Suggestion for Patch

[Klaatu]

How possible would it be to add this new patch to The Patch?

It would be nice to turn off the offers of subsidies. After a certain
point, you don't really care if you make slightly more with a subsidy or
not, and the constant offers of subsidies kind of gets in the way of other
notices of increased or decreased production somewhere, or other such more
useful notices.

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[Christoph 'Mehdorn' Weber]

Hello!

Klaatu <kla...@nospam.invalid>:

It would be nice to turn off the offers of subsidies.

Maybe it would be nice to have a new row of fields in the message
option window. Currently you have only the choice between "Summary" and
"Full", I suggest to add a "none"-Button. So, subsidies will still be
offered and you may watch them in the subsidies window. This is
especially useful when you play a multiplayer game or when you have some
AI players around -- switched on only a few years ago -- which want to
fulfill some subsidies.

But for me, switching to summary is still ok. Put them into the news
ticker is okay for me. Really important information will still show up
in message windows.


I have some other things which may be interesting for The Patch and
OpenTTD.

1. In OpenTTD I miss this jackhammer sound when I found road
reconstruction. The caterpillars appear and move around, but they are
very silent.

2. Sometimes I go to every town to see if they still like me. This is
because there is no other way to find out there opinion about you. It
would be great when someone could add a little indicator in the town
listing.

This could be a simple "+" sign for "Good" and above, a "=" sign for
mediocre and a "-" sign standing for "Poor" and below. Or maybe a
"--" for Very Poor, "---" for appalling, etc.

The first suggestion with only "+", "=" and "-" could be realized
with a green, yellow and red light like in the train overview.

So, you simply had to look over the town listing and see where you
have to work on public relations.

3. If this is possible, there should be a new button on every vehicles
main window where you could switch on/off the planned path the
vehicle would drive. When using the early slow boats which need month
to get to their destination docks, it is really annoying to follow
them and look if they find their way or need another buoy to navigate
way around a larger peninsula.

The way should be marked in some way up to the next waypoint of the
vehicle, maybe with these bluish fields normally used only for the
coverage area of stations.

I think it wouldn't be useful for planes, but for boats, road
vehicles and trains.

That's all I want to suggest for now.

Read you later,
Christoph

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