Speed-run support

[psh]

Version of OpenTTD

1.11.x and above

Investigate Game Script capabilities

For speed-running, I want the ability to start and stop a visible timer on screen, and for a game script to be able to monitor my bank account. The visible display should include elapsed time since the game began, and progress toward the speed running goals (1 - pay off loan, 2 - reach $1,000,000) these should have a timestamp associated, so I can see that the loan was paid-off after (say) 20 minutes, and $1,000,000 reached after 1h 35m.

Valid speed-runs require you to run with default settings and no loaded mods. It would be good if the window displayed a red / green status.

The game script needs to be able to

• Monitor my bank account - loan size and current balance.
• Compute current time and elapsed time
• Publish statistics to a window

Console commands

• Start, stop and pause the timer?
• Show and hide the timer window?

[psh]

It would be cool if the timer had start / stop / pause / reset buttons in general.