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Hi Speedy
lovely idea and as my heading suggests - very creepy........!
Just shows that the Locotool program has yet to be fully exploited by everyone.

Jupp, diese Szenarien gibt es. Ich glaube, ich muss mal ein Neues machen

Hello Speedy
I have had the pleasure of carrying out a number of trial runs with these new (converted existing Building) Dats.
And my reaction is that this certainly is a nice way of producing and receiving goods within a scenario by using invisible CITY Buildings.
The Buildings you have converted are BUILCTY1 -10 ? (I have not checked them all)
What I like is the fact that this encourages a town to produce cargo without buidings being seen by the player.
After several runs I personally ended up selecting a single building {Building BLDUI} because my particular games
limit AI building developement to private housing. This excludes Offices & Skyscrapers. These have already been included in the scenario as permanent structures.
Your Invisible Buildings have threfore helped the towns increase particular cargo ratings and maintain visible roads.

Some general comments that may be useful for members to note .....
When The Buildings are first constructed the invisible description can be seen if the cursor is placed over the scaffold area.
SEE PIC 1.

When the Buildings are finished the Description of the Building cannot be seen by this method.
SEE PIC 2.

So to check whether an invisible building exists on 'undeveloped land' use the CLEAR AREA (BULDOZER)
If you see the costs for demolishing then you know an invisible building is there.
SEE PIC 3.

Speedy, could you let us know what is the reason for adding the piece of coding highlit in PIC 4. It seems to run fine without it. What does it do?
SEE PIC 4

Lastly - I reccomend these little 'babes' to those who like to see their towns developing without too much High Rise / Skyscraper usage.

Thanks again Speedy

Hi Speedy

Now see what you have done !

Volcano has exploded all over us having been dormant on the fanpage since Aril fools day 2009 !

Like many other members I really welcome positive postings like volcano - that contribute to threads - rather than moaning's and groaning's.

Speedy - is'nt it nice to have members living thier dreams and producing Scenarios based upon your 'ghost town'.
Benny loves all this exitement!

Thanks Speedy! - Thanks volcano!

huch geisterhäuser, ich bekomme angst, ich werde nie wieder spielen XD...nein ich werde natürlich weiter zokken, und die idee ist genial, auf die muss man erst mal kommen...

Zitat von lovemylomo

Volcano has exploded all over us having been dormant on the fanpage since Aril fools day 2009 !

But I don't have an ash cloud. I only throw scenarios

Hello volcano
That is good news for all of us .

Due to Speedy's idea , I have now added another executable program to my retinue, yet to be released.

It is called GHOSTBLD.EXE.

This program creates an additional set of building dats from players building dats in objdata folder.

The additional buildings are named HIDE0000.DAT up to HIDE9999.DAT.

Players will have a choice of building types as follows....
1 PERM Permanent buildings that produce cargoes
2 MISC Permanent buildings that produce no cargo
3 HIDE Hidden buildings that produce cargoes that can be deleted by player.

These three types are in addition to the standard default buidings that the AI normally use.

We clearly are progressing locomotion the right way - more new ideas are helping us all.!