laurijh wrote:Hmm, well even if you think multiplying running costs twice is the right behaviour, ...
I forgot to say that, but, if you dont want to multiply the running cost at day length balance type none/payments, i will have to actually divide running cost.
laurijh wrote: ... there's one thing that I would consider a bug; an inconsistency between displayed vehicle profits and the total sum of income - running costs.
Example: I'm currently playing (at daylength factor 5 and balancing with running costs) with only 1 Airship, which shows "Profit this year: €3,536", yet in the Company Finances window for current year it shows "Aircraft running costs -€103,160" and "Aircraft Income +€24,168".
This might not otherwise be a big deal but now you can't see which vehicle makes a profit and which makes a loss in the vehicle list window.
Also made change to running costs as W_neun described. Vehicle will pay per each game year same apart day length if balance type is not running/all costs.
Yay, thanks especially for the "slow down vehicle reliability drop" option. Not having to deal with vehicles getting old all the time is one of the most important things of a day-length patch for me. I'll test this when I get home today...
Just want to thank you for all your time & effort in perfecting this patch. Very generous of you. Also thank you for posting binaries with your updates , very helpful for people like me who lack the expertise to make my own binaries. Thanks again.
I did find a small bug with the win32 binary r17157M. When "Slow down vehicle reliability drop down" is active, brakedowns do happen (though rather rarely), no matter if you turn them off in the difficulty settings. I observed it in multiple games, with different newgrfs and even after a redownload/-installation. Seems reproducable to me, but I can provide a savegame, if it helps.
I have occured the breakdowns problem also, but i thought, it is caused by newgrf. Thanks for report
EDIT:
Update See first post.
- Repaired performance ( min/max income, money and delivered had same values )
- Removed bug, when vehicled do breakdown while breakdowns are off
Im a bit confused. I DL the 2=MB patch above and unzip it. It contains a bunch of languages, some empty folders, a couple grfs named openttd and openttdw which Im thinking is the dos and windows version of the same thing and it looks like the authors openttd exe and config file.
Im just supposed to put all his stuff in my data folder?
Sorry for the newbish question but this is the first archive I have opened with 66 files in it. Usually Ill unzip one and find 2-4 files.
Can anyone enlighten me with exact instructions for this one? Im very interested in this one to about quadruple day length so I can have longer times between introductions etc.
I put jusst the grfs in my data folder but I get no grf named open ttd or other likely name for me to add from my add grfs menu.
Quick question. Is this patch entirely controlled by the cfg file or do the settings show up elsewhere? I can see the settings in the cfg file but see no options in, for example advanced settings menu.
I got the game to stop giving me errors but have not done any technical testing to see if it is actually doing something. I am currrently playing a full length normal time game to see any setting errors in other areas before (such as set town growth down and have very few double growth towns) I start a longer game using this patch to emphasize the steam era.
Ottomobeale wrote:Quick question. Is this patch entirely controlled by the cfg file or do the settings show up elsewhere? I can see the settings in the cfg file but see no options in, for example advanced settings menu.
Sure in Advanced menu. Go Advanced Settings -> Economy -> Day length ...
Ottomobeale wrote:I got the game to stop giving me errors but have not done any technical testing to see if it is actually doing something. I am currrently playing a full length normal time game to see any setting errors in other areas before (such as set town growth down and have very few double growth towns) I start a longer game using this patch to emphasize the steam era.
What errors?
Bumped to current version (both win32 binary, because i wanted to test) and patch file (just 2 savegame bumps).
OK definitely not there. I only have the "normal" options.
errors. Complained about certain files not being available in a certain spot. Fixed
complained about me not having certain grfs available. fixed.
I think I have isolated the problem. Probably obvious to you but Im lost.
question: is your patch dependent upon ...
openttdw.grf =
being under the newgrf section in the cfg file?
upon 1st login the game undid a bunch of your grfs which I recognize many simply as ones I dont use.
When I put that in the newgrf section just as above I get an invalid grf message. I do not see it as being a choice in the game side grf selector so I manually added that one to the cfg file in notepad.
Ottomobeale wrote:I think I have isolated the problem. Probably obvious to you but Im lost.
question: is your patch dependent upon ...
openttdw.grf =
being under the newgrf section in the cfg file?
upon 1st login the game undid a bunch of your grfs which I recognize many simply as ones I dont use.
When I put that in the newgrf section just as above I get an invalid grf message. I do not see it as being a choice in the game side grf selector so I manually added that one to the cfg file in notepad.
sorry again. Probably obvious to you.
No. But OpenTTD needs that file to function. How did you compile the game? openttdw.grf is in every binary distribution, and also in svn under the bin/data/ directory.
My patch is not dependent on nothing you said. You cannot download OpenTTD and add *.patch file to your files as a graphic file.
The patch is "in" executable file. So you must download binary, which is in first post of this topic. Or you must obtain source codes and the .patch file. Apply patch to source codes and compile the game.
Step by step is at few places easily found for those, who are searching for them. Look at stickies here at development forum or Opentd wiki.
WAY above my skill set without step by steps. Guess I dont get to use this patch. Sorry for the bother. I thought it was a "simple" file subsitution of his exe and cfg (and a few others) in my comp.
Tell me why cant you download win32 binary and use it? I cant believe you dont have win32 with your knowledge. Try http://wiki.openttd.org/Installation
