Budget bug I noticed. Negative Budget.

[genjeft]

I found a problem with the USA and how high the budget can get.

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If you get over roughly 2 billion for your budget it just goes negative.

[trenton59]

That sounds like a bug in a lot of 32bit games, I forget the exact problem, but it's in the way the program stores numbers, at some point over 2.1 billion it rolls over into the negatives. Unfortunately, I think that is bug that may be integral to the program and may not be fixable if it is like the similar bugs in other games.

[genjeft]

Back in the days of limited computing it would be a problem. But now you can change that from an int to a long with a few keystrokes and problem solved. Or if you dont want to do that just have

int maxbudget = 2,140,000,000

if intbudget > 2,140,000,000 then
intbudget = maxbudget

Something like that should catch it. Or as I said just use a long instead of an int, the limited processing days are largely over. Using a long will even work on a 32 bit system it just uses 2 memory registers as opposed to 1. Its not like the game is a resource hog to begin with.

[Fredrik W]

Easy enough to fix, it was just that it never happened before. Thanks!