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Author Topic: Caching first site finder pass?  (Read 548 times)

Khym Chanur

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Caching first site finder pass?
« on: January 19, 2010, 05:57:18 am »

I don't know if this would be possible, but it would be nice if the first time that site finder does a pass over the world-map for it to cache the yes/no/low/medium/high stats of what it finds, so that if you want to search again with slightly different parameters it would be be a lot quicker.
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The Architect

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Re: Caching first site finder pass?
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2010, 06:04:13 am »

It would also be nice if it listed all of the matches to your search, so you could look through them. You should be able to check out all of the possible sites when multiple matches are found.
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Asteranx

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Re: Caching first site finder pass?
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2010, 06:38:03 pm »

Seconded.  Or rather than listing all of them, stop the search at the first valid site, and let you resume the search forward from there.

A bit off topic, but I'd also like the ability to supply N/A for site size and just have it find a site of minimum size in any map square with the requested attributes.  Also also, the ability to see what finder attributes apply to a site as you're moving the selection rect around, so you can tweak 'found' sites' bounds and know if it'll lose you anything.
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