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Pak128.Britain-Ex / Re: Step by step tutorial: mak...

Last post by Matthew - March 16, 2025, 08:53:12 PM

Stage 5 of this very helpful tutorial recommends editing the file parameter.mos, so the tutorial seems to recommend building in the MOSE scripting environment, which relies on the Python script mose.py. This file doesn't seem to be included in the pakset sources and was deleted from pak128.Britain (i.e. the Standard parent of this one) over a decade ago. Am I right in thinking that the correct approach now is to use the Makefile? That seems to have been updated more recently.

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Pak128.Britain-Ex Bug Reports / Re: 1852 post box does not app...

Last post by Matthew - March 16, 2025, 05:15:01 PM

I have attempted to add the missing menu icon and there is a PR here but it has not been tested because I don't have a working makeobj.

As I am still stuck with my potato laptop, I had to use a barebones editing program so it really needs testing before merging.

Edit 17/III/25: I got makeobj working to test this. It was missing a few pixels, but that's been fixed and the PR updated, so it's now good to go.

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Pak128.Britain-Ex Bug Reports / 1852 post box does not appear

Last post by Matthew - March 16, 2025, 04:00:48 PM

Steps to reproduce

1. Start or load a game in January 1852
2. Fast forward
3. At the start of February 1852, you will see a message stating that a Post Box is now available.

Expected results

A Post Box appears in the Road menu.

Actual results

There is no Post Box in the Road menu.

Observations

I believe that this should be the green Post Box introduced in this thread. The internal name is LoadingBay1852.

I believe the problem may have been introduced in this commit which appears to have accidently removed the green Post Box menu icon.

The same bug was also reported on Steam here.

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Simutrans Help Center / Re: How I can create mods for ...

Last post by Isaac Eiland-Hall - March 14, 2025, 03:19:31 PM

Aye, but their use of AI has definitely escalated things. This thread is reasonably on topic specifically to Simutrans. We've seen years of generic "I love your post!" type things, but it takes human effort or AI effort to post something like this one. It's sort of impressive in a way. lol

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Simutrans Help Center / Re: How I can create mods for ...

Last post by makie - March 13, 2025, 06:36:43 AM

I wonder if the spam bots come back and add them several days later.

This is the normal behave of a modern bot. Post something like "Thank You" in a old thread and wait some days until the tread is forgotten. Then change the post into the spam, or add a link.

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Simutrans Help Center / Re: How I can create mods for ...

Last post by Leartin - March 13, 2025, 05:56:24 AM

I wonder if the link was added after the account creation?

Can confirm, I checked the account before answering and while I assumed it was most likely a bot (due to being female) I found nothing malicious at the time, so I figured answering wouldn't hurt.

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Forum / Can't edit your signature? Req...

Last post by Isaac Eiland-Hall - March 13, 2025, 01:59:06 AM

To combat spam, I have disabled editing signatures (and certain other forum profile options) for our regular members. If you need access to these things, please post in here to request that.

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Simutrans Help Center / Re: How I can create mods for ...

Last post by Isaac Eiland-Hall - March 13, 2025, 01:50:03 AM

Thank you whoever deleted their account. I wonder if the link was added after the account creation? I often (not as much as I should) try to check newly registered users for such things. I wonder if the spam bots come back and add them several days later. Clever if so. meh.

It's tempting to turn off signatures entirely, but I know some folks use them.

Actually, lemme see if that's a permission we could grant - could turn that off for normal users, as well as the URL in the profile, which is the other thing people abuse.

edit: I have unchecked "edit signature" permissions (and other things) for general members. If someone manages to get into a group, they can edit their signature since that is on by default for the various groups.

If someone wants that access and we trust them, we can add them to the "can PM" group which should also grant signature access - and basically we should trust them for either in such a case anyway...

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Bug Reports / Re: r11590 with pak64 r2182 - ...

Last post by prissi - March 13, 2025, 01:40:16 AM

That will also show wrong info for stops with cars as well as maglevs etc. Fixed the translation for English and a few other languages. But the English template from Train is pretty persistent.

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Simutrans Help Center / Re: How I can create mods for ...

Last post by Roboron - March 12, 2025, 07:03:24 PM

They have a spam link in their signature... so makie is right.