Eventhandling question regarding new engine

[honnes]

Hello,

I have a question regarding new engines available. When there's a new vehicle available to the player, is it then available to the AI as well ?

If so, then something is going wrong with the events, because when it's 1964 ingame, a new bus will become available, and when it's available to me, the event is not being triggered at the AI. (A long time later it does)

I use the following to deal with the event:

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case AIEvent.AI_ET_ENGINE_AVAILABLE: // A new engine is available
	Debug("EVENTS: There's a new vehicle available!");
	// Here goes what to do next
	break;

I also put in the logwindow the eventnumber, and for subsidies, it's 2, and that event shows up the moment there is one available, but for the new vehicle, the eventID is 17, it also runs the code I posted, but the event is being triggered ages later.

I'm kind of confused by this matter, unless that it is true that the AI gets the event triggered months later (to give the normal player a benefit).

I also hope that there are other's interested in this, and hope they'll get to know it this way as well

[Chruker]

Just to make sure. The player havent accepted the engine as a preview offer (the blue dialog box), correct?

[Chruker]

I'm kind of confused by this matter, unless that it is true that the AI gets the event triggered months later (to give the normal player a benefit).

AFAIK and have observed, the API doesnt do that.

[XeryusTC]

Just to make sure. The player havent accepted the engine as a preview offer (the blue dialog box), correct?

I think this is the case here, you the player got to test the prototype and the actual model is introduced a year later. That would be the only logical explanation to me.

[honnes]

Just to make sure. The player havent accepted the engine as a preview offer (the blue dialog box), correct?

I think this is the case here, you the player got to test the prototype and the actual model is introduced a year later. That would be the only logical explanation to me.

I just checked it and you are totally right. I thought that this blue box would mean that you want to use the vehicle now, and that the AI could use it too. Thanks for this info

[Brumi]

The blue window means that the company is offered an exclusive use of the vehicle for 1 year. The AI can also get this 'blue window', the name of that event is AI_ET_ENGINE_PREVIEW. Just make sure that you convert the AIEvent instance to an AIEventEnginePreview and call AcceptPreview() from there. Then only the AI will be able to use that vehicle for one year.

[honnes]

The blue window means that the company is offered an exclusive use of the vehicle for 1 year. The AI can also get this 'blue window', the name of that event is AI_ET_ENGINE_PREVIEW. Just make sure that you convert the AIEvent instance to an AIEventEnginePreview and call AcceptPreview() from there. Then only the AI will be able to use that vehicle for one year.

Thank you very much for your input Brumi, this is something I would not have thought of !