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The fact is, the various governments of the various first-world nations are a bit too isolationist to go around busting up third-world countries (and China, and India, etc, although China has been policing itself in that regard) in an attempt to find and free everyone who is being held as slaves.

Not that the first-world nations do enough about the slavery happening in their own countries either.

Besides,  I don't think 'use doors to separate areas' is really that onerous of a restriction.

The point is that for a lot of forts it might not help at all, certainly none of the forts I make, which means you've added a lot of code for no good reason. This leads onto the point I think NW_Kohaku was getting at that your adding more ways players can try to optimise their fort rather than solving the problem. I don't think he wanted to stop players choosing to optimise, that after all is up to them, but just to avoid adding more code that only helps those that do and encourages you to.

Stairs would make more sense for my forts, probably, but doesn't sound like it would for NW's as he builds more vertical forts. Either way it doesn't sound like it's a general solution.

Of course I'm still not convinced path finding is the main cause of the frame rate loss, and if it is a single threaded A* search on such a small map should not be taking so long which implies it can be replaced without effecting too much.

You could just click on the 'Notify' button at the bottom of the thread to subscribe to it...

The interface for threads you've posted in is much nicer than the notify button version. Shame really because if they combined it it would be nice to un-notify from threads you posted in as well.

Or just use the defined typedefs that say exactly how big something is. I want to punch a kitten whenever somebody uses "int". Every modern compiler includes stdint.h/cstdint.

Just to expand on that all the implementations of the standards have to support int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, uint16_t and uint32_t which are signed and unsigned 8, 16 and 32 bit values.

There is also a lot of other constants that are useful but those are the ones you'll use most commonly.

but it's possible that a permutation with an unprofitable connection is actually making more profit than one with just profitable connections.

Actually it's not, but you'd have to include the possibility of just not having a connection from a city slot.

Sounds to me like generating a connection map and using one of the full tree parsing formulas would be a good bet. They do scale at O(n^2) though the larger your network the increasingly slower it'll be. Still with only 29 cities it shouldn't be noticeable.

A cheap, but non-optimal, solution would be to do your currently system but starting once with each city and see which gives you the best. There are situations where the best total doesn't contain any of the best routes but they shouldn't be a majority.

It looks like it should be a simple set operation but I don't see what it is off the top of my head.

Are you kidding?!
Setting, maybe, but this is precisely the game I was hoping for as soon as the first information started coming out.  Clearly we expect different things from it.  It sure as hell isn't Dungeon Keeper, but I liked Theme Hospital better than Dungeon Keeper anyway.

If it was a Theme style game I'd have been happy, but it's still much more like Mud TV than Theme Park or Theme Hospital.
For my money this game was a disappointment.

I'd really like a new theme hospital actually, why hasn't someone made one?

- i need to learn to read -

Nope. Keep playing. No new rules until we have a new God though.

Unless someone wishes to claim it.
I personally haven't seen a post from the current God for over four days.

Hey wait a moment, who said that removing the rule that originally gave him the role retroactively straps him of it?

Unless Armok's view on this is right, in which case Tylui still is. Depends how you interpret the rule making Tylui God as an on going one or a one off rule that repealing wouldn't effect.