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Creeper World 2 => Code Mission Discussion => Topic started by: Dubickimus on July 26, 2011, 03:19:30 AM

Title: What Are Code Missions?
Post by: Dubickimus on July 26, 2011, 03:19:30 AM
What are code missions.
:-[
Title: Re: What Are Code Missions?
Post by: mpete on July 26, 2011, 03:30:28 AM
Do you have the demo? It is in the full game in the main menu.

But you type in a code and it makes a random map.
Title: Re: What Are Code Missions?
Post by: Grauniad on July 26, 2011, 01:45:34 PM
Code Missions are maps generated by a part of the full game. You either start with a "seed" of characters you type in or that the game randomly generates. From this seed it then proceeds to generate a pseudo-random map of varing difficulty. There are approximately 4 billion random maps that can be generated this way - some are no-contest maps and others are too hard to beat. Most fall somewhere in between.

Attached a screen image of the code mission start page.

(http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7504.0;attach=5186;image)
Title: Re: What Are Code Missions?
Post by: Measure on July 28, 2011, 11:06:36 AM
There's a limit of 4 billion? If I had enough time to get through ten a day it would only take me a million years to get through them.
Title: Re: What Are Code Missions?
Post by: Jay the Juggernaut on July 28, 2011, 11:11:28 AM
I think it's WAY more than a couple billion. ;)
Title: Re: What Are Code Missions?
Post by: Kithros on July 28, 2011, 11:27:43 AM
Quote from: Jay the Juggernaut on July 28, 2011, 11:11:28 AM
I think it's WAY more than a couple billion. ;)


There aren't necessarily no repeats of the same code map with different names - however, it would be extremely unlikely to find them (and even less so to notice that you did)
Title: Re: What Are Code Missions?
Post by: thepenguin on July 28, 2011, 11:50:27 AM
it is possible that by running virgil's seeding algorithim in reverse, we could create two codes with identical maps
Title: Re: What Are Code Missions?
Post by: Dubickimus on July 28, 2011, 02:31:49 PM
oh i just realized i havnt downloaded the latest patch
silly me
Title: Re: What Are Code Missions?
Post by: Echo51 on July 29, 2011, 07:18:28 AM
TP: You can't really reverse it, since you can't reverse a MD5 string either. But when you find 2 strings where the first 8 chars converted from HEX to DEC is the same, the map should also be the same ;)

Dubick: yeah, it's in the patch, so if you didn't have it you won't see them :D
Title: Re: What Are Code Missions?
Post by: thepenguin on July 29, 2011, 05:26:46 PM
Quote from: Echo51 on July 29, 2011, 07:18:28 AM
TP: You can't really reverse it, since you can't reverse a MD5 string either. But when you find 2 strings where the first 8 chars converted from HEX to DEC is the same, the map should also be the same ;)

ever hear of MD5 Collisions?