Advanced Order

l_Blue_l · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:42 pm **Posts:** 285

This thread will be dedicated to Advanced Orders more details can be found here

I am working on this project together with skidd13 and he is working with the Gui related interface so all Gui (button) related items should be discussed here

As of 14th of May 2007 these are the main ideas I am or plan on developing

Goto depot orders and Stop or Sell
Order to go to any depot

Display the amount of days it takes between orders
Auto Separate Vehicles
Set load unload Percentage
Select load / unload by cargo type

Fill Station (Under Development)
Flexible Orders (Under Development )
Skip if cargo is full / empty (Testing)
Non-stop split into two order types (Advanced_non_stop_r9886.patch)

Below is a very dirty patch of what i have done so far. This patch is just a dump of all current developments and it is unsuitable for playing OpenTTD with. When items of code are ready i will port them out of this for testing and hopefully inclusion into the trunk.

Credit goes to the minIN and skidd13 for helping me with the new way strings are calculated for the order display.

l_Blue_l · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:42 pm **Posts:** 285

Non-stop split into two order types. Waypoint and Stop All Stations

All orders with new-non-stop on will have there non-stop orders set to waypoint.

All orders without new-non-stop on will have all there orders set to Stop All Stations except orders with non-stop set.

Below is what the orders would look like

please let me know what you think

gkirilov · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2007 4:21 pm

It might come in handy when you have a lot of stations (like 20) in a row for passenger service.
This is a good addition to the pax/mail destinations where point-to-point connections are not good idea.

Ricki · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2007 4:59 pm

Would it be hard to add timing options to an order? Something like, for example, leaving the 1st of every month, with the option to wait in station even if it gets full before, and with warnings for vehicles missing their schedule (like those for lost or non-profitable ones).

l_Blue_l · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:42 pm **Posts:** 285

Ricki wrote:

Would it be hard to add timing options to an order? Something like, for example, leaving the 1st of every month, with the option to wait in station even if it gets full before, and with warnings for vehicles missing their schedule (like those for lost or non-profitable ones).

Nice idea. When i code Auto Separate Vehicles i will look into the potential of that idea.

pshemko · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 1:05 am

I have one more suggestion - orders that get executed only when a vehicle need servicing. So it could look something like:

Code:

1. Go to A
2. Go to B
3. Go via xyz if servicing required
4. Go to C if servicing required
5. Service at depot

l_Blue_l · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:42 pm **Posts:** 285

pshemko wrote:

I have one more suggestion - orders that get executed only when a vehicle need servicing. So it could look something like:

Code:

1. Go to A
2. Go to B
3. Go via xyz if servicing required
4. Go to C if servicing required
5. Service at depot

i plan to included that too. Did i forget to mention that somewhere? probably but thanks anyway.

Wolf01 · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 9:21 pm

l_Blue_l wrote:

pshemko wrote:

I have one more suggestion - orders that get executed only when a vehicle need servicing. So it could look something like:

Code:

1. Go to A
2. Go to B
3. Go via xyz if servicing required
4. Go to C if servicing required
5. Service at depot

i plan to included that too. Did i forget to mention that somewhere? probably but thanks anyway.

i would like to see more conditions for the IF, like if servicing, if loaded, if empty, if maxspeed >/</= val
you are doing a good work

l_Blue_l · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:42 pm **Posts:** 285

Wolf01 wrote:

i would like to see more conditions for the IF, like if servicing, if loaded, if empty, if maxspeed >/</= val
you are doing a good work

I didn't think of that one maxspeed i think i may also include that.

Ok since i have doing all these If statements i think some Else statements may be good too. I think the Flexible Orders and If and else statements are going to be merged into the same system. Just to give you an idea maybe the Orders could be displayed like this

1: Go to A
If Not Full
____2: Go to B
____If Not Full
________3: Go to Order 1
If Servicing
____4: Go to C
____5: Go to D
else
____6:Go to E
7: Go to F

If you got any other ideas how it could be displayed please let me know.

l_Blue_l · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:42 pm **Posts:** 285

Advanced Non Stop
New order types
Go Via Station A, Go All Stations to Station A and Go All Stations via Station A.

All stations means stop at all stations

To do list:

Improve comments
Fix Timetable (eg. strings)

Edit: Patch Updated

l_Blue_l · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:42 pm **Posts:** 285

Advanced Non-Stop Updated. ^^^

pshemko · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:20 am

would you consider changing 'go all stations to ' to 'stop at all stations to' ?
The first one sounds a bit odd.

l_Blue_l · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:42 pm **Posts:** 285

I agree that 'go all stations to' is crap but i was trying to keep it as short as possible and i welcome other ideas. 'stop at all stations to' or possibly 'stop all stations to' but i still think these are to long compared to other strings used like Go to and Go via. Anybody got any other ideas?

pshemko · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:58 am

'every stop to'

FooBar · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:19 am

How 'bout:
"Go non-non-stop to ..." :mrgreen:

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