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Re: [TTD] Next round of TTDPatch: 1.5 now available

#706
From: Thom
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 00:00
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Great!! Thanks a lot. Your patch is really a wonderl extension to the
game.

Th.

On 8 Sep 1999 17:13:11 GMT, Josef Drexler <jdrexler@julian.uwo.canada>
wrote:

>Hi TTD players,
>
>
>This is to announce the next version of my patch for TTD, available at
>http://publish.uwo.ca/~jdrexler/ttdpatch/ (my page) and 
>http://www.dgdr.com/~eijden/ttdpages/downloadarea.html (Paul van Eiden's TTD
>Pages)
>
>New features are:
>* Persistent engines - no engine (any vehicle type) that is currently in use
>  will become obsolete.  This helps to keep heliports useful after 2050.
>* Turn off inflation - makes everything stay at the current price, no matter
>  what the interest rate is.  Interest has more of an impact then, too.
>* Office Towers accept food - if you've always wondered where these office
>  people get their lunch from
>* Longer stations.  Works just like adding more platforms, up to a length of
>  7 squares (I'm working on allowing even more)
>* Borrow/repay maximum loan while holding down the Ctrl key - ever bought a
>  competitor and had to repay their loan?  Now it's just one mouse click.
>* Full load now means any cargo, not the whole train.  Planes leave when
>  either passengers or mail are full, not both.
>* Selectable station goods.  Goods won't appear at a station until that 
>  service has been inaugurated.  This way you can choose what kind of goods
>  you want to appear.  No more passengers at a coal station just because 
>  some hermit built his house there.
>* Selectable default service interval.  Now it's no longer fixed at 16000 
>  days, you can set it to 90 days for example.
>* Cht: DumpMemory saves the game data uncompressed to TTDMEM.DMP, for when 
>  you are curious about the internals of the game.  No load possible though.
>
>And as always, any of these can be switched on or off - it's your choice!
>
>Check it out, and then
>Have fun!
>
>Josef
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From: Thom <th.van....@inter.nl.net>
Subject: Re: [TTD] Next round of TTDPatch: 1.5 now available
Date: 1999/09/09
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