Advanced Settings/Stations
Advanced Settings window: Stations section
The Stations section allows you to set various options related to stations. The purpose of the available settings is explained below. For each setting, the respective variable from the config file is listed as well, together with it's possible values.
Cargo handling
Use improved loading algorithm
Feature availability (since 0.3.5)
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An improved loading algorithm, which loads only one vehicle at a time until it's completely full, before loading the next vehicle. When disabled, all vehicles in a station are loaded simultaineously, possibly needlessly blocking multiple platforms.
- Possible Settings: On or Off
- In Openttd.cfg config file: ([order] improved_load = <true|false>)
Load vehicles gradually
Feature availability (since 0.5.0)
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Vehicles will load cargo over a period of time, not full load instantly. If the option to show loading indicators is switched on, this will be reflected correctly.
- Possible Settings: On or Off
- In Openttd.cfg config file: ([order] gradual_loading = <true|false>)
Deliver cargo to a station only when there is a demand
Feature availability (since 0.2.0)
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Cargo will only be generated at a station when a vehicle with the capacity to pick that cargo up has visited the station. Affects station ratings.
- Possible Settings: On or Off
- In Openttd.cfg config file: ([order] selectgoods = <true|false>)
Join train stations built next to each other
Feature availability (since 0.2.0)
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Stations built next to each other will be joined as long as the station spread is not too high.
- Possible Settings: On or Off
- In Openttd.cfg config file: ([station] join_stations = <true|false>)
Nonuniform stations
Feature availability (since 0.3.0)
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Enables you to join stations together at different angles, so you can for instance have two vertical tracks and three horizontal tracks.
- Possible Settings: On or Off
- In Openttd.cfg config file: ([station] nonuniform_stations = <true|false>)
This setting have been removed since 1.1.0 Beta 5
Allow building adjacent stations
Feature availability (since 0.6.0)
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Holding the Ctrl key while building a station directly adjacent to another one will create new station instead of merging the new tile(s) with the existing station.
- Possible Settings: On or Off
- In Openttd.cfg config file: ([station] adjacent_stations = <true|false>)
Allow to join stations not directly adjacent
Feature availability (since 0.7.0)
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Holding the Ctrl key while building a station pops up a dialog asking to merge the station with an existing station within the catchment area or creating a new station.
- Possible Settings: On or Off
- In Openttd.cfg config file: ([station] distant_join_stations = <true|false>)
Max station spread
Feature availability (since 0.3.2)
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How spread out a station can be from one end to the other. If you draw a square round a station, this is the maximum size of any side of the square in tiles.
- Possible Settings: 4 to 64 (Warning: High setting slows game)
- In Openttd.cfg config file: ([station] station_spread = <num_val>)
Allow town controlled noise level for airports
Feature availability (since 0.7.0)
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With this activated, the number of airports which can be placed in the vicinity of a town is not fixed anymore. Instead it depends upon the noise level of the airports, their distance to the town centre and the town's attitude.
- Possible Settings: On or Off
- In Openttd.cfg config file: ([economy] station_noise_level = <true|false>)
Allow more realistically sized catchment areas
Feature availability (since 0.3.5)
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Changes the catchment areas to be more realistically sized. With this setting enabled, the catchment area of a station tile varies depending on what "type" of station tile it is. For example, train stations have a larger catchment area than bus stations and airports have even larger catchment areas. With airports, the size of the catchment area even varies with the type of airport, with the Intercontinental Airport having the largest area.
- Possible Settings: On or Off
- In Openttd.cfg config file: ([station] modified_catchment = <true|false>)
Allow drive-through road stops on town owned roads
Feature availability (since 0.6.0)
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It will be possible to build drive-through road stops on town owned roads.
- Possible Settings: On or Off
- In Openttd.cfg config file: ([construction] road_stop_on_town_road = <true|false>)
Allow drive-through road stops on roads owned by competitors
Feature availability (since 0.7.0)
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It will be possible to build drive-through road stops on roads owned by competitor companies.
- Possible Settings: On or Off
- In Openttd.cfg config file: ([construction] road_stop_on_competitor_road = <true|false>)
In previous versions
See also
- For 0.3.0 to 0.6.3 - See Configuring patches for information of how to change settings.
- For 0.2.0 and 0.2.1 - See Configuring patches in 0.2.0.
