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Map editor feature request

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option to load "events" into the map editor (events that are map related of course)

like the roads events.

So we could load these road events into the map and see where and how the roads will be build?

Maybe even select roads we build on the map and have some "event export" option?
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These are two entirely different systems. This is not actually possible.

You can set your event times to be days 1, 2, 3, etc so it's easy to test, then reset the days when you know it works. That's what we have to do.
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Oh, that's another question:

17000,1440,2880000,42,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1688,138,1687,137,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,

what day would this be? I keep the game running fastest at some time in future, in 4 or 7 years it's finally done..

how come?

eventtime*1440, eventtimewind*1440,

I thought 1440 is 24 hours time 60 minutes..

so 1440 would be day 1..

but obviously it isn't
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My understanding was the same; 1440 would happen on day 2, 3600 would happen half way through day 3
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well I'm still puzzling with it. I put several roads at 1440 and they will be built eventually but not on day 1..
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Oh, I see it. After event time (1440) you have event window (2880000) so it will happen sometime between day 2 and day 2002 on a random day. The "window" value is the maximum out. Zero that if you want exactly on day 2
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Balthagor wrote: Jul 19 2019 Oh, I see it. After event time (1440) you have event window (2880000) so it will happen sometime between day 2 and day 2002 on a random day. The "window" value is the maximum out. Zero that if you want exactly on day 2
Ohhhhhhhhh I'm an idiot..

I looked at that column without actually switching on the grey mass to think about what it actually said

sorrrrryy
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No worries.

FYI, I think we set those on a 2000 day window but made them conditional on another event that had only a 1000 day window. You can use this sort of "out of sync events" trick to make events that occur "50% of the time".
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Balthagor wrote: Jul 20 2019 No worries.

FYI, I think we set those on a 2000 day window but made them conditional on another event that had only a 1000 day window. You can use this sort of "out of sync events" trick to make events that occur "50% of the time".
Smart! Thanks for the hint
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