Re: siege

Sam Steingold <sds-mXXj517/[email protected]> Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:47:03 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.games.freeciv.general
Organization disorganization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> * Jonadab the Unsightly One <wbanqno-IrLFYxOktEFfGaWA9+OTKt-Sn5dYDs+udD6nGSXaiLjeg@public.gmane.org> [2005-08-10 12:08:34 -0400]:
>
> Sam Steingold <sds-mXXj517/[email protected]> writes:
>
>> for each tile and player, define "tile availability" to be a number
>> from 0 to 1, and use it to determine the actual benefit derived from
>> working the tile by multiplying it by the nominal benefit (food,
>> trade &c) and rounding appropriately.
>> 
>> tile availability is defined as follows:
>
> [by an O(n^2) algorithm if I understand it correctly, where n is the
> number of units that can reach any of the city's tiles in one turn,
> which with railroads could easily be dozens of units, potentially
> thousands on a large map]
>
> That might have an adverse impact on performance, since it has to be
> calculated each turn for each city.

why is it quadratic?
we apply units one by one.

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