[Freeciv-Dev] Re: MAX_COMBINATIONS?

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 09:32:56AM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 05:32:13PM +0200 I heard the voice of
> Raimar Falke, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > This game needs 126 combinations. I will increase the number to 150.
> 
> Cool beans.  Thanks.
> 
> How do you figure this out?  Just a debug printf() in the client where it
> checks them, or is there some way of deriving it from the samegame
> itself?

I set it to 150 and then to 130. And it printed out error messages for
130. And the last one was for 126. No magic here.

> What increased this beyond the 'norm' for me?  Number of workers/spaces
> around the cities?  Number of cities?  The 'unusual' terrain?  Or, to be
> more succinct, Why do *I* get the be the special one who hits this and
> nobody else does?   8-)

I would say the unusual terrain. In "normal" maps more of the tiles
around a city are worse than others.

        Raimar

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