New industry: Supermarket

[DJ Nekkid]

Lots of shopping malls/centers are often built in the outskirts of cities, and then after a couple or three decades, have a new "city" grown around it.

[michael blunck]

[...] With reference to "If the behaviour of a "house" would be sufficient, just code it as a house" like i say, i think this type of industry would be useful in or near towns not large enough to have the correct number of buildings to accept goods or food for the reasons in my post

"Houses" are quite flexible with regards to their behaviour, which make them good candidates for industry-like buildings. E.g., by using callbacks, it´s possible to

- decide the cargo types accepted,
- change the cargo amounts accepted,
- decide about custom cargo production,
- trigger the destruction of a building,
- protect them conditionally.

In addition, you may decide in which way to build a house in the first place:

- only during town generation,
- as a protected building which town administrations or AIs may not remove,
- you may also set the accepted cargo types,
- and the minimum life span.

In contrast to "industries", they mainly lack the production cycle.

See http://wiki.ttdpatch.net/tiki-index.php ... ion0Houses for more information.

If you´re interested to get more information, or advice for coding, feel free to open a thread in http://www.tt-forums.net/viewforum.php?f=26.

regards
Michael

[frosch]

- change the cargo amounts accepted,

Though I know what you mean, I guess that will be misinterpreted by a lot.
Houses do not know how much cargo they accepted in the past / this month.

Industries can stockpile.

[SirXavius]

I'm with blunck, in that supermarkets shouldn't need to be an industry unto themselves. But that's as long as there not as fickle as other buildings. I hate constructing truck stopss for gas stations, supplying them with fuel, and then they close shop within the year. If i'm interpreting blunck correctly, you can make buildings so they don't close so quickly just because town growth is running over them. With that stipulation, i'd rather they be coded as houses rather than industries. No worries about stockpiling and such -- you supply it, they'll buy it!

But i love this idea and it would make a great addition to our towns. If anyone takes up the challenge, let us know...

[FooBar]

Could anybody shed some light on how town growth works in terms of delivery of food or goods?

Let's say we put a supermarket as industry (not house) in an arctic town above snowline. The station where the food is delivered to is positioned so that the houses of the town within the catchment area of the station give 7/8 acception for food (station accepts food due to supermarket in catchment area). Does this allow the town to grow?

So for an artctic town above snowline, does the food need to be delivered to one or more 'house-entities', or could it also be an 'industry entity' within a certain distance from the town?

[frosch]

In arctic towns need one unit of food per month to grow beyond a population of 90.
In tropic towns need one unit of food and water per month to grow beyond a population of 60.

The cargo has to be accepted by a station that belongs to the town. (e.g. as seen in the station name).
It does not matter whether houses or industries were the reason for accepting.

[andythenorth]

The cargo has to be accepted by a station that belongs to the town. (e.g. as seen in the station name).
It does not matter whether houses or industries were the reason for accepting.

Interesting thanks. FooBar and I are...up to something

cheers,

Andy

[SirXavius]

Understood.

We wait with baited breath...

[CommanderZ]

Ugh, I think every town with 800 or more inhabitants is (at least in its centre) able to consume goods. And for smaller towns would such a huge mall look ridiculous.

[andythenorth]

We wait with baited breath...

Ahem, I would give it approximately twelve months based on my prior experience of 'being up to something'. Just so you don't asphyxiate or anything

Although if anyone particularly wants to code new cargos or implement layout variations for new industries I suggest they PM me as soon as possible (and not in 12 months by when we might have no need of their help!)

More coming soon in a thread near you (perhaps tomorrow).

[FooBar]

Thanks Frosch, that's EXACTLY the information I needed.





And yes, Andy and I are surely up to something. You most likely don't get just a supermarket, but maybe even one or two bonus industries as well!

[RSpeed tycoonfreak]

Meanwhile, I'll just focus on drawing a decent supermarket or mall
But i wont get that done this week, proberbly somewhere around next week or the weekend after.