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why don't road vehicles have traffic lights

Posted: 14 Mar 2008 07:30
by samjville1
this will improve the speed vehicles travel at and with some lanes added it will separate difference direction of traffic.

Re: why don't road vehicles have traffic lights

Posted: 14 Mar 2008 12:10
by stunt_monkey
This would be a good idea i like it, i just simply hope that they improve how crossing trains work aswell

Re: why don't road vehicles have traffic lights

Posted: 14 Mar 2008 14:32
by Dave
I'm not sure I understand what you mean; so expand a bit please?

Re: why don't road vehicles have traffic lights

Posted: 16 Mar 2008 20:29
by Ameecher
stunt_monkey wrote:This would be a good idea i like it, i just simply hope that they improve how crossing trains work aswell
Using PBS can allow you to get the crossing gates to close earlier, thus protecting your precious road vehicles.

Re: why don't road vehicles have traffic lights

Posted: 17 Mar 2008 20:25
by samjville1
like railway signals, they direct traffic and tell traffic when they are allowed to go. a traffic consists of 3 colours and as the same green means go, red means stop and yellow mean prepare to stop if you can do it safely and the lights are changing to red. this is all based on the new zealand traffic light system. i do relise it different in ohter countries

Re: why don't road vehicles have traffic lights

Posted: 18 Mar 2008 14:36
by Zephyris
Patch in development here... Please use the search...

Re: why don't road vehicles have traffic lights

Posted: 18 Mar 2008 14:39
by Maedhros
Zephyris wrote:Patch in development here... Please use the search...
That's an OpenTTD patch, which is not much use to TTDPatch players. ;-)

Re: why don't road vehicles have traffic lights

Posted: 18 Mar 2008 14:48
by Zephyris
:( I am very sorry, should pay more attention and have less tabs open!

Re: why don't road vehicles have traffic lights

Posted: 18 Mar 2008 21:07
by Dave
samjville1 wrote:like railway signals, they direct traffic and tell traffic when they are allowed to go. a traffic consists of 3 colours and as the same green means go, red means stop and yellow mean prepare to stop if you can do it safely and the lights are changing to red. this is all based on the new zealand traffic light system. i do relise it different in ohter countries
Permission from a moderator to kill the patronising newbie!? DENIED!? *sigh*

I'm fully aware of what a traffic light looks like, but it's not like you made it very clear. Road Vehicles don't have traffic lights, roads do.

This has been discussed a few times - mostly we came to the conclusion that there's not enough traffic to need traffic lights.

Re: why don't road vehicles have traffic lights

Posted: 18 Mar 2008 23:22
by athanasios
Will "improve the speed vehicles travel"?
Far from that.
Please check relevant patch for OpenTTD (Zephyris thanks for the link :mrgreen: ) and tell us if I am wrong.

Re: why don't road vehicles have traffic lights

Posted: 29 Mar 2008 10:31
by WWTBAM
Dave Worley wrote:
samjville1 wrote:like railway signals, they direct traffic and tell traffic when they are allowed to go. a traffic consists of 3 colours and as the same green means go, red means stop and yellow mean prepare to stop if you can do it safely and the lights are changing to red. this is all based on the new zealand traffic light system. i do relise it different in ohter countries
Permission from a moderator to kill the patronising newbie!? DENIED!? *sigh*

I'm fully aware of what a traffic light looks like, but it's not like you made it very clear. Road Vehicles don't have traffic lights, roads do.

This has been discussed a few times - mostly we came to the conclusion that there's not enough traffic to need traffic lights.
Chris Sawyer even tryed it in Locoomotion and removed it while it was in early development. Cant remember where he said it but he said it on an interview, I think it might have been gamespot.