I'm having big problems with Dark Avatar. I've attempted 3 games so far with the same result. I'm pretty sure it's not my computer because I can complete a gigantic/abundant Dread Lords game on the same machine with no problem and very little lag. At first, I thought it was a problem with Dark Avatar handling a gigantic/abundant game, but each game I've reduced the number of habitable planets with the same result. The last game had only about 200 in the whole galaxy and it still choked.
What happens is the game deteriorates and becomes totally unplayable after about 300 turns. The beginning of the end is when it starts doing this really nasty thing where ships take about 1 move per second and beep every time. Then it starts doing double beeps for no apparent reason. Every now and then, the whole game just crashes to desktop. It finally becomes unplayable when I get nasty hangs moving ships around. Sometimes, focus jumps and the wrong ship moves. Other times, the ship doesn't move at all or moves to some random location I didn't even click.
At this point, Dark Avatar appears to be an unplayable buggy POS to me and I'm not too pleased about buying the expansion bundle. What is going on with this product and why can't I can't play more than halfway through a game?
Thanks,
- Craig