Transmitter Farms?

[wallyweb]

NOTE: My internet access is down so uploading files is a chore! The local library does not like that.
NOTE: My daily access time is limited, so I am unable to do a proper search to see if this was previously reported.

I started a random new game with r2162. All the farms had a new crop in their fields ... Transmitter Towers ... and it is a bountiful crop too. Unforetunately they are difficult to harvest and transport.
So I investigated:
1. I turned off all grfs except for the mandatory base one. The problem remained.
2. I went to my earliest good Alpha, r2045. The problem remained.
3. I loaded 2.5 beta 9 ... No more problem.
4. I compared the patch cfg for the beta and the alphas and turned off all the new switches in the alpha cfg. No more problem.
5. I turned on the dissabled switches one by one and VOILÀ! The culprit would seem to be experimentalfeatures.newterraingen. When this is set to off, all is well. Turn it on and the seeds of tower deceptions are sown.

[aahz77]

You mean like this:

SCR4.png (81.94 KiB) Viewed 2638 times

... or this:

SCR5.png (67.4 KiB) Viewed 2638 times

... or this:

SCR6.png (53.53 KiB) Viewed 2638 times

(you get the idea)

I tried a random new game with my config, which also has newterraingen on, in r2144.

Actually, every transmitter on the map was placed within the range of a farm. Some of the places were unsuitable for a transmitter (in valleys, see SCR6.png), while others are fine (on mountains/hills, see SCR4/5.png), depending on the position of the "corresponding" farm.

When I create a random game with industries = none (the game option, not sure how it's called in the English version), no transmitters at all show up.

[DaleStan]

I just PM'ed Uzurpator; hopefully he can shed some light on this.

[uzurpator]

In all honesty - I haven't looked at that code for 3 years now, but if memory serves me - terrain gen does not touch transmitters or other map "placeables"

[wallyweb]

You mean like this:

All of the above

When I create a random game with industries = none (the game option, not sure how it's called in the English version), no transmitters at all show up.

Which explains why I didn't notice it until now as usually I create a scenario or I set industries = none.

[aahz77]

When I create a random game with industries = none (the game option, not sure how it's called in the English version), no transmitters at all show up.

Which explains why I didn't notice it until now as usually I create a scenario or I set industries = none.

Me too After I reproduced the problem, I switched back to industries = none and started another game, to compare the results.