[Patch] Leave station if new Vehicle arrives

[doener]

[Description]
I know this scenario, i have A LOT of planes and i dont want that empty plains flying around, so i select full load. Now i have landing planes wich are full but cant be unloaded because the airport is full with loading planes. I get not much money because the people are sitting along time in the plane while it is loading. and i pay for not moving planes. also the rating of the airport is not good because the traveltime is long.

The same also happens with trains, busses/trucks, ships.
with this patch you can select that the vehicle can also leave the station if another vehicle with same shared order arrives.
the vehicle is not full but you get money because the goods inside didn't stay so long int the vehicle.

because it dosent make sens on each station (loading goods) its selectable per order and per vehicle.

With patch version 0.3a
Now i included 6 options in the drop down box for the loading behaviour... also added some strings for german and english language
from this 6 options currently only 4 are working:

(full load any/all) leave if vehicle with same shared orders arrives
(full load any/all) leave if any vehicle arrives.

(full load any/all) leave if vehicle loading the same checks only the loading type of the first vehicle in chain. so currently not usefull for trains.

Actually the unload checks are commentet out, i changed the unload flags to use only 2 bit instead of 4 and used the new 2 bit to save the selected leave station option. so loading old savegames can make the orders wehre you used some unload types to change the unload/stop load type if ure using my patched binary.

I dont know what i broke all with it maybe some one can test it?


[DONE]
*if new Vehicle arrives and other vehicles are loading they get notified over the arrived Vehicle.
and previeus loading train leaves the station.
*notification dosent break the unloading prozess.
*if there is enough to load vehicle gehts full loaded before it leaves.
*now you can select over a drop down menu which stop loading option you want to use per order.
*option to only leave if vehicle with same shared orders arrives.
*option to leave if another vehicle arrives.

[TODO]
*nice to have options like leave only if arriving vehicle is loading the same the menu entry is there. but the check to look for each vehicle in chain what it is loading and compere the loading types is missing. but should work for airplanes, busses, trucks,
*make the check from shared order vehicles orders to same orders.



[PROBLEMS]
*now im using 2 bits of the unload type and changed the flags to use only 2 bits,
*i had to remove unload checks, to make it selectable.
*old and new savegames can make problems if ure using unload types. (i dont use them often)
*old save games can make the order to get a wrong unload oder leave station type...
*new save games can make the order to get a wrong unload type if ure playing it with a normal openttd without my patch.
*vehicle order gui string with stop positions [FRONT,MIDDLE,END] is now used to draw strings for "stop loading type" (if selected).

[Dante123]

very nice idea.

i think this: *nice to have option to only leave if vehicle with same shared orders arrives. should be the key.

i think of a steel plan or something where you have steel loading trains that leave when new coal arrives.
so i think be best thing is to make some option that you can set off/on maybe ? so that it will only work for trains with the same orders ?

[doener]

Im currently testing my binary. I like it how it plays actually.
i think to make full load possible with shared orders i will make the patch only work for
"the same shared orders" and "full load any" in combination.
so you can select "full load all" and it will have the full load behaviour.
but if selecting "full load any" in a "shared order" it will stop waiting for goods an leave the station.
or what do you think?

[Alberth]

i will make the patch only work for "the same shared orders" and "full load any" in combination.

I think 'full load any' means full load any. If you want different behaviour, add a menu item in the drop-down.

[doener]

new version 0.3a with some improvements. happy testing...

[Timmaexx]

This .patch remembers me on a attraction-setting in RollerCoasterTycoon!
I will try it, if my system is renewed...