Send in the Clones

Type !clone 20 and the server builds twenty copies of your best vehicle — orders shared, engines running. Plus one holdings curve for industries and towns, a tidier research page, and an honest XP estimate on the rankings.

!clone — mass cloning from chat

OpenTTD's clone button builds one copy per click, which is miserable when your road game runs fifty trucks. So the server does the clicking now: type !clone 20 in chat and twenty copies of your template are built, given shared orders, started, and charged to your company at the normal purchase price.

• Your template is your newest vehicle — buy one, set its orders up perfectly, then clone it. Want to be explicit? Stop a vehicle in a depot and it becomes the template, or name one outright: !clone 10 truck 7 clones Road Vehicle #7.
• Shared orders, exactly like Ctrl+clone — edit one vehicle's orders and the whole fleet follows.
• Clones are built in your own depot nearest the template and head out on their own. Trains clone the whole consist, wagons included.
• Up to 99 per command (raised from 25 shortly after release). If your money runs out mid-batch you're told exactly how many were built — nothing is hidden and nothing is free.
• Works for any crew member aboard the company, on every vehicle type. !help lists it with the rest.

One holdings curve — industries and towns

Industry and town stakes now scale on the same multiplier system: your dividend climbs in a straight line from 1x to 15x at a full house — 500 stakes in an industry, or 30,000 residents grown in a town. Deeper commitment to one holding is what pays.

• The industry payout rate is a quarter of what it was. Industry holdings were far outperforming towns; the rate came down and the new curve does the work, so a maxed factory now pays roughly a fifth of its old ceiling.
• Towns keep their payout rate and trade their old 20x ceiling for the shared 15x — about a quarter less multiplier across the climb, nothing else changed.

Same shape, deliberately different scales: an industry maxes out on stakes you earn by developing it; a town maxes out on people you actually moved in.

Research spending, one line per track

The 25% button is gone — Spend 10% / 50% / 90% now sit side by side on a single line under each track, so the research pages lost about three lines of scrolling per track. Same money, same banking, far less wheel-spinning to reach the bottom.

The rankings XP estimate is honest again

THE RANKINGS page's "est. final XP" had drifted from the real payout two ways: it still used the old flat record bonuses, and it left out the direct XP each completed contract pays. Both fixed — the estimate is now computed term for term like the real award, within a rounding point.

• Record finish bonuses show at their true difficulty-scaled values: +2% per monthly record and +5% per all-time record, multiplied by your charter's XP rate — so a Hauler Hell record is worth ten times a Normal one (charter XP was retuned upward later the same day), on the page as in the payout.
• Contracts now count twice, as they always did in the real award: +10% each in the finish multiplier, plus their direct XP at your charter's rate.