Enter Seed option?

[ChiefSparkY]

Guys, in C3C, when I start a new game, I see the Enter Seed option at the top right of the Choose Your World screen - this is always set to zero on a new game. I can just leave this the way it is, right?

Cheers!

 

[Macintosh]

yes you can.

When you will play a new game with the same map as used in the game before you can enter the number at this place, namely the seed number of this map.

(but do not ask me where to get this number)

 

[dojoboy]

From my understanding, you just type in some numbers and a map generates in accordance. For example my birthday is 27 May 1965, by typing in 2751965 a map generates representing those numerals. As to what represents what within the application, I've no idea.

Of course, I could be completely wrong.

 

[wallyskier]

Pardon my idiocy, but what exactly is a "seed"? Is it the number of goodies the program places on the map as it was in Civ II, or is it something else?

 

[Gyathaar]

A seed is an input parameter to the random number generator.

 

[Beamup]

More particularly, random number generators aren't really random at all - which is why they are more correctly called pseudorandom number generators. They are simply complicated formulas that take one number as input and produce another number as output. The special part is that the formulas are designed so that the output number appears to be random and uncorrelated with the input. But giving it the same input will result in the same output, every time.

When you want to generate a string of random numbers, usually what one does is simply take the output from the last time and use it as input the next time. But you have to have somewhere to start. That starting value, from which all the future random numbers will be generated, is called the seed.