Cantr II Discussion Forum

Oasis wrote:Just thinking of this logistically....towns are dynamically named, so how would you choose a location for the track to go to?

I see few ways, this isn't big problem in my opinion.
Only "logistically" problem that I can see now is laying track on water (When two locations on one island have water between them)

It could probably check every x pixels if that pixel is inside a water polygon and either prevent building tracks or require a bridge.

SekoETC wrote:It could probably check every x pixels if that pixel is inside a water polygon and either prevent building tracks or require a bridge.

I am not sure about map data structures, but this should be possible.

Oasis wrote:Just thinking of this logistically....towns are dynamically named, so how would you choose a location for the track to go to?

A town needs to build a train station before it would be possible for it to lay tracks. Every type of train station will have a 'radius of operation' just like radios. If another town in that radius has a train station of their own it would be possible to connect these two towns with railroad. Resources needed would be dynamically calculated based on distance. If there is a pool of water in the way the system would check if there is connection by land and add more resources to compensate either bulding around the lake or making a brigde through it.

Uhhh..
Sounds really nice for me.

But maybe on this list characters will have only locations that they see before (has private name for it). To not getting knowladge from air.