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NitroX infinity wrote:I don't know what you're going to do with industries (same as TTD or more and new ones) but here's a small list of possible industries:

Oil Wells [Crude Oil] -> Oil refinery [Goods] -> City
Oil Wells [Crude Oil] -> Oil refinery [Oil] -> Oil Power Station

Uranium Mines [Uranium] -> Uranium Refinery [Plutonium] -> Nuclear Power Reactor

Clay Mines [Clay] -> Clay Factory [Goods] -> City

What we're trying to do is to create configuration files for that.
I.e. you have config entries for every type of cargo (with the necessairy amounth of values, like a multiplyer vs. the base economy rate).
Then there are also config entries for each type of industry.
For those industries there will be several different types:
- Creating (e.g. a mine)
- Taking (e.g. Power Station)
- Creating and Taking (Factory)
For every type there's are some values of course. For a factory you can say for example that it takes 1 ton of steel and creates 1 ton of goods. But it would also be possible to say that it takes 1 ton of steel and 2 tons of lifestock or grain and creates 1 ton of canned food.
The possibilities are quite unlimited that way, and if there's a situation that doesn't fall under either of those types, it is quite feasible to create a new type for it.

(The TTD System in Code for Industries is in gerneral like this too,
the problem starts when you try to change it )

NitroX infinity wrote:Clay Mines [Clay] -> Clay Factory [Goods] -> City

Why do I have to think of anti-personnel mines when I hear clay mines? Perhaps because of the infamous Claymore anti-personnel mines .

But ON topic now: it would be very cool to have new industries but what's needed for housing them is a larger map. Will that be supplied too? That also brings to something else: what will the colour depth / screen resolution be?

Hyronymus wrote:

NitroX infinity wrote:Clay Mines [Clay] -> Clay Factory [Goods] -> City

Why do I have to think of anti-personnel mines when I hear clay mines? Perhaps because of the infamous Claymore anti-personnel mines .

But ON topic now: it would be very cool to have new industries but what's needed for housing them is a larger map. Will that be supplied too? That also brings to something else: what will the colour depth / screen resolution be?

We want to support maps at least till 1024x1024 tiles. The color depth will stay at 256 colors, initially the screen resolution will also stay at 640x480, but support for higher resolutions (so you can see more of the map) is quite well possible.

Yes, I think the resolution should be able to handle 800x600 and 1024x768, as bigger monitors have become much more common nowadays.

Some more industry related suggestions.
Applies to the editor (if you're going to add one )

1. Determine where industries go precisely. Not like in the TTD editor where the industry gets placed near your mousepointer.

2. Determine the starting production amount of industries, their maximum and their minumum.
Example: Oil Wells: starts at 24000 liters per month. has a minimum of 16000 liters per month and a maximum of 48000 liters per month.

I would hope the maximum would be more than 48,000 l/m. I hope you meant 480,000 l/m.

Off course the game maximum would be higher but that was just an example on what you could set.

What is the current map size? 256x256?!

TBOT wrote:

Hyronymus wrote:

NitroX infinity wrote:Clay Mines [Clay] -> Clay Factory [Goods] -> City

Why do I have to think of anti-personnel mines when I hear clay mines? Perhaps because of the infamous Claymore anti-personnel mines .

But ON topic now: it would be very cool to have new industries but what's needed for housing them is a larger map. Will that be supplied too? That also brings to something else: what will the colour depth / screen resolution be?

We want to support maps at least till 1024x1024 tiles. The color depth will stay at 256 colors, initially the screen resolution will also stay at 640x480, but support for higher resolutions (so you can see more of the map) is quite well possible.

I'd like to get 16bit, 24bit color .. you know ... then I could eas;y convert budiling from images or other games .. now it is very very hard

Since we've decided not to stick to TTD graphics only (we're not even defaulting to them due to copyright issues), we will consider higher colordepths for sure. For instance, you could have a 8bit gfx set, or a 16bit gfx set, but it merely depends on how fast Allegro will be able to handle these colordepths. Well, and if it isn't fast enough.. hmm... we'll search for and use another library...?

Well, I suppose you will use the TTD graphics to start with until new sets appear. So you will need to at least be able to read GRF files. That way the new graphics being done for Patched TTD can also be used in TTSD.

But you may want to support graphic formats less abstruse than GRF files. I was thinking JPG but they don't support transparency, and GIF doesn't do too many colors. What did you have in mind?

krtaylor wrote:That way the new graphics being done for Patched TTD can also be used in TTSD.

Also, you can ask the owners for permission and they'll probably say yes.

krtaylor wrote:But you may want to support graphic formats less abstruse than GRF files. I was thinking JPG but they don't support transparency, and GIF doesn't do too many colors. What did you have in mind?

PiNG is good... (32-Bit alpha transparent)
Sounds nice too...

I would say, you want to pick a graphics format which is supported by PaintShop Pro, because anyone can download an eval copy of that for free. Also it really is pretty good, and even if you decide to pay for it, it's fairly cheap as graphics programs go.

PNG is supported by PSP (at least it is for PSP .
[Edit: PSP / PSP ]

Ah. OK then. I've never really used PNG but I guess I don't much care, if PSP can take care of conversions. And I am a crappy draw-er anyway.

Seeing Oskar's tread about higher resolution, could you add that?

PSP has supported PNG since version 3 . All versions of PSP support PNG, yes.

Hy, im sorry if this has been mentioned B4, but:
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Higher resolutions

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PNG screenshots

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A manageble jukebox, maybe even suporting Windows media players playlist files, thath'd be great, a jukebox supporting mp3\midi\wmp and the like.

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Stuff with the police:

-Speedlimits, witch you can tell your trucks to exeed with the risk of being cought, free speed limits on roads owned by you, if cought you'd bee feed realisticly
-The bility to deliver hookers from smal suburban cities, to higher educated cities where people have the money to buy them. You can be feed by the police.
-The ability to get drugs from suburban cities and stuff it into big cities, maybe incresing payment to hookers. Can be cought by the police and feed bigtime.
-The ability to asasinate oponents trains, ie blowing tracks, can be feed bigtime by the police and having to pay the oponent 10 times the cost of the damage you did.

IE kinda having the ability to take the dark way to control the land.


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Better AI (Of corse)

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Stabe networking (Of course)
Internet multiplayer, the ability to have up to 8 players in a game.

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Easily modable (Of course)

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Maybe 25 degree turns, but not at all needed

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More controlable tuneling (IE ounderground turns and signals)
Ounderground stations. Multi-level train and car parks.

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Biger more realistic depots.


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More types of trains, not better graphics, i love TT graphics.

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Biger maps (Of course)

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Different types of cities, demanding diferent stuff, ie smal cities demand food and building materials (Steel and wood) suburban cities demand electric equipment, gotten maybe this way:

And so on, and big comercial cities demanding hookers and paper and, and and.... You get it

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Cant come up with more (4 now)[/list]

Zetor2003 wrote:Maybe 25 degree turns, but not at all needed

That would make 14.4 pieces to a full turn...
are you sure that's what you want?