Ideas for AI empires

[Celarious]

Maybe with you it takes 5+ minutes because you have densily packed ringworlds, and load the game while your character is in a RW system? My 16 Arc currently only has 1 city and 1 single airport settlement. It makes me think the size of the rest of the universe doesn't quite matter during loading times, only the current system.

Don't think so, my main avatar I always load in with is in the normal homesystem with a regular habitable world, but I DO have an alt sitting at the control center of my ringworld with preons
Also I only have 1 discovered ringworld, and it only has 1 city, and it's a small city too, like 700 pop (In fact all of my cities are around that size, only 1 of them is above 1k pop, my capital, the rest are under)

The reason I think the universe is the problem, and not the current system being rendered, is because the very long load happens when I first click the "Play" button when you first open the game
As far as I know, that button "boots" the universe but doesn't load any of the scenes, since you haven't loaded in on an avatar yet. When it finishes loading, and then I click an avatar, the avatar load-in is almost instant, regardless of what system the avatar is in

I have 8 colonised and 15 (some partly) explored sectors in the game. (the resource search says "searching 1279 systems"). You did visit all 20 galaxies, so likely have alot more generated sectors in your savegame. so I guess you're right about the entire universe needing to load. Or are generated systems deleted, right after leaving the scene, unless colonised? If they are not, maybe they should be. In the MMO they were saved for 1 week after last visited, iirc. No need for that, really, in the SP for uncolonised systems. Especially since, as u mentioned elsewhere, dark matter was removed and AI can go to ungenerated systems.

The thing where I visited 20 galaxies, I actually specifically disabled autosave to avoid generating too many systems, and when I was done and had a screenshot I killed the process so it never saved all the explored systems, so I don't think that could be the cause either

Also the 1 Gb you mentioned, is that for your total Savegames folder or per Manual save? (I would assume the latter)

Whole "saved games" folder

Unless you have alot more explored systems saved, it would almost sound as if somehow HDD works better with Hazeron than SSD, which doesn't make sense

Maybe yeah lol