JGR's Patch Pack

[lostpawn]

Thank you JGR. Your suggestion solved my Font problem!

[JGR]

Hi JGR, would you consider adding an option to allow renaming towns in multiplayer? I understand it was actually allowed in very very old versions of OTTD before it was removed due to griefing concerns. However it would be a useful feature to enable for creative servers

This is added now. It'll be in the next release.

[Emperor Jake]

Hi JGR, would you consider adding an option to allow renaming towns in multiplayer? I understand it was actually allowed in very very old versions of OTTD before it was removed due to griefing concerns. However it would be a useful feature to enable for creative servers

This is added now. It'll be in the next release.

Awesome, now I can finally grief creatively rename towns in multiplayer! Thanks

[ZaphodB]

Hi there,

Is it possible to have a conditional order jump based on a train's timetable delay? I love using this patch pack to create realistic passenger networks with timetables and connecting services. The ability to have trains turn back short of their destination when delayed would be a great addition and mirrors the real practice of many operators.

Thank you for the patch pack and apologies if this suggestion has been made before.

[Darthrafael]

Would it be possible to add a feature similar to 'No vehicles expire after year X' setting that does something similar but for introductions? Like 'No vehicles get introduced after year X'?

[Deicide]

I'm using realistic train braking model, and I've noticed an oddity with a section of tracks displayed on an attached image.

ProblemTrackSection.png

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On both track variants train is coming through the white blob. On the left everything is fine and the train passes the entire section at full speed; on the right train slows down when reaches the part indicated by yellow.

I noticed similar behavior with some other track configurations and the commonality seems to be in the following sequence of events:

1. Train approaches a set of tracks going downhill.
2. Train reserves an additional set of signal blocks to account for gravity extending the braking distance.
3. Train detects that it no longer needs extra reservations and lowers their number.
4. Train panics and slows down, probably still thinking it needs more reservations.

[JGR]

Hi there,

Is it possible to have a conditional order jump based on a train's timetable delay? I love using this patch pack to create realistic passenger networks with timetables and connecting services. The ability to have trains turn back short of their destination when delayed would be a great addition and mirrors the real practice of many operators.

Thank you for the patch pack and apologies if this suggestion has been made before.

That should be doable, I'll look into it soonish.

Would it be possible to add a feature similar to 'No vehicles expire after year X' setting that does something similar but for introductions? Like 'No vehicles get introduced after year X'?

That shouldn't be technically difficult. What would you be intending to use that for, incidentally?

I'm using realistic train braking model, and I've noticed an oddity with a section of tracks displayed on an attached image.

ProblemTrackSection.png

On both track variants train is coming through the white blob. On the left everything is fine and the train passes the entire section at full speed; on the right train slows down when reaches the part indicated by yellow.

I noticed similar behavior with some other track configurations and the commonality seems to be in the following sequence of events:

1. Train approaches a set of tracks going downhill.
2. Train reserves an additional set of signal blocks to account for gravity extending the braking distance.
3. Train detects that it no longer needs extra reservations and lowers their number.
4. Train panics and slows down, probably still thinking it needs more reservations.

Thanks for reporting this, I will look into it.
Have you got a savegame that shows the issue?

[Darthrafael]

Would it be possible to add a feature similar to 'No vehicles expire after year X' setting that does something similar but for introductions? Like 'No vehicles get introduced after year X'?

That shouldn't be technically difficult. What would you be intending to use that for, incidentally?

Using it in combination with things never expiring after a certain year to like, start with early steam locomotives, then slowly get better steam locomotives, but not get more modern stuff. Like, suspending technological advancement after a certain point, but still having it in the early game.

[JGR]

Using it in combination with things never expiring after a certain year to like, start with early steam locomotives, then slowly get better steam locomotives, but not get more modern stuff. Like, suspending technological advancement after a certain point, but still having it in the early game.

OK, that's added now.

[Deicide]

Thanks for reporting this, I will look into it.
Have you got a savegame that shows the issue?

My original savegame uses 2 grfs that I got from this forum originally, so I don't know, if I can post them here along with the save. I tried recreating the track layout in a different game with downloadable grfs only, this time the tracks worked fine, but I got a slowdown in different section, I marked it with a sign.

[JGR]

Thanks for reporting this, I will look into it.
Have you got a savegame that shows the issue?

