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Fairyfloss wrote: ↑23 Jun 2021 20:29 I really don't know if this can be considered a 'bug' or if it's just nitpicking at this point, but I wanted to let you know of this in case it's the former.

Depending on the direction of travel, plenty of vehicles have their alignment different compared to other directions.

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Also, if you ever add more trains, have you considered adding a Garratt of some kind?

Taschi wrote: ↑23 Jun 2021 20:51

Fairyfloss wrote: ↑23 Jun 2021 20:29 trenswap.gif

I know this is off-topic but it looks like it's in an extremely enjoyable rave.

Timberwolf wrote: ↑15 May 2023 14:50 In technical terms, the bonus/malus for long distance travel is done by affecting how quickly the cargo "ages" using in-game calculations. In (Open)TTD you are paid less per unit per tile of distance the longer you take to deliver a cargo, which is shown from "Cargo Payment Rates".

A 20% bonus effectively gives you 20% more time to deliver the cargo for the same payment rate, so e.g. if the standard payment decays to half after 100 days, with the bonus it won't decay to half until 120 days.

In practice this means you can take passengers in express carriages further, whereas you can't go as far with metro/suburban carriages. The effect is made more extreme by the speed differences of those services, because it's typically "120 days at high speed" vs. "80 days at low speed". Of course, you also have capacity considerations which make it more worthwhile to use a different type...

Timberwolf wrote: ↑19 Aug 2023 12:00 It's actually a trackset problem - probably not defining labels in the way my sets expect, which follow the standardised scheme (particularly the bit about always working with the built-in ELRL tag!). The power mechanic works as expected using Timberwolf's Tracks, just tested using current BaNaNaS versions.

Unfortunately I got burnt trying to solve this sort of thing for roadtypes, where there was at least one set where I'd spent hours tracking down exactly what labels it used, correctly handled the various compatibility permutations, then the next release of the offending set moved all their labels around and broke it again. So whichever trackset that is, for the Eurostar and other dual-voltage AC vehicles to work as expected, it will need to define its catenary to be compatible with ELRL.

railtype_available("SAAA") ? tile_powers_railtype("SAAA") : (tile_powers_railtype("SAAE") || tile_powers_railtype("ELRL"))

Albion2000 wrote: ↑08 Aug 2023 19:12 Hi All!

Not sure if this is a bug per say or been picked up on before, but it seems that the Eurostar Class 373 sets are horrendously underpowered? When using realistic acceleration they struggle to get to 125.

As it is in the image below, it seems to only have 4664hp, which seems to be (atleast on wikipedia) its power running over 3rd rail. I guess that makes sense in terms of why it wouldnt be able to make full speed, but its just weird that its happening under OHLE.

Would this be something that could be fixed? Or is it just a limitation? I absolutely love this pack but its pretty much ruling out using these lads for high speed stuff.

Sorry for posting to this topic which seems to be super quiet! I have no idea if this is still under active developement or anything right now.

Timberwolf wrote: ↑19 Aug 2023 21:53 There's a parameter for length of multiple units, I think by default it's 6 tiles as a "realistic" Eurostar is loooong.

That tile_powers_railtype stuff is new since the set was created. Maybe if I get a free bit of time and feel like working on it I'll update, assuming it won't result in too many complaints about dropping 1.10 compatibility.

Timberwolf wrote: ↑20 Aug 2023 17:41 Power detection should be behaving as of 1.3.16. I also added a couple of new vehicles across the main and community sets.