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Marti wrote: For CityBuilder servers, it would be awesome to get a window that shows the history of cargo delivered to the town, either as a table or a chart.

Here's a mockup of what I mean:

This info could also be displayed as a table, something like this:

Month	Population	Cargo, Delivered, Required
1978 Jan	2,222	Passengers 500 400 Mail 80 40 Goods 200 50
1978 Feb	2,333	Passengers 800 450 Mail 50 80 Goods 100 50

This table could be extended with other information like building count, owner's rating in town etc.

While it isn't impossible to do, it is better fitted to be in the website(something reddit servers have ).

In the client there is no reliable way to store data.

my suggestion is to solve the boats' problem once and for all.
and to do so we need to rethink the pathfinder completely -- i suggest brand new approach to the pathfinding on open flat spaces such is sea.

PATHS on the the do not have to be dynamic!
there are no collisions, no busy lanes...
we may and should search for a new path on very few certain events, and we may store paths statically. moreover, paths may be (and should be) associated with ENDPOINTS -- not with boats!

Silly Sad: pathfinder changes (npf or yapf) are on OpenTTD devs ground.
I don't have the coding skills to touch that matter but all suggestions about it should be make in the correct forum (somewhere around here or in the bug/suggestions section, here )

and I guess it's a server side setting (talking about multiplayer games) where there's no possible change to do on BTPro client

right! how stupid i am. it is exactly the server's problem.

sometimes you sent a wrong train to a wrong station that caused the station to accept goods that are not transported from.

therefore that simple and usual mistake is UNRECOVERABLE,
once you damaged your good acceptance the goods will flow to the dead-end station ruining your game forever.

suggestion:
add a "RESET" button to the station, that clears cargo acceptance flags.

the idea itself is very good but undoable only on client side. In other words, the servers needed to be patched too with the same changes to allow the behaviour you suggest (making the client incompatible with all other online servers). So, until the OpenTTD devs include a similar option, leaves you only the option of delete the station and wait till station name disappears before build a new station.