Re: Cooperative Play weirdnesses, was: Forbid AI activities

Josef Drexler <[email protected]> Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:36:06 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.games.ttdpatch.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Lorenz Intichar wrote:
> Hello Joseph,
> 
> 
>>If you enable cooperative play, the AI will not do anything if you own 75%
> 
> 
> It´s true that AI doesn´t build any new routes if you own 75%; however, in still takes 
> over (near) bankrupt other companies and, if necessary, takes up new credit for that 
> purpose - and I don´t like it to do that, of course.

Ah, that would be a bug then.  It appears that these actions aren't standard 
AI actions and thus not disabled.  Will require some more work...

> By the way: It seems that sharing stations works for railroad stations only - I can set 
> the route for a bus (or tram) to a station owned by a "cooperating" company (i.e. 
> owning or owned 75%) but the vehicles simply pass through that station without 
> stopping there.
> This leads to the strange effect that if I´d like trams to stop at a combined railway / 
> tram station (a not very unrealistic scenario), both railroad and tram stop have to be 
> owned by the tram company...

Yes, the coop feature has not been extended to other vehicle classes yet, 
which is why it's still experimental.

> And I´d really like to be able to switch directly between subsidiary companies! At the 
> moment, the "manage" button still states "Show HQ" when I´m managing a subsidiary 
> and would like to switch to another one.

That has been on the to-do list for a while now...

-- 
Josef Drexler

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