Dominating city growth

August 30, 2008, 03:16:32 am

I didn't like how the cities grew over my roads and industries and would like to decide where they build new buildings. With later versions of Simutrans it is possible. I did this:

I went to the pak directory and inside it, made a backup copy of cityrules.tab, just in case I want to get the default behavior back.

Then, I edited the file (pak64, r1972):

Changed renovation_percentage=12 with renovation_percentage=8, so that cities spread more
Put a comment character (#) at the beginning of all lines starting with house_ or road_

I inserted these lines before the first house_ line I have commented out (notice the spaces and dots):

house_1 = ..... .sSS. .snS. .shS. .....
house_1.chance = -2

house_2 = ..... .SSs. .Sns. .Shs. .....
house_2.chance = -2

house_3 = ..... SsS.. hsn.. SsS.. .....
house_3.chance = -2

I saved the file and run simutrans. With these changes, you get:

Cities will only build new buildings on straight streets with previous buildings, and up to the next corner
Cities can also build new buildings in front of an existing one
When founding a new city, you have to make the first street with the public service player and perhaps, put a first building on it

With this, you decide where the city will expand. If you have a straight road and don't want the city to invade it, just make a "fake cross" like the one in the picture. The city will not tresp****.

Re: Dominating city growth

Reply #1 – August 30, 2008, 08:51:00 am

Sounds interesting, I'll give it a try.