Population Resets to Zero

[sector24]

Right, but what mordici is saying is that his population is rolling over at 500k. The closest variable being 2 unsigned chars (512 x 1000), even though that would be inefficient. Hence its unlikeliness.

[Loren]

sector24 said:
Right, but what mordici is saying is that his population is rolling over at 500k. The closest variable being 2 unsigned chars (512 x 1000), even though that would be inefficient. Hence its unlikeliness.

Where are you getting this 512 from, though? Modern machines use 8-bit bytes!

[Mordici]

I just want to clarify what I said again cause sector24 said that my population was rolling over at 500k.

My population rolled over at around 500k, which means that somewhere between 400 and 500k a rollover did occur. In all three cases I didn't notice it on the turn it happened, so I have no idea exactly what amount my population was at before it happened.

Also, I don't know if this has any bearing on this, but I'll provide this anyway. I run this game on a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.4.11 and it is version 3.17 of Dominions. I don't know exactly what mods were running at the time, but there are a few I know for sure where running. They were the following:

Better Independents

Better Independents Resource

Deadly Seas


I hope this information helps.

[Endoperez]

Good report, Mordici. That's exactly the kind of information that might help solve this.

[Folket]

And here I was thinking a signed byte was from -128 to 127.

I far as I'm concerned this is solved. If population growth is not controlled the pop variable overflows and all population is exterminated.

Also it is not unheard of for me to have 2000+ gems in MP. I never play game that long in SP.

[The_Reckoning]

You could just pretend it's an event where the population has reached critical mass and they all die ?

[vfb]

Exactly! The peasants were too fruitful and multiplyish, and they have ravaged the soil and water tables. Now there is no food at all and they all die.

To prevent this problem, I suggest massive blood hunting and patrolling to keep the population in check. And if that doesn't do the job, well maybe there's a use for the Implementor Axe after all!