Great work on the Supremacy game, it seems like a logical progression from BOTF, and seems like it would be fun to play. Only two things come to mind: sometimes the turns take forever to process and I'm not sure why, and the other problem is that an outpost takes forever to build. Besides that, I like the resource gathering system, although the officer count kind of throws me off. Keep up the good work, and I would love to see a completed build eventually!

Sure, here goes the specs...

Windows XP 64
AMD XP64 4800+
2GB DDR RAM
GeForce 7900GT/7950GT SLi'd

Those are the basics and what I can remember off the top of my head. Thanks for concern and the welcome!

By the way, I think that the Explore feature on ships maybe what's slowing it down. When I didn't engage that feature, it went MUCH quicker than when I did engage the Explore feature. Figured I'd give you the heads-up, and keep up the good work!

Yeah, the explore feature is a known bug, cdunn100, and has been for a while. I'm not sure if Mike (The developer) knows what the cause is - yet - though.

Would it be possible for you to time how long it takes to process a game for us? If you could time how long it takes for a new game to load (From the moment you click on ok to the moment that the galactic map appears on screen) and how long turn 1 and turn 10 take to process, we would have figures and be able to tell you if you are experiencing a significantly slower processing time than most other people.

For me, a small map with dense stars, dense planets, and many minor races takes about 30-40 seconds to load, turn 1 takes about 5-7 seconds to process, and turn 10 takes about 5-8 seconds to process. I have Windows XP Home, Pentium 4 Processor @3.21Ghz, 1Gb RAM, and a Radeon X1650 512mb graphics card (Which I only upgraded last week from a Radeon 9250 128mb card )

Sure, I'll do that over the weekend here, and get back... Grats on the new vid card!

The cause is a poorly designed algorithm for determining the best sector to explore next. It performs very poorly as there become fewer sectors left to explore. I just haven't had time to rewrite it yet.