GSTile::DemolishTile

[Aphid]

When no GSCompanyMode is active, should this still work?

Like GSIndustry::ProspectIndustry, I think it should, so that a script can remove trees, town buildings, and so on.

[krinn]

This would allow player and AI to cheat too. (of course with a specialy made GS for that purpose).

Anyway, this woud be a step to the ultimate question: should GS get free money.

For now that ultimate question has been answered to no.
Don't ask me why, as i'm not against it personnaly, not because of the cheating abilitiy, as i see no problem as to cheat, you will still need a "allow to cheat GS" for that.

[Aphid]

Well, you can technically already do this, press control-C, turn on magic bulldozer, voila.

The real deal here is allowing a GS to remove the things it can already place such as houses, trees, and so forth.

Of course someone's going to design an 'armageddon' GS that will randomly nuke squares, but hey, that's fun right

[stinkyfax]

I would join Aphid in discussion, give servers more flexibility to enhance game. That way we'll see more diversity and interesting modes.

[Zuu]

I believe it is not just GSTile::DemolishTile that may be interesting to adopt.

When I made the change to allow GSes to build/prospect industries, that took a couple of hours. In that case it was not just a flag that needed to be changed but quite a bit more as the command to build industry itself decided if a player was to prospect/build depending on game settings, thus this command needed an aditional parameter when used from GS. All this then need a test GS to verify both the intended usage and preferable also that the command fail in the correct way.

As you see, even if it may sound like a simple change, it will take some time to accomplish.

[krinn]

Well, you can technically already do this, press control-C, turn on magic bulldozer, voila.

No, as this be recorded and everyone could saw you've cheated.

[Wahazar]

We are making a GS for building industry during the game, basing on Zuu's TileLabels lib.
Industry is labelled on the map, and (with some random range, also labelled on the map) placed if certain date was reached.
(ManualIndustry.grf or other with locked in_game_prop must to be used).

I want to extend this script and allow also to demolish industry after certain date - but it seems not feasible.

I cannot recognize above anti-cheating arguments - why GS can build but cannot destroy?
Even scripted industry building or any others GS actions can be treated as a cheat in single player,
probably any use of GS should be recorded, if you want to make single player contests.

[Alberth]

I want to extend this script and allow also to demolish industry after certain date - but it seems not feasible.

I cannot recognize above anti-cheating arguments - why GS can build but cannot destroy?

NewGrf specs do not allow control of industry closure from the outside, the industry itself is the only one that can decide that.

Personally, I think it's a bad idea to let the industry decide that, but that's how it is currently.

[frosch]

Nah, closing from the outside is fine. That's what magic bulldozer does.

Doing the inverse (preventing from closure) is the thing that fails with certain NewGRF.