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Author Topic: Find location - missing/unobvious feature?  (Read 507 times)

Huin

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Find location - missing/unobvious feature?
« on: July 21, 2009, 02:24:50 am »
When searching for a location I notice that the search will find a location that is suitable - but it will carry on searching. Is there a reason that it carries on searching? Is it looking for a "better" site? (for some arbitrary of better)

The reason I ask is that I wonder if it is possible to generate/browse a list of sites suitable by the given search criteria - otherwise why would the search not stop searching after the first complete match is found?
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Ultra-Towerdude

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Re: Find location - missing/unobvious feature?
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2009, 03:20:22 am »
It just does it to the end. After that, it zooms to location with most of the stuff you wanted.
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Re: Find location - missing/unobvious feature?
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2009, 04:59:11 am »
The current find site is kind of a hastily assembled kludge, at the moment.  Hopefully Toady One will create a better system that creates a list of sites matching the requests, given time.  But until he does, the current site finder is all we have.  Pity.  Especially when you get a match on 4/256 - that always annoys me.
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