Could a GRF or Script provide Locomotive style Speed Records?

[NekoMaster]

I was just wondering today, would it be possible for a GRF or script to show a news message telling the player when something has reached a need speed record like top speed or average speed between stops?

If its not possible to generate new Newspaper messages, perhaps a GRF or script could put signs or messages in the console to let you know

[planetmaker]

I'm pretty confident that you could create such thing via a game script.

[NekoMaster]

I'm pretty confident that you could create such thing via a game script.

Though as I mentioned, would a script be able to create a news paper event like in Locomotion to tell the player(s) of your new speed record?

[agentw4b]

I'm pretty confident that you could create such thing via a game script.

Though as I mentioned, would a script be able to create a news paper event like in Locomotion to tell the player(s) of your new speed record?

https://nogo.openttd.org/api/trunk/classGSNews.html

[NekoMaster]

Ok, so if a Game Script can do news, I wonder how it might figure out the speed records from all your vehicles running if thats possible at all.

[agentw4b]

Ok, so if a Game Script can do news, I wonder how it might figure out the speed records from all your vehicles running if thats possible at all.

https://nogo.openttd.org/api/trunk/classGSVehicle.html

GSVehicle.GetCurrentSpeed (vehicle_id);


https://nogo.openttd.org/api/trunk/classGSEngine.html

GSEngine.GetMaxSpeed (engine_id);

[Eddi]

just note that you'll probably run into performance issues if you try to read the speed of every vehicle every tick...

[NekoMaster]

just note that you'll probably run into performance issues if you try to read the speed of every vehicle every tick...

I imagine then one would have to have a script run through the engines running and query their max speeds or try to calculate their average speed between stops but do it every now and then so as not to bog down the computer too much.

If anything though this idea would probably be better done as a patch where one can set up the code to record whats running, the max/average speeds of stuff and save that over time so it can compare the speeds of current vehicles to the last records and alert the player when something has broken the previous records "World Speed Record! Train Achieves Average Speed of 115 km/h between stops!"