advanced town handling

gigajum · Post by **gigajum** » 23 Jul 2006 09:03

Shorty wrote:clik-drag functionality on buy land would be pretty cool.

lol no, not in multiplayer games. I will not implement that.

Shorty · Post by **Shorty** » 23 Jul 2006 10:15

ahh! i remember now. i found a couple of related bugs - bridges and tunnels have different costs depending on their starting point.

gigajum · Post by **gigajum** » 23 Jul 2006 12:50

Shorty wrote:ahh! i remember now. i found a couple of related bugs - bridges and tunnels have different costs depending on their starting point.

i'll look for that.

Shorty · Post by **Shorty** » 23 Jul 2006 13:13

retested it, the bridges issue no longer seems to be there.

tunnels, though, the cost is calculated from their placement point.

gigajum · Post by **gigajum** » 23 Jul 2006 13:56

lol?

Did you switch the versions or what? if you have used the same version the bug is still there. I also noticed that there is something wrong with the calculation. I'll look for it, so give me time to do that. Or do it yourself and submit a bugfix

edit:
i found something in the code that i have commented out:

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//if(population <= 10) population = 100000; //to prevent wipe out towns try to increase land price extrem high

If the town population is less then or equal 10 the landprice gets extrem high, like the town hast a population of 100000.

Should i uncomment that line, to enable that feature? Maybe set the 10 to 100

Shorty · Post by **Shorty** » 23 Jul 2006 14:25

towns below 100 pop are quite frequent. you can even have population 10, if it has nothing but a church, still perfectly legit. id hate to be unable to grow a small town because it acted like a sprawling metropolis.

as to the bridge bug, i think i imagined it, because the slightest change in town population throws the cost out. i imagine there is a bug, though, if you build a bridge across the border of proximity between a large town and a small. might i suggest redoing the way the calculation works, so that it looks not at teh nearest city, but rather at teh city which will raise land value the highest? for example, if you have two towns 10 squares apart, one large one tiny, building proximate to the tiny town will cost relitively little compared to building next to the big one, but both will be very nearby.

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 23 Jul 2006 15:02

The idea of that code, iirc, is to try to prevent (or make it harder) to destroy a town entirely because its in the way of the new mainline.

Shorty · Post by **Shorty** » 23 Jul 2006 15:33

tunnels are your friend, in that case. and if you want to keep town reputation while excavating their land, just have a subsidiary do it

i never bulldoze buildings unless its very advantaegous to do so, ie, the bus station i build there will catch a full 7 more houses than if i build it on the road next door.

perhaps scale the cost of construction compared to how many buildigns in that town you have demolished? make it so that land under bulldozed town houses costs 10x more to build on?

Shorty · Post by **Shorty** » 24 Jul 2006 04:58

another little thing; the town handling doesnt affect the cost of building canals.

gigajum · Post by **gigajum** » 24 Jul 2006 07:20

Shorty wrote:ahh! i remember now. i found a couple of related bugs - bridges and tunnels have different costs depending on their starting point.

OK that is a bug in trunk too.
If i build a bridge or a tunnel when i have a demolished starting tile, while the end tile is not demolished, the whole tunnel price is less then i have a non demolished tile and a demolished endtile.

Caused by adding the price for demolishing the starting tile to the cost variable, and then do bitshifting with it.

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ret = DoCommand(start_tile, 0, 0, flags, CMD_LANDSCAPE_CLEAR);
if (CmdFailed(ret)) return ret;
cost = _price.build_tunnel + ret
...
cost += _price.build_tunnel;
cost += cost >> 3

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