IRC logs for #openttd on OFTC at 2016-06-07
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00:16:22 <Eddi|zuHause> riding a line sounds painful. it has too few dimensions to sit on properly
00:18:22 <supermop_> well at least it is infinitely long
00:18:26 <Alkel_U3> well, ever had to use a meeting point?
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13:12:32 <ST2> that was the slap that will make him regret long time :P
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14:12:33 <Cursarion> is there any plans to implement subway/underground in the game?
14:17:53 <Eddi|zuHause> depends what conditions you apply to something being a "plan"
14:21:11 <Cursarion> I did a quick google search earlier and saw something from 2007
14:23:10 <Alkel_U3> iirc it was hacky and quite unstable
14:26:14 <Alkel_U3> Fun stuff... you'll look at that term differently after a few hundred hours of Dwarf Fortress :P
14:26:17 <greeter> i set up an irc bot to interact with the openttd server :-D
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14:30:25 <argoneus> good morning train friends
14:31:44 <Alkel_U3> meanwhile, I set up a batch of yeast. This year's elderbery wine will be something
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15:45:40 <Alkel_U3> greeter: I see you reset the server
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16:23:26 <supermop_> sigh not sure i should bother posting this long ass response in eu referendum thread
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16:42:56 <peter1138> well you won't sway me
16:44:33 <supermop_> the post was not explicity in or out, but more to argue that a mutually beneficial relationship is actually a thing that can exist
16:45:34 <Alberth> one sentence seems sufficient :p
16:47:14 <supermop_> i picked an awkward, belabored example, that wouldn't necessarily be universally popular, and might actually be touted as a counter-example by someone who believes everything is necessarily zero-sum
17:04:51 <peter1138> yeah but a mutually beneficial relationship isn't what is being voted on
17:08:07 <V453000> soooo fuck the EU Y/N?
17:14:27 <V453000> so when is the referendum?
17:17:47 <supermop_> peter1138: that's not relevant to point i was making, as I was responding to a post which seemed to argue that any relationship beneficial to one party is objectively detrimental to other parties
17:19:34 <supermop_> i tried drafting up NATO membership as an example, but it is a bit awkward as one might argue that the force multiplication (the benefit to members small and large) is actually a detriment
17:20:35 <supermop_> if you take the strength of NATO to be geopolitically undesirable due to personal point of view, or if you disagree with the idea of a global military hegemon on principal
17:21:22 <supermop_> both of which are valid standpoints for many people, although maybe not particularly within a member nation of the 5 eyes
17:22:25 <supermop_> if i argue that say, the Netherlands receives the 'benefit' of nuclear deterrent without the cost of a nuclear program,
17:22:58 <supermop_> many people, in the Netherlands or not, may argue that that is a dubious 'benefit'
17:23:01 <V453000> that is all nice and fancy until it becomes political/bureaucratical horseshit
17:23:19 <V453000> which is exactly what EU is to me
17:24:18 <supermop_> i could well be a Dutchman who opposes nuclear weapons, and resents the idea that American, French, and British warheads are 'protecting' me
17:24:42 <V453000> that sounds ridiculously hypocritical
17:24:50 <V453000> I hate it but it's fine if it protects me
17:25:02 <V453000> is same as "I love freedom of speech but only until you offend me"
17:26:15 <supermop_> or i could be apathetic about nuclear weapons one way or the other, but fear that those american warheads are provocative and are inviting more trouble and attention than the Netherlands would get into on its own were it a neutral nation
17:26:24 <V453000> wait do I translate resent correctly even XD
17:27:49 <supermop_> V453000: imagine that if the US were to go to switzerland, and say, we will protect you with out nuclear deterrent, free of charge, without you having to do anything!
17:28:14 <supermop_> i imagine they might not be so excited about receiving such a 'gift'
17:29:18 <supermop_> some swiss citizens would prefer to have no nuclear deterrant rather than have the US 'giving' them one
17:30:34 <V453000> I understand, but what point are you trying to say?
