Cost estimation

[Dustin]

I want to do cost estimation to guide the pathfinder, not to know how much money is necessary. It don't have to be perfect, but the imprecision must be controlled.

You can always do what Denver & Rio Grande does: Never build tunnels.

Otherwise: Check the source code and see how tunnel costs are computed and/or suggest a tunnel costing API in the API changes thread.

[Blustuff]

Actually, the tunnels are just one of the problems I have to solve. Except bridges costs which can be retrived, I need every costs which is useful to estimate (approximatively but with a bounded and small imprecision) a path cost.

[Blustuff]

The function AIBridge::GetPrice() return an amount of money which is dependent of the inflation but which is not the actual price of a bridge. What does this function ?

Is there a way to raise the number of lines the AI console keep ?

[Zutty]

Is there a way to raise the number of lines the AI console keep ?

If you start the game from the command line (or from a shortcut in Windows) add the switch "-d ai=5". All the debug output will go to a different window, which can have as much history as you configure it with.

[Yexo]

The function AIBridge::GetPrice() return an amount of money which is dependent of the inflation but which is not the actual price of a bridge. What does this function ?

It was depended on the price of a bridge, but it returned incorrect values. Fixed in r16986. If it returned strange values again in r16986 or newer, please report back.

[Blustuff]

Thanks.