Patch - More companies (240)

[milek7]

Raises maximum companies limit to 240.

Caveat:
- there is only 16 colors, after exhausting that pool companies are assigned random colors

Patch based on 1.6.1

Changelog:
v4:
- no more stupid warnings in MSVC
- scrollbar in companies league window
- different alignment of companies buttons in linkgraph and ai gui
- possibility of entering 3 digits in multiplayer server create window
v3:
- bugfix in loading unpatched savegames
v2:
- bugfixes
v1:
- initial version

[Timmaexx]

I haven't used it yet, so unluckily I cannot give constructive feedback.

What is your experience with the patch? Have you ever tried to match with 239 AIs? This sounds very funny... well maybe more crazy. Have you tried it out online with more than hundred players?

I am really looking forward to your answer with more information on the experience with the patch!

[Leanden]

If you are going to the effort of increasing the number of players to 240, why not roll out a full 256 colours for CC

[NekoMaster]

If you are going to the effort of increasing the number of players to 240, why not roll out a full 256 colours for CC

Pretty sure there arent enough colors in the OPenTTD pallet for that

[SimYouLater]

If you are going to the effort of increasing the number of players to 240, why not roll out a full 256 colours for CC

Pretty sure there arent enough colors in the OPenTTD pallet for that

No no no. You're looking at it wrong. Each company has either two colors or the same color twice. All that you have to do is allow the same primary company color if the secondary color is different than all other companies with that primary color. 16 primary colors times 16 secondary colors equals 256 combinations, more than enough for this patch.

[NekoMaster]

If you are going to the effort of increasing the number of players to 240, why not roll out a full 256 colours for CC

Pretty sure there arent enough colors in the OPenTTD pallet for that

No no no. You're looking at it wrong. Each company has either two colors or the same color twice. All that you have to do is allow the same primary company color if the secondary color is different than all other companies with that primary color. 16 primary colors times 16 secondary colors equals 256 combinations, more than enough for this patch.

AHh, well I thought Leanden ment using 256 new colors (perhaps every shade of color in the TTD DOS pallet)

[JGR]

If you are going to the effort of increasing the number of players to 240, why not roll out a full 256 colours for CC

Most likely because some slots need to be reserved for town ownership, water, unowned tiles, and any future non-company owners.

[Leanden]

No sorry i didnt mean a full pallet, i just meant a full catalogue of CC combinations

[milek7]

I haven't used it yet, so unluckily I cannot give constructive feedback.

What is your experience with the patch? Have you ever tried to match with 239 AIs? This sounds very funny... well maybe more crazy. Have you tried it out online with more than hundred players?

I am really looking forward to your answer with more information on the experience with the patch!

Thanks for interest.
I tested it only with 40 AIs running for 20 years: http://i.imgur.com/S2L5mzz.png
I didn't try it online. Typically on my server (vanilla) there was only 2-3 players, and probably with patched game this would be even less. Though I can run it if it there's interest.

Most likely because some slots need to be reserved for town ownership, water, unowned tiles, and any future non-company owners.

Yes, I reserved place for 16 special entities though only 7 is currently used (OWNER_TOWN, OWNER_NONE, OWNER_WATER, OWNER_DEITY, INVALID_OWNER, COMPANY_INACTIVE_CLIENT, COMPANY_NEW_COMPANY)

No no no. You're looking at it wrong. Each company has either two colors or the same color twice. All that you have to do is allow the same primary company color if the secondary color is different than all other companies with that primary color. 16 primary colors times 16 secondary colors equals 256 combinations, more than enough for this patch.

Good idea, I will try to do this in free time.
EDIT: No, this doesn't have any adventages over repeating primary colors, because secondary color isn't shown in company window, and livery schemes for vehicles can be set to any, even same as other company colors.

[openbu.org]

Hi, Patch - More companies (240) is wonderful.
But......
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solved.Copy C:\Users\Ade\Videos\OpenBU.org\OpenTTD.org-SDK-2016.10.02\Development of OpenTTD\openttd-1.6.1-source\openttd-1.6.1\media to the folder.

Testing Server:http://www.openttd.org/en/server/96261

[Deactivated]

No no no. You're looking at it wrong. Each company has either two colors or the same color twice. All that you have to do is allow the same primary company color if the secondary color is different than all other companies with that primary color. 16 primary colors times 16 secondary colors equals 256 combinations, more than enough for this patch.

EDIT: No, this doesn't have any advantages over repeating primary colors, because secondary color isn't shown in company window, and livery schemes for vehicles can be set to any, even same as other company colors.

You could just make each company color oval-thing contain 2 colors - 1st primary color on the left half and 2nd primary color on the right. You also got to get someone to draw the sprites (I think, or is it by using hex color codes etc.?)
Another method is to just use 240 colors. But the problem comes with assigning names to the color (i.e. Cyan, Magenta) and being able to tell the difference between all of them.

[NekoMaster]

No no no. You're looking at it wrong. Each company has either two colors or the same color twice. All that you have to do is allow the same primary company color if the secondary color is different than all other companies with that primary color. 16 primary colors times 16 secondary colors equals 256 combinations, more than enough for this patch.

EDIT: No, this doesn't have any advantages over repeating primary colors, because secondary color isn't shown in company window, and livery schemes for vehicles can be set to any, even same as other company colors.

You could just make each company color oval-thing contain 2 colors - 1st primary color on the left half and 2nd primary color on the right. You also got to get someone to draw the sprites (I think, or is it by using hex color codes etc.?)
Another method is to just use 240 colors. But the problem comes with assigning names to the color (i.e. Cyan, Magenta) and being able to tell the difference between all of them.

Problem is that the 8-bit pallet of OpenTTD doesnt have 240 colors to use for company colors, it only has so many sets of colors that can be used (eg, shades of brown, red, yellow, grey, etc)