Request: Factory distance setting

Spotted Cheetah

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« on: December 15, 2006, 08:38:39 AM »

I had seen that there is a "minimum city distance" setting in the configuration file.

As i experienced at least with older versions, when new factories open, they will open in a short distance around a city. This annoys me a bit, as i like if things are relatively far from each other, so i have space to design routes (I even set city distance to 64 or 96). Can not factories have a similar setting defining how far they can be placed from the city in which the end of the chain opens?

(This way everyone could use a metric suiting his/her own desires. If someone likes to have lots of space, long trains, and such, may set this two factors higher, and play on larger maps, while ones who like as it now, could keep these low)

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Re: Request: Factory distance setting

« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2006, 09:18:58 AM »

*Moving to extension requests.

fagonella

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Re: Request: Factory distance setting

« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2006, 03:05:27 PM »

Welcome to the forum, by the way!

Isaac.Eiland-Hall

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Re: Request: Factory distance setting

« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2006, 05:29:13 PM »

I don't have time to search, but I have requested this before, so this request is a duplicate. Still, I don't remember if it was "considered" or "denied".................

raven

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Re: Request: Factory distance setting

« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2006, 08:49:36 PM »

napik was working in a new factory distribution rules, but I'm afraid 'was' is the key word there.

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Re: Request: Factory distance setting

« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2006, 10:40:57 PM »

Quote from: raven on December 15, 2006, 08:49:36 PM

napik was working in a new factory distribution rules, but I'm afraid 'was' is the key word there.

Oh that napik, always half-doing jobs! angel

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Re: Request: Factory distance setting

« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2006, 12:20:26 AM »

If he does half-jobs, many others must do 1/100th jobs.... Cheesy

Spotted Cheetah

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Re: Request: Factory distance setting

« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2006, 04:54:08 AM »

fagonella:

Thanks

Sorry for having one of my first posts at Requests :p - i just have not enough Network access to "carefully approach things" lol

By the way as i experienced later the factory distribution engine really appears to work somewhat different than in the version i had before from August. Maybe it even takes in account the distance of cities as new factories in 99.04.2 appear to be more spread on my maps than before setting the distance to 96 units (Although i did not check it deep yet).

I just thought that the engine can somehow be "reduced" to a number (I mean the parameters needed to do the job may be got with a few rescaling from a number fed in from outside). If not, then it really may be too hard (or rather "messy, tedious and boring" - doing programming myself i know :p ) to work out...

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