Anyway, I thought of a good way to make conquest work during breakfast the other day. I fixed heaps of bugs I still had, added some other features and cringed at the awful, awful code I produced last year.
Click on the mode you want to start. The process is fully automatic from then on. Escape quits. M cycles through some viewing modes, Shift+M cycles in reverse. N resets to normal mode.
kikito wrote:I liked the provinces. Is there a phase 7, or is the "conquering provinces" part infinite?
Phase 7 is when a single colour has all the provinces. Which never happens if the empires happen to be split across several islands, because they can't cross water (at least for now, if/when I figure out an elegant way to do that, I might just add it.)
thelinx wrote:Once again, an excellent time waster.
thelinx wrote:...but can you make it go faster? Even using LuaJIT it takes ages to just grow the empires with pixel size 1 on a blockland.
Not drawing the pixels to framebuffers should help. I could make it work something like the growing the provinces (which used to be even worse until I deferred drawing the pixels until the end). Of course, that means that waiting while the empires grow becomes dead boring.
If anyone has a better suggestion to speed it up, I'd like to hear your ideas.
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