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[Ampersand]

Also, I want to add some sort of `decay' to the constitution data, where older results have less sway... Maybe Exponential or maybe something involving Markov Chains, those are fun , or maybe something else..?

You mean like, less weight toward maintaining the Status Quo the longer the bills have been in effect?

[LiteralKa]

Also, I want to add some sort of `decay' to the constitution data, where older results have less sway... Maybe Exponential or maybe something involving Markov Chains, those are fun , or maybe something else..?

You mean like, less weight toward maintaining the Status Quo the longer the bills have been in effect?

Not really, I should have clarified that more. What I should have said is that I should take the avg constitution ammendments/year(s) and have the older data weigh less.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

Hmm, how would I retrieve the name of a location? (Say, an apartment for a newspaper ad)

Code: [Select]

addstr(ad,location[num]->name)

// num representing SITE_RESIDENTIAL_APARTMENT_UPSCALE, SITE_RESIDENTIAL_APARTMENT, etc.
Or something?

That won't work, actually, though I can see where that would be useful; SITE_RESIDENTIAL_APARTMENT and the like don't go in the num itself, they go in location[num]->type. num here is just an index into the location[] vector.

You have two options. If you want to guarantee it's a real building the players can access, you can loop num from 0 to location.size() (or use an stl iterator, but nothing else in the code does) and record everything with a ->type that you like in a separate data structure, then roll on just those results. It's ugly, but it'll work.

The second option is to just randomly generate a new apartment name. I'd have to check to verify, but you'd probably do this by making a dummy locationst object, give it the type you want, call myLocationst.init() on it to have it name itself, and then retrieve the name.

[LiteralKa]

Hmm, how would I retrieve the name of a location? (Say, an apartment for a newspaper ad)

Code: [Select]

addstr(ad,location[num]->name)

// num representing SITE_RESIDENTIAL_APARTMENT_UPSCALE, SITE_RESIDENTIAL_APARTMENT, etc.
Or something?

That won't work, actually, though I can see where that would be useful; SITE_RESIDENTIAL_APARTMENT and the like don't go in the num itself, they go in location[num]->type. num here is just an index into the location[] vector.

You have two options. If you want to guarantee it's a real building the players can access, you can loop num from 0 to location.size() (or use an stl iterator, but nothing else in the code does) and record everything with a ->type that you like in a separate data structure, then roll on just those results. It's ugly, but it'll work.

The second option is to just randomly generate a new apartment name. I'd have to check to verify, but you'd probably do this by making a dummy locationst object, give it the type you want, call myLocationst.init() on it to have it name itself, and then retrieve the name.

Thanks for the clarification! Though a function for this would be useful :/

[Oksbad]

Ok the game seems to crash when you kill cops that chase you, on foot or in cars. Isn't that the situation that spawns the officer killed on the line of duty headline or something? In any case its quite annoying. I hope it will be fixed soon.

Edit: It ALSO crashed when you only kill, say, one of the pursuing cops.

[LiteralKa]

Ok the game seems to crash when you kill cops that chase you, on foot or in cars. Isn't that the situation that spawns the officer killed on the line of duty headline or something? In any case its quite annoying. I hope it will be fixed soon.

Edit: It ALSO crashed when you only kill, say, one of the pursuing cops.

What a CONSERVATIVE bug!

Also, maybe adding an `Amnesty International' effect, that, monthly, has a *very* small chance of getting a LIBERAL out of jail. (With, of course, a news story about it.

[Oksbad]

Is it me or are there no longer any police records in the police station?

[LiteralKa]

Is it me or are there no longer any police records in the police station?

I found one or two, (IIRC), but they were VERY rare. But I know for a fact that sleeper actions get them.

[LiteralKa]

