frosch wrote:

Starting a scenario via "Play scenario" acts like "load game". It takes all none-client settings from the game.

Starting a scenario via "Start server" though starts it using StartScenario(), which takes the difficulty settings from the main menu.

This behaviour is also present in the 0.5 branch.

In the 0.4 branch OTOH, there are two ways to start a scenario. Either via "Play Scenario" which takes all settings from the game, or via "New Game" which also displays the list of scenarios, but uses the difficulty settings from main menu.

However, while the behaviour is inconsistent between multiplayer and singleplayer, I do not know what the right behaviour is. Some difficulty settings only affect map creation and make no sense for an already existing scenario.
The same holds for advanced settings. Most of them are not bound to a scenario/map, and could be taken from the main menu. But e.g. freeform_edges needs preserving.

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George wrote:

IMHO, the scanario should start a new game, with all setting being taken from the menu, even if they do not make sense, except whose, that are mandatory, like freeform_edges, which should be overwritten by scenario (same for NEWGRFs, because they define objects on map and resetting them would break the scenario).

P.S. If the scenario allows to have AIs running on them, the AI used already should be taken from scenario.

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frosch wrote:

The behaviour is now consistent again.
The old method of starting a scenario with some settings from main menu has been removed.

It needs complete rethinking what can be changed when starting a scenario, and what implications
- certain settings or
- NewGrfs, or even
- present company properties
have on new resp. loaded games and scenarios.

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andythenorth closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't implement

Flyspray clean up: more than 5 years old, and not obvious what should be done with this next, so closing. If this offends, discuss with andythenorth in irc. Thanks.

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