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A new version of Simutrans-Experimental is available to-day: Simutrans 102.3 Experimental 8.0. See here (http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=1894.0) for more information on how to download, install and set up the latest version. For those already familiar with the installation and setup, here are some quick links:

• us (site down, do not visit) ]/simutrans-experimental.zip]Windows binaries (http://experimental.[ simutrans [dot)
• Linux binaries (i386) (http://www.43-1.org/~simutrans/simutrans-exp/i386/simutrans-exp-2010-05-24-c478903)
• Linux binaries (x64) (http://www.43-1.org/~simutrans/simutrans-exp/amd64/simutrans-exp-2010-05-24-c478903)
• us (site down, do not visit) ]/simutrans-experimental-config.zip]Configuration files (http://experimental.[ simutrans [dot) Updated

Simutrans-Experimental 8.0 is a significant development, containing some substantial improvements as well as balancing enhancements. Version 8.0 incorporates all the latest updates from Sumutrans-Standard; there follows a list of the main changes in 8.0:

Changes (Simutrans-Experimental)

• FIX: Automatic convoy replacer is now fully re-enabled.
• ADD: New "retain in home depot", "use existing vehicles" and "use home depot" options in the replace dialogue to allow finer control of replacing.
• CHANGE: The automatic convoy replacer allows editing and cancelling of scheduled replacements.
• ADD: Depots can be restricted to building certain traction types (e.g., electric, diesel, steam).
• CHANGE: Depots now have individual names.
• ADD: GUI for Simutrans-Experimental specific simuconf.tab options in the "settings" dialogue (Bernd Gabriel)
• FIX: Crash on map generation in some circumstances.
• CHANGE: GUI improvements for the automatic signal builder (Dwachs and Bernd Gabriel)
• FIX: Error with sending to depot
• FIX: Problems with building way objects over ways with way constraints enabled.
• FIX: Crashes on map generation where bridges or tunnels are built
• CHANGE: Deleting costs of stations is now linked to the station's price (2/3rds of it), not the generic building removal cost.
• FIX: Overlapping text for the obsolescence increase in the convoy detail window
• CHANGE: Way objects are deleted before signals or stations to make switching from one electrification type to another easier.
• FIX: Fields are now upgraded/replaced when factories are upgraded
• ADD: "Refunds" graph for lines and convoys
• ADD: Value in the vehicle .pak files for air resistance - can be used to specify streamlined vehicles.
• ADD: Can specify that vehicles cannot be at the end of a convoy without specifying which specific vehicles should follow them by specifying constraint[next][0]=any.
• CHANGE: Reversing will automatically detect when a goods train has a brake van and will ensure that the brake van remains at the rear.
• CHANGE: Reversing a train with a locomotive that does not need a turntable and that needs a brake van, the reversing time is 1.4 times greater than with a similar train that does not need a brake van.
• ADD: City growth/generation that more accurately respects the "renovation percent" specification in cityrules.tab (Knightly). Can be turned off by enabling "quick_city_growth=1" in simuconf.tab, as this makes map generation slower.
• CHANGE: p****enger_max_wait is now a uint32 value, and the default is increased to 19440
• ADD: Private car trips can only be made where there is a road connexion between the origin and the destination. The approximate average speed of that connexion is measured and used when determining whether a private car trip is made.
• CHANGE: If "quick_city_growth" is enabled, the renovation percentage is automatically reduced by a factor of 3.
• CHANGE: Refunds are based on 1.5x not 2x of the straight line journey distance.
• FIX: Correct mathematics of the calculation of private car average speeds.
• CHANGE: Use recorded car journey time to compare against players' transport's travelling times rather than speed bonus rating for road transport when p****engers decide whether to take their car or players' transport.
• CHANGE: Average speed of private cars in any given month is now weighted by their chance factor.
• CHANGE: The cost of bulldozing a city building now includes the cost of buying it, except where it is already owned by the player.
• CHANGE: The "value" shown in the city building information window is the cost of buying, not bulldozing, the building.
• CHANGE: The credit limit applies to buying citybuildings and bulldozing buildings that one does not own. It still does not apply (purposely) to bulldozing one's own buildings and infrastructure.
• FIX: Possible crash on map generation.
• CHANGE: That diagonals are shorter is now taken into account during route searches for player vehicles and private cars.
• FIX: Electrics tab showed in non-electric depots.
• FIX: Expand the depot window automatically if there are too many vehicles to fit in it.
• FIX: Remove code ambiguity to avoid potential division by zero crash
• FIX: Industry density settings not calibrated properly on startup, resulting in incorrect numbers of industry chains spawning.
• FIX: Cornering and braking on approaching did not reduce speed as it ought to do.
• CHANGE: Vehicle deceleration before stops commences from the number of tiles specified in "direction steps", not a fixed number of 4.
• ADD: Vehicles are obsolete only at a certain number of years after their retirement date (i.e., the date on which production stops), and not immediately after production stops.
• ADD: The increase of maintenance for obsolescence and the time after retirement that vehicles become obsolete can be specified individually for each vehicle in their .dat files: defaults set in simuconf.tab apply otherwise.
• ADD: Simuconf.tab options for default values for the time after their retirement dates that vehicles become obsolete.
• FIX: The max_walking_distance value is now used
• CHANGE: Higher threshold for medium and large town sizes
• FIX: Avoid double counting of transported p****engers and mail: p****engers and mail record as transported now *only* when they reach their destination.
• CHANGE: Debug builds now have a differently named settings file to make things easier for developers.
• FIX: Crashes on deleting tunnels and bridges.
• CHANGE: The threshold sizes for different levels of towns (for the purposes of population growth) can be customised in simuconf.tab
• CHANGE: When a player builds a way on land that he/she already owns, the cost of buying land is deducted from the cost of building the way.
• CHANGE: City car speeds now shown in km/h rather than an indecipherable internal number.
• CODE FIX: Fix nasty off-by-one error in vector_tpl.h, in remove_at() (Neroden)
• FIX: Make stadt_t:get_electricity_consumption return reasonable results, not stupid ones.  (Neroden)
• FIX: Clear *electricity_consumption* in the electricity code, not car_ownership! (Neroden)
• FIX: Pay attention to electricity_proportion when deciding whether there are enough power plants. (Neroden)
• CHANGE: Powerline stabilization patch v.5 from "TurfIt" (http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=4463.0 (http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=4463.0)), adapted to current HEAD (Neroden)
• FIX: Station prices were not scaled properly.
• FIX: Calculation of electrical demand for factories overestimated.
• CHANGE: Determination of the proportion of p****engers who travel within a city is now based on the city and capital threshold sizes set in simuconf.tab, not a range based on the median specified starting size.
• FIX: Occasional crash on using "undo" tool with power lines.
• CHANGE: Updated credits

