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Boundary Marker
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Ver. 1.0

By Chicago Locomotive Works.
Plastikman


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What is it?:
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This is a little tool for Route style maps.

It allows the map builder to set a route through a square map to give the illusion of a larger map by placing boundaries where he would like to prevent the player from passing through.


This is a simple tool to try to guide the path of the player.

It is available from 1900 to the end of time.
It can not be removed by AI or Players in the game.

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There are 2 versions included in this mod;

one version for use while building in scenario editor so you can see where you placed it.

One version for use in game play so it is "mostly" hidden from view.



In the Sample pictures, You can see it in the editor and you can not see it in the game (unless you zoom in closer and it is a slightly textured [shadowed] tile).

In this example, they are placed on the Tehachapi beta map to keep you honest in Caliente.
You can't tunnel through the hill or make a bridge and a shortcut to tunnel #2 on the other side of the river.

as you can see on the river side. you can stager them diagonally (or in a zig-zag) for them to still work and scenic around them with trees.

With this, we are able to take away some of your "sandbox" world and force you to keep you on the historic path of the routemap.

This is a very good thing plastik, thank you for releasing it.

i am sure this will make some people mad, but it puts a big fat smile on my face.

This would work good in yellowhead pass as well.

bluebeetle wrote:This would work good in yellowhead pass as well.

most of your maps.

The same with zimmlock's and a few others.

I have been holding back on this one for over a year. i guess TEH was the motivation to make it.


Another shot of it in use in game...

speaking of yellowhead, can you re-upload V1, I liked it a lot better than V2

Why not just use big walls of stone, as is normal in routemap style UK scenarios?

Sorry to sway off topic, but i don't suppose these route markers could be used to solve the elusive problem with town growth speed ? Perhaps to act as a barrier for the town to grow ?

rdrdrdrd wrote:speaking of yellowhead, can you re-upload V1, I liked it a lot better than V2

i will have to find v1, i had a major comp crash (got a new comp) and lost A LOT of stuff. So i may and may not have it.
I don't even remember what v2 was? But that map has way to many straight lines in it (like the lake and river shores), and needs to be rework into a nice piece of art.

okay we better get back on topic lol

yeaqh sorry

Something that has been missing for sooo long... Great to see it releas
I'm also curious to if it stops town growth...

Thanks!

Kevo00 wrote:Why not just use big walls of stone, as is normal in routemap style UK scenarios?

You could still tunnel through them, or simply level them if the user didn't "get" the route-map concept.

'Tis good work Mr Plastik.

jake.grimshaw wrote:Sorry to sway off topic, but i don't suppose these route markers could be used to solve the elusive problem with town growth speed ? Perhaps to act as a barrier for the town to grow ?

Actually, it did totaly stop town growth in limited beta. I made a town boxed in by 3 side with markers and one side by a industructable row of freight stations.

The problem I had was while the town could not get out, I could not get in! Fortunatly, the marker do not stop the station boundary.

I tested it too, and yes it does work. It looks like you have accidentally found a cure fo the crazy town growth

yeah i know this is a bump, but i feel this needs to be brought up.

is there a reason this isn't listed on AMI, in Plastiks signature or maybe as an option to click in the north american menu when installing that set, like the auto mod, etc......

This was already buried by two pages of threads, and this tool rocks the cab of my engine, and will be using it for every one of my maps. Which means people are going to need this tool.

Yes i can link to this thread, but people who don't come to this forum will never know about this great tool.

Have no fear. It will get put into the scenery pack

I can't figure out how to place these in the scenerio editor. Can anyone tell me how to do this please? Thanks...

Put the blockade from the BLDSTOP-Build folder in your objects folder, you need to activate it as a city building in the scenario editor to put it into the game. Then look at "build miscellaneous Buildings".
Close locomotion and replace the build-version with the play-version in your objects folder to play.

mmmmm.. candy canes.....

robo wrote:Put the blockade from the BLDSTOP-Build folder in your objects folder, you need to activate it as a city building in the scenario editor to put it into the game. Then look at "build miscellaneous Buildings".
Close locomotion and replace the build-version with the play-version in your objects folder to play.

Thanks. I just found it before I came back here. I didn't know about that menu choice and thought it strange that I couldn't find it so I hit everything I could and finally found it...