17:31:41 <supermop_> that my choice of an example to explain a mutually beneficial relationship was a poor one
17:32:26 <supermop_> because many people may disagree that NATO is that beneficial, whether from a pacifist, or neutrality point of view
17:32:49 <V453000> well, is current EU a mutually beneficial relationship? to me it looks like just collective socialism
17:33:21 <Alberth> what about the euro zone?
17:33:51 <V453000> you mean same currency for different states? Isn't that maintainable even without a central bureaucratic mess?
17:33:52 <supermop_> if you want your country to be neutral and pacifist, the 'benefit' that NATO gives you more collective military power for your money is actually undesirable to you
17:34:27 <supermop_> V453000: there will have to be a central bank for a currency, shared or otherwise
17:34:44 <V453000> is central bank impossible to have even without EU?
17:35:14 <supermop_> you could keep using the euro without participating in its bank, but why forfeit your voice in it
17:35:38 <supermop_> many small latin american countries use the USD or peg their currency to it
17:35:55 <supermop_> but the federal reserve remains the 'central bank'
17:36:19 <supermop_> and those countries have absolutely no voice in its decisions
17:37:14 <supermop_> the can diplomatically express that they wish the USD to be weaker or stronger, but they cannot take the actions to make it so
17:38:15 <supermop_> and the FRB did not ask those countries to use USD, and has other US-centric priorities
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17:39:23 <supermop_> if the US wants a weak dollar to better sell exports, and Ecuador wants a weak dollar to better buy imports (usually it is the other way around), Ecuador cannot do anything about it
17:42:01 <supermop_> V453000: you could make the euro totally independant of the EU, but then how would the euro's central bank then exert any control over the member users to actually affect its policy decisions
17:43:57 <supermop_> with the USD, only the US can issue more currency, and the US economy dwarfs those of other countries that share the dollar, so the Federal Reserve and the Treasury can affect monetary policy regardless of what those other countries do
17:44:42 <supermop_> if you had a shared euro where France wanted to print money, but Germany wanted to strengthen the currency, how would that work?
17:45:29 <supermop_> these would be two economies of same order of magnitude, where neither is the clear 'owner' of the central bank
17:47:10 <supermop_> you could say, well German is bigger economically, so just let them run the euro, but isn't that arguably worse for non-german states than the current bureaucracy?
17:50:06 <supermop_> anyway, americans regardless of political leaning all benefit from a united EU, so we are biased
17:51:21 <supermop_> sorry for the wall of text
17:53:51 <V453000> admittedly I am unable to think in this level of global economy, but when I see the bullshit laws that EU is trying to make, how retarded projects do EU money go into, how many "beneficial" companies exist purely to consume EU funding projects and their sole purpose is to pretend activity so that they get more of those projects, and then when it gets to something serious like the greek money shit or immigrant stuff, the EU is unable to respo
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17:55:27 <monsted> EU has many faults, but not many that the individual countries wouldn't have made themselves individually
17:56:50 <V453000> but I guess it feels much better if you fucked up and are responsible for it than if you did nothing because of some detached government somewhere
17:58:28 <monsted> of course you can always pull out the old EU law that prevents the sale of crooked cucumbers to retail customers
17:59:38 <V453000> yes and probably hundreds of similar things
18:00:45 <monsted> but then look at the british or danish laws and you'll find a thousand others just as dumb :)
18:01:35 <V453000> you make a good point
18:02:01 <V453000> but I still feel like tolerating this shit just isn't helping
18:05:19 <monsted> someone needs to sit down and read through the entire law library and get out the red ink
18:05:51 <monsted> cut out 80% of dead and dumb law
18:06:07 <monsted> then iterate on that, cutting 80% of what remains every year.
18:06:54 <Wolf01> EU only need one law: don't be a dickhead...
