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How about an Undo button for the last action (building stuff especially could be undone for a limited time only - 2 - 10 OTTD days maybe?). It came across my mind every time I wanted to build one 7 tiles long platform and I've built 7 one-tile platforms because I forgot to change railroad station orientation :oops: . But I guess one can use it in other ways too.
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I second this, I was thinking of it last night when I was playing when I used the autorail tool and just before I let go the mouse moved slightly and the tracks were a tile off :(
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Magic_Pixel wrote:How about an Undo button for the last action (building stuff especially could be undone for a limited time only - 2 - 10 OTTD days maybe?).
Like in Zeus: Master of olympus. It's a very useful feature. Maybe it should be patchwindow-configurable, or just disabled in the high difficulty level.
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I think it would be a cheat if anything. You can't "undo" something in real life. If you made a mistake in placement, you should have been more careful (After all, the computer can't undo for free)
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Post by Magic_Pixel »

The computer doesn't do this kind of mistakes (like being in a rush and forgetting to set the orientation of the station or a hand-slip when placing railroad! PC-s don't have slippery hands, they actually have no hands at all..)

As I said, it would/should be an immediate undo action, not something that you can undo after a year or so when you realize your route doesn't work... It would be a cheat then, but an immediat correction would be far from one.

EDIT: Remember also that you can't really 'misplace' a railroad station in real life, too. So you can demolish it and build it normally afterwards!

EDIT 2: It could come with a cost though, but smaller than demolishing and rebuilding. Let's call it 'wrong planning cost'
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