Re: Patch: Multiengine Normalization
Posted: 23 Jun 2008 18:04
Personally, not that much. If the first engine breaks down, that's just the same as having one loco and it breaking. There's no reliability advantage to having two locos (unless you have a lowew power, more reliable unit at the front) - the only advantage would be that it can pull harder, but that's the same anyway.Bjarni wrote:Usually only the first cab is crewed and the controls will be mirrored to all engines. This means that you have to be able to control the train from the front. If an engine dies then the train stops and the driver disables the engine and then continue driving. However there are a lot of failures that would cause the train to stop (like failure to release brakes, door fails to close, somebody pulled the emergency brake...). The question is how much realism/gameplay will we request of this patch?audigex wrote:Apart from anything, if there are two crews the first can surely either call up or use hand gestures to indicate to the one behind what to do. Or the ones behind can stick their heads out of the window.
Sorry, that's what I meantBjarni wrote:Why not just set the power of the engine in question to 0 while keeping the weight of it in the train?audigex wrote:I'd cut the horsepower by the weight of the dead loco, without removing its weight (which is I think how it is now) - more realism isn't really required.
). So using the smoke from the normal use I daresay wouldn't be too obtrusive would it?