Questiona to Egosoft about X4 combat AI and prevalent issues (ever since X2)

[Slashman]

a big problem with the modded fighting scripts in the x3 engine was always scaleability. they were expensive on CPU. The same usually applied to the advanced turret scripts. In practice they seemed to be player use only.

With Multi-threading being a core part of the game engine now, I'd hope the game would be able to cope a lot better with such things.

Considering X3 was single threaded, but effectively used two Core - one for the game one for DX - being able to spread over four cores, which is the minimum now realistically, is going to make a huge difference.

My only concern is how Rebirth still choked massively when modded, yet CPU utilisation would drop as performance dropped, despite being multi-threaded. I really hope X4 scales well and can use proportionally more CPU resources as the number of scripts - both vanilla through updates as well as modded - increases.

With Six and Eight Cores becoming more normal, I really hope that X4 can thrive and scale well as stuff is added.

Scoob.

Just keep in mind not to overestimate the impact of multi-threading. It is not a magical mcguffin.