My original savegame uses 2 grfs that I got from this forum originally, so I don't know, if I can post them here along with the save. I tried recreating the track layout in a different game with downloadable grfs only, this time the tracks worked fine, but I got a slowdown in different section, I marked it with a sign.

Thanks for this. I've applied a fix which should resolve this, it'll be in the next release.

[Michpi]

Am I the only one who has graphical glitches in 0.40.4?
Look at the length of the rails under construction. It flickers.

Add
It looks like it happens in Polyline mode only. In Autorail mode everything is OK.

[MLG]

Hi JGR, this time I have not got some crash, but two feature suggestions:

• Is it possible to give rail depot (and maybe also road and ship ones, if easy to implement) a "close depot" button? It would be useful, since with realistic braking, one can not buldoze pieces of rail, which have PBS reservation. And if you have some busy depot on a busy place, it makes almost impossible to get rid of that depot, for example, because of rebuild of railway section. My vision is, that no trains would reserve their path into closed depot. It would be also useful, if you for example play with Ufiby's tracks, which have nice depot graphics, to make eyecandy depot yard, if you detail with eyecandy and do not want for trains to come there.
• Another one is probably harder to implement: road pathfinder, that takes NRT speed limits into account, when pathfinding (I had a game, where all my road traffic prefered a country road, when there was a highway only few tiles longer). I know, that this can be solved by dummy bus stop, however even, when it does not load or unload, RVs stop there, making a traffic pileup, and Cargodist takes stop into account, making unwanted connection links.

Edit: Deleted second suggestion, because it is being implemented into base game.

Thanks,
MLG

[2TallTyler]

The road vehicle pathfinder was recently fixed to consider speed limits: https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD/pull/8710

[ColdIce]

Hi JGR,

Is it possible to add a cheat option for "station ratings will be always 100%", just like FIRS once had this setting in parameters.
Thank you.

[JGR]

Am I the only one who has graphical glitches in 0.40.4?
Look at the length of the rails under construction. It flickers.

Add
It looks like it happens in Polyline mode only. In Autorail mode everything is OK.

This is fixed now, it'll be in the next release.

Hi JGR, this time I have not got some crash, but two feature suggestions:

• Is it possible to give rail depot (and maybe also road and ship ones, if easy to implement) a "close depot" button? It would be useful, since with realistic braking, one can not buldoze pieces of rail, which have PBS reservation. And if you have some busy depot on a busy place, it makes almost impossible to get rid of that depot, for example, because of rebuild of railway section. My vision is, that no trains would reserve their path into closed depot. It would be also useful, if you for example play with Ufiby's tracks, which have nice depot graphics, to make eyecandy depot yard, if you detail with eyecandy and do not want for trains to come there.
• Another one is probably harder to implement: road pathfinder, that takes NRT speed limits into account, when pathfinding (I had a game, where all my road traffic prefered a country road, when there was a highway only few tiles longer). I know, that this can be solved by dummy bus stop, however even, when it does not load or unload, RVs stop there, making a traffic pileup, and Cargodist takes stop into account, making unwanted connection links.

Edit: Deleted second suggestion, because it is being implemented into base game.

Thanks,
MLG

This would be technically possible, but seems like a small gain compared to the code and UI changes required.
If the train which has reserved a route has been stopped and is stationary, the reserved track including depots can be edited/removed.
Presumably you would need to stop trains when doing substantive track layout changes even without realistic braking.

Hi JGR,

Is it possible to add a cheat option for "station ratings will be always 100%", just like FIRS once had this setting in parameters.
Thank you.

There are already some GRFs available which do exactly this, e.g. viewtopic.php?p=1228729#p1228729
This may well be on bananas as well.

[ColdIce]

Hi JGR,

Is it possible to add a cheat option for "station ratings will be always 100%", just like FIRS once had this setting in parameters.
Thank you.

There are already some GRFs available which do exactly this, e.g. viewtopic.php?p=1228729#p1228729
This may well be on bananas as well.

I know that one, but unfortunately it doesn't support passengers and mail.
Anyway, thank you for your response and for all your work on this patchpack. It's amazing

[MLG]

If the train which has reserved a route has been stopped and is stationary, the reserved track including depots can be edited/removed.

Didn't know that. Thank you for the tip. Now I understand it.