In recent versions of Simutrans-Standard (and therefore also Experimental), there have been a couple of new features which merit consideration for implementation in Pak128.Britain. The first is the ability to vary the starting money with the starting year; the second, introduced in the last day, is a timeline of city roads. Both of these would be relatively easy to put in, I think, and would be worthwhile for the pakset.
Quote from: jamespetts on May 02, 2010, 09:41:35 AM
.... The first is the ability to vary the starting money with the starting year; ....
this is included in version 0.102.2.2
but seems only to work for -singleuser
pak.german 0.102.2.2 included this
Frank,
any idea why it only works with -singleuser?
no
bug report in german forum (http://www.simutrans-forum.de/forum/thread.php?threadid=5227) not feedback from other users
Works for me both with and without -singleuser.
Even if startingmoney and startingmoney[0] are written in the user simuconf.tab.
I have tested, and this is a working configuration:
city_road[0]=city_road,1905,2050
city_road[1]=cobblestone_road,1781,1904
city_road[2]=dirt_road,1700,1780
Quote from: Dwachs on May 02, 2010, 10:29:54 AM
Works for me both with and without -singleuser.
Even if startingmoney and startingmoney[0] are written in the user simuconf.tab.
If exist a /user/simutrans/simuconf.tab then not work.
items
# display (screen/window) width
# also see readme.txt, -screensize option
display_width = 900
# display (screen/window) height
# also see readme.txt, -screensize option
display_height = 560
Remove this simuconf.tab then works.
Is it in the user simuconf.tab no entry for an option that should be the last entry. In this case pakset/config/simuconf.tab.
@jamespetts
startingmoney not city_road
I like the city road feature! Is there a similar feature implemented/planned for intercity road type too?
Also, Does anyone have any suggestions for how to vary starting money by year though?
I have implemented an identical feature for the inter-city roads in Experimental. Not sure why this wasn't included in Standard.
Now included in standard, too :)
Excellent! What is the correct syntax for the simuconf.tab now?
Something like:
city_road[0]=dirt_road,0,1920
city_road[1]=gavel_road,1921,1980
replace city_road with intercity_road if you like. The syntax is
city_road[number]=name,intro-year,retire-year
intercity_road[number]=name,intro-year,retire-year
Numbers from 0 to 9 possible.
Dwachs,
in the current Standard code (at least, when I last checked yesterday), only "city_road" worked: there was no code to handle "intercity_road".
Quote from: jamespetts on May 03, 2010, 12:41:13 PM
in the current Standard code (at least, when I last checked yesterday), only "city_road" worked: there was no code to handle "intercity_road".
then its time to check again ;)
Rats. And I spent ages putting it in for Experimental! Work duplication...! Good addition, though.