[0.8.3] PS Comet steam ship maint. costs too much

[ӔO]

at a cost of 20.48c (10.24 x2) it just costs way too much to be profitable.

The east indiaman that can haul 100 pax for 4.50c can barely break even with pax only.
Perhaps the maint. for the PS comet can be lowered to 5.12c total?

[jamespetts]

AEO,

thank you very much for the observation: this is most helpful. May I ask, for the purposes of calculating these things in future, how you came to work out that the maintenance was excessive?

[ӔO]

@james
in my network, each PS comet ship is losing something like 700~800c each month even with the pax portion full.
All the horse and carriage lines are at 110~200% capacity and it's still impossible to run long distance ships, because they cost too much. Short distances to close gaps in the network are okay, but they are still at a loss.

At one point, I tried running a long distance east indiaman pax only service, but that caused something along the lines of -500,000c total yearly profits.

[jamespetts]

Hmm. I did think that I had achieved an approximate balance of these by calculating the cost as a factor of the cost of the number of railway locomotives of the period necessary to haul enough carriages to carry an equivalent number of passengers. Perhaps I have miscalculated. I shall have to look into reducing the costs as you suggest when I have a moment.

[ӔO]

here is a save file:
lines 10, 24 and 25 are bleeding money
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17111233/Turnkey%201817.sve

[jamespetts]

I have pushed some changes (mainly a reduction by about 40% in many ship costs, and of less in some other ship costs) to my Github repository. Are you able to compile the pakset and test the modified values?  Thank you very much for reporting this.

Edit: Trying your saved game on my Linux binary build, I get a segfault almost immediately on loading. Are you using the latest 10.4 Experimental binaries for this? If so, what platform are you using, may I ask?

[ӔO]

it's the 10.4, ipv4 version with matching config and it was saved under winXP.

[jamespetts]

Hmm, interesting. I haven't had any reports of Linux specific crashes. It might be my graphics drivers, as I am on a very old machine with a somewhat ancient graphics card that doesn't work as well as it should, and performance moving around the map is very poor, but I still wonder that there might be a bug.

In any event - do let me know whether/when you have managed to test the new ship costs.

[ӔO]

it could be the sheer number of convoys, as I am barely getting 8~9x on fast forward in the game with a 1.83ghz core 2 duo.

there are something like 2400+ convoys on that map.

[jamespetts]

That wouldn't cause a segmentation fault: a segmentation fault is when a program tries to read or write to memory at an address not allotted to that program, for example, if the program tries to use a null pointer or a memory address that has been deleted.