18:10:26 <Wolf01> I really hate the limits imposed to countries because "heh it's the free market, country-B should be able to sell the same stuff too, so you need to limit the production or here's your fine"
18:11:13 <Wolf01> we lost 40% of milk production this way
18:13:31 <monsted> a friend of my family is a black currant farmer. the EU put billions into polish farms who completely undermined his market and he's now pretty much screwed. fortunately, he's not far off retirement, so he's taking an EU handout for going organic and will probably just retire when that runs out.
18:15:45 <monsted> they'll pretty much pay him what he'd usually make and he can pretty much just coast for five years while the land cleans itself of the evil additives and then he can quit.
18:16:50 <V453000> exactly Wolf01 ... why not try to sell the milk as EU, no we just limit our production
18:22:04 <Wolf01> they started with the wrong foot, you need first to make the people feel like a great comunity, then you can proceed to unificate the rules and make the same generic laws (legal and criminal, so a thief will get the same sentence everywhere), but leaving also the freedom of the various countries to keep some local laws (administrative ones)
18:22:33 <Wolf01> then you unificate the market
18:22:42 <monsted> it's sad when the market makes us overproduce something and then just flush it down the drain, instead of encouraging new products that could be sold/exported
18:23:34 <monsted> in general, i don't understand why we're even subsidizing something that already gets overproduced. surely, this is the wrong way round?
18:24:03 <Wolf01> they started from the market, but without a comunity feeling and keeping al the rivalry of different markets
18:24:52 <Alberth> I think you approach it from the wrong direction; you assume there is sense in politics
18:38:57 * Rubidium thinks this is the standard: people get excited about bad things, and don't care much about good things which makes sentiments go wild
18:40:40 <Rubidium> which effectively means that the "bad" things vastly overwhelm the "good" things in these debates and that's not something you should base your opinion on
18:41:45 <Wolf01> people get excited by non-sense bad things, if there were "right" bad things I could have accepted them
18:42:47 <Rubidium> see the massive hysteria about nuclear power plants, whereas coal power plants put way more radiation into the atmosphere (per kWh)
18:42:54 <Rubidium> (including accidents)
18:44:08 <Wolf01> that's for example a non-sense, we have a law which prohibits the creation of new nuclear power plants, while all around there are many, even really close to our borders
18:46:05 <Rubidium> also... one month Fukushima Exclusion Zone == Head CT scan
18:46:07 <Wolf01> I can understand the problem of nuclear wastes, but now there are some ways of reduce them and even use them again
18:47:24 <Rubidium> fun is that coal power plants just pump their nuclear waste into the air
18:47:45 <Alkel_U3> pff, coal plants. They have nothing on bananas
18:48:17 <Rubidium> but then... your nuclear dose from yourself is like 4000 times higher than living near a nuclear power plant
18:49:13 <Rubidium> anyhow, that's basically the point... focusing on the feeling of danger than actual danger
18:50:35 <Wolf01> also the funny thing is that our country invest money on the nuclear program of other countries :D
18:53:27 <Rubidium> anyhow, it's UK's loss because if they get out, it would be easier for me to get (the same) training in say Finland than England
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19:43:54 <andythenorth> mining trucks are silly in Road Hog
19:46:00 <andythenorth> if there were road types, maybe they’d make sense
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20:09:09 <mz-e520> ello. slightly esoteric question but... the user interface in openttd is beautiful and extremely well behaved with regards to apparently always being up-to-date (change some state in one window such as buying a new wagon, and the capacity is instantly updated in any other windows that are open and happen to be observing the train), etc
20:09:20 <mz-e520> is there any documentation outside of the code on the design?
