[UPDATE] Boundary Fence

[Krakr]

UPDATE! Now includes two versions. See Readme for details.

Are you tired of those pesky peeps messing up your landscape? Are they destroying your farms and forests, and building roads across your RR tracks every few squares? City expansion out of control? Tired of trying to protect your layout with butt-ugly one-way roads or tram tracks on bridges? Then try a Boundary Fence.

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BOUNDARY FENCE V2.0
An add-on for Locomotion
Author: Krakr
rar file attached
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INSTALLATION
[NEW] Several options are available. Details in readme file.

After installation, [NEW] two versions show up on the Roads menu in the Scenario Editor. One, or both can show up on the in-game menu at your option. It builds the same way as a road except that the fence cannot cross roads nor tracks. But roads and tracks cannot be built THROUGH it either. Like a road, terrain that has the fence on it cannot be altered until the fence is removed. But, only you can remove or alter the fence. The AI cannot.

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FEATURES
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Impenetrable.
Indestructible by the AI.
Can be built anywhere a road could go except across roads or tracks.
Can be tunneled and/or placed underground.
Can be built on slopes (steep slope only).
One version has Tee and Cross-shaped intersections.
Square and diagonal corners.
Can build long diagonal runs by alternating L&R diag. corners.
Cheap to build.
No modification of TRACKST required.
Does not modify nor replace any original files.

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USES
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A. Establish an uncluttered right-of-way and prevent excessive crossings.
Allow road crossings only where YOU want them (and look good doing it).
B. Prevent encroachment and destruction of agricultural industries.
C. Establish a clear zone around industries, or reserve exclusive rights
to an industry when playing against the AI.*
D. Reserve downtown city land for future on-ground stations or routes
before city build-up makes it impractical or impossible .
E. Limit city expansion and/or direct the path of expansion.

* See readme for further details. Additional screenshots in archive.

Fence shape & pathing examples.

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Excessive AI crossing attempts thwarted.

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Boundary Fence.rar

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[Tattoo]

That sounds great and looks good too. I'll be trying that in my next game. Thanks.

[noofnoof]

you sir are awesome. DL'd.

[Badger]

An impressive debut! Welcome.

[rdrdrdrd]

finnaly an intelligent n00b

[noofnoof]

rd - they are a newb not a n00b.

[taffypride]

awesome work....

That's another fine addition to my Loco install..

[Suede]

Very good! thank you!

One question as Im to tired to test it now, are you/AI/city-council able to build bridges over the fence?

[noofnoof]

if they can build over railway lines I presume they are capable of building over/around this. it's to stop urban sprawl and thing I believe.

[rdrdrdrd]

he means can a bridge be built over it

[Illegal_Alien]

Well, its a "track" if you realy want some fun, you could edit an object to drive on it. And as far i know you can build over almost everything.

[SwissFan91]

Is there any way of making an option for this to be "invisible" ? I don't particularly want a fence around all of my alpine villages

[Illegal_Alien]

Is there any way of making an option for this to be "invisible" ? I don't particularly want a fence around all of my alpine villages

Use plastiks version. (See my .datCrawler then click on "Others" the boundary markers.)

[C3805.]

Hell yeah! Been waiting for something like this for a while now.

[Krakr]

Is there any way of making an option for this to be "invisible" ? I don't particularly want a fence around all of my alpine villages

Yes, of course. Just stub all the sprite loading commands in the xml and recompile. You can use the "Invisible Road" (available for download somewhere) as an example of the settings required for each of the sprite commands.

he means can a bridge be built over it

Yes, with the usual 32 tick requirement. However, the only time I've ever seen the AI purposely bridge a road or a track was when it was attempting to build a station. This is addressed in the readme file in regards to reserving exclusive rights to an industry.

I've never seen a city make any attempt to bridge the fence as an expansion technique, and I've been using the fence for nearly a year.

The exception is in hilly terrain where the road being built by the city was already at least 32 ticks higher or lower than the fence to begin with, and there was an available landing site for the bridge on the other side at the same elevation. But you can usually predict when this might happen far ahead of time and take steps to prevent it, usually with just one or two fence sections.

Well, its a "track" if you realy want some fun, you could edit an object to drive on it

Probably not. In order to do that you'd have to make changes to the fence, and add it to TRACKST. But then, if you did all that, it wouldn't be the Boundary Fence anymore would it?

[noofnoof]

it's a road right? you could make a road vehicle...

[rdrdrdrd]

make children run up and down the fence with sticks,

[Krakr]

it's a road right? you could make a road vehicle...

If you can make a vehicle that travels on it, without changing bdryfenc.dat, and not adding it to trackst, then have at it cause I'd like to see it...

>> Challenge issued<<

[Plastikman]

it's a road right? you could make a road vehicle...

If you can make a vehicle that travels on it, without changing bdryfenc.dat, and not adding it to trackst, then have at it cause I'd like to see it...

>> Challenge issued<<

uhhh

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Umm...

It is a road. by nature, any truck flagged as "anytrack" (default) can drive on it.
The anytrack flag in the xml just keeps the town from building it.

This is similar to the telephone pole mod for TEH. ...

Looks like a fun toy..

[Krakr]

HAR! HAR! Now that's hilarious!!

But wait a minute . . . I thought we said "... travel on it ..." Those trucks seem to be driving to the side of it, on the ground. Okay, that's nit-picking I guess, but I wonder why they won't place in my game?? (see screenshot).

The screenshot won't capture the ghost image icon nor the down-arrow, but I tried several different ways and always got the same message.

This is what I get when I try it.

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Hold on a minute... I think I know what's going on here. Your example was in a new game with the fence added in Scenario Editor, right? All my use of the fence has been to existing games - added with the Saved Game Editor. It didn't occur to me there'd be any difference, but . . .
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