A question about Trade ports

This has been asked many times, using search funcion is advised.  Yes more than one tradeport gives more income. If your tradeport gives you 1.5 credits/sec, then 2 will give you 3.0/second.

Yes.

Thanks for clearing this up for me. And just to not sound like I've never been on a forum before: "Sorry, your search for 'trade' returned 0 results.". And I got that searching on every level of the forums.

they do stack at the same planet. however, if you can extend the length of your longest trade route you'll increase the value of EVERY port you own, so its usually best to try and plan your Trade Port layout in advance if you can. 

The search function is somewhat useless, searching for "build order" e.g. gives you 0 results as well, whereas google reveals multiple threads with that very sentence in the topic...no clue how, but they definitely did screw up there.

dont feel bad, i always consider people who advise the use of a forum search function to be the ones to sound like they've never been on a forum before, since as far as I know most forum software has the absolute worst search algorithms ever devised

It's not necessarily the actual search algorithm that's broken, but definitely the button doesn't work.

searching for continuous string elements is almost always of time-complexity O(n^2), meaning that its slow and gets even slower for larger n at a geometric rate. 

if this were the only problem with the search button on these forums it might still be acceptable to tell someone to use the search function. you might have to wait 10-20 seconds for your result back (depending on their server speed) but you'd find something and 20 seconds is probably still faster than waiting around several hours for a response to a new thread. 

but thats not the only problem. the button is just outright broken. if i had to guess i'd say they never got it working fast enough to be acceptable and it was bogging down their server so much that it was making the other pages on the site load VERY SLOWLY. they probably just disabled it completely, but for some reason left the button there for cosmetic reasons. 

just speculating of course. maybe a Stardock person will come in here and tell us whats really going on, but thats my shot in the dark from the perspective of a programmer who has no inside knowledge of how these forums are implemented. 

Please, each and every free forum software has at least an acceptable search function. It's not like there's top notch programming skill necessary to make it work fast enough (especially not considering todays hardware). Anyway, since we all agree on the broken search function let us tar and feather the DEVs

Edit: You're definitely wrong about the complexity btw, I think you're mistaking it for a sorting algorithm. In a search function the worst case would be to check each and every entry for the keywords, thus -> O(n)

getting off topic so this is my last post about it.

maybe you're right Azrak. certainly you are if the search is just a lookup function, which it could be if there was a list of alphabetized keywords to search from. if its actually scanning text and putting together strings spontaneously (without having a database to work from) then its n^2. or rather its O(m*n), where m is the number of entries and n is the number of words per entry. without knowing the exact implementation of the forums software its impossible to know. but you're probably right, its probably a typical setup and does have a database so it would be O(n) to lookup.