20:09:37 <mz-e520> it's conspicuously and drastically better than almost any in-game UI i can think of
20:10:13 <mz-e520> i'm mildly fascinated by it on a professional level
20:10:20 <frosch123> openttd does strict command serialisation and execution
20:10:30 <frosch123> a button never triggers an update of the gui itself
20:10:54 <frosch123> instead a button triggers an action, which is send to the server, forwared to all clients, and the clients then notify all relevant windows
20:11:41 <mz-e520> was it always this way? even in the original proprietary version?
20:12:13 <frosch123> no, multiplayer got better over time
20:12:41 <frosch123> every now and then there is a windows that does not update correctly :)
20:12:59 <mz-e520> hehe, i'll keep an eye out
20:13:29 <mz-e520> it's a really great piece of work
20:13:43 <frosch123> anyway, all that stuff comes with a downside :)
20:14:07 <frosch123> if your network connection is laggy, pressing a button does not give an immediate response
20:14:24 <greeter> i've found that out before playing openttd over satellite
20:14:37 <frosch123> say: you can press the sell-vehicle button twice
20:14:42 <frosch123> the first one will then succeed
20:14:53 <frosch123> and the second one will spawn a "vehicle does not exist" error or similar
20:15:03 <frosch123> maybe you are even kicked for trying something invaild :p
20:15:48 <frosch123> but i guess most of these command fail silently and are ignored without message
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20:16:26 <frosch123> but yes, tricks like using a autoclicker to sell a vehicle multiple times do not work in ottd
20:16:48 <frosch123> eu4 is very different to ottd in that respect :p
20:17:16 <frosch123> if you manage to immitate the eu4 network protocol, you can likely cheat like hell
20:17:44 <frosch123> a fairly complex game
20:17:57 <frosch123> but it does a ton of vaildations in the gui only
20:18:16 <frosch123> there have been dozen of bugs where you can exploit something by clicking things faster than the game can process them
20:20:58 <mz-e520> i find the ottd ui a lot more aesthetically pleasing than the eu4 screenshots...
20:22:03 <frosch123> both are overwhelming if you do not know the game :)
20:28:46 <Wolf01> the worse gui I found (leaving out my own games) is in wargame: european escalation
20:29:26 <Alkel_U3> oh, you play it? :-)
20:30:41 <Wolf01> numbers and letters printed on the screen which are the actual ui o_O
20:35:07 <Alkel_U3> i see nothing inherently wrong with that
20:35:49 <Wolf01> an ui where you can't tell the difference about an informative label and an actual menu is a bad ui
20:35:59 <Alkel_U3> it is pointed out in the first mission (a bit vaguely)
20:36:30 <Alkel_U3> it's not a jewel but it's usable imho
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20:36:44 <Wolf01> "a bit", it took 15 minutes to me to find it, and a google search
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20:37:33 <Wolf01> the man of war: allied assault one is really more understandable
20:37:49 <Nadejde> Could you help me out with a question regarding dedicated servers and console?
20:38:40 <Nadejde> is it actually possible to download a scenario from bananas and launch a game with that scenario from the console?
20:39:16 <Nadejde> from the wiki it seems like that should be possible. but if i use the content commands the newgrf files don't seem to get downloaded
20:39:18 <greeter> just when i think i'm learning a lot, someone asks a question i don't know the answer to :-S
20:39:59 <Nadejde> and all you get is tar files have no ideea how to actually use the load command to load it and get it running...
20:41:09 <Nadejde> I guess I'll just post in the forums:) but if the answer was a straight no might saved everyones time:)
20:43:07 <supermop_> wasted 2 hours of time installing a carpet for a client
20:44:02 <supermop_> not sure why they would want to pay their design firm for that labor instead of tthe relvant tradesman, or even just a random non-union handyman
20:44:20 <greeter> ouch. what is your trade anyway?
20:44:57 <Alkel_U3> as for launching the scenario, I think it's the same as loading a save - "load"
20:45:25 <Nadejde> thank you. i tryied all that
20:45:51 <Nadejde> the content commands work fine (event though the related newgrf files don't seem to download)
20:46:14 <Nadejde> however browsing to the scenario folder doesn't list anything
20:47:18 <Nadejde> if i navigate to downloaded_content/scenarios where i know the tar file is and do ls nothing is displayed
20:47:19 <Alkel_U3> were you looking in content_download?
