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Dropping income ?

Started by KaiRat, June 25, 2012, 12:25:14 PM

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KaiRat

Hi,
I had just upgraded my simutrans from 102.0 to 111.2.2.
But since my upgrade, I've found that the income of my routes had dropped three times than before.
Is there a new calculation method or some changes in the new version ? Thanks.

Ters

Yes, there has been changes to income calculation. As I build Simutrans straight from the source, I don't pay much notice to version numbers, but it seems very likely that it was after 102.0.

The change, or at least one of them, was that speed bonus now takes the convoy's actual maximum speed into concideration. For me, this made the greatest impact for buses, which used to get speed bonus based on their 70-80 km/h top speed, but now get a speed bonus based on the 50 km/h speed limit of city streets. It might also affects trains that are simply too heavy to run at maximum speed.

I also think there was a bug in the calculation of minimum speed bonus, but I don't remember that fix making as much impact for me.