I'm sorry to have to report a finding.
Simutrans Experimental 8.0 does not react to my setting of factory_spacing. The result is that factories are very close together, right up to adjacent.
Savegame uploaded (factory_spacing = 32):
http://simutrans-germany.com/files/upload/Finding, Simutrans Experimental 8.0 DoR 1, factory_spacing non-functional.sve (http://simutrans-germany.com/files/upload/Finding,%20Simutrans%20Experimental%208.0%20DoR%201,%20factory_spacing%20non-functional.sve)
Ahh, I just realised that I missed this one when preparing 8.1. I don't have time to look into this at present, but factory spacing is not an area that I have touched with Experimental. Can you test with the latest Standard nightly to make sure that this is a Simutrans-Experimental issue? Thank you for the report, and apologies for missing it earlier.
Hi James,
Sorry, I don't use the nightlies. I did not see the problem with either Simutrans 102.2.2 on it's own, nor with Experimental version 7.3 installed on 102.2.2.
DoR,
one thing that I have just thought of: did you specify the setting in the pakset simuconf.tab or the main simuconf.tab? I ask because the latest version of Pak128.Britain-Ex has factory_spacing = 8 set, which means that a setting in the general simuconf.tab will have no effect.
Hi James,
When in doubt, I set both to the same setting, and this is no exception.
And what is the actual level of factory spacing that you are experiencing?
Edit: Testing with nightly version R3447 confirms that this bug is also present in standard. Moving to the Standard bug reports board...
Should be fixed in r3449.
Thank you for the fast patch!
The latest binary release of Simutrans-Experimental, version 8.2, released to-day, contains the fix for this problem. Thank you again, Knightly, for fixing this one :-)