about 4 years ago - SylenThunder - Direct link
Originally posted by kkitts: To be fair, it took twice as long to generate in A18. I was doing 16K maps, and it took over an hour on my upper-end rig to generate a 16K map. It takes about 20 - 30 minutes to do an 8K map now. Still, I miss the 16K maps with the truly huge cities. A19's biggest cities are the 3rd-size-rank cities from A17.
Not sure what kind of hardware you're running on, but in a17 it was 40 minutes to an hour, in a18 it was 30-40 minutes, and in a19 it's 15-25 on identical hardware that meets recommended specs.
The goal for a20 is currently 1 minute per 1k map size. You can see more information in last Wednesday's Stream.