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rocky (2 posts)
Jan-22-02, 02:20 AM (EST) "Traumatized" I was eating a sandwich driving east on my newly downloaded Marias Pass v3 when, on looking up, I realized a car was stuck on a crossing. Despite emergency braking I T boned it. Damm near had a heart attack till I remembered that there are no virtual people in MSTS.
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: Traumatized troub Jan-22-02 1 RE: Traumatized mdeming Jan-22-02 4 RE: Traumatized mikkox Jan-22-02 6 RE: Traumatized NorfolkSouthern_37 Jan-22-02 2 RE: Traumatized Arrow Jan-22-02 3 RE: Traumatized nscaler732 Jan-22-02 5 RE: Traumatized trainee Jan-22-02 7 RE: Traumatized dejoh Jan-22-02 8 RE: Traumatized Euston Jan-23-02 10 RE: Traumatized Frisco2 Jan-22-02 9

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troub (216 posts)
Jan-22-02, 08:18 AM (EST) 1. "RE: Traumatized" Really, I think it's probably a bug. The only time I've seen cars IN crossings is when there are multiple tracks, and consequently the crossing gates might be several car lengths apart. A car passes one gate, just as they are going down, and doesn't make it all the way across before the other gate is down. The cars stop when it hits a "down" gate, so they'll just sit there.When you place a crossing object in the Route Editor, there is a parameter you can set for "Crash Probability," though. I haven't yet figured out what it does, if anything.
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mdeming (26 posts)
Jan-22-02, 09:05 AM (EST) 4. "RE: Traumatized" If you set crash probability at any value other than 0 you must blow your horn when approachiing the crossing otherwise the activity will end. I set one on my route to 10% and forgot to sound the horn and a message popped up saying you forgot to sound a warning or something like that. I am not sure if it works in explore mode. I have never set one higher than 30% so I don't know what happeens beyond that.
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mikkox (162 posts)
Jan-22-02, 11:23 AM (EST) 6. "RE: Traumatized" >in the Route Editor, there
>is a parameter you can
>set for "Crash Probability," though.
> I haven't yet figured
>out what it does, if
>anything. I guess it's another feature to be left out of the version 1.0 of MSTS because of hurry to publish the game. It wouldn't be hard to model crashes, the cars just would have to have an eng-file of some sort specifying weight among other parameters, to correctly calculate how the car thrown during a crash. Just like the wagons of the train do when derailing.Maybe in the next version... Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
NorfolkSouthern_37 (97 posts)
Jan-22-02, 08:21 AM (EST) 2. "RE: Traumatized" i did something similar once, when i