Hover Bus (Based on eGrvts)

[omgits3am]

I like the hover bus very much, and for your next project can you make a high speed "hover tram" ?? Possible specs for the "hover tram": 300-400 km/h 100-150 passengers in 3 or 4 cars and lots of horsepower so it can corner well and climb hills

[hectobar]

i think this is.. well... awesome! although, because it is a hover bus shouldn't it be able to climb hills without slowing down?

[Hirundo]

i think this is.. well... awesome! although, because it is a hover bus shouldn't it be able to climb hills without slowing down?

Does that fact that it hovers make a hover bus immune to gravity?

Or let's look at it the other way around? Would a hover bus accelerate when going down a slope? Yes, it would, so it should also decelerate when going up, or else it'd be breaking some laws of physics.

[Roujin]

Other than that, it's something I (nor anyone else coding .grf) can't do anything about currently. The behavior you're encountering on hills and curves is hardcoded in OpenTTD, until someone implements the so-called "realistic acceleration for RVs".

[audigex]

Just to point out, the problem with conventional rail, and the advantage of maglev, have basically nothing to do with friction.

You could pump enough power into a TGV, with an uprated motor, to blast it through the friction as much as a maglev. The differences are that conventional rail will fall off the track before hand - as proven with the TGV world record, you can only make metal rails straight and flat to a certain extent - eventually a difference of even a few mm at a high enough speed would be enough to cause major damage or derailment etc. Maglev has higher tolerance to this and, in theory, should cost less to run at very high speeds.

You could get a TFV or ICE etc just about as fast as a maglev, but you'd break it first.

[ardimw]

Im new in this forum. About hovering bus, can you tell me how to make hover bus? What tools I need to build that car?