Storm Series Team looking for testers for SOE

polyphemus said:
just a little constructive critisicm, what happened to those buttons at the bottom of the page. They are not circular, but square, is that how they are supposed to be or, maybe the one who did them had a hard time.
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You are right. To set the background of the buttons to transparency would be better. Thank you for your constructive critisicm. :)
 
taube87 said:
@civinator can please make new screens?
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Here we are. :) In the attached screenes you see some parts of the situation in North Africa. And Ares thank you for the fix of the buttons.
 
Civinator said:
And Ares thank you for the fix of the buttons.
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You`re welcome. PS: The screens are outdated ... terrain-wise.:D
 
Whilst this ain't my favourite era, I have to say hats off to you guys for this. Graphically, it looks excellent :goodjob: .
 
Yes we can't wait for Ares to finish the new terrain that all the SST mods will be using.

As u guys already know this mod is a beast. We've done everything we can think of and trun times average about 45 mins to 1 hr. This is at a Regimental scale mind u because of all the special units we're using. Not to mention that Germany, Russia and Britian have huge armies.

And before u guys start criing YES there is also going to be a Divisional level as well which should have shorter times. But it might cost u in not able to play with alot of the special units. We'll just have to wait and see.
 
recon1591 said:
We've done everything we can think of and trun times average about 45 mins to 1 hr. This is at a Regimental scale mind u because of all the special units we're using. Not to mention that Germany, Russia and Britian have huge armies.
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No sweat. I know mega mods like this and some others like 'Deluxe' and what have you, can amass huge amounts of units and trade, stacking massive waits. I still think theres some hope for people in this regard as waits per turn can usual be improved somewhat on a per person basis.

Like 45 min, That sounds legendary! still on ocassion like I said, I hear these simialr accounts in regards to time between turns and understand certain mods stack up the goodies to this end rusult, but also wonder If everyone is on the same page when it comes to tuning their computers for maxium Vir Mem effeciency. So for people who eventually play this like me, I hope you can find some tricks to lower the waits (not always possible if your flexing the newest gear obviosly)
Also confusion about what classifies as wait time dosn't help. Some count 'blur time', the stage where you have to sit back and watch every exposed unit t, others rack up part of the actual game expierence, like (AI Vs AI War footage) as wait time, and so on.

Well Im glad your not cutting to desprate measures, like inflicting Global trade embargos, I though Id conclude this long ramble with a some easy info for cutting back a bit on turn times usual only helps on a case by case basis)
Oh btw if you got a early Mil (00-03)Dell or HP with a onboard G card, check what that baby is costing you in V M in the Bios menu, Thats saved me precious time I boosted again with this life saver
unknown said:
Civ3 is a memory hog.

First we need to know the amount of physical RAM you have installed on your machine. You can find this by right clicking the My Computer icon and then selecting the bottom option of properties by left clicking.

This should open up the System Properties dialogue box.

Alternatively you can go through the Start menu button located in the bottom left of the Windows Taskbar and then select the Control Panel. Once in the Window with the icons of the Control Panel then select by left clicking the System icon.

Either way should bring you to a Windows dialogue box titled 'System Properties'. In this Dialogue box make certain you are looking at the General Tab which should be the default opening of the System Properties window. At the bottom of the General Tab should be displayed the amount of RAM you physically have installed in your system. (Assuming your BIOS settings are correct prior to booting into Windows). The amount of physical RAM listed here is the total of the physical RAM that the Windows Operating System recognizes as useable as addressable memory.

Next click on the Advanced Tab, assuming you are using Windows XP however it is also similar in name for Windows 2000 and Windows 9x operating systems. Once in the Advanced Tab the top section should be titled 'Performance' and has a button labeled 'Settings'. Select the 'Settings' button. A new Windows dialogue box should appear titled 'Performance Options', again assuming Windows XP. In this dialogue box there are three tabs, we want the 'Advanced' Tab to be selected.

Once the 'Advanced' tab is selected the bottom of the three sections should be labeled Virtual Memory. In this area is listed the size of your current paging file. The paging file can exist on any Hard Drive installed on your system and acts as a RAM buffer in addition to the amount of the physical RAM installed on your system. Frequent read/write calls to the processor into and out of physical RAM memory can instead be routed through the assigned Hard Drive Virtual Memory instead. (Oversimplified explanation)

This effectively increases the available system resources in the amount of RAM available to the processor and is sometimes more efficient and faster than going through the system bus to the already overtaxed physical RAM. For this reason it is wise to allocate a similar amount of size to your paging file as your physical RAM installed on your system. This actually results in doubling the amount of accessible RAM the Operating System sees as usable and addressable. Any more is wasted allocation of Hard Drive space as Virtual Memory and very likely will never be used.

You also can see if there are other processes or applications using up your Virtual Memory in the Task Manager. To open the Task Manager either do a Ctrl-Alt-Del and select Task Manager or right click on an open area of the Taskbar across the bottom or side of the screen and then select the Task Manager from the options.

Once the Task manager is open you want to have the 'Processes' Tab selected. This lists all the currently running processes on your Computer by their specific names. Go to the 'View' menu bar pull down menu and select the bottom selection of 'Column Selection' which opens another window of selections. (Again assuming Windows XP) Place a check mark next to the Virtual Memory Size and then select the OK button at the bottom of the dialogue box.

Voila...Now you have an additional Column of information listing your Virtual Memory usage per process running on your machine. Click the title of the column to sort by that column from ascending to descending and vice-a-versa to get a clearer picture of what processes are 'hogging' your Virtual Memory.
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The trick is to line the the min and max up to be the same exact # so Its fooled into allocating the entire page if the time comes and its needed.
 
taube87 said:
@ civinator can you make a screen of the late war time with german jet figthers and bombers?
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Hi taube87,

at time no screenes of the later eras of the game exist. So the pictures in the "SOEv5 Unit Previews" at time are the only public pictures about these planes.
 
Hi, I was just wondering how the testing is going and if their is a release date. Also, is there another site that the progress can be tracked? Everything looks great, looking forward to playing. thanks, tex
 
Tex,

Testing is going slow right now with the holi's and school exams most have as well.

Civs are almost done as in unit placements.

After that i think we'll get kicking for balance of stats.
 
This mod is going to be so massive it is unbelievable. Sometimes I wonder if the SST shouldn't take it to Firaxis or Sid and bid for a job. Seriously, if the people that create these games had a few fans on board for the expansions, the games would be huge!
 
RG,

We thank u for saying that.

But if we ever finish what we have planned sofar then we're taking 1 hell of a long break.

And i don't think Firass can pay us enough either. LOL.
 
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