Noone have taken up this in thier lists on the FRD discussions page.FRD wrote:Opponent's track and stations can be used, but with a fee. This fee can be set by the opponent. Stations can also be owned by local authorities. For these, the same conditions hold as for opponent's tracks and stations. This will also add the possibility for third parties to use tracks and stations for long distance travel, which will generate extra income for using the network and stations. However, if the network is too crowded and travel times are too high, the third parties will go away.
Permissions per station basis: I think that the owner of the infrastructure should have control over who is using it. Perhaps in the GUI there should exist a tab where you can set permissions for it.
Permissions for infastructure like stations:
- bool Automaticly allow other companies to use this station.
- bool Ask me when a company wants to use this station.
- bool Deny non-trusted companies.
Alternative: Maybe we should not set permissions per station basis, but have one or several policies that can be created / costomized at a global scope, and each station have a refference to one of these policies.
Some one might say to much micromannagement, but if you would get a popup message for each request from another company you would be distrubed regulary.
Tracks: For stations and buildings that you have not to far many we can probably afford to have a short int for permission policies, but for tracks it is probably to consuming to store a policy for each section. But having only one global policy for each transport sort is probably not enoght flexible.
Maybe the player can either set deny, ask or allow as default for the whole map, and then select regions for overriding this policy.