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Bilbo wrote:[or perhaps trying to obey "physical law of conserving matter" - i.e. land that gets removed somewhere have to be readded elsewhere (minus some small buffer, so once thet buffer reach +100, you can only raise land, once -100, you can only lower the land). Or progressively raising cost of land removal - removing small bits would be cheap (ie. same cost as now), removing whole mountain at once would be very expensive. Basically, the more you remove in short time, the higher the price, and the price will decay back to original in time, so people who terraform a little will have ordinary prioces, people who terraform a lot will have quite high prices.

richk67 wrote:This would of course extremely frustrate the game spoilers, who would not be able to lower the map to sea level as easily. Cracking idea.

DJ Nekkid wrote:The FISH set will most likely include (??) include some rather large ships... 20k units of cargo, or something, on the largest ones

one billion daleks wrote:New ships is a great idea, but I agree with some of the other points mentioned here.

I created a scenario incorporating a large ocean between two land masses, intending to use ships to transport raw materials. But it proved unviable. The combination of low speed and low capacity means that shipping is just plain uneconomic on larger OpenTTD maps - it only works on small maps, as in the original TTD.

The solution of simply increasing ship capacity tends to unbalance the game in other areas. Would it be possible to increase the speed of ships as well ...? Maybe a combination of slightly increased capacity and slightly increased speeds would allow shipping to once again be a viable transportation option, without disturbing the game-balance in other areas.

Just a thought!

Timitry wrote:The best solution would in my opinion be to make the payment for some cargo less dependant on the travel time...However, that might be hard to change in the code, i don't know...

Timitry wrote:The best solution would in my opinion be to make the payment for some cargo less dependant on the travel time - No one cares how long a ship of coal has been travelling to reach that powerplant, the amount of money payed isn't really dependant on that, i think.

andythenorth wrote:

DJ Nekkid wrote:The FISH set will most likely include (??) include some rather large ships... 20k units of cargo, or something, on the largest ones :)

The largest FISH ship will carry 1080 tons of cargo.

@ Bilbo - (if around, I guess there'll be stunning silence if not) - I want to add a parameter to FISH for capacity, can you help?

cheers,

Andy

if (parameter == 0) {
 definition of all ships
} else if (parameter == 1) {
 definition of all ships with double the load
} else if (parameter == 2) {
 definition of all ships with triple the load
} else ....