Random suggestions

[mpettitt]

Town influence areas: when you open a town information window, outline the region that the town controls. Useful when trying to rise your ratings!

Templates: make it possible to drop in standard layouts of track with one click. Things like putting a straight piece of track with a signal on the end of each platform in a station, crossovers between parallel track systems, passing points

Variable start year: ideally set in options at start...

Ultra-customisation of industry: option to have just certain industries on a random map, so, for example, if you hated dealing with oil, you could turn off the oil well/rig-refinery industries. Of course, you'd have to chain these: you couldn't leave oil wells on but turn off refineries.

Option to use the Windows pointer: even TTD with no patch has this one! I _hate_ that silly grey pointer...

Ability to upgrade town owned bridges without demolishing them: wooden bridges are a real bottleneck if you are using road vehicles after about 1960...

More realistic random tree distribution: in scenerio editor, random trees means random trees. In the random maps, you get what looks like a weighted randomness, with clumps of trees in certain areas and very few elsewhere... Don't see why the random tree button can't do the same!


Yes, I know that people want things in the feature request thing on Sourceforge, but the feedback here is more immediate...

[Bjarni]

the start time is there already, it's just well hidden

if you start it with -t #number, the start date is the number, but it's internal date, which means it counds time days. 1st of jan 1950 is 10954 and you can add the number of days you want. This will be simpler in the future

[ThorRune]

And suggestions go better in sorceforge

[Warspite]

Town influence areas: when you open a town information window, outline the region that the town controls. Useful when trying to rise your ratings!

i really like this ideal, it would be a great addition.