Question to the OTTD developers (about r27244)

[arikover]

Hello!

In my games, I usually forbid the towns to build roads. Beginning a new game with nightly build r27257, I was surprised to see that towns were really small (see attached screenshot).

Attached screenshot aforementioned

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Looking at the changelog, I saw what might be the cause of this:

r27244 | frosch | 2015-04-25 13:12:47 +0200 (Sat, 25 Apr 2015) | 1 line

-Change [FS#6245]: Do not consider road junctions with trivial dead ends as branch points during town growth. (_dp_)

This is not a bug report, as there is an easy way to circumvent this (with game_start script), but just a small question:

What is the purpose of this particular change? Is it because it jammed city growth somehow?

Forgive my curiosity, if you don't want to answer this because that was already discussed, could you please link the thread (or irc log) where this topic was discussed? Thank you!

[Alberth]

The "[FS#6245]" tells you were to look, it's a reference to the FlySpray issue tracker of openttd. In particular, http://bugs.openttd.org/task/6245 gives you all details of issue 6245.

[arikover]

Thank you! (and sorry)

[Alberth]

Thank you! (and sorry)

No need to be sorry, it is a fair question. The explanation is very trivial, but unless you have read and remembered the commit-style wiki page, it's probably not clear what that text means.

[frosch]

That was a bug. It was not supposed to affect world generation.
Should be fixed in todays nightly (in about 1.5 hours).