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Old 10/15/07, 9:47 PM   #23 (permalink)
Darkmantle
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Gnome Warlock
 
Spinebreaker
Originally Posted by Xinhuan View Post
Hello,

As the author of the the route generation algorithm behind Cartographer_Routes, I would like to say that the route that is generated is not the "most efficient" but is close to optimal. If you repeated click "Optimize!" you will sometimes "randomly" get a better route, sometimes not. TSP is a NP-Hard problem and are very time consuming to calculate, especially while running an entire graphics engine and WoW at the same time.
I'm glad you came to the thread and said this. From the initial post I was wondering how you solved one of the more intractible mathematical problems of all time!

As for resource nodes, the biggest problem I find is I fly so fast that I can sometimes skim right over a node only to have it load 30 yards behind when the game is finally catching up to where I am. It leads to this annoying situation were I will fly to a spot and wait for the nodes to load then fly further and wait there and so on
 
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