Land battles go slowly--suggestions?

Incognito · Powder Monkey Posts: 3 **147 Gold** -

Just tried a land battle for the first time. While it works fine, moving groups takes awhile because they move pretty slowly square to square, not promptly as video I've seen shows. I'm guessing this has to do with some setting or other, but I've fiddled around a little and nothing is really different. Any ideas? I've got a 32 MB GeForce4 video card on a 1.6 MHz processor; so I'm thinking speed is not the issue here.

Firaxis_Barry · Firaxian Posts: 28 **347 Gold** -

Panthar · Powder Monkey Posts: 38 **586 Gold** -

I am betting the land battle sequences from the videos are from before Sid revamped it to be turn based. I have a screaming system and they move fine to the available squares....they just don't romp across the screen like the videos in the previews.

DanTheHut · Powder Monkey Posts: 17 **114 Gold** -

They do move fairly slowly between squares for me too.. but not ridiculously slow..

At first I thought the ship battles were running slow but i think it was just that big wooden ships are slow Smile

El Austriaco · Powder Monkey Posts: 24 **447 Gold** -

hi

i had the problem too
but when sneaking into cities
superslow

i set the res to 800 x 600 and turned the antialiasing off in my gfx control panel

all other details are highest shadows on trilinear filtering off
works fine for me
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dot hog · Swabbie Posts: 70 **6 Gold** -

Land battles are pretty slow for me. I've got all features in video setting disabled with 1024x768 res. I don't think it's my machine: i've got 2.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM, and 128 MB Video RAM.

I tried super high video resolution with all bells and whistles enabled and saw slow down in sailing and duelling. Took graphic settings all back to normal (everything disabled), and everything was quick again: everything BUT land battles.

I just think the land battles were designed that way. It sucks, because I think I'd enjoy them more if they were faster. As is, I don't want to mess with them most of the time: why spend 30 min to sack one town when I could be out sailing and having fun? I doubt turn-based RPGs would be as popular as they are today if you had to wait as long to make your moves in those games as you do in the new Pirates!

Land battles are the only feature of the game I don't care for, and it's not the idea or implementation that bothers me, it's the execution of the whole thing. They're just too slow. I hope there's some kind glitch holding things back that a patch will fix, but I highly doubt it. Oh well--can't have it all.

EDIT: Who knows, maybe I'm missing something. I'm going to play with things more when I get home--maybe my test wasn't as perfect as I thought. I hope there's a way I can get land battles to move quickly, because I'd love to be able to sack more towns.

DanTheHut · Powder Monkey Posts: 17 **114 Gold** -

luckybaer66 · Swabbie Posts: 61 **1282 Gold** -

It isn't easy to move through tropical jungle and climb rocky hills while carrying a musket or a couple of cutlasses and a flintlock pistol.

marblegravy · Powder Monkey Posts: 12 **329 Gold** -

Tricon · Powder Monkey Posts: 9 **110 Gold** -

I have the same problem, but remarkably the slowdown is reduced quite a bit if I zoom close(but not all the way) to the units, and order (to move...) via mouse right click.
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Ramirez de Pietro · Powder Monkey Posts: 15 **72 Gold** -

enemy troops move simultaneusly (sp?) well. At least the second group starts to move before the first is completely finished with moving.

The way the battles are right now, I wont do any except for the Montalban one.

Nice design decision to make the battles less profitable though. Thing that bothers me is: They COULD be greast fun. IF they were faster.
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bryce777 · Gunner Posts: 632 **652 Gold** -

They do get pretty tedious after a while. Just being able to move the next group while the last one was on the way would make it about 5 times as fast.