tbf the AIs have followed the cleared path to the extent that there's a good spread of contact between various old world cultures and oceania/new world. Think Polynesia is the only totally undiscovered (?) civ still, mostly because I didnt bother to scout for them
Strange (I wouldn't expect AI to be smart/lucky enough to do it, but I'm still in Prehistory, lol), but doesn't change that it's still a botched "Earth map".
What did I just read?
New girlfriend, needs some time. Repairing the time machine may take a while. 
"Time" is the least of your problems when you get that *@#! thing working again.
The LATEST complaint was NOT about turn times, though. LOL!
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This map is such a mess and disapointment. @Pit2015 Why you wont listen players?
1. I am at the beginning of ancient age, most civs are in classical age. Now look at map. It looks like globalized 21th century free world trade. Do you wish bananas from south america in ancient age?, no problem. Or some opium from asia? no problem at all. Delete all those "secret water paths"
2. Look how many islands in pacific. Delete atols like midway, guam etc....such micro islands shoudnt exist on this map. Keep only Fiji and maybe, just maybe 2 more islands Samoa and french polynesia. Pacific is giant space of water not a chessboard with islands.
3. Add source of flax on main island of polynesian civ. Without this they cant produce rope and sails and better ships. Its vital source for them.
4. My personal wish: delete space from map or make another version without it. Space is broken because AI cant use it. Its ultimate advantage over any AI. And it slows down turn time.
Until you fix at least first 2 problems I refuse to play this fantasy world map anymore
For moders:
1. The game on this gigantic map is pretty stable, only 2 crashes in 3747 turns long game
2.Turn time is horrible 7-10min+, world still at classical age and all 40civs alive. Playing with every possible option for this mod.
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Go to war if you still have to many civs for you. Or go into WB and delete a complete civ with one click and tell your self pandemic or a dimensional catastrophe got them. 1. Pit Logic (pun intended) strikes again.If it is such a mess why you game to for years now?
1. No, the secret costal ways and long possible early sea ways are cool and they will simulate early civ movement/colonization as it was and could have been. Opens a lot of more strategies and the possibility to colonize far away more early.
2. No i will keep simulate the smallest islands with one plot. Yeah, some can be reworked or removed later, i got that already on the todo list.
3. Ok, i look into.
4. As said before, no space will still in for now, multimap may not come or work ever and maybe a space AI will be done. And takes long to get to the space era. Maybe it is only needed to make the AI to use starting shuttles rest may work a bit. Also its cool stuff to game in later and it will not increase the turn times because there are no cities and no units for many eras. If you dont want space stop the research into space age by making the tech cost extreme high for the next tech, so no one will go into space in your game.
Good to hear its good stable now.
It does in many ways, the obvious one is that the map will fit more cities, units and players; more of these will cause more code to process every turn. It also increase the plot sample size significantly for pathfinding code, pathfinding code is not insignificant in terms of time complexity (time to run more than doubles if one doubles the plot sample size it has to analyze). There are likely more reasons why bigger maps will take longer time to process end turns, but most of them will involve a loop across all plots (sometimes confined to just the plots belonging to a specific landmass or watermass) to find a specific plot or do something with the plot.
The question was solely about the SPACE part (which has no units or cities for most of the game time), so it may only affect pathfinding (and even then... I really hope it shouldn't).
5 seconds every 4 turns for TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TURNS (on Eternity).
So removing the spacepart will save only 1 or 2 seconds on a turn. So if you game 100 turns a day you will waste 3,33 minutes per day, you can life with that, as you can relax while the turn is running. *How to philosophize my laziness into virtue.*If the spacepart is empty, turn time may take 1 to 5 seconds longer, do you understand?
Math it out yourself, its not worth to put 30 hours into removing space, also space is cool as said before. Space AI should be developed.
(You waste every day thousands of seconds)
