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Old 02-26-11, 11:33 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by frau kaleun View Post
For who knows what reason, the game loads the entire SH3 "world" every time you load up... all the data for everything for the full duration of the war, instead of, say, just the stuff that's necessary for the current patrol or mission. That's my understanding of it, anyway. Thus the very long loading times. They will probably get even longer the more stuff you add.
No probably about it. The reason was that they had no idea that people were going to create more that 100 new merchant ships and all the incredible harbor details. I keep a stock SH3 install for testing things and occasionally I load it up just to remind myself that, yes, stock SH3 really does load in less than a minute.

Because they learned from their mistakes (some of them, anyway), SH4 fixes all that.
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