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04:57:49 <MadaraUchiha> Yet another signals question!
04:57:58 <MadaraUchiha> I'm reading the Signals article on the wiki
04:58:30 <MadaraUchiha> And I'm having trouble understanding the Pre-Entry and Pre-Exit signals (and subsequently, the Combo signal). Can anyone help me shed some light?
05:07:17 <V453000> it is easy, entry looks if there is at least 1 green exit
05:07:28 <V453000> if at least one is green, entry is green too
05:16:57 <MadaraUchiha> V453000: And Exit signals?
05:17:04 <MadaraUchiha> (Thanks for the article, I'll read it)
05:17:36 <V453000> and exit signals are red only if there is a train in front of them
05:17:41 <V453000> thus like normal signals
05:17:50 <V453000> only difference is that they can be detected by the other pre-signals
05:18:00 <MadaraUchiha> But it signals back to entries, right?
05:18:43 <V453000> you could say it that way
05:19:03 <V453000> still, if you feel like learning signals, a good place to do it is on #openttdcoop servers ;)
05:19:12 <MadaraUchiha> Well, how does it differ from normal block signals then?
05:19:34 <MadaraUchiha> If I got the example on "Signals" article right, the entry pre-signal should work with normal blocks as well.
05:20:01 <MadaraUchiha> Oh, no, my bad, didn't see they switched those signals too.
05:20:18 <MadaraUchiha> So entries only work with exits? (and combos?)
05:20:38 <V453000> if there is no other pre-signal present, they work like basic signals
05:20:47 <V453000> if there is, then they apply the logic we mentioned
05:21:01 <V453000> ... combo is a combination of entry and exit - it looks forward, but it also is detected
05:21:27 <MadaraUchiha> So basically if the following block is terminated by block signals, the entry signal will behave like a block signal.
05:22:04 <V453000> except some details, but those arent relevant here and now
05:22:41 <MadaraUchiha> Alright, thanks, that makes it clearer
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07:15:46 <peter1138> ререрявеявевяерверт123
07:16:09 <peter1138> явеасдззхцасдявеасдзхц
07:16:38 <V453000> maybe a bit more of asdoguahlkdf
07:17:28 <peter1138> some how put my terminal into cyrillic mode :p
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09:26:19 <Wolf01> I'm working on a new Lego mecha
09:27:20 <Wolf01> I took some photos, but with low light they are blurry
09:29:28 <Alberth> it's from the transformers world, or is this a different kind?
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09:29:42 * Alberth is complete noob in those areas
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09:31:10 <Alberth> I did watch some animation series, mostly because of looking how the 3d rendererings worked :)
09:31:11 <Wolf01> no, I just built an internal frame with a lot of moving points and then covered it with red parts, as I have about 50% of red parts, when I was building the head I thought it resembled Diablo
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09:32:02 <Wolf01> and of course, the back booster pack is borrowed from Japan anime :P
09:33:36 <Alberth> it seems I missed a game in my youth :p
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10:36:50 <MadaraUchiha> Is there an effective way to replace all railway trains to electric/monorail trains?
10:37:33 <MadaraUchiha> Right now, I find that I can't use the autoreplace feature because when I replace the track, the depots don't get converted, and the trains can't exit the depot.
10:37:38 <V453000> use universal railtype
10:38:04 <V453000> that will allow you to convert whole network to universal rail, then autoreplace
10:39:10 <Wolf01> I would like to know how universal railtype could appear IRL, I already know about mixed railtypes, but this one could be really a challenge :P
10:41:15 <MadaraUchiha> Can I add use a NewGRF without restarting a game?
10:41:31 <MadaraUchiha> Any way I can do it in my existing game?
10:41:42 <MadaraUchiha> i.e. convert the entire network to monorail, and autoreplace all the train?
