Maximum Number of orders per vehicle

[Ventry]

Hey there.
Is there any way to increase this beyond 254??
I have a 1024 x 1024 map going and I have partially built what I call a "world tour" where many (100+ trains, shared orders) visit every passenger station there is.
I haven't finished all the towns yet and have hit this limit.
Thanks.

[jfs]

Probably not entirely straightforward.
Look into ways to use self-regulating networks (or just through stations and not non-stop orders) to make the vehicles visit more stations in order than they have orders.

[Ventry]

So, you are suggesting using implicit stops?
Interesting solution but, problematic.
It seems "silly" for an Open Source game to have such a (in my opinion) low limit in this day and age of computers.
Perhaps one of the devs could look to extending this??

Many Thanks.

Update:
Doesn't work quite like I hoped.
Too add new station I have to delete "implicit" stops to make room. Meaning I will end up having stations missing from my orders list.
Which can be a pain for many reasons.

[jfs]

It's "possible" to extend, but it can become difficult. The limit is basically that the order index for the vehicle is an 8 bit field. Extending the field width on the data storage isn't difficult, it's just being careful to update the fields everywhere they're referenced, and make sure to update the save/load code so savegames can be upgraded to use the new field width. Of course, this will likely cause some level of savegame size growth.

The difficult part is the network protocol/command system. The command system is designed around two generic 32 bit fields that get packed with data, and if the commands that require a vehicle order index don't have room to expand the field width, you're more or less out of luck. Lots of strange things about OpenTTD can be answered as "because it seemed like a good idea 10/15/25 years ago".

[Eddi]

It seems "silly" [...] in this day and age of computers.

well... the game isn't from this day and age, and some design decisions from 25 years ago still limit the development of today.

[mak]

JGR has made a commit to his patch, I beleive,to increase orders to 64K

https://github.com/JGRennison/OpenTTD-patches/releases/

[Ventry]

JGR has made a commit to his patch, I beleive,to increase orders to 64K

https://github.com/JGRennison/OpenTTD-patches/releases/

I've looked through the "change log" and do not see this mentioned??

[mak]

This was to 37
copied from Github (last line)

Commits on Oct 12, 2020
@JGRennison
Add company setting for whether to add vehicle to group on copy-clone
ca726d7
@JGRennison
Add sort by vehicle count to vehicle purchase window
781fd14
translators
Update: Translations from eints
86ec743
@JGRennison
Increase per-vehicle order limit to 64k

but he has just released 38 so not checked.

[Ventry]

Ok. See it.
Thanks for that.
Are these versions "safe" to use?
Or is it better to wait for stable release?

[mak]

Never had problem with JGR Patch. It does a lot more than 'standard OTTD'.
I prefer it but each to their own

[Ventry]

Never had problem with JGR Patch. It does a lot more than 'standard OTTD'.
I prefer it but each to their own

Appreciate the help mate.
Cheers.