Spawned Buildings

[Hawk]

What buildings should be spawned only - not placed manually?
Are there any buildings which could be placed manually but might be best to left to be spawned?

[nedfumpkin]

I would venture to say that the landfill should be spawned but in a region outside a city.

Logging camps, iron mines, coal mines and bauxite mines do well when spawned, but I also place at least one so that if you aren't quick getting to a region they don't begin disappearing. This also allows for them to come about based on service to an area.

Other than that, I would say that most general industries can be spawned, but it depends on the map maker. Bear in mind that you always want to make sure that the player can make what they need.

Limited industries, like Legislatures, Military bases, etc, shoud be placed.

At least that my opinion, and others may have differences after playing and creating maps.

[Hawk]

The reason I was asking is I'm thinking of manually placing most of the buildings myself, spawning only what should not be placed manually, with a couple of exceptions.
I'm thinking this would give more control of the industrial environment. Is that faid thinking?

[nedfumpkin]

That's precisely the thinking.

[KenRuof]

I have a question about building spawning through events.

1) I see Add XXX in the list, what is it?
2) I do not see "Add Waste Incinerator" in the list.

Ken

[nedfumpkin]

When the list was open up for everything, it included the dummy.bca file. You can't delete it or else the game crashes, so it ends up on the list.

Only a certain number of buildings can be on the add buildings list, and the incinerator isn't included. You can always put one in at the beginning if you like. It does suck that the XXX dummy file is occupying a space that could be used for another building, but nothing I have tried to change that has worked.

[KenRuof]

I see says the blind man, oh well it is what it is

Thanks
Ken

[nedfumpkin]

Don't forget that locomotives in TM don't have expiry dates, you have to put in an event to make them unavailable when you decide that they cannot be purchased anymore.

If you take a look at the Deadwood map I am working on, you can see how I am using passengers to territory to spawn stuff, as in as you haul passengers to a territory the settle and build stuff.

[KenRuof]

I DL Deadwood and will have a look see, that is a cool idea about passengers.

I like playing with the events I have been able to put some important happenings in my PRR scn so far. I plan on doing several scenarios to span the different areas PA, OHIO, NJ/NY etc...

I did do the expire date on one engine "Norris" and dissabled every engine then put in events to enable the ones I want when they are available.

I need to figure out if I can create a company, build track and stations, merge it into the players "PRR" one then deactivate the company after all the PA assumed controlling interest in many RR's.

On the original subject, I have had about 95% success in spawning builds but sometimes it crashes the game, have not figured out why yet.

Ken

[nedfumpkin]

make sure you give your new buildings enough place to spawn or else if they can't find a place they won't show up. Go with a radius of 5-7 for sure. Crashing could be anything, need to know more details.

The company thing sounds like it should be a specific goal in the game.