Topic: SFC Games dragging 2 & OP

[Primus2003]

I was not sure what else to call it.  Does anyone else, wehn they have been playing the game for a long period of time, not one day I mean over all.  When trying to move etc the game or move more accurately drags out forever?  Anyway around this as it happened to both my SFC 2 as well as OP.  
Additionally isnt there a way to change the number of start up credits you get?  I cant seem to remember how.

[NuclearWessels]

Yes, over the course of time more and more inactive AI characters and ships build up in the database - you'll see your saved games getting larger and larger.  This has the effect of making things move ever slower.

The online servers (EAW at least) get around this by running a "cleaner" program that weeds out all these dead and useless beasties, but that hasn't been available for SP (or OP) so far.

I'm currently in the final development stages of an editor/cleaner that works for all four flavours (OP/EAW, single player & server) but it's still got some glitches - I would imagine it's 2-3 weeks away from a beta release.  Once it's ready it will allow you to clean the deadwood out of your game, and also to edit your saved games (change your prestige, race, ships, alliances, mission lists, etc etc)

The file you want to edit to change the starting prestige is:
MetaAssets\ServerProfiles\Singleplayer\Character.gf

You'll see a setting in there that looks like:
//This is a character's starting prestige
StartingPrestige   = 100

change that beastie to whatever value you want

dave
 

[Primus2003]

I did not realize that this cleaner was not present.  Why was it removed?  i look forward to getting the problem resolved.  I figured the prog was maybe getting corrupted or something.  Is there any way to work around it right now in OP?  The file you want to edit to change the starting prestige is:
MetaAssets\ServerProfiles\Singleplayer\Character.gf
How do I alter this file?    

[NuclearWessels]

The cleaner has never been present - the one being used on the EAW servers was developed by BBJones IIRC, it wasn't an official part of the game.

Notepad will do fine to edit the .gf file - it's just a regular text file (in spite of the odd extension)

dave
 

[Primus2003]

Thanks for the info on the change, it was greatly appreciated.

As to the delays aspect, I admit it was somewhat present in EAW but it seemed to become worse with OP.  I figured the cleaner was in EAW given it dint stall as baddly as OP does.  I hope this cleaner arrives soon.  Oh and how does one download from those 3d sites?  They never work.  

[Primus2003]

I was not sure what else to call it.  Does anyone else, wehn they have been playing the game for a long period of time, not one day I mean over all.  When trying to move etc the game or move more accurately drags out forever?  Anyway around this as it happened to both my SFC 2 as well as OP.  
Additionally isnt there a way to change the number of start up credits you get?  I cant seem to remember how.

[NuclearWessels]

Yes, over the course of time more and more inactive AI characters and ships build up in the database - you'll see your saved games getting larger and larger.  This has the effect of making things move ever slower.

The online servers (EAW at least) get around this by running a "cleaner" program that weeds out all these dead and useless beasties, but that hasn't been available for SP (or OP) so far.

I'm currently in the final development stages of an editor/cleaner that works for all four flavours (OP/EAW, single player & server) but it's still got some glitches - I would imagine it's 2-3 weeks away from a beta release.  Once it's ready it will allow you to clean the deadwood out of your game, and also to edit your saved games (change your prestige, race, ships, alliances, mission lists, etc etc)

The file you want to edit to change the starting prestige is:
MetaAssets\ServerProfiles\Singleplayer\Character.gf

You'll see a setting in there that looks like:
//This is a character's starting prestige
StartingPrestige   = 100

change that beastie to whatever value you want

dave
 

[Primus2003]

I did not realize that this cleaner was not present.  Why was it removed?  i look forward to getting the problem resolved.  I figured the prog was maybe getting corrupted or something.  Is there any way to work around it right now in OP?  The file you want to edit to change the starting prestige is:
MetaAssets\ServerProfiles\Singleplayer\Character.gf
How do I alter this file?    

[NuclearWessels]

The cleaner has never been present - the one being used on the EAW servers was developed by BBJones IIRC, it wasn't an official part of the game.

Notepad will do fine to edit the .gf file - it's just a regular text file (in spite of the odd extension)

dave
 

[Primus2003]

Thanks for the info on the change, it was greatly appreciated.

As to the delays aspect, I admit it was somewhat present in EAW but it seemed to become worse with OP.  I figured the cleaner was in EAW given it dint stall as baddly as OP does.  I hope this cleaner arrives soon.  Oh and how does one download from those 3d sites?  They never work.