Giant Earth Map - Version 4

[Assassin]

I would like to thank you for GEM map, I love it !
Imagine I play it on laptop with Vista and 1GB ram ... sometimes loading savegame takes 20minutes masochistic

Yep, i'm in year 1650AD or something and it's take me about 4-5 minutes between turns. But i watch TV or movie, or play guitar same time

And this is really good map. I was bored to Civ, but then i found this map and now i can't stop playing it

 

[kevinman4404]

Well, I'm sure those times I never spelled it wrong, etc. It just seems to me to be very picky on when itll work and when itll be permanently damaged.

And I'm kind of surprised at all the draggy performance a lot of you are having. I have 1 gig ram, normal cpu and a really bad graphics card, and on maps the size of this one (gem wont work for me yet) I only get load times of about 1 minute in late game. Maybe 2 minutes to load my giant map (250x160) and nothing's really laggy. Weird.

 

[frekk]

I can play the 192x120 with just 768M ram. Modern age it gets to about 2 mins for the computer turn to finish and things are a little laggy, but not too bad.

I think the reason things are slow for alot of people with much more ram etc is that they might have too much stuff running in the background when they play, too many processes and services going. For gaming, I shut everything down that isn't necessary to playing, including an array of services (printspooler, tcp/ip services, etc etc) that aren't necessary just for that. Which OS also makes a difference. Normally my Ram usage with nothing open drops from 44% to about 18% when I do this.

 

[DodgyDave]

ok as russia its going ok now, but thats more because my first 4 great leaders have all been Priests, so i now have two religions with their respected main buildings, earning me tons of cash

but got an event to build libraries, but it says i have to make 36 of them, 36??? even with how well i am doing now, i am at 14, 22 more will break my empire i am sure of it and the sheer time it will take ot make this many cities anyway, i am not sure the event will be around, when i finally have 36 lol

so is something wrong, as i dont recall a huge map demanding even 18!

 

[MusX]

yeah, some quests on that map are even funny... for example quest to build 72 religious buildings. anyone complete it? what was the reward?

and game could and even should be a bit more balanced.
did you tried to play Ragnar? he need some bonus resources! doesn't matter how much you'll try the only way for him is fast attack his neighbors. He has very low production (low production -> low culture -> low food), you must build axe's from start and attack as soon as possible.
some other nations could be balanced too, but for now I didn't play to many of them so it's hard for me to say which one should be.

 

[DodgyDave]

well for russia, i think main problem lies with poor income and production, you need to cut forest to do anything for a while and income you need to add cottages, but both vikings and russia, should have more furs and Deer perhaps to boost them.

I have not played Vikings, but as russia, found them too poor to setup many cities, so hard to get much russian territory, but i tried, 7 cities later and research was at 20% so that failed!

But as dutch, i managed to both invade and take out Vikings and have what 7 or 8 cities, still high on research, due to better territory.

from the varies nations, i still wonder why Deer and Fur is so few especially in the north parts, i would think scandinavia, russia and canada would have quite a few of those, afterall was alot of fur trading going on back in the old days.

 

[Genghis_Kai]

yeah, some quests on that map are even funny... for example quest to build 72 religious buildings. anyone complete it? what was the reward?

and game could and even should be a bit more balanced.
did you tried to play Ragnar? he need some bonus resources! doesn't matter how much you'll try the only way for him is fast attack his neighbors. He has very low production (low production -> low culture -> low food), you must build axe's from start and attack as soon as possible.
some other nations could be balanced too, but for now I didn't play to many of them so it's hard for me to say which one should be.

Do you think this is to do with the parameters I've set for giant map in the worldinfo.xml?

 

[simplex]

hello,

i would like to remove some of the civs to increase the performance.
so, could anybody tell me how to do that?

 

[DCMage]

Hello, First off I'd like to say this map is probably one of the best Earth maps I have seen so far.

I have played it upto about 110BC so far, The 'Lag' Time for everyone to take thier turns early on was a few secs, now its 15-30secs. To me thats a bit excesive considering that not everyone is upto speed yet. Im guessing late on in the game its going be 5+ mins, to me thats a tad high. Tried the map with Full and Min graphics, cant say that theres much of a differance. Tis a shame real, cause well i like this map alot

Comp Specs:-
2 Gig Dual Channel DDR2 577mhz Ram
Dual GeForce 6600 GT's 128mb (only thing lacking on my comp, but theres 2)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+
Windows XP on a 160g Sata Drive
Civ is ona diff 120g Sata Drive

Have Minimum Processes running while playing Civ. Looking at the processes and currently Civ4 is eating up 865,504k of memory and hardly any CPU, during the end turn phase this can jump up to about 1157,000k of memory(its been lower its been a tad higher) and the CPU usage upto about 48% (which is fine).

 

[Kanute]

Thanks for sharing your detailed map with us. Its been a lot of fun playing and discovering what great care you've taken in setting up the geography, etc. It will take me a while to really evaluate all the play positions. I only wish the turns would go faster on my computer after about 1000 AD. Best...

 

[Genghis_Kai]

Version 4.2 is released!

I hope our Canadian and American friends will be happier with this update

 

[kevinman4404]

Indeed, Ontario is looking a lot more liveable nice work

I'll let you know soon if the new version works with me, if not ill do the clean reinstall

Kevin

 

[DMOC]

I probably should have asked this before downloading and saving, but..I was in the middle of my Julius Caesar game and it was a lot of fun (Version 4.1 to be exact). I am currently almost done with my spaceship in 1600 and I wanted to know that if I have 4.2, can I still play with that old savegame?

Thanks. I wish I could...I probably could get a score of 1 million on that game and I'd like to finally finish it...I hope....

 

[Genghis_Kai]

I probably should have asked this before downloading and saving, but..I was in the middle of my Julius Caesar game and it was a lot of fun (Version 4.1 to be exact). I am currently almost done with my spaceship in 1600 and I wanted to know that if I have 4.2, can I still play with that old savegame?

Thanks. I wish I could...I probably could get a score of 1 million on that game and I'd like to finally finish it...I hope....

I don't know how strict civ4 is related to modding so I suggest you finish out your game before upgrading GEM to v4.2.

 

[CyberS]

Fantastic map ! I just would like to delete some civs and to add some others (Byzantium), how can I do this ?
Can I do this with the World Builder ?

cheers

 

[MusX]

CyberS, try notepad

 

[kevinman4404]

and try the tutorials. I wouldn't be surprised if there are several on this topic, and all describe it well

 

[kevinman4404]

Genghis, I have done a complete reinstall of vanilla/war/bts, and am using the official patch this time around. The problem is still there. It appears the person who did the clean install just got lucky. This applies to both 4.1 and 4.2.

I'll let you know if I find out anything

Kevin

 

[kevinman4404]

Genghis, I think I'm close to solving this!!

It appears it is not the fault of my computer (at least not much), and that the people who got it working really did get lucky.

Well, I was feeling very logical today, and I figured, if it crashes at civ selection, then shouldn't there be a problem with the civs?

So I went on the map and in the civilizations xml, and deleted all but America and Arabia. And now the civ selection works.

So this means the problem is one of two things:

1) There is a discrepancy or compatability issue or just plain something wrong with at least one civ, between the xml and the map.. or another possibility there are one too many civs, despite the spec. of the dll

or most likely

2) Your +Civs dll is not working on all computers. Could you link me to the specific one you used?

Kevin

 

[bjarkekr]

I just downloaded the new version yesterday, and it seems the game ends prematurely

I played marathon and im in 545 AD now, and it says 91 turns left..