Board Thread:TrainStation Wiki News/@comment-26090008-20150302222337/@comment-15636815-20150303204239

As far as I know, there is no "Free" template. The cost template will output Free if it receives no valid input. Is that what you mean? If so, we can make it include whatever we want. It's probably a bad idea to make it include a bullet automatically, though, because Free is used elsewhere.

As for combining the cost lines for one contract, I noticed that the editor who went through all the contract lists last night did that. In one case, it resulted in five resources that wrapped to a second line. It had four resources, a line break, the semicolon at the beginning of the second line, and the final resource. If we do decide to go that route, we'll have to figure out a way to make it look good. Currently, it doesn't.

As for the idea itself, I think it's a good idea. It tells a player instantly what he/she needs, which she/he can compare against what the contractor has on hand. It avoids the player making math errors, too. And we even could avoid creating math errors by using fd or parser function {{#expr: do the math for us. Slightly more complex input, but guaranteed errorless output.