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buildonslopes & airports

Post by Chris 'Awkward' McKenna »

When you have a valley in the area where you want to build an airport, you have got to fill it first, unless it is on the edge.

However, a train station doesn't have this problem - if there is a valley in the middle of the area buildonslopes fills it automatically.

The screenies explain it much better:
1: you can't build an airport accross this valley
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2: you can build the airport on the edge of the valley
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3: you can build a train station over the valley
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4: you can't build an aitport over a hole either
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5. but yuo can build a train station
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would it be possible to enable airports to be built like train stations?

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Post by spaceman-spiff »

I agree on your point, it's too bad you have to fill up the holes before you can plant an airport, this pre terraforming can even lower your rating and make the town disallow you building it afterwards

Btw. this is why I hate linking to images :wink:
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Post by casper »

spaceman-spiff wrote:this pre terraforming can even lower your rating and make the town disallow you building it afterwards
hmm.. I thought terraforming does not affect your ratings unless there are trees on it...
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Post by Patchman »

That's correct.

The reason why airports can't be build over "holes" in the ground is due to some internal limitations, it would break the movement of aircraft as far as I can tell from Marcin's code.
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Post by spaceman-spiff »

casper wrote:
spaceman-spiff wrote:this pre terraforming can even lower your rating and make the town disallow you building it afterwards
hmm.. I thought terraforming does not affect your ratings unless there are trees on it...
Correct, but try finding a town without trees around it
Well, if it has something to do with the movement code of planes, then it's ok for me, we'll just fill in the holes and plant lots of trees :)
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Post by Chris 'Awkward' McKenna »

spaceman-spiff wrote: Btw. this is why I hate linking to images :wink:
Somebody broke somethign at the comp soc where my site is hosted (I'm a life member), and they managed to lock out all user accounts, take down all webpages and block email delivery! :roll:

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Post by ChrisCF »

I think I heard about that one.

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