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Forests on long thin worlds?

I've just downloaded Simutrans again after not playing for a few years, tempted back by Pak128.Britain.
I wanted to try a very long thin world, 64 by 1000ish, but found almost the entire map was covered in dense forest. After trying a few different map dimensions, it seems whenever one side of the map is more than twice as long as the other it becomes almost covered in forest, with the amount of non-forest ground becoming smaller as the map gets longer and thinner.
Is there any way to create a long thin map without it being entirely covered in trees?
Thanks

Re: Forests on long thin worlds?

Reply #1 –
In Simutrans you have several configuration files. One of them is forestrules.tab, which let you play with size and number of forests. You will find them in several directories. In order of relevance:

1) Your savegame directory: on Windows this is usually MyDocuments\Simutrans
2) Your pak directory: this is the directory you installed Simutrans (lets call that Simutrans): Simutrans\pakxxx\config
3) Your program directory: Simutrans\config

Copy the one in the pak directory to your savegame directory. Comment all options you don't want to change out by placing # in front of them (if not already there). Change the options you want to change and see how they work out. After changing options you should restart Simutrans to see its effects.

I think you should play with the options forest_map_size_divisor and forest_count_divisor.

PS: Now I come to think of it: in the startup menu you will find a settings button. I'm not sure but I think you can edit the forestrules there as well. They are taken into account when you start a new game.




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Re: Forests on long thin worlds?

Reply #2 –
THis bug is fixed in the nightly.