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Technical limits of race specifications

Fri, 05 February 2010 14:08

gible

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Hard Rocks and Pirates got me thinking about the Pirates! game I previously ran and more specifically ways to overcome the buy-everything-from-the-host model I used and its occurred to me, what if we could alter the races specs to be truly mineless...

Not just 5/15/5 but 0/1000/0 or at least 1/255/1 or similar - does anyone know if the spec provide inherent limits for this or if Stars! performs checks to ensure the clickable range? Can we do something similar with factories? res per pop?

Given the 25 & 15 range limits and that Stars! bit packs everything I suspect the real limits may be 0/0/0-15/31/31 and 0/0/0-31/15/31

How far can we narrow the habs? the minimum clickable range is 20 but can we edit it down to 1? 0? Can we widen it past 100 clicks?Can we edit it completely off the chart?

Can we create races that have multiple PRTS?

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Re: Technical limits of race specifications

Fri, 05 February 2010 17:46

Coyote

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Re: Technical limits of race specifications

Fri, 05 February 2010 18:51

m.a@stars

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gible wrote on Fri, 05 February 2010 20:08

Not just 5/15/5 but 0/1000/0 or at least 1/255/1 or similar - does anyone know if the spec provide inherent limits for this or if Stars! performs checks to ensure the clickable range? Can we do something similar with factories? res per pop?

Far as I understand it, the published portion of the RaceWizard code does only basic bounds checking, and doesn't care about figures like these. Deal

There's other checks elsewhere, though. I guess the only way to know is test it. But 1st you'll need a way to tweak a racefile without corrupting it. Rolling Eyes

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Can we widen it past 100 clicks?Can we edit it completely off the chart?

Can we create races that have multiple PRTS?

Most definitely not. There's specific checks for these kinds of things. Whip

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