The North American Renewal Set 2.5 - passenger mod (v0.1c)

Contents:

0. Introduction
1. Technical stuff
2. List of properties changed
3. Contact
4. License
5. Thanks


0. Introduction

The North American Renewal Set passenger mod increases the passenger capacity of most vehicles in the North American Renewal Set 2.5.
Why did I do that? In short sentences, NARS 2.5 is cool. Cargodist is also cool. But this makes loads of passengers. Trains and stations are really crowded. That's why.


1. Technical Stuff (TM)

If you are reading this, you probably already have downloaded the NewGRF (via Online Content, Banana Co., or the tt-forums). The .grf file should be where all the other NewGRFs are located (which may vary depending on the OS you use).

As already stated, this NewGRF is an override of the North American Renewal Set (NARS) version 2.5, it changes the capacities of most passenger-carrying rolling stock of this (really cool) Set.
As it is merely an override, this NewGRF doesn't load any new graphics. It is dependent of NARS 2.5. In order to work, this mod MUST be loaded AFTER the original North American Renewal Set VERSION 2.5.
If you load it before NARS 2.5, it won't work.
If you load it after NARS version <2.5, it won't work.
If you load it without NARS, it won't work.

At the moment, I have absolutely no idea whether this Set works with versions of OTTD prior to 1.2.0, or any version of TTDPatch. It should behave differently, even badly. No idea.


2. List of properties changed

When it works, the following properties are changed :
(between brackets, initial capacities)

Passenger car: 50 pass. (25)
Heavyweight car: 80 pass. (40)
Lightweight car: 80 pass. (40)
Bilevel car: 120 pass. (60)
Superliner car: 80 pass. (50) cargo ages 2x slower
Highspeed car. 50 pass. (35) cargo ages 2x slower

Doodlebug: 80 pass. (40)
Budd RDC: 80 pass. (40)
Electric interurban: 80 pass. (40)
Budd Metroliner: 2x80 pass. (2x40)
Bombardier EMU: 2x80 pass. (2x40)
Nippon Sharyo EMU: 2x120 pass. (2x60)
Aerotrain: cargo ages 2x slower
Turbotrain: cargo ages 2x slower
Turboliner: cargo ages 2x slower

Basically, capacitie are doubled, except for highspeed or luxury rolling stock, where cargo ageing is changed (to reflect they're comfy).


3. Contact

Suggestions are welcome! There is a topic in the tt-forums (http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=72797) where any new idea should be sent. PM work, as well.


4. License

This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2+.


5. Thanks

Thank you OTTD developers, amazing game! Special thanks to David Dallaston (pikka) for all your GRFs (especially NARS 2.5, which I prefer to the version 2.03 by the way) and for your NFO tutorial as well. And thank you fellow reader for having read this really boring readme (I say thank you because even though it says 'readme', it is in fact not mandatory). Eat kiwis!