Surely it couldn't produce too much lag, March of the Eagles did it even when that game had lots of tiny stacks and constant warfare.
Morale ticking only at month's end is really really stupid.
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1) Get it functional
2) optimize.
At the moment it isn't functioning satisfactorily, so performance is irrelevant.
Though that said, doing a few thousand extra floating point additions every 'day' would go completely unnoticed; we're talking a few hundred thousand nanoseconds tops.
Yes this is stupid. It's especially unfair for smaller nations. Large nations like Russia can retreat until their army is back at full morale. Small countries get instawiped directly because of this mechanic.
It is not just a few. Moral Calculations is not per Stack but per Unit. Therefore you add somewhere from 3000-10000 Calculations per day. On higher Speedlevels you run multiple days per second.
Last I checked 'a few' was the perfect word to describe the range 3-10
Not needed to update every single day. Just update it each month OR each time that a unit enter in a battle.
Maybe I'd just used to morale-goes-up-at-the-end-of-some-time-period, but it works fine. Is it 100% accurate? No, but neither is being able to immediately discern the make-up and morale of armies bordering your territory, or instantaneous communication, or a dozen other things.
Morale computed for every unit in every army every day would be an unneeded drag on processing power, and it's fine how it is.
Morale computed for every unit in every army every day would be an unneeded drag on processing power, and it's fine how it is.
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Here's a solution: have it update every day while at war, but only monthly while at peace.
There's no need to calculate daily morale for armies unless they're fighting, right? But it would cut all those countries out of the calculations.
Or even better, just have it update every OTHER day while at war. That would fully halve the number of operations required, and still limit it to countries at war.
There's no need to calculate daily morale for armies unless they're fighting, right? But it would cut all those countries out of the calculations.
Or even better, just have it update every OTHER day while at war. That would fully halve the number of operations required, and still limit it to countries at war.
Like I said earlier, just update morale proportionally to what would have been gained in daily updates - just before battle is begun. There is no need to drag on the cpu by adding it every day when you can add it at the only point it would matter.
This is a really bad idea because you'll go in to battles not knowing what actual morale on both sides is. Especially because there are sometimes differences in morale gain because Ideas.
A 5% regen bonus on less than a month's worth of morale is not going to be significant
And you already go into battle not knowing what theirs is apart from glancing at the green bar, so what difference does it make? Especially if you are sending your same troop after theirs after having just fought, you'll both have fought the last battle together and you'll regain relatively the same amount.
The game already has issues with calculations each frame. I have a high end computer but there is still lag. For instance press esc so that no menus are open and then open a menu while scrolling the map and you'll see what i mean.
This discussion would never happen if shattered retreat and beaten-army-pingponging-due-to-crappy-combat-rules weren't a thing.
I once chased a Spanish stack around Africa for a year, beating it at each province, but it kept retreating and retreating. Yes, it could be because of moral ticks, but the problem is more fundamental. Anyway, an army that gets beaten three times in a month should instantly die.
I once chased a Spanish stack around Africa for a year, beating it at each province, but it kept retreating and retreating. Yes, it could be because of moral ticks, but the problem is more fundamental. Anyway, an army that gets beaten three times in a month should instantly die.
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I just did the exact same thing with the Russians, only for them to eventually escape into Siberian TI. Their army had something like 11k soldiers left in over 100 regiments.
I don't think EU4's poor performance is due to logic calculations like this. Victoria 2, which does a lot more of them, also performs much better.
Agreed. I suspect it is mostly due to bad graphics optimization. Click on a massive siege stack and see what happens, for example. Framerate drops to nothing.
did you even understand what you asked for? what good is morale increase everyday, if it wont be calculated and updated till the end of the month, it will have no effect, unless you meant something else, but then really i have no clue what are you implying at
and you are wrong your calculation assumption and "make up" code