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In the future is it possible you could create a more lightweight version of the mod? With less overall parts but only significant parts for slower computers? It would allow for bigger battles with the game not lagging due to the addition of the mod.

TotallyNormalPerson Yes, as soon as mod dependency is supported. For now if you have to just comment out the first Action group in mod.txt. That will remove all the other ship classes except terran and may save a lot of overhead memory. There's no certain number but perhaps a GB. It will speed up loading, though.

Lafiel ok, thanks for the tip.

Found a graphical mistake I missed in my screening. Sorry about that. Yep, happens when you do changes to a few hundred parts. Fixed and Uploaded.

Lafiel Ok, thanks!

Zetsubou_altist You don't have enough memory for the full mod. Use this to replace the standard mod.txt. You should be able to load it.

what is the difference from abh and the relief mod

Zetsubou_altist This:

No ship classes sections

Lafiel i cant run the massive ship that was shown in the first post (still gets 2 fps) but large ships are running fine at about 50-60 fps the ship i used to test it this time was the size of the crescent wrath and I've had 3 ships of similar size running at the same time and fps only dropping to ~50

screen shot just for size comparison Also i was at 50 fps when that was taken
so it still tanks performance but nowhere near as bad as it did

I am seeing a massive improvement in both loading times and actual game play. I will see about getting you actual numbers when I have more time.

Well done!

Thanks guys for testing.

Although, it was a little unknown mistake of mine that caused the majority of lag it was also a weird game behavior. Because it caused lag despite the actual code supposedly not being in used at all yet it did for same reason. If walt fixes this in the next version it might improve in general. I doubt by much, though.

There's isn't much more I can improve at this point. Saving on memory requires excessive effort for very little gain while making the mode extremely complex. (saving just one 1x1 tile may require changing dozens of parts) Right now effects are making up a substantial amount of memory used by the mod. There's nothing I can do here. The most thing I could do to save memory is getting rid of batteries and damage sprites. This won't happen anytime soon or at all.

Thanks.
I'll release a new version soonish and then take my time getting the main parts of 0.5.3 to work to their fullest potential. The problem with them is not exactly because it's difficult but rather they refuse to work as expected and require a few thousands ((10)221+(8)*2000)) of tests to verify. Obviously, I can't do all that in detail. So far I haven't been able to make much progress in these 3 months. Since they have been working "ordinarily" since adding them from the beginning there isn't as much of a need to get it done soonish either. I wouldn't be able to even if I wanted. So I'm pondering about the version release because they are obviously holding the mod back.

Zetsubou_altist No. There is no simple way. You have to add every single ship into mod.txt with replace action (bounty mode.txt) and their cost. You have to create your own BH mod.
You can only change the starter ship by copying into ``builtin_ships/Starter Ships'' but this is not what you want.