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Title: simutrans nightly 20190830 in 1850 no more mail cars for train?
Post by: waerth on October 28, 2019, 11:14:55 AM
Hello,

I am playing this version still. I have generated a 2km by 1km map with over a 1500 cities, took well over an hour or so. I am currently in 1850 and wanted to expand my 2nd intercity line with extra carriages. But I noticed that by April 1850 there were no more mail carriages available in the depot, snif.

Any indication in which year new mail carriages get introduced so I can expand the number of trains on my extended intercity line. And can put trains on the new intercity line I am building.

Now that we are on the subject of mail anyway, by what year does the number of parcels start to increase? 1850 is the year of the stamp so I expect from here on out more mail.

The map takes about 15gb of RAM. I have 32gb though. When I tried a bigger map it failed on initialization :(
Title: Re: simutrans nightly 20190830 in 1850 no more mail cars for train?
Post by: Rollmaterial on October 28, 2019, 01:59:36 PM
Mail only starts to flow when you have an extensive network.
Title: Re: simutrans nightly 20190830 in 1850 no more mail cars for train?
Post by: waerth on October 28, 2019, 02:15:39 PM
Ermmm I have about 50 stations ...... should be enough to have more mail than the odd mail I have now.
I have 2 Intercity lines
10 Sprinter lines
10 Branch lines

3rd intercity line which is build will be serviced once mail carriages are available again is 250 km+
Title: Re: simutrans nightly 20190830 in 1850 no more mail cars for train?
Post by: Vladki on October 28, 2019, 08:03:44 PM
Quote from: waerth on October 28, 2019, 11:14:55 AMI am playing this version still. I have generated a 2km by 1km map with over a 1500 cities, took well over an hour or so. I am currently in 1850 and wanted to expand my 2nd intercity line with extra carriages. But I noticed that by April 1850 there were no more mail carriages available in the depot, snif.

You have to wait till September 1850 for the 4wheel-1850s carriage set, which includes mail carriages.
I think it should be considered a bug that the gjr-mail and LMR-4Wheel-TPO retire in April 1850, and there is no other mail carriage until September 1850.
Title: Re: simutrans nightly 20190830 in 1850 no more mail cars for train?
Post by: waerth on October 29, 2019, 07:18:13 AM
Thank you!
Title: Re: simutrans nightly 20190830 in 1850 no more mail cars for train?
Post by: Spenk009 on November 02, 2019, 01:36:35 PM
Pull request here (https://github.com/jamespetts/simutrans-pak128.britain/pull/68).
Title: Re: simutrans nightly 20190830 in 1850 no more mail cars for train?
Post by: waerth on November 02, 2019, 04:27:00 PM
That will show up with the next nightly build right?
Title: Re: simutrans nightly 20190830 in 1850 no more mail cars for train?
Post by: Spenk009 on November 02, 2019, 06:43:02 PM
That depends on when James sees, agrees with and merges it. If not tonight (for tomorrow), then most probably tomorrow.
Title: Re: simutrans nightly 20190830 in 1850 no more mail cars for train?
Post by: Mariculous on November 02, 2019, 08:57:12 PM
If that takes too long, for sure you can always search for that branch in the pull requests, check it out and compile it on your own.
Just for completeness.
Title: Re: simutrans nightly 20190830 in 1850 no more mail cars for train?
Post by: jamespetts on December 30, 2019, 11:21:02 PM
I had incorporated the fix for this a few days ago; my apologies for not updating the thread until now. Thanks to Spenk009 for working on this.