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Avaton White
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Posted - 2003.09.30 13:53:00 -
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Correct. In VB it's called a "Long Integer" data type.
û2,147,483,648 thru 2,147,483,647
Seems a little silly to restrict the item piles to this data type.
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"The best defense is a dead opponent." - Avaton White
"The very notion of adding new features to broken code is self defeating to the point of being borderline insane." - Par'Nabuk
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Avaton White
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Posted - 2003.09.30 20:33:00 -
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In my opinion if items like stations are going to require huge piles of minerals then it needs to be changed to some other data type and could be considered a bug. Again, in VB (the only language I know) there is a "currency" data type that would work well for this since it doesn't degrade to scientific notation. It's range is -922,337,203,685,477.5808 thru 922,337,203,685,477.5807
I know EVE Online isn't written in VB but I'm sure there has to be some equivalent in whatever language it's written in. They could also create a user defined data type to handle the huge numbers. The downside is EVE would use more memory to store these variables.
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"The best defense is a dead opponent." - Avaton White
"The very notion of adding new features to broken code is self defeating to the point of being borderline insane." - Par'Nabuk
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Avaton White
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Posted - 2003.10.01 15:23:00 -
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But I did find you can make the pile bigger if you just add 1 trit at a time (this is a pain).
Hmmm that would mean that the variables that are used to sum the piles are long integers and not the variable that holds the amount of the pile itself. Interesting.
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"The best defense is a dead opponent." - Avaton White
"The very notion of adding new features to broken code is self defeating to the point of being borderline insane." - Par'Nabuk
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Avaton White
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Posted - 2003.10.02 11:23:00 -
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Only problem with a double data type is the fact that it degrades to scientific notation and doesn't represent the actual number for really big numbers. I've never had a use for it since it is so completely inaccurate.
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"The best defense is a dead opponent." - Avaton White
"The very notion of adding new features to broken code is self defeating to the point of being borderline insane." - Par'Nabuk
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