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PR#156: Tenements and tiny fixes

Started by Matthew, May 11, 2023, 05:29:55 AM

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Matthew

BB5 is the first time that I have played in Caledonia and I noticed that it doesn't have many tenements, the characteristic housing stock of Scotland's great cities. So this PR quadruples the chance of tenements being built in Caledonia, while making them four times less likely to appear in the regions representing England and Wales. I have left Erin as it is: Dublin did have some Scottish-style tenements built by the Iveagh Trust, but Irish folk history uses the term much more broadly to mean any poor-quality housing, rather than tenements in the Scottish and pakset sense. I don't think they were common in the rest of Ireland (I don't remember seeing any in my time in Belfast and a BBC educational site says flatly that "[t]here were no tenement houses in Belfast").

I also fixed a typo in comments and one which meant some of Spenk009's lovely cottages have never been built.  ::'(
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jamespetts

Thank you for this. I think that we are missing the English translation texts for the new buildings?
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Quote from: jamespetts on May 11, 2023, 10:46:06 AMThank you for this. I think that we are missing the English translation texts for the new buildings?

Alas they are not new buildings; they are Archon's buildings duplicated with different regional settings. I have given them separate names as you requested since it's no trouble to do so and also corrected a typo.

Also, there were previously duplicate copies of the 1880 tenement building. IIRC this was a way to get more variety in buildings before we had the chance= setting, right? I have removed the duplicate, but when I want to add it to compat.tab, I checked and found that it's already there. So it's now there as a chain (A→B, B→C). Is that OK? EDIT: I have now separated this part into a separate commit (f90c755). Implementing this on top of the other changes would mean Caledonia's chance of tenements would be 200% of the previous level, Erin's would be 50%, and the other regions' would be roughly 12.5%. With hindsight we should probably just leave the duplicate entry there in order to keep the balance of levels that I originally intended as it's not worth the risk of breaking things in compat.tab.
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