I would like to test some.

What I'd do is tell you what I did and you tell me whatcha think.  Tonight I'm playing with general performance. So I'd be looking for someone who finds the game to be slow.

I'm ready and willing.  I'm sick right now and I need something to get me going.  I've been with stardock from the first betas of war of magic.  I do have one concern.  Its kinda hard to work with the tile creator.  I dont know how to copy an item, so its tedious to put multiple thing on my house or whatever.  Also a copy and mirrror who be nice.  That way I'd only have to build one side and that commands does the rest.  Also theres some issue of selecting something to build.  I place it, move it and get x y z in order.  But then when I try to create another pillar it wont spawn, wont do anything.  I have to select some other menu like people or effect.  Them i reopen the build slide and it works again.  It just really slows down the process.  I do plan to make unique buildings for my Emperor MeowMeow .  

I would love to get the to test the newer builds. We got to turn this into a household name.

Did you just increase the AI Value for strategic damage spells? Or did you do some code magics?

Did you read that post about him reading up on french and russian forums looking for how people tried to defeat his AI.

You think the log-in at Ctrl-Tab is just pretty?

He's got your game being recorded.  I was 100% convinced after 1.0 started out at easy.  Easy?  What game starts out at easy?

I am currently testing turning up AI Values to get certain spells to be cast more often. For some things it works. Have not been able to confirm it for offensive strategic. I think it may have something to do with targeting. 

I'll tweak some settings and do some comparisons for you... turn off outlines and other things to see if the performance is better with this update or worse. I was checking a completely uncovered Large map, which pushes my system anyway. By any chance is there any tweaks you did with the nVidia config for the game to make it run at a higher frame rate?

bug: I also noticed that poison is not being applied... the animation is there but no poison. I left a mite live for 3-4 actions with venom from a black widow at 1 hitpoint. He didn't die from the poison.

I think poison does 0-2 for 2 poison damage. I have some assassins with 9 poison damage and they often roll a 0.

This issue is in the normal 1.00. And forcing V-sync didn't fix it for me. Triple buffering reduced tearing but again, it didn't eliminate it.

GT 630M here, latest official non-beta drivers.

EDIT actually, not 100% sure, i need to test it again since other than the very beginning, i don't get 60 FPS.

I hope this is not going to be the only fix to the issue of AIs being able to perform hard quests too early. They need to be able to do the quests at realistic power levels.

To me it would be better if the AI didn't make a roll at all with the quests; rather, the AI would automatically succeed in a quest when it has a strong enough army and attempts to compelte it.

The casualties the AI takes when doing the quests could be made with a roll, but the success would be guaranteed.

There is no need of randomness in this sense; it won't affect the player too much whether the AI makes a roll or not. What is important is that the AI completes the quests at same power levels as a human.

The problem before was that it was a dice roll. The problem there is that there isn't a "% chance" that an early game sovereign is going to beat a dragon. The odds are ZERO. The update addresses that so it's not a dice roll but one of thresholds.

Updated again.  Mostly Performance improvements again.

On my test box I got a late game from 22fps to 45fps

Cloth map perf improved too.