Add third-party usage permission settings when building roads

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Add third-party usage permission settings when building roads

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When building roads, please allow the builder to set the range of usability for third parties, as follows, so as not to interfere with third parties (especially manual construction of 3x3 grids is often interfered with):
* Whether third party vehicles can enter the road.
* Whether third party tram tracks can be installed on the road.
* Whether third party bus stops can be installed on the road.
* Whether third parties can destroy the road.
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Re: Add third-party usage permission settings when building roads

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Or add a feature to allow roads to be built as public roads when building roads
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That would cause an absolute nightmare on multiplayer servers i am afraid.

People would end up slowly deleting key city road blocks and setting them to own vehicles only and just griefing I fear.
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Re: Add third-party usage permission settings when building roads

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This is what the "road building company" sets when building a road
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* Griffing, which involves destroying city-owned roads and turning them into company-owned roads, is still possible. This should probably be prevented by a server rule.
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While such griefing is possible, it's not cheap and it will cost the company every year. And unless they maintain high ratings, ripping out roads is going to turn the town council against them and their approval ratings will tank. It often is just a pyric victory.
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kamnet wrote: 19 Mar 2025 01:27 While such griefing is possible, it's not cheap and it will cost the company every year. And unless they maintain high ratings, ripping out roads is going to turn the town council against them and their approval ratings will tank. It often is just a pyric victory.
Unless the server is running Permissive authority ratings, although I don't see why a competitive server would do that.
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