l0de radio hour episode on The Liberal Crime Squad [warning, show can be quite offensive at times]. But that's how I found the Liberal Crime Squad.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The day I was born in 1984 was the day the Sandanista Front won the elections in Nicaragua.
My parents named me: Nigger Innis.
My first memory was my father burning my back with a cigarette. He used to wear an old electrical chord from a box fan for a belt and to this day I have faded scars from the prongs in odd places all over my body, like the two... thin lines you see above my right eyebrow.
When he was really into the sauce he'd grab me by the neck and added to the burn from that first cigarette. If I broke a plate: he'd burn me with a cigarette. If I cried when he beat me: he'd burn me with a cigarette. If he couldn't steal or beg enough money for booze I hid, but he always found me, and there was always a lit cigarette waiting.
By the time I went to elementary school there were over one-hundred burns on my back. In the shape of a modeled swastika. Our house was right down the road from the YMCA pool, but I never went. He said that if I ever showed the scars to anyone he'd kill my mother and make me watch, then kill me. Then he laughed, and said he might do it anyway. And then he burned me again.
I was his canvas.
The Social workers came, but they didn't take me away from him. They saw the bottles all over the house, they saw the track marks on my mother's arm. The bruises on her face. They saw that I was filthy and cut up all over, and they told my father that I had to go to elementary school. I still don't remember what happened after they left. I don't want to.
They tested me and they were surprised to find that I could read, and write, and do math, though I'd never been to school. I wasn't. He made my mother teach me to read. And had me read out of Mein Kampf to him and his Nazi friends and hate leaflets. And God help me if I ever stumbled. I had a little Hitler Youth (??) Uniform that he said was priceless. But it was a tattered wreck and too small. And I was terrified that a seam would burst or a button would pop in front of his cronies and they'd beat me to death. Once the armpit of the shirt tore when I made the Nazi salute at the end of `Nation and Race', but he didn't notice; they were too busy cheering. Sometimes he'd point his old Luger at me and order me to make a speech right there if I wasn't a race traitor. It's no surprise that I've always been able to speak off the cuff, and that I give all my speeches from memory.
Thanks Dad.
I learned math from counting change. He'd send me out to get his liquor, and the only place that would let me buy it would try to Jew me every single time. If I came back from a store with a cent less than the price of his swill, the swastika would grow. Later, I learned that if I stole the liquor instead, I could use the money to eat. And when my mother finally got too strung out to stand in the welfare line, that was all I could get.
It was never enough.
They put me in school. The other kids laughed at me because my clothes were torn and I stank. After class, I beat the living shit out of them. Nobody laughed then. I took their money, their clothes, everything. Some of the kids were bigger than me but none of them were hungrier.
On my tenth birthday my mother died. I got beaten for it, him screaming, his stale liquor breath in my face, it was all my fault, pistol whipping me with the Luger and threatening to kill me. I remember him pointing the gun at me. Cocking it. And as I watched his hand shake, realizing for the first time that my father was a coward.
He still beat the living shit out of me.
In high school, I pilfered lockers, organized walkouts, punk rock shows, shoplifted, anything. I spent more time in Juvie than out. I was 14 years old when I stole my first car, and it took every cop in this shitstain of a town to bring me back. I sold weed, broke into houses, anything to keep myself fed.
This went on for six years. Until I met Rodriguez, and I learned that I could have more.
Much more.

[Ampersand]

I had a little Hitler Youth (??) Uniform

Unfamiliar with it? It was an organization for the indoctrination of children in Hitlers Germany.

[Jetman123]

The Hitler Youth, or Hitlerjugend, was basically a youth orginization in Nazi Germany that was intended to take teenagers and mold them into Nazi-worshipping soldier material. They would be strengthened, toughened, smartened and inundated in propaganda to help them when it came time to join the army. They would also be able to easily purchase knives as a part of the process.

Yeah. It was one of the more invasive things Hitler instituted. Think of it as a severely warped and militarized version of the Boy Scouts.

[LiteralKa]

I had a little Hitler Youth (??) Uniform

Unfamiliar with it? It was an organization for the indoctrination of children in Hitlers Germany.

No, there was just a word there that I didn't understand.

[Yanlin]

Speaking of words I  do not yet understand...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=conservative+scum

We must amend this CONSERVATIVE mistake!

[LiteralKa]

Hmm, how would I retrieve the name of a location? (Say, an apartment for a newspaper ad)

Code: [Select]

addstr(ad,location[num]->name)

// num representing SITE_RESIDENTIAL_APARTMENT_UPSCALE, SITE_RESIDENTIAL_APARTMENT, etc.
Or something?

That won't work, actually, though I can see where that would be useful; SITE_RESIDENTIAL_APARTMENT and the like don't go in the num itself, they go in location[num]->type. num here is just an index into the location[] vector.

You have two options. If you want to guarantee it's a real building the players can access, you can loop num from 0 to location.size() (or use an stl iterator, but nothing else in the code does) and record everything with a ->type that you like in a separate data structure, then roll on just those results. It's ugly, but it'll work.

The second option is to just randomly generate a new apartment name. I'd have to check to verify, but you'd probably do this by making a dummy locationst object, give it the type you want, call myLocationst.init() on it to have it name itself, and then retrieve the name.

Yeah, a function doing that would be... helpful, to say the least.

And here's a link to some code I dug up, probably offensive, but it generates political sounding text, so it's quite relevant. http://datavibe.net/~jmax/terror2-cli.pl.txt

[LiteralKa]

Posting some notes I wrote down in a notebook yesterday.

Holiday - Issue(s)

• 4th of July - Flag Burning
• Memorial Day - Military Spending
• Earth Day - Pollution
• Election Day - Campaign Finance
• Arbor Day - Pollution
• Inaguration Day - Campaign Finance
• Lincoln's Birthday - Civil Rights
• Mother's Day - Women's Rights, Abortion
• MLK Day - Civil Rights
• Christmas - Religion
• Easter - Religion
• 4/20 - Drugs
• 9/11 - Military Spending

Notes

• New Pope
• Liberal Calendaar
• Recessions
• Stock Market (Daily quotes in paper)
• Extinctions
• Wars

Ask me to clarify anything that isn't clear enough.