For those who don't think manual players exist and that the setting would be worthless, keep in mind that it's equally relevant to "No delay" ship settings where a 250 ms delay is currently used for ship movement and attacks. If I apply a pace scale factor to every delay uniformly, then a server where the gameop needs to slow the maximum speed of the game down by, say, 1/4th, would also increase the move delay to 1 second. While many script players might not be too bothered by a max 125 actions per second of a 1/4th pace game, they probably would be bothered by a 1 second move delay.

The question I have is, if you slowed down most actions but didn't slow down actual move delay, would that imbalance games too much? It's a complicated question and maybe it won't be obvious until players actually try playing a game with a quarter pace and normal 250 ms move. However that works, it won't be any worse than the CPC pacing system that's been available in the past.

I would really like gameops to be able to slow the pace of games somewhat, if they need to, without alienating players with a slow move rate. With the current pacing, many current machines are going to experience lags during certain actions like moving product. Eventually, as systems continue to get more efficient, these CPU lags will go away. But until that time, there needs to be a way to pace the game without turning off the players. I see the ship movement delay (even for NO SHIP DELAY games) as being much more effected by pace scaling than any other delay. A limit of 250 actions per second compared to 500 is not that noticeable, but half a second move compared to a quarter second is what people are going to notice.

Not worthless, just not usable with the next release. We'll have to ensure we mark them as TWGS v1.03 in our database download section so those looking to download them will know which version they belong to.

How much trouble would it be to update them for the new release, once it's completed?

How much trouble would it be to update them for the new release, once it's completed?

@Parrothead, I just want to make sure you understand that when I say "ship delays", I mean not only the fractional "second per turn per warp" delays, but also the universal 250 ms per warp that's used when "no ship delays" is set. In fact, it's the "no ship delay" that I'm most worried about here. I don't want to lengthen that delay for slower paced games unless I absolutely have to in order to maintain balance.

How much trouble would it be to update them for the new release, once it's completed?

Perhaps if we could meet these manual players.

I don't know any.

The question I have is, if you slowed down most actions but didn't slow down actual move delay, would that imbalance games too much? It's a complicated question and maybe it won't be obvious until players actually try playing a game with a quarter pace and normal 250 ms move. However that works, it won't be any worse than the CPC pacing system that's been available in the past.

.......... "you cant compete without a custom tw terminal program" which also requires knowledge of how to write a script file.

I see a few users every month in this boat, sad they give up before they begin.