drop gets better and better. Graphics look much better this drop. Oh, I got one of my planets to a level 32, seems to be no graphic for that, it was just a blank black circle.
