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More companies for when you play in bigger scenarios.
Posted: 10 Aug 2018 14:59
by Jimmy179000
More companies should be allowed in the game. It's boring when your in a scenario 4,096x4,096 and there are no companies near where your company operates. The company limit should be set to around 30 andthere should be new company colours as well. Also regional headquarters should be added in to the game.
Re: More companies for when you play in bigger scenarios.
Posted: 11 Aug 2018 18:04
by MagicBuzz
In my opinion this kind of evolution should be packaged with some "geographic" settings for AI.
-> Maximum radius of an AI network
-> Single-city AI
-> Etc.
This might help when having many AIs to avoid them building everywhere.
Re: More companies for when you play in bigger scenarios.
Posted: 14 Aug 2018 07:46
by jfs
What about company colours? Right now there's 16 colours, and two companies can't use the same colour as primary. You'll either need to add more colours too (not possible for 8 bit graphics with 8 bit blitter!), or allow multiple companies to use the same colour as primary.
Re: More companies for when you play in bigger scenarios.
Posted: 14 Aug 2018 07:56
by leifbk
jfs wrote:What about company colours? Right now there's 16 colours, and two companies can't use the same colour as primary. You'll either need to add more colours too (not possible for 8 bit graphics with 8 bit blitter!), or allow multiple companies to use the same colour as primary.
For my own part, this doesn't matter as I never play with more than one company
But each company has two colors already, which should allow for 256 combinations (or 512 if you flip primary/secondary). The signs could be rendered in two colors, like in the Polish flag, or in some other pattern.
Re: More companies for when you play in bigger scenarios.
Posted: 14 Aug 2018 10:49
by acs121
Jimmy179000 wrote:More companies should be allowed in the game. It's boring when your in a scenario 4,096x4,096 and there are no companies near where your company operates. The company limit should be set to around 30 andthere should be new company colours as well. Also regional headquarters should be added in to the game.
HQs already exist in the game.
For the companies, as said we would need a lot of company colors, as much as 30 colors.
Re: More companies for when you play in bigger scenarios.
Posted: 14 Aug 2018 12:39
by Eddi
i always had this game script(-ish) idea: the map is divided into regions, with one town in each region serving as the capital. then a company may only build in the region where it has its headquarter, or must build secondary offices (high maintenance buildings) in a capital to operate in other regions
Re: More companies for when you play in bigger scenarios.
Posted: 14 Aug 2018 12:53
by PikkaBird
Jimmy179000 wrote:It's boring when your in a scenario 4,096x4,096 and there are no companies near where your company operates.
Why don't you play on a smaller map? What's the point in bogging your computer down simulating the 95% of the map you're never going to interact with?
MagicBuzz wrote:-> Maximum radius of an AI network
-> Single-city AI
-> Etc.
That's down to the AIs. Some AIs (mine, for example) do start from a point and grow outwards.