10:42:02 <MadaraUchiha> Not, manually one-by-one? I have over 70 trains :|
10:42:16 * Alberth ponders about removing the convert button from mono and maglev toolbars
10:42:20 <V453000> 2. find scenario_developer in config
10:42:27 <V453000> 3. change that to 3, open openttd again
10:42:32 <V453000> you can add newGrfs to saves now
10:42:57 <Alberth> much better, make one new train, and clone it
10:43:02 <Wolf01> ok, you can, but we don't support the problems which you will have doing this
10:43:10 <LordAro> WARNING: is likely to break your save at some point
10:43:18 <MadaraUchiha> So I won't do it :D
10:43:31 <MadaraUchiha> Alberth, this works, however the trains have different destinations and whatnot
10:43:34 <LordAro> seriously though, 70 trains isn't all that many
10:43:43 <MadaraUchiha> I'd like to refrain from reassigning everything 10 times over.
10:43:56 <V453000> it wont break your savegame if you know which newGRFs do that ... you can always reload the old save if it breaks
10:44:01 <LordAro> send all to depots, convert whole map, convert trains 1 by 1
10:44:02 <Alberth> MadaraUchiha: you know about cloning?
10:44:14 <Alberth> and copying orders of an other train?
10:44:14 <MadaraUchiha> Yes, and about shared orders too, I'm using it.
10:44:35 <MadaraUchiha> Wolf01, Groups are possible, hadn't thought of that!
10:44:40 <Alberth> you have 70 trains each with unique orders?
10:44:53 <MadaraUchiha> No, they can be divided to about 10 groups with unique orders.
10:45:02 <MadaraUchiha> (avarage 7 trains per route)
10:45:45 <MadaraUchiha> Although there is one exception
10:46:05 <Alberth> so make 1 new train, assign it orders of the first group, clone it 7 times
10:46:06 <MadaraUchiha> I have about 5 trains moving both fruit and maize from the farm/plantation combo to the food processing plant
10:46:22 <Alberth> make a copy of any new train without sharing orders
10:46:26 <MadaraUchiha> And two more trains, with the same route, having a full maize and full fruit each.
10:46:36 <MadaraUchiha> But yeah, Alberth, that's what I'm going to do.
10:46:42 <Alberth> assign it orders of the second group, and clone it 6 times
10:46:48 <Alberth> and that 8 more times
10:46:50 <MadaraUchiha> Now another question.
10:47:08 <MadaraUchiha> Is it possible, assuming the entire network is linked, to get all the trains in the same depot?
10:47:29 <Alberth> MadaraUchiha: imho a much better alternative is not to convert tracks to mono or maglev, but build new tracks, and replace the old ones
10:47:43 <Alberth> that's much more fun than just replacement
10:48:21 <MadaraUchiha> How does building new ones and replacing the old ones different from "just replacement"? I don't get what you mean.
10:48:38 <Alberth> you can add a goto depot order to a specific depot
10:49:11 <Alberth> you build new monorail connections, while keeping the existing stuff running
10:49:51 <Alberth> that can be really new connections, or just in parallel with an existing connection
10:50:16 <Alberth> in the latter case, you can take out the old connection after having switched to the monorail
10:50:18 <MadaraUchiha> But I want to retire my railway system, it's old and I'm about to lose support for it (for the renew)
10:50:47 <MadaraUchiha> But again, how does "new connections" help me? Railway trains can't travel on Monorail, can they?
10:51:12 <MadaraUchiha> Same as monorail trains can't travel on maglev track.
10:51:33 <Alberth> I am not converting anything, ever
10:51:49 <Alberth> I build new from the ground up, and then take down the old
10:51:54 <Zuu> You can add new cross connections or a new network using monorail/manglev.
10:52:02 <Zuu> Transfer the cargo at stations
10:52:17 <Zuu> If you play with trunk, enable cargodist to help with cargo transfer.
10:52:26 <LordAro> You can 'send all to nearest depot' with a single button click. It's not likely to be a single depot though
10:52:30 <Alberth> the point is that "convert" is boring from a gameplay point of view, especially when you do it at network scale
10:52:47 <V453000> boring = automatic? :d
10:53:02 <Alberth> infra structure changes should be challenging, imho
10:53:21 <V453000> they are tedious, not challenging
10:53:25 <Alberth> V453000: yep, removal of the convert button for mono and maglev would help here :)
10:53:26 <V453000> two majorly different things
10:53:37 <V453000> no, it would only make it more annoying, no challenge
10:54:26 <Zuu> Also, by keeping rail and only add monorail+manglev, you'll get a more diversitied network
10:55:08 <Alberth> Zuu: one problem is that the default set doesn't really allow it, you run out of trains to run at the rail network
10:55:23 <V453000> in case you use the stupid vehicle expire
10:55:29 <Zuu> At least when I play, I don't want a symetric network but rather an organic network structure.
10:55:55 <Alberth> V doesn't have room for that :p
10:56:30 <V453000> changing TRAINS does not change your network?
10:56:39 <V453000> converting rails is just cosmetic
10:57:07 <Zuu> But then you only get one network. Not rail+monorail+manglev.
10:57:10 <Alberth> depends on how you look at infra structure like rails, probably
10:57:33 <Alberth> ie a new train can just be bought and sent on its way
10:57:37 <V453000> if you cant replace from one tracktype to another easily, something is seriouly broken
10:58:02 <V453000> Zuu: one network should be encouraged more
10:58:08 <Alberth> perhaps the question is why you switch tracktype in such cases
10:58:25 <V453000> different train classes for some purpose
10:58:54 <V453000> e.g. typical NUTS gameplay trees like rail strong -> monorails chameleon -> maglev slugs
10:59:05 <V453000> converts at least twice through the 150 years of playing
10:59:36 <V453000> why? why not you just want to change trains ... changing tracks is just a side effect to have more cosmetic variety in track choice
10:59:42 <V453000> but it is still just trains
10:59:45 <Zuu> V453000: At the point when monorail arrives, you will have a large rail network. What I may do then is to expand rail when its needed, but also start to add new monorail connections. Over time, you'll get more and more monorail and can move over traffic there.
11:00:11 <V453000> OR you CAN be allowed to convert en masse if it is for some reason a good choice for you
11:00:23 <V453000> you can always do your manual way of "adding 2nd network"
11:00:29 <Alberth> in the original game (ie TTO), changing track types felt as forced to me
11:00:39 <V453000> yes because the train stats are idiotic
11:01:14 <Alberth> more like the programmers needed something to keep the player busy
11:01:44 <V453000> I would rather expect the simple logic of "more modern = better"
11:01:57 <Alberth> perhaps it's just my imagination, but that's how it felt to me
11:02:39 <Alberth> daylength patches are perhaps also something in this direction, ie they allow you to play with the same set of trains for a longer time
11:03:01 <V453000> it is the most basic and generally logical approach, you simply have to make future trains better than current ones, otherwise you might as well not introduce them at all because players have better trains already
11:03:02 <Alberth> although I always felt it would be better solved in newgrf, like eg with nuts
11:03:48 <V453000> unfortunately the track types are an obstacle between those evolutionarily better trains
11:03:54 <V453000> but I think that is a side effect
11:04:21 <V453000> from my point of view, the original trains should be as much unrestrained, and simple fun as possible
11:05:10 <V453000> and due to absence of universal rail, the "unbalance" between e.g. rail/maglev is already uncomfortable enough to make it not a problem
11:05:19 <Wolf01> daylength patch... /me stares at the void
11:05:27 <V453000> that newGRFs are composed in a way that their stats are complete nonsense, is another thing
11:06:22 <Alberth> how do tracktype switches come into play here?
11:06:51 <Alberth> ie another solution would be to add more trains for every available track type
11:06:57 <V453000> if you put the effort into changing track types, yo uget something in return
11:07:21 <V453000> yes, a solution like improving rail trains would be valid, but then maglev would be useless
11:07:29 <V453000> nobody would convert to maglev, or use maglev then
11:07:40 <Alberth> they can be faster than eg rail
11:07:53 <V453000> faster isnt really an advantage
11:08:03 <V453000> acceleration and capacity is what matters most
11:08:13 <Alberth> right now, the default set doesn't give you the option to stay using rails or electric rails
11:08:49 <V453000> it does, if you dont want to put stupid amount of effort in replacing 500 trains manually
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11:09:02 <V453000> or 300, some number that people have by 2020
11:09:18 <V453000> simple put effort -> gain something logic
11:09:31 <Alberth> 300 still looks a little steep, but yeah :)
11:09:32 <Wolf01> I found myself playing for eyecandy instead of outstanding performances, I mean, I use rapid trains for passengers over big cities, but industrial production are often mammoth electric trains with 2 or more engines also in year 2100 and sometimes I still have an old 1950 steamer running in some forgotten railway in a 2048 map
11:10:21 <V453000> it is like if you wanted to remove autoreplace Alberth
11:10:27 <V453000> almost exactly the same thing
11:10:30 <Alberth> Wolf01: that only works for disabled breakdown
11:10:41 <Wolf01> and I don't care so much if a train takes 1 year to deliver and come back :P
11:10:55 <V453000> anyway, off to do them dishes
11:11:13 <Alberth> ok, thanks for the discussion
11:11:18 <Wolf01> I usually play with reduced breakdowns, but just because of buses
11:15:35 <Zuu> I usually play Ticket To Ride Online, and just had an idea on adding some elements from it into OpenTTD using a GS.
11:23:06 <peter1138> he's got a ticket to ri-ide
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12:06:35 <Frodus> If anyone have a init script, or if there are any official scripts from the developers, please let me know. I could not find any one that I thought was very usefull..
12:09:44 <Zuu> You may want to add a section at the bottom for advanced setups where you add a link to your repository.
12:10:11 <Zuu> This article is often passed to noobs that have no clue, so try to not add it to early in the article.
12:10:32 <dihedral> planetmaker, do you have a moment to test something with me?
12:11:02 <Frodus> Zuu: Good idea. I tried to contact OPENTTD on email to ask them to add it. But I did not get any reply. I'll see if I can add my url to the wiki.
12:11:35 <Alberth> dihedral: not until sunday late
12:11:58 <dihedral> anybody else available as a volunteer?
12:14:57 <dihedral> does not matter - managed myself :-)
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14:14:04 <apiecux> how it would be possible to have this middle track used is this case?
14:20:01 <DorpsGek> Commit by fonsinchen :: r25715 trunk/src/cargopacket.cpp (2013-08-10 14:19:58 UTC)
14:20:02 <DorpsGek> -Fix: return correct value from StationCargoList::Reserve, fix some documentation and simplify StationCargoList::Load a bit
14:24:27 <Eddi|zuHause> apiecux: you need to play with the pathfinder penalties for reserved track and reversed path signals
14:24:55 <Eddi|zuHause> apiecux: go to the console and type "list_settings pf.yapf.rail"
14:25:48 <Eddi|zuHause> then type "set <name> <value>" for the appropriate settings
14:26:16 <Eddi|zuHause> i think it's "pbs_cross_penalty", which defaults to 300, you can set this higher (in 100 steps)
14:26:30 <Eddi|zuHause> until the train shows the behaviour you like
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14:43:02 <MadaraUchiha> I need some help.
14:43:05 <MadaraUchiha> I have the following layout:
14:43:24 <MadaraUchiha> Why is the entry signal to the right shows green?
14:43:31 <MadaraUchiha> Why is the entry signal to the right showing* green?
14:44:35 <MadaraUchiha> (It allows trains to burst in, and block the entire junction, resulting in stalemate. Why does it not wait behind the entry signal?
14:48:41 <Alberth> I can see one green exit signal
14:49:42 <Alberth> using a path signal is much easier
14:50:08 <MadaraUchiha> How would you do the above layout with paths?
14:50:21 <Alberth> entry -> one-way path
14:50:32 <Alberth> exit before the station -> remove
14:50:51 <Alberth> what signals do you use at a line?
14:51:05 <MadaraUchiha> In intervals of 7-8
14:51:13 <MadaraUchiha> (because those are the lengths of my trains)
14:51:20 <MadaraUchiha> Although I do have some paths
14:51:25 <Alberth> ok, block signal 6-8 tiles from the junction
14:51:38 <Alberth> and remove the outbound exit signal
14:54:02 <Alberth> the wiki doesn't have an example :(
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17:45:20 <DorpsGek> Commit by translators :: r25716 /trunk/src/lang (brazilian_portuguese.txt spanish.txt) (2013-08-10 17:45:14 UTC)
17:45:21 <DorpsGek> -Update from WebTranslator v3.0:
17:45:22 <DorpsGek> brazilian_portuguese - 3 changes by Tucalipe
17:45:23 <DorpsGek> spanish - 3 changes by Terkhen
18:10:17 <SpComb> cargodist in trunk, I cannae hardly even believe it :)
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