20:48:21 <Nadejde> looked both in content_download and in plain scenarios (with the UI I would just go into Scenarios and they would be listed there even though theyre not actually in that folder....)
20:49:22 <Nadejde> doing a content update > content state shows the scenario as installed though...
20:49:30 <supermop_> my 'trade' is architect, so no union, and no trade pay
20:49:48 <supermop_> but my boss gets to make a big markup on my time on site
20:50:30 <supermop_> as technically that 2 hours counts as 2 hours of the professional design services of a design firm
20:59:20 <Alkel_U3> Nadejde: yeah, the tar is there, but it doesn't show in the GUI, too
21:00:06 <supermop_> andythenorth: ha actually this job wasn't originally one of my projects so i don't know our terms for ongoing additional billable hours with them
21:00:45 <supermop_> but in general such a service could easily get as high as $200/hr with firms in NYC
21:01:21 <supermop_> cheaper than hiring your lawyers or McKinsey consultants to lay carpet at least
21:03:40 <Alkel_U3> oh, wait, my bad. It is in the gui
21:06:01 <Nadejde> yeah. you can see the tar file in the gui
21:06:15 <Nadejde> but the scenarios show in openttd/scenarios directly
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21:06:28 <Nadejde> if you go through the load scenario gui. even though that folder is actually open
21:07:26 <Nadejde> just wanted to check here first in case it was really simple and I was beeing stupid :)
21:07:27 <Alkel_U3> hm, the unpacked scn file doesn't show for me in the console, either
21:08:20 <Nadejde> yup tried that also. unpacking the tar and checking out if i can load the .scn file directly
21:09:26 <Alkel_U3> I kinda sorta suspect that might be a bug
21:10:22 <Alkel_U3> or unimplemented feature
21:10:34 <Nadejde> sounds more like an unimplemented feature to be honest:)
21:10:56 <Nadejde> I't fine if it just cant be done. At least I know and I wont waste my time
21:11:16 <Nadejde> Question is is there any way of launching a scenario through the console at all:)
21:11:31 <Nadejde> never mind the downloading of content. I'll just copy that myself
21:11:51 <FLHerne> Nadejde: You could just rename it to .sav, we know those work
21:12:16 <FLHerne> (Scenarios are savegames, and v.v.)
21:12:35 <Nadejde> hmm. If i load a scenario on my desktop and gen save it straight out, copy that over to the server and load it?
21:12:49 <Alkel_U3> at that point, it will be less hassle to jst launch openttd -D -g file.scn
21:13:33 <Alkel_U3> well, mabe you should have started with what you tried :-)
21:13:44 <Nadejde> ERROR: Game Load Failed?NewGRF mismatch
21:14:11 <Nadejde> yeah. this goes back to the fact the the NewGRF don't seem to be downloaded i guess...
21:15:01 <Nadejde> Loading game failed, so a new (random) game will be started! and then the ERROR about NewGRF mismatch after it generates a random game
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21:15:12 <supermop_> hmm - need to go somewhere on long island railroad.. if i take the subway all the way out to end of line and then catch the train i save $5 compared to taking the train all the way from penn station in the city
21:15:16 <Nadejde> hmm let me try to use a savegame see if that works
21:16:40 <Alkel_U3> I'm kinda affraid it's gonna need manual babysiting :/
21:17:03 <Alkel_U3> with the required grfs
21:18:46 <Nadejde> yeah same error dbg: [net] Loading game failed, so a new (random) game will be started!
21:19:04 <Nadejde> ill try copying the grfs over also
21:19:48 <Nadejde> why would you even need grfs for a dedicated server anyway?
