Questions?

[johandenver2]

Hi,

I don't know if I'm supposed to ask questions here so feel free to delete if this is not intended.

Thanks for a great mod, it addresses another one of those issues that's bothered me with FS a long time. However I have a few questions.

1. Would it be possible to exclude certain productions and/or animal shelters from expiring? For instance, I have a fermenting silo that only have a certain number of cycles and the major part of my grass would expire before being turned into silage. Also, TMR and straw for cows could potentially suffer the same thing. I know this isn't strictly realistic but I feel the situation would be too complex to manage otherwise.

2. I often play on multifruit maps so there are a lot of fill types just listed as "Do not expire". If I go through this and put realistic times on stuff, can this be exported to another save? It would be a lot of work to do this for all my saves :-)

Again, thanks for making this excellent mod and I hope you find time to continue developing it.

[rittermod]

Feel free to ask/suggest features here.

I have actually considered both of these myself as possible enhancements to the mod.

For 1 I'm wondering about the feasibility to add storage specific "multipliers" or expiration times. "This is a cold storage, double the lifetime of products", and similar. "Do not expire in this storage" would be a natural thing to add there.

For 2 I have thought about having layered preferences, where you can have settings in a specific savegame, user settings and defaults in mod. If expiration is set in savegame settings use that, if not use the user settings for game, if not there use defaults for the mod. The loading of a user setting file as a middle layer is fairly simple. Making a interface/menu that is user friendly is the hard part. So step 1 might be to allow a user settings file, but for advanced users with manual editing of the XML.

I'll create issues for both of these as enhancements.