Max income

[Ters]

I've been looking at the max income listed at each vehicle in the convoy details window lately, and I've noted that the numbers seem to change both up and down as a train is running. What is the input for calculating this number? If it takes the actual track ahead as input, does it only look up to the next waypoint?

[Dwachs]

This maximum is an upper bound on the income the train can generate on its current trip. Takes into account speedbonus. It does not know anything about how many tiles left until target.

See gui/convoi_detail_t.cc line 306+

[Ters]

Comparing convoi_detail_t.cc to simvehikel.cc, doesn't the former lack a division by three?

[Dwachs]

Comparing convoi_detail_t.cc to simvehikel.cc, doesn't the former lack a division by three?

convoi_detail_t.cc line 309 divides by 3.000 as it is done in vehikel_t::calc_gewinn.

Imho the formula in convoi-detail is correct. Since it is missing anything about distance, the 'max income' is actually maximal income of full vehicle per tile travelled.

[Ters]

Somehow I did not see it. I probably wasn't looking careful enough, since I had a reason to believe it was missing. That means I have to reopen my investigation into why my calculations give one third of the max income (actually, it's max profit) listed in the convoy details in the game.

EDIT: Perhaps this should be moved somewhere more appropriate. It has taken a rather technical turn.