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#1

Stories, Screenshots, Videos & Saves / Re: Roller Coaster Gallery

Last post by prissi - December 09, 2025, 01:34:15 PM

I have quarter finished patch on elevated ways with slopes and random terrain. Unfourtunately the extended patch is too many small parts for the pillars, that cannot be done by hand.

#2

Stories, Screenshots, Videos & Saves / Re: Roller Coaster Gallery

Last post by Isaac Eiland-Hall - December 09, 2025, 09:52:20 AM

Because as awesome as they are going to be, they'd be even more awesome with custom roller coaster ways. lol. Also because I had the idea and don't think it'd be implemented, so no reason to wait on saying it. I certainly don't mean to steal any thunder, but if you think my comment ruins things - please honestly lemme know, I'm happy to remove it

#3

Stories, Screenshots, Videos & Saves / Re: Roller Coaster Gallery

Last post by FLN - December 08, 2025, 07:46:09 PM

Now all we need is an extension request to allow for basically slope tools on bridges, or at least raised ways. Which would allow (with pillars) actual roller coasters to be built. And that functionality *would* actually allow for some neat possibilities we can't easily do now, but it's probably too much work for the benefit. heh

Ehem... Why would you say this, before you have seen all the rollercoasters which are still to come? 

#4

Stories, Screenshots, Videos & Saves / Re: Roller Coaster Gallery

Last post by Isaac Eiland-Hall - December 08, 2025, 06:00:39 PM

Now all we need is an extension request to allow for basically slope tools on bridges, or at least raised ways. Which would allow (with pillars) actual roller coasters to be built. And that functionality *would* actually allow for some neat possibilities we can't easily do now, but it's probably too much work for the benefit. heh

#5

Patches & Projects / fix graphical glitches on eart...

Last post by k47 - December 08, 2025, 01:21:59 PM

When I lower ground too much, graphical glitches on earth border start to appear, caused by the fact that some areas are not painted properly. In function grund_t::display_border we are using world::get_groundwater() to determine minimal height, but that doesn't seems to change when digging. This patch replaces that with min_height.

[Montañita de Calima]

#6

Stories, Screenshots, Videos & Saves / Re: Roller Coaster Gallery

Last post by FLN - December 08, 2025, 09:51:12 AM

For the first rollercoaster combined with a Patrick's rock, the idea for me now was,
to have a chain of attractions molded after real world roller coasters.
Starting off with simpler circuits and increasing in size and complexity from location to location.

Thus, the first actual Patrick's-Rock-roller-coaster on the map went to be the following, quiet humble contraption.

Montañita de Calima

The inspiration for it was based on the real live coaster found in Cali, Colombia.
See more details at https://rcdb.com/11907.htm


Ride along in this video:

[how did pak128.Britain decide on the value of one simucent?]

#7

Pak128.Britain-Ex / Questions about determining th...

Last post by 1993matias - December 08, 2025, 08:24:25 AM

Hello, 

We are a very small team trying to fork pak128.Sweden to mature it and include Danish vehicles too. Since pak128.Nordic never really reached a playable state, we almost have a blank slate. 
One of the many questions we still need to answer is the economy. Mainly how did pak128.Britain decide on the value of one simucent? Seeing as there is no inflation in Simutrans, the prices need to be normalized over time. The salary for a train driver (monetary value) in Simutrans would probably be more or less the same in 1900 as in 2000 unlike real life, where the monetary value has risen by orders of magnitude. 
So we need a reference point. What was the reference point in pak128.Britain? Did you base it on a monthly salary, ticket prices, or something else? 
How did pak128.Britain set the ticket price? Based on a fraction of a monthly salary? What about prices for goods transport and mail? 
Our idea is to convert all prices throught the eras to "fractions of a monthly salary" where the monthly salary is the minimum wage in Denmark of a factory worker (or similar). So a locomotive might cost 100x the monthly salary in 1995, which can then easily be normalized in the pakset. Is this what was done with costs in pak128.Britain, or is there some other kind of magic to it? 

We would be happy with any bit of help here, since we want to get this part right early on. It's a lot of work to lay the initial framework, but we hope it will pay off in the future! 

#8

Randomness Lounge / Happy Holidays 2025!

Last post by Isaac Eiland-Hall - December 07, 2025, 10:30:12 PM

If you'd like some vintage Christmas music, feel free to go here: https://holidays.eiland-hall.us/

#9

Stories, Screenshots, Videos & Saves / Re: Roller Coaster Gallery

Last post by prissi - December 06, 2025, 06:49:29 AM

With the new cloning scripting tool, such attractions are now much easier transferred into new games and locations ...

#10

Incorporated Patches and Solved Bug Reports / Re: Server game info

Last post by prissi - December 06, 2025, 01:38:42 AM

Done in r11819