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sector24 said:
There's a really tiny chance that the variable used to keep track of the population is two unsigned chars. "Unsigned" meaning it goes from 0-512 instead of -256 to 256, then the value multiply by some constant to get the actual value displayed in the game. If that was the case then the population would overflow to 0 at 512, but a char is not the optimal data type to store this kind of value so it's not likely.
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What?!?!?!
An unsigned byte goes from 0 to 255. A signed byte goes from -127 to 127.
An unsigned word goes from 0 to 65535. A signed word goes from -32767 to 32767.
This latter is what I think they used and they are adding an extra zero for display purposes.
Re: Population Resets to Zero
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