George wrote:

if I define usage as
00 01 FE 18 00
00 02 FE 18 00
00 00 FE AF 00
01 00 FE AF 00
01 01 FE AF 00
01 02 FE AF 00
station does not appear

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George wrote:

If I replace default tile
996 * 11 00 09 03 01 18
08 18
09 18
0E 04
station does not appear

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George wrote:

With this code
996 * 18 00 09 05 01 18
08 18
09 18
0A 00 00
0B 00 00
0C 00 00
station does not appear too

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Yexo wrote:

The check to build a station is hardcoded to "original id 0x18". It's impossible to really change the properties of any original tile, so you can't make tile type 18 accept anything else than oilrig. The only thing you can do is override them with a new tile. When you override an old tile the effective tile id will be the id of the new tile you've defined in your newgrf. Consequently, as soon as you override original tile 18 and use it it's not really tile id 18 anymore, most likely you've also broken the default oilrig with that change. As such every try at changing tile 18 will result in the station no longer appearing (as you've already seen).

Tile (0-1) is a special tile in the sense that it after the station appears it's no longer an industry tile, it has changed into a station tile. Because it is a station tile you can't set any industry tile properties for it (but see also before, you never could).

In short: there is currently no solution for this. Personally I consider the mechanism to create oil rig tiles broken, but it needs an addition to the specs to fix it.

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George wrote:

Hope new airports would Allow it. Let's wish more progress on it!

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andythenorth closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Duplicate

This issue contains some useful background about why oilrig station tiles are not industry tiles.

But #5682 (also from george) is newer and contains a better discussion of why this is a problem for newgrf authors.

Flyspray clean up - closing this one, thanks.

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