Is there a limit to maximum number of tiles landscaped at once?

[kkidslogin]

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Sometimes when landscaping a lot (e.g. carving a path through a mountain range on a tall map for a train mainline), it doesn't all go through, usually only doing part near the start or near the end, even though there are no towns, tunnels, industries, or objects anywhere in the vicinity. Is this because there's some maximum limit to tiles that can be landscaped in a single go?

If so, it might be worthwhile to increase it, or at least throw a warning that it couldn't finish because it was doing too many tiles. It was really confusing at first.

[skc]

The only limit I've found is my cash reserves.
Terraforming is VERY expensive and will chew up the money in your bank account very rapidly.
The landscaping tools will, in my experience, do as many tiles as it can until your bank account empties.

[jfs]

Yes. There are several settings that control how fast you can build, terraform, and more. Their main purpose is to limit griefing potential in multiplayer servers, and the defaults are extremely large so you wouldn't notice the restrictions during normal play.

For each of the construction speed restrictions, there are two values:
Burst size, which is basically how much earth you can move in a single click.
Per 64k frames, which is how much you can do over time; 64k frames is around 2 years and 5 months.

The settings names are:

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construction.terraform_per_64k_frames
construction.terraform_frame_burst
construction.clear_per_64k_frames
construction.clear_frame_burst
construction.tree_per_64k_frames
construction.tree_frame_burst
construction.build_object_per_64k_frames
construction.build_object_frame_burst

You can view and change them in a running game with the in-game console command "set".

[kkidslogin]

Yes. There are several settings that control how fast you can build, terraform, and more. Their main purpose is to limit griefing potential in multiplayer servers, and the defaults are extremely large so you wouldn't notice the restrictions during normal play.

For each of the construction speed restrictions, there are two values:
Burst size, which is basically how much earth you can move in a single click.
Per 64k frames, which is how much you can do over time; 64k frames is around 2 years and 5 months.

The settings names are:

Code: Select all

construction.terraform_per_64k_frames
construction.terraform_frame_burst
construction.clear_per_64k_frames
construction.clear_frame_burst
construction.tree_per_64k_frames
construction.tree_frame_burst
construction.build_object_per_64k_frames
construction.build_object_frame_burst

You can view and change them in a running game with the in-game console command "set".

Thanks! This'll be handy next time I spend a hundred million dollars excavating a main-line