Deleting towns... and leaving buildings

[coffeeorpins]

This is a bit of a rambling problem/suggestion, but i'll try to be comprehensible... In TTD Patch days, I used to make loads of towns in the scenario editor, save it, load it up as a game, save it as a game, load it up again in the scenario editor and delete some of the towns.

However, all the buildings didn't disappear, so you'd have little hamlets and groups of houses dotted about the place, that weren't themselves towns, but could have passenger traffic.

It was quite realistic, and allowed rural-style railway lines and bus routes.

Can it still be done in OpenTTD?, I can't seem to do it. Or would it even make a reasonable patch suggestion - as an option to include some spread out, unowned houses?