This major feature-fix keeps track of the value of transfers offloaded at a station, and hands on to a loading vehicle a credit note proportionate to the cargo loaded. The transferring vehicle is paid only for the distance it has travelled. eg. B-C in a transfer chain A-B-C-D.
When the final cargo is delivered, these credit notes are cashed, and the final vehicle is paid for A-D minus any credit notes it is carrying. The company bank balance increases by the value of the A-D route.
You still need to set up a profitable route; it is still easy to make a loss on transfers by bad planning. :)
-Codechange: Do not hardcode the catchment radius of airports, but hold the information in AirportFTAClass
-Fix (r979): The default AI tested possible airport locations with a fixed catchment radius instead of the radius of the to be built airport
-Codechange: Remove the unnecessary attributes Station::{bus,lorry}_tile_obsolete by replacing them with a scan of the map for existing road stops when loading old savegames
- A proper ./configure, so everything needs to be configured only once, not for every make.
- Usage of makedepend when available. This greatly reduces the time needed for generating the dependencies.
- A generator for all project files. There is a single file with sources, which is used to generate Makefiles and the project files for MSVC.
- Proper support for OSX universal binaries.
- Object files for non-MSVC compiles are also placed in separate directories, making is faster to switch between debug and release compiles and it does not touch the directory with the source files.
- Functionality to make a bundle of all needed files for for example a nightly or distribution of a binary with all needed GRFs and language files.
Note: as this merge moves almost all files, it is recommended to make a backup of your working copy before updating your working copy.