WISH: trigger (pop-up window) when a line has no income anymore.

[Yeol]

Dear magician-developers,

would it be possible to add a trigger for lines that do not have had income during one entire year? You know, a window pup-up like the ones when vehicles are turning old. Often one discovers a tried up line many years of heavy losses and no income.

[Person012345]

NO

Many of my lines deliberately make a loss, I don’t want 2 dozen popups every year.

[Foche]

there is already way too much pop up in this game ,i think a $ symbol over the line is a better idea

[Yeol]

I don’t eigther want a pop-up when a line makes a loss. That would be too much, agree. But when a line has NO INCOME at all in one year, I suspect a problem. Then I like a popup. 😉

[Person012345]

Well you did say: “Often one discovers a tried up line many years of heavy losses and no income.”

[Cpt.Spaghetti]

Well, no income is no income 😉 i think he wrote it clearly.

But we need this to enable or disable in options. Sometimes you just build a line for beauty or anything or to test things out. I wouldnt like to have popups all the time.

[xynix]

You kind of have a pop up already. Just bring up the line box in November or so and you can see what’s making and what’s losing. I don’t see a reason to force information on people when the information is a single click away.

[Person012345]

@cpt. spaghetti And “heavy losses” are “heavy losses”, he wrote that quite clearly too, in the OP.

[Varana]

Also, in accordance with the general design philosophy of the game, it would probably open up a pop-up with little information but a detailed view of one of the vehicles, just to slow your computer down and eat up memory. 😉

[Yeol]

I’m sorry that my choice of words were not very clear, and I understand that many of you do not like yet more game slowing pop-up windows. But my intentions were noble, to help the player  (read: me) in localizing potential problems.

When one has 50+ lines operating, and 300+ vehicles running, one does not check every line, every vehicle month after month if it’s running fine. You expect lines continue to operate as you set them up. But once a line does not generate any income during a full year, something is wrong (broken path, industry stopped producing,…). I would like a notice when this happens. The developers have implemented the window pop-up system, so I proposed to use it.

But if you like the have another kind of noticing system in stead of the pop-up window (e.g. a pop-up tekst box, a ticker,…. ), that is fine for me, but that is another discussion.

I hope it’s more clear now. 😉 Sorry for the confusion.

 

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