GameModes for challenge-maps

[hajo4]

I don't see how to implement the GameModes (except for Urban/Suburban),
i.e. day/rushhour, time/passengers etc.
Maybe this is just an issue with the documentation...

Also, when/how would the passenger-mode end,
if one of the trains does not deliver its passenger ?
(E.g. a train stuck in a loop, or blocked in a traffic-jam)

[Germanunkol]

The passenger game mode would never end in this case, you're right.
That's one of the reasons why the server runs a time limit game mode rather than a passenger limit.

As for how to set the game mode in challenge maps, I don't think there is a way, because the challenge map should, as opposed to a random map, specify the spawning passengers and the winning/loosing condition by itself. So if you want to make a challenge map which acts like "rush hour", you simply spawn more passengers, and if you want a passenger limit, I think you can simply let the user win after a certain amount of passengers...

[hajo4]

Ok, for passenger-mode to end after x passengers delivered,
we just have to spawn at least x+(maxAIs*maxTrains) passengers.

About the other game-modes: I was thinking about
using challenge-maps for compete-mode,
i.e. what changes would be required to use such a map
instead of the random maps.

[Germanunkol]

That would require quite some work, I guess. Challenge maps are designed to be used with only one AI, and since locally, the only AIs you have are the ones you write, I think it wouldn't be worth the trouble to get challenges working with multiple AIs, because then you'd be playing against yourself only...

Or isn't that what you mean?

[hajo4]

I want "Compete", with custom maps instead of / in addition to random maps. (*)
I can run locally all the AIs downloaded from the server,
plus the old+new versions of my own AIs.
Comparing them on the same map --> controlled, repeatable conditions
would be very much worth the trouble.

(*) BTW: some of the random maps look nice,
and I would like to have a button "save that map".
Cut+paste from the console is not a very elegant solution for this...