Industry Demolition On The Cheap?
Posted: 18 Oct 2005 14:23
Normally it costs a millon dollars or more to demolish an industry.
Not any more!
Problem: A sawmill is in the way of the new railroad right of way.
Option 1: Tunnel under the sawmill - relatively cheap.
Option 2: Demolish the Sawmill - relatively expensive.
Image 1 - The crew decided to tunnel and brought out the dynamite.
Image 2 - The dummies set the charges too close to the sawmill.
Image 3 - Oops! There goes another sawmill industry ...
But wait! Lookie! Lookie! It only cost the TTDX equivalent of a dime!
If it wasn't for that incredible saving that crew would be history ... Fired! Sacked! With prejudice! Without benefits or severance! Today was their lucky day.
Now, normally, all that would have happened is that the sawmill would have a nice foundation showing in the hole, but the guy with the plunger was for some stupid unfathomable reason holding down on the Ctrl button when he plunged the plunger.
We snuck over to another guy's factory and tried it there ... BOOM! Factory gone. (Please! Don't tell the guy it was us.) We went to a power plant and turned off the Autoslope thingy and it stopped working. So we turned the Autoslope thingy back on and BOOM! There goes another Power producing plant! (We appologize for the power interuption. We are aware of the situation and are working to resolve it as soon as possible.)
patch alpha 64 on windows 98 ... nothing crashed so no crash logs ... lots of stuff turned on in newgrfw.cfg
So here's your dilemma:
Do you go the MS way and call it a feature and move this thread somewhere more appropriate?
or
Do you go the honorable way and fix it?
UPDATE
Arrg! They opted for the honorable way and fixed it in a65.
Now I have to return to paying retail for my demolitions!
Not any more!
Problem: A sawmill is in the way of the new railroad right of way.
Option 1: Tunnel under the sawmill - relatively cheap.
Option 2: Demolish the Sawmill - relatively expensive.
Image 1 - The crew decided to tunnel and brought out the dynamite.
Image 2 - The dummies set the charges too close to the sawmill.
Image 3 - Oops! There goes another sawmill industry ...
But wait! Lookie! Lookie! It only cost the TTDX equivalent of a dime!
If it wasn't for that incredible saving that crew would be history ... Fired! Sacked! With prejudice! Without benefits or severance! Today was their lucky day.
Now, normally, all that would have happened is that the sawmill would have a nice foundation showing in the hole, but the guy with the plunger was for some stupid unfathomable reason holding down on the Ctrl button when he plunged the plunger.
We snuck over to another guy's factory and tried it there ... BOOM! Factory gone. (Please! Don't tell the guy it was us.) We went to a power plant and turned off the Autoslope thingy and it stopped working. So we turned the Autoslope thingy back on and BOOM! There goes another Power producing plant! (We appologize for the power interuption. We are aware of the situation and are working to resolve it as soon as possible.)
patch alpha 64 on windows 98 ... nothing crashed so no crash logs ... lots of stuff turned on in newgrfw.cfg
So here's your dilemma:
Do you go the MS way and call it a feature and move this thread somewhere more appropriate?
or
Do you go the honorable way and fix it?
UPDATE
Arrg! They opted for the honorable way and fixed it in a65.
Now I have to return to paying retail for my demolitions!