Changes (Simutrans-Standard)

• ADD: configurable thousand exponent (like 10^4 for japanese) by SEP_THOUSAND_EXPONENT
• FIX: corrected way offsets on bridge heads
• FIX: rotation of asymmetric bridge pillars
• FIX: Makeobj could not extract bridges (and possibly even more objects) under XP
• ADD: zooming in also for pak192
• FIX: graphical glitches with ways if artificial slope/bridge etc behind
• FIX: graphical glitches with vehicles in tunnels
• FIX building powerlines: ****ertion failed when building over aircraft shadows, costs for clearing trees are correctly booked
• FIX: could not start builing tram tracks on roads with cars
• FIX: (Dwachs) convoi slows down as long as any vehicle is on slow tile + reformatting cleanup
• FIX: maintenance for ticks_per_month smaller 18
• FIX: airplanes do not jump at end of runway when ground goes down
• FIX: do not start vehicles twice in depot
• FIX: when starting vehicles do not show error messages on other clients
• ADD: timeline for cityroads using 'city_road[0]=name[,intro][,retire]' in simuconf.tab
• ADD: winter image for PowerSource/ PowerDest: Image[2] and [3] as snowy versions of [0] and [1]
• ADD: winter image for sidewalk: Image[1],[4],[7],[10],[13] as snowy versions, Image [5][8][11][14] transition images
• ADD: minimum and maximum numbers of next towns to connect to a factory can be set too in simuconf.tab with factory_worker_minimum_towns/factory_worker_maximum_towns
• ADD: timeline for intercityroads using 'intercity_road[number]=name[,intro][,retire]' in simuconf.tab
• FIX: crash when destroying map (in sync_list there were already deleted objects)
• FIX: only public player can build cityroads with sidewalk
• FIX: use same ways under tunnel portal as in the tunnel itself
• FIX: do not build tunnels on top of powerlines
• FIX: do not build non-powerline bridge ends on powerlines (and vice-versa)
• ADD: winter image and timeline for crossings: winter images of [image][0] are [image][1]
• CHANGE: (Knightly) add comptibility code for old field definition (without index [0])
• FIX: correct maintenance for bridges ending on vertical slopes
• ADD: display winter images of powerlines; code cleanup in leitung2.*
• FIX: sometimes loading old games there where pilalrs on invalid ground during deletion
• ADD: enable to use more than one powerline object
• FIX: ****ertion failed on destroying map (simfab.cc:220)
• FIX: crash when deleting buildings with holes
• ADD: texture for tunnel grounds (Obj=misc, Name=TunnelTexture, Image with numbers 0,3,6,9)
• FIX: (sanna) correct url to obtain language files
• FIX: dont crash if end tag [/url] is missing in help text
• FIX cursor size of build-headquarter tool
• FIX withdraw of convois without any freight capacity
• ADD: simuconf.tab: add default values for cityroad ("city_road") and intercity road ("asphalt_road")
• ADD: Add a way to specify where libpng is (for makeobj).
• FIX image calculation of crossings

Feedback and testing

Thanks to all those who have tested Simutrans-Experimental and provided useful feedback. Any feedback from this version would, as ever, also be very much appreciated, including (1) bug reports; (2) information as to how well-balanced that the game is; (3) any difference in approach/strategy needed for Simutrans-Experimental as over Simutrans-Standard; and (4) any other useful feedback.

Thanks again to all those who have worked to test Simutrans-Experimental, and happy playing!

Note

This topic is locked, as it is intended to serve as an announcement. To report a bug or otherwise give feedback, please start a new thread for each bug/topic. To ask a question about how to obtain Simutrans-Experimental, use this (http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=1894.0) thread.

Edit: Added direct links for Linux downloads.