frosch wrote:

This is known as "station walking". Lower "max station spread" in advanced settings to reduce the effect.

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ToBeFree wrote:

I assume "to reduce the effect" means "to make abusing this a bit harder" in this case. I would prefer a real solution, if possible :-/

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Yexo wrote:

There is a very good solution available:

1. Don't use it yourself
2. Only play on servers that disallow these things and have 1 or more people in place to enforce the rules.

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ToBeFree wrote:

I almost expected an answer like this. :-/

However, you could suggest that solution for every bug which allows a player to get money by abusing something in OpenTTD. I wonder if there is an alternative to "accepting the bug and kicking everyone who uses it"...

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Alberth wrote:

We have no problems with a better solution, except we don't know one.

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ToBeFree wrote:

One idea might be adding something like a "minimum transport distance" - or what about increasing the profit for long routes and decreasing it for short ones? :-)

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frosch wrote:

Both is already the case.

The reason you can cheat with large station spread is that the cargo is always considered to be a the tile with the station sign.
So, for the profit the distance of the station signs matters, not where the vehicles are. Travel distances within a station are free.

Now, one might suggest to use the position of the vehicle, or even every single wagon for the loading position and thus distances. But this already breaks when considering train reversal.

Now, one might suggest to make train reversing take time... but this only goes further down the road of non-sense.

This is about the essential game mechanics of OpenTTD and the different distance scales used. I doubt there is any sane way to "fix" this.

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frosch closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't implement

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