Timeline for How can I find a lost item?
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| Feb 18, 2022 at 5:16 | comment | added | Szczepan Hołyszewski | No, you are wrong. There IS a way: invest months of work to learn how to decode the format of the savegame, then use that knowledge to locate the item. I understand "there's no way to solve problem X" to mean "there is a rigorous proof that an algorithm that solves problem X cannot exist". Analyzing a binary file and finding an object reference in it is NOT the halting problem, and I hate when someone uses the words "there's no way" to mean "nobody has sat their ass down and done it". | |
| Dec 13, 2021 at 14:05 | comment | added | AnnanFay | @SzczepanHołyszewski Factual statements are generally understood to apply to the time when said. I wouldn't be surprised if someone made a tool to solve the issue in the time since I posted this. "There's no way" was valid 10 years ago and is not the same as "There will never be a way". | |
| Dec 10, 2021 at 22:36 | comment | added | Szczepan Hołyszewski | The thing exists in the game, and its ID its stored somewhere in a savegame, so it's more like "nobody has written software to analyze savegames offline to locate lost items" than "there's no way". | |
| Feb 1, 2013 at 21:22 | history | post merged (destination) | |||
| Dec 21, 2011 at 2:55 | history | answered | AnnanFay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |