This is only passable in one direction, but does not have a signal
or show an aspect in the opposite direction
Add a setting for whether this is shown in the signal UI.
Off by default.
Prior to this change, without realistic breaking, trains would continuously run into the train in front of them. This makes them adjust their speed based on trains in front of them
Prior to this change, the game tended to place towns on mountain tops. Realistic heightmaps had limitations because of this.
This change allows the player to specify that the towns should be generated in the valleys.
Prior to this change, road vehicles would always slowdown in curves. This forces the player to build grid like roads. With new height levels and more mountainous maps and in the absense of diagonal roads this causes unnecessary pain. It should be an option to turn this off, so mountainous maps and curvy roads are not punishing the player unnecessarily. Nobody wants to build grid like roads outside of towns.
The original idea was that people could find a server they could
talk in their native language on. This isn't really used in that
way. There are several reasons for removing this:
- the client also sends his "language" to the server, but nothing
is doing anything with this.
- flags are a bad way to represent languages, and over the years
we had several (rightfully) complaints about this.
- most servers have their language set to "All", and prefix the
servername with the language it is about. This is a much more
efficient way to do the same.
All in all, this feature should go back to the drawing board.
Maybe it could work in another form, but this form is not it.
This better reflects what it is, and hopefully removes a bit of
the confusion people are having what this setting actually does.
Additionally, update the text on the setting to better inform
users what it is doing exactly, so they can make an educated
decision on how to change it.
Next commit will introduce an "auto" value, which should be the
new default. The rename has as added benefit that everyone will
start out on the "auto" value.
This is an indication value; the game tries to get as close as it
can, but due to the complex tropic rules, that is unlikely to be
exact.
In the end, it picks a height-level to base the desert/tropic
line on. This is strictly seen not needed, as we can convert any
tile to either. But it is the simplest way to get started with
this without redoing all related functions.
Setting the snow coverage (in % of the map) makes a lot more sense
to the human, while still allowing the niche player to set (by
finding the correct %) a snow line height they like. This makes for
easier defaults, as it decoupled terrain height from amount of snow.
Maps can never be 100% snow, as we do not have sprites for coastal
tiles.
Internally, this calculates the best snow line height to approach
this coverage as close as possible.
Also the number display is screwed in the settings gui. Same problem as my other patch. Need to compare it to what I did for the other var I did recently (tiles width around rivers to make desert go away) and fix this. This will do to start with.
By default this setting is set to 2500% normal game speed.
(cherry picked from commit c3dc27e37e)
# Conflicts:
# src/gfx.cpp
# src/gfx_func.h
# src/settings_type.h
# src/video/cocoa/cocoa_v.mm
# src/video/video_driver.cpp
# src/video/win32_v.cpp
Jonathan G Rennison
Andreas Schmitt
rubidium42
Patric Stout
reldred
Matt Kimber