Site News for 2008
- 06 October 2008
- All ECS beta 5 vectors Italian and French translations were updated.
- 05 October 2008
- All ECS beta 5 vectors are available for beta testing here.
- All ECS mines now display amount of resources exhausted in comparision to amount of resources total and amount of resources total in comparision to maximum.
Possible values are Low, Normal, High.
- When all the known resources are exhausted, ECS mines find new bed with probability depending on % of resources exhausted from total.
100% if less than 50% exhausted, 75% if less than 75% exhausted, 50% if less than 87.5% exhausted, 25% in the other case.
- 02 October 2008
- ECS Machinery vector beta 5 is available for beta testing here.
- ECS Iron ore mine now displays amount of ore exhausted in comparision to amount of ore total and amount of ore total in comparision to maximum.
Possible values are Low, Normal, High.
- When all the known ore is exhausted, ECS Iron ore mine finds new bed with probability depending on % of ore exhausted from total.
100% if less than 50% exhausted, 75% if les than 75% exhausted, 50% if less than 87.5% exhausted, 25% in the other case.
- 30 September 2008
- Vehicle Factory now can produce cars, buses, trucks and tractors.
- 21 September 2008
- Vehicle Factory now has amount of smoke according to production level.
- Steel mill now may have red and brown buildings, selected randomly.
- 20 September 2008
Sawmill
- Coded new Steel mill graphics by Oz with 3 constructin stages and amount of smoke according to production level.
- Steel mill and Vehilces factory will close themselfs in 2 years if they are in town zone 4.
- 03 Augest 2008
- All mines now have 50% (instead of 25%) probability to find new bed on closure. Transportation level
required to find new bed is reduced from 75% to 60%.
- Glass and dyes are currently not a must cargo for vehicels factory.
- 27 July 2008
- Updated wiki for ECS basic vector.
- 19 July 2008
- Reworked, made snowed version and coded City square by Red*Star.
- Updated wiki for ECS town vector.
- 13 July 2008
- Updated wiki for ECS town vector.
- Fixed some minor bugs in ECS Town vector code.
- 04 July 2008
- Fixed 1x2 petrol station graphics.
- 03 July 2008
- ECS beta 5 industries are now protected from closure when built by the player or when any service
is provided with parameter.
- Petrol stations change road graphics according to town zone.
- 02 July 2008
- Always force new bed found event if no mine closure parameter is set, never change mine
capacity if unlimited mines parameter is set.
- 01 July 2008
- All ECS beta 4 vectors are now moved to beta 5. In beta 5 they use long date format. Because of that
they do not work under TTD patch any more unless support for required
variableas is provided.
- 25 June 2008
- Fixed the bug with overflow in ECS Fruit plantation.
- 24 June 2008
- ECS Town vector houses code was improved to use some new features.
- 14 June 2008
- Graphics for petrol stations was improved.
- Coded ECS petrol stations in ECS Town vector.
- 08 June 2008
- Graphics for hotel «Praha» was improved.
- 02 June 2008
- Coded ECS hotels and statues in ECS Town vector.
- Graphics for hotel «Regent» and hotel «Pribaltiskaya» was improved and coded as 2CC.
- 27 May 2008
- Coded Church and the Stalinka building in ECS Town vector.
- 17 May 2008
- Drew the MVD Hotel alpha-version.
- 03 May 2008
- Me and Andrey Krashinin drew the base for MAZ-503 truck. The first step for MAZ 500 series.
- 01 May 2008
- Drew the Stalinka building.
- 21 April 2008
- Fixed a bug with oil wells and oil rigs in ECS Chemical vector II.
- 13 April 2008
- ECS Chemical vector is outdated. ECS Chemical vector II should be used instead. ECS Chemical vector II is beta 4.
- 12 April 2008
- Sawmill change production level bug fixed.
- 11 April 2008
- Sand pit display bug fixed.
- 29 March 2008
- Updated translations both in files and wiki.
- 24 March 2008
- Copied wiki pages to translations.
- 22 March 2008
- Working hard on ECS translation. Apropriate wiki pages were updated.
- 20 March 2008
- Fixed bug in ECS beta 4 mines code.
- 19 March 2008
- ECS beta 4 vectors code improved.
- 18 March 2008
- ECS beta 4 vectors now support parameter to control difficulty settings. Bit 0 - Unlimited storeplace, bit 1 - Endless mines, bit 2 - No mine closure.
- 17 March 2008
- ECS Wood vector now supports parameter to control difficulty settings.
- 16 March 2008
- Improved code for ECS Wood and ECS Agricultural vectors. A must secondary cargoes do not affect production level now, but decrease the production instead.
- 14 March 2008
- ECS Textile mill now supports new closure mechanism. ECS Agricultural vector is beta 4 now.
- 10 March 2008
- ECS Brewery now supports new closure mechanism.
- 03 March 2008
- ECS Food plant and ECS Tinning factory now support new closure mechanism.
- 02 March 2008
- ECS Animal farm supports new closure mechanism.
- 01 March 2008
- ECS Fishing grounds, ECS Farm, ECS Fruit plantation now support new closure mechanism. Their code was also
improved.
- 27 February 2008
- Started converting ECS Agricultural vector to beta 4.
- 26 February 2008
- ECS Furniture Factory, ECS Paper Mill, ECS Printing Works now support new closure mechanism. ECS Wood vector
is beta 4 now.
- 25 February 2008
Sawmill
- ECS Sawmill now has several laypouts, supports passengers and company colours graphics. Wood and wood products
now appear and disappear according to nearby station activity.
- 24 February 2008
- The project is SIX years old. Congratulations!
- 14 February 2008
- ECS Steel mill and ECS Vehicles factory now can accept passengers.
- 10 February 2008
- Split ECS Sawmill graphics into parts, completed snow version. I'll code more layouts next.
- 09 February 2008
Forest
- ECS Forest now use default trees graphics instead of it's own. It has different graphics in tropic and toyland.
- ECS Sawmill now supports new closure mechanism.
- 08 February 2008
- Started converting ECS Wood vector to beta 4.
- ECS Forest now supports new closure mechanism.
- 31 January 2008
- Beta 4 industries now ignore locations conditions in scenario editor (Tile conditions, like flat land, are
remaining).
- 27 January 2008
- Fixed bank location bug.
- 25 January 2008
- Fixed bus bug in beta 4.
- 22 January 2008
- Fixed mines' closure bug.
- 20 January 2008
- Created a wiki page for coal mine.
- 16 January 2008
- Drew a tanker for xUSSR train set.
- 15 January 2008
- Made gondola for xUSSR train set shorter, added more details, filled it with cargo (here).
- 13 January 2008
- Fixed a bug with ECS Iron ore mine.
- Inserted steel, wood, wood prodcuts, lime, rubber graphics into gondola for xUSSR train set.
- 11 January 2008
- ECS Vehicles factory now supports new closure mechanism.
- ECS Bank is improved.
- ECS Town, Basic, Machinery vectors are beta 4 now. ECS Ship yard is currently disbled. It will work in existing
saved games and senarios, but it can not be built or appear while map genaration.
- 09 January 2008
- Added new closure code to ECS Tourists centre.
- ECS Basic vetor mines now give a message 12 and 24 months before being exhausted.
- ECS Machinery vetor updated. ECS Steel mill and ECS Iron ore mine now supports new closure mechanism, under
construction text. ECS Iron ore mine now gives a message 12 and 24 months before being exhausted.
- ECS Steel mill, ECS Glass works, ECS Power plant should be build near water.
- 08 January 2008
- Added requirements for water for Power plant, Steel mill, Glass works.
- Added new closure code to ECS Factory.
- Added displaying of under construction state for production level when the industry is under construction for ECS
Basic and ECS Town vectors.
- Moved sulpur definition back from ECS Basic vector to ECS Chemicals vector.
- 07 January 2008
Power plant
- Coded new closure mechanism. Now the industry gives a warning before closure, so the player can prevent closure
by providing excelent service for the industry.
- Coded ECS Gold mine as mine (with reduced capacity and production). Added parameter to control appearence of Gold
mine and Gold.
- Coded ECS Glass works as steel mill. Acceptence of potash would be provided later.
- 07 January 2008
- Minor fixes in ECS Town vector and ECS Machinery vector
- 06 January 2008
- Coded ECS Power plant for ECS Basic vector, drawn by Zimmlock.
