Re: ICONS on the MAP???
Eye candy? Bah ....
Code:
Decimal Bitmap (3byte?) 2^x Terrain
Number 321098765432109876543210
0 000000000000000000000000 =plains,nothing special
1 000000000000000000000001 =small
2 000000000000000000000010 =large
4 000000000000000000000100 =sea
8 000000000000000000001000 =rivers/freshwater
16 000000000000000000010000 =mountain
32 000000000000000000100000 =swamp
64 000000000000000001000000 =waste
128 000000000000000010000000 =forest
256 000000000000000100000000 =farm
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512 000000000000001000000000 =nostart
1024 000000000000010000000000 =manysites
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2048 000000000000100000000000 ="deep"
4096 000000000001000000000000 ="cave"
8192 000000000010000000000000 ="firesite" (vulcano)
16384 000000000100000000000000 ="airsite" (?)
32768 000000001000000000000000 ="watersite" (lake)
65536 000000010000000000000000 ="earthsite" (?)
131072 000000100000000000000000 ="astralsite" (?)
262144 000001000000000000000000 ="deathsite" (house)
524288 000010000000000000000000 ="naturesite" (tree)
1048576 000100000000000000000000 ="bloodsite" (????)
2097152 001000000000000000000000 ="priestsite" (menhirs)
4194304 010000000000000000000000 =bordermountain
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As for AI the most effective work around to this problem so far is to simply use an American instead, they tend to put up a bit more of a fight than your average Artificial Idiot.
... James McGuigan on rec.games.computer.stars somewhen back in 1998 ...
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