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[macbony]

Last night I generated a world on my desktop for the first time and it only rejected 4 regions before it found one that worked. I then tried to gen a new one on my laptop and it took 19 rejections before it found one. Have there been recent improvements or did I just get really lucky?

[John Gaden]

I think you were just lucky. An hour or two ago i generated a new world and got 110 some odd rejections.

[macbony]

I kinda figured that was it, but it just seemed pretty remote. The first one I generated took over 250 rejections. Maybe it's random generation karma?

[Toady One]

What's the record anyway?  Somebody probably has 0 rejects now, but what about the high?

[Oboro]

quote:Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>What's the record anyway?  Somebody probably has 0 rejects now, but what about the high?</STRONG>

Someone on the Penny-Arcade forums posted that he had 310 rejections. :O

[Gedsaro]

wow that is high, lucky me, I have only done one world and it was the 3rd or 4th one generated.  

[Silleh Boy]

the best i've had is two rejected. i was amazed. the next world i did took 150ish to get done.

is there an upper limit for rejections before it uses a 'best' of the rejected worlds?

[macbony]

quote:Originally posted by Silleh Boy:
<STRONG>the best i've had is two rejected. i was amazed. the next world i did took 150ish to get done.

is there an upper limit for rejections before it uses a 'best' of the rejected worlds?</STRONG>

I doubt it. The memory required to store the old worlds is astronomical. Pure statistics says that there's a practical upper limit before a generated world falls into range, so it's probably not needed.

[Silleh Boy]

quote:Originally posted by macbony:
<STRONG>I doubt it. The memory required to store the old worlds is astronomical. Pure statistics says that there's a practical upper limit before a generated world falls into range, so it's probably not needed.</STRONG>

Not if the initial world's generated from a random seed, then written to disk once the details of it (rivers and units and stuff?) have been added on. I think toady mentioned random seeds, and then the world being written to disk so the world could be changed via this and that, gradually destroyed i think he put it.

I might be assuming a little much here, though.

Would be interesting to see how horribly wrong i am, though.

[Toady One]

Right now, it just keeps on running.  I'm not sure what the longest string of rejects sitting inside the Mersenne twister initial states is, but hopefully it's not more than some thousands...

It could use seeds to save "almost good" rejects, but the problem is that they are rejected at different stages, and some of the more important regions for rejection occur later in the process, so it might be hard to pick them out.  Still, in a long while when you can specify different sorts of worlds, the parameters can be relaxed, or you could opt to oversee the generation at each stage, only rejecting if you see something you don't like.  It's your world after all.

[JT]

Best I've had is 1 reject.  Worst I've had is 276. =)