Transit Executive | Development

Development

This page contains various bits of information and ideas used in the development of Transit Executive. If you would like to join the development team please visit us on #transitexecutive on the freenode IRC network or look at our project page.

Tech Tree

Generation	Vehicles	Infrastructure	Commodities	Misc
1	horses, donkeys, elephants, camels, sail boats	dirt roads, ocean	mail, people
2	horse drawn wagons (1826), steam powered locomotive (1830), steam powered boats	railway tracks	coal
3	blimp, cable cars, gasoline powered automobiles, horse driven buses	highways	coal
4	jumbo jet, helicopter, electric trains, modern automobile, subway	subway track	coal
5	skytrain, electric car, supersonic airplane	paved roads	coal
6	maglev, hydrogen car, even superersonic airplane, low-orbit plane	maglev track	coal

Ship engines:
1. wind
2. steam
3. coal
4. gas
5. diesel
6. nuclear
7. cold fusion

Buildings:
Farm - depot for all animals (horses, donkeys, elephants, camels)
Animal Stop - drop off point for animals
Post Office - drop off mail
Bus Stop - drop off point for buses

Objects:
transportation routes (roads, tracks, etc)
neutral non-interactive buildings
player owned buildings (bus stop, depots, etc)
units (horses, buses, trains, etc)
industry buildings (oil wells, coal mines, etc)

Menu Buttons/Items

Menu
- New Game
- Load Game
- Save Game
- Start New Scenario
- Exit
Options
- Sound/Music
- General Options
- Rules
- Video Options
Finances
- Bank Statement
- Income Statement
- Stocks/Bonds/Loans
Terrain
- Raise
- Lower
- Level
- Demolish
Roads
- Dirt Paths
- Dirt Roads
- Roads
- Highways
- Bus Stop
- Vehicle Depot
- Farm
- Animal Stop
Railways
- Train track
- Monorail track
- Subway track
- Maglev track
- Depot
- Station
Sea
- Seaport
- Dock
- Shipdock
Air
- Airport + Hangar
- Helipad
Help
- Contents
- About

Map Format

The map format is made up of sections in the style of [XXX] where XXX
identifes the section type.

[TE ] - te section
always at the beginning of the file

[MAP] - map section
followed by map width and height, width*height tiles, and (width+1)*(height+1)
corner heights

[UNI] - units section
followed by number of cities and number of units, then the cities, then the
units

TODO:
number of players
player starting money
player type (human/computer)
objectives?