Smaller campaign maps: solution to long turns?

**thesmiter1** · February 22, 2011, 02:27 AM

Would it be possible to make smaller campaign maps with fewer factions, such as those used in vanilla Kingdoms, in order to reduce turn times? Would reducing the number of factions possibly reduce turn times? It would be kind of like the mini-campaigns in Kingdoms, but with all the advantages and improvements of SS 6.4 (British Isles campaign with SS features would be awesome).

So is this possible or plausible? Or is it just not worth the effort? If it's been discussed and rejected before, then my apologies.

***Side bar: how do I switch AI in 6.1 to Savage? Is there an option for this?***

**The Source** · February 22, 2011, 02:30 AM

play battle for the baltic then

**thesmiter1** · February 22, 2011, 03:01 AM

Originally Posted by The Source

play battle for the baltic then

Thank you for the recommendation. I looked into it, and it seems like it will be great when it comes out for 6.4.

How difficult would it be to incorporate 6.4 and a few factions into a smaller map (such as the ones in vanilla Kingdoms)? I'm guessing pretty difficult?

**RollingWave** · February 22, 2011, 02:45 AM

It needs more experiment, but I think the unit spawning script might be the biggest culprit to the turn times, I'll experiment with replacing them with garrison scripts for the most part in the future and see if it works better.

**Caesar Clivus** · February 22, 2011, 03:02 AM

It would be a lot of work yes.

**k/t** · February 22, 2011, 11:37 AM

What about making the map smaller and the units move less each turn as to remain proportionate? Just scale everything down. How much impact would that have?

**Ferdiad** · February 22, 2011, 01:03 PM

But but I like my big map

**Andytheplatypus** · February 22, 2011, 01:06 PM

Maybe something could be made so its just different campaigns. For instance, still have the regular campaign with the big map, but also have other regional maps so that there could be more units in these smaller areas.

**newt** · February 22, 2011, 02:20 PM

That would be like creating a completely new mod/mods. It's a lot of work and I don't see anyone doing it unless it's a submod

**Gorrrrrn** · February 22, 2011, 04:39 PM

You might get shorter turn times by reducing the replenishment rate and recruitment pools for units.
(or having smaller rosters for that matter)
Theory being with fewer units to use on any particular turn the AI would spend less time moving them around and the game engine wouldn't have to calculate so many battles.