Adventures in Eve

Open palm, apply to forehead: How to resist programming the easy way

2010-05-25 12:49:07 -0500

I’ve learned a great lesson over the last few months in regards to programming complexity. I have been working on a solution to uber-rapid filtration of jump distance within the Navigator. My final goal: to have every shortest path available within a database for rapid joining. Anyone that has researched into this will be familiar with typical path-finding techniques, Dijkstra, A*, or any of a dozen others. However there are fewer techniques for finding all paths simultaneously, as those find the shortest route from A to B. I did tons of research in performance etc… to figure out a good way, and came to the conclusion that a formula called The Floyd-Warshall Algorithm. It is theoretically the fastest All Paths Shortest Route calculator for a ‘Dense graph’….aka a system with many connections, such as Eve Online‘s solar systems.

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"Free Willy" or "The Desperate Flight of the Orca"

2009-08-24 05:59:05 -0500

Thought I’d regale a crazy experience from earlier this week about a frantic escape from wormhole space with my Orca.

For back-story, my Corp (SAATF) ran a wormhole op into a WH system with a black hole, and nothing but portals outbound (and the single anomaly we hit up for loot). After the op, we were dawdling in system deciding what to do when we were ambushed. Long story short, half our crew got podded, and our center of operations, our Orca, remained cloaked in system alone, without a bookmark to either of our discovered WH exit points. When we hopped back through the WH to give the Orca a warp-to target, we appeared in an entirely different WH system. It was officially ‘Lost in Space’.

This saga begins roughly 6 hours later, on my Orca flying account. The Orca had a cloak, Salvager, and Tractor Beam fit.