21:20:13 <Alkel_U3> it's not only about the graphics
21:21:12 <Alkel_U3> they change the game and the server needs to know how, as well as any other client
21:22:29 <Nadejde> still fails even after copying all the newgrfs over...
21:26:26 <Nadejde> openttd-playtest.northeurope.cloudapp.azure.com
21:26:39 <Nadejde> cheers for your help!
21:27:09 <andythenorth> Road Hog tram generations are 48t-72, and increase in size in proportion to capacity
21:27:43 <andythenorth> Road Hog on-highway trucks are 25t-40t, and are roughly the same size, but newer models look more boss
21:27:53 <andythenorth> Road Hog off-highway trucks are just a mess
21:28:33 <andythenorth> 50t-120t, size varies according to no obvious rationale
21:31:03 <andythenorth> physically, the sprites are not much bigger than equivalent highway trucks with 50% of the capacity
21:31:17 * andythenorth wonders, just delete them?
21:32:46 <supermop_> andythenorth: the extra space is being taken up by big tires and springs?
21:34:02 <andythenorth> again, realism is the problem here
21:34:10 <andythenorth> this is a brit-ish roster
21:34:45 <andythenorth> UK doesn’t have many big off-highway trucks
21:34:50 <andythenorth> delete, or fake?
21:35:50 <frosch123> mabye do only 50t, 70t and 90t though
21:35:59 <frosch123> 120 is kind of a lot
21:36:15 <frosch123> in most cases i use the short trams in heqs
21:36:37 <frosch123> well, those around 90 tons
21:36:38 <andythenorth> 120t is train sized (or at least a narrow gauge train in Iron Horse) :P
21:37:01 <andythenorth> if there were road types, bigger might make more sense, have to build segregated routes :P
21:38:43 <andythenorth> next problem, nearly all trucks (except mail) are articulated in Iron Horse
21:39:00 <andythenorth> no nonsense where you upgrade vehicles, but can’t route to some station on the route
21:39:06 <frosch123> i prefer drive-though stops
21:39:33 <andythenorth> due to realism, the big mining trucks could be non-articulated :P
21:39:38 <andythenorth> but that breaks the convention
21:39:43 <frosch123> the rotating vehicles in drive-in stops have always been weird
21:40:08 <andythenorth> the single unit mining truck sprites would look best though
21:40:14 <andythenorth> and are already drawn for HEQS
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21:46:15 <supermop_> andythenorth: the Kilimanjaro mining truck turning around to park at a dead-end stop looks hilarious
21:46:57 <supermop_> apparently that think has the turning radius of a forklift
21:47:45 <andythenorth> it flips on the spot :)
21:48:02 <andythenorth> I could make them arbitrarily articulated to force drive-through roadstops only
21:48:12 <andythenorth> (invisible vehicle)
21:48:41 * andythenorth considers a newgrf flag :P
21:49:21 * frosch123 assigns FS#6475 to andy
21:49:23 <andythenorth> that kilimanjaro is a good sprite
21:49:33 <andythenorth> should be used again
21:50:33 <andythenorth> 6475 is a bit wtf :P
21:51:34 <frosch123> is there a patch that adds "usable roadstops" to the purchase list info?
21:51:42 <frosch123> in addition to "usable airports"?
21:54:08 <andythenorth> interesting point
21:54:32 <andythenorth> can we just delete drive-in stops?
21:54:48 <andythenorth> they’re a PITA, with no upside
21:55:15 <FLHerne> They're useful as a buffer for dealing with delayed vehicles
21:55:45 <andythenorth> I use them, but only for buses in town, and only for the look of them
21:55:59 <FLHerne> If you have long timetabled waits in drive-through stops, vehicles come up behind and form queues and then gum up the entire road network
21:56:05 <andythenorth> it’s been asserted that drive-through stops have higher throughput
21:56:11 <Alkel_U3> the're useful in cramped spaces or when I want to guarantee long distance coaches in a bus terminal, for example
21:56:15 <FLHerne> (because the RV pathfinder isn't good at avoiding queues)
21:56:45 <FLHerne> Drive-in stops have lower throughput, but random-access to bays
21:57:17 <supermop_> andythenorth: they are the only way for RVs to lay-up at the moment
21:57:41 <supermop_> cant timetable wait in depot
21:58:00 <andythenorth> hmm, you say things where I know the words, but not what you mean ;)
21:58:23 <supermop_> so out of order RVs will not pass each other in depots or drive through stops
21:58:42 <supermop_> also what FLHerne said
21:59:01 <supermop_> sorry, what Alkel_U3 said
21:59:41 <supermop_> bus waits at station until following bus arrives, then departs
22:00:38 <supermop_> ensuring one bus always loading, better ratings, and a chance for a late running vehicle to catch up and pass an on-time vehicle that is ahead of it but should be behind
22:01:57 <supermop_> this could be avoided if late running RVs didn't just ride the ass of the RV in front and never drive around them to enter drive-through from other side
22:03:23 <andythenorth> ha ha I found an old patch I made
22:03:37 <Alkel_U3> Not that I haven't been doing that, but now that you talk about it it reminded me of A-Train. It was fun scheduling all the trains to go without a collision :-)
22:03:46 <FLHerne> Would help if overtaking worked in drive-throughs, too
22:04:27 <andythenorth> ^ the highway truck is 40t, is the mining truck plausibly 90t?
22:05:07 <sim-al2> The mining truck almost certainly weightes more empty just because it's tougher
22:05:24 <sim-al2> But the bed is much larger too
22:06:10 <sim-al2> It wouldn't be too unusual for a heavy minerals to be loaded only partially in a truck to avoid being overloaded
22:10:14 <supermop_> carry less iron ore than coal for example
22:10:27 <supermop_> rather other way around
22:10:34 <sim-al2> Same weight, but less volume
22:11:08 <sim-al2> On TTD scale, the small mining truck looks fine
22:12:24 <andythenorth> so should I make it articulated to ban it from drive-in stops?
22:12:30 <andythenorth> the 2 previous generations are articulated
22:13:28 <frosch123> i don't think you need to worry about that
22:13:43 <frosch123> if the players want to use it in drive-in stops, just let them
22:14:47 <andythenorth> fool to a slavish consistency?
22:20:01 <andythenorth> probably implausible :P
22:20:32 <sim-al2> Yeah, that's probably not going to work :p
22:30:45 <frosch123> it's weird, 99.9% of pictures with vehicles with two front-axles i have seen were from andy
22:31:03 <frosch123> quite an uk think apparently
22:31:54 <frosch123> anyway, is that thing running on steam?
22:32:05 <andythenorth> they go fast too
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22:40:29 <andythenorth> can I have a vehicle which is 2 trucks in a convoy? o_O
22:40:46 <andythenorth> we have multi-unit train engines
22:42:13 <frosch123> all old-timer conventions i have been to had one-cylinder combustion engines
22:42:29 <frosch123> i never encountered steam trucks like that
22:43:24 <andythenorth> they were mostly UK and export to commonwealth countries
22:52:10 <Wolf01> meh I have too many games.. and I just purchased another humble bundle :|
22:53:00 <frosch123> Wolf01: maybe focus on lego then :)
22:53:58 <Wolf01> yes I already have decided what I want to purchase in the next 2 months
22:54:37 <frosch123> why does that not surprise me? :p
23:07:28 <Wolf01> andythenorth, I think a coupling system in the RV depot like simutrans one could really be what you want, also it saves some of your work because you can draw a trailer once and couple it to all the (compatible) tractors :D
23:30:50 <andythenorth> Wolf01: that was considered once
23:30:55 <andythenorth> there was a spec
23:31:20 <andythenorth> you only need one tractor unit per generation that way
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