Show number of Towns in "Towns list"

[ebla71]

Just wanted to take this suggestion overhere as a small but very useful addition to the "Towns list":

Is there any sort of city counter where I can check it ?

I don't know. My counting way is very time-consuming, by using Town List in alphabetical order, dragging the window to the bottom, firstly counting how many towns in one screen, then counting how many screens...

I fully agree - in particular for very large real-world scenarios, it would be super-helpful if the number of towns would be shown at the bottom of the "Towns" list together with the "World population", either in one line or two lines - and both in the Scenario editor as well as the actual running game.



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[_dp_]

You can use CityMania patchpack, it shows the total number of towns in the town directory header (num_cities/num_all_towns):

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[Argus]

I can definitely imagine that this kind of information could be useful. The question is how much of a priority it is and will there be a willingness to do it.

[pickpacket]

Independently of this thread I've found the same need. It's on my to-do list to implement, although it's going to take me some time. I wouldn't mind if someone else did it sooner, of course

[2TallTyler]

I took a stab at it but there was disagreement over its implementation. Perhaps my code can be a starting point: https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD/pull/11170

[Argus]

JGR Patchpack can already do that too.

[skc]

PeterN has created this PR: https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD/pull/12800