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Extremely low (x1/128) track build/remove cost severely restricts the track conversion feature. #7633

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James103 opened this issue Jul 1, 2019 · 3 comments · Fixed by #7634

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@James103
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James103 commented Jul 1, 2019

Version of OpenTTD

OpenTTD 20190603-master

Expected result

You should be able to universally convert track no matter what the costs are for building track.

Actual result

When you use BaseCosts 5.0 newGRF to set the "build track" cost multiplier and "remove track" cost multiplier to x1/128, track conversion is no longer universal: Instead, you can convert (electrified) rail to monorail or maglev, and you can convert from monorail to maglev and vice versa. That's it. You can't convert from monorail/maglev to normal railway, nor can you (de)electrify railways.

I think reducing the build track and remove track costs to x1/128 causes some combinations to return 0 as the cost, which the game treats as being invalid, and so those conversions return "No suitable railway track" and are therefore prohibited.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Load BaseCosts 5.0 newGRF and set the "build track" cost multiplier and "remove track" cost multiplier to x1/128.
  2. Build one piece each of Rail, Electrified Rail, Monorail, and Maglev.
  3. Attempt to convert the rail types. The results (from my testing) look like this:
  • Normal Rail: can convert to Maglev/Monorail only
  • Electric Rail: can convert to Maglev/Monorail only
  • Monorail: can convert to Maglev only
  • Maglev: can convert to Monorail only
  • Unable to downgrade Monorail/Maglev to Railway
  • Unable to (de-)electrify railways
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nielsmh commented Jul 1, 2019

It looks like the problem would be the cost becoming 0 rather than -1.

return (cost.GetCost() == 0) ? error : cost;

The solution will likely have to be tracking a separate error flag throughout the function.

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James103 commented Jul 6, 2019

Does the same problem with zero-cost conversion failing occur with road and tramway? If so, could you fix those as well (same/similar method to #7634, tracking separate "found_convertible_road" and "found_convertible_tramway" flags in addition to "found_convertible_track")?

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nielsmh commented Jul 6, 2019

I can't reproduce it with RattRoads at least, I haven't tried with tram tracks though. (This is without the patch in #7634.) Still might be worth making the same change to road building.

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