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Is the game slow or not?
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Is the game slow or not?
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| Author | Topic: Is the game slow or not? |
| Purgemoff |
posted 03-03-99 02:50 AM ET  
Some say the game is slow, some say it is not. I'm running on a 333MHz and I think it *is* slow in a way. I said "in a way" because there are different kind of slowness. Unfortunately the slowness in SMAC is of the most irritating kind - the response to user input. It doesn't really matter if my AI opponent thinks for 6 seconds instead of 4. But if I click on something or if I call a popup menu I want something to happen *immediately* and not half a second later. This half second is enough time to think "did I click on the city or did I miss it?" before the requested screen appears. If the UI was improved, the game would *feel* much faster. Also the cute animations during your move (the units turning or retreating from fungus) are somewhat irritating after a while, but I hope there is an option to turn it off (I haven't looked for it yet, but I vaguely remember seeing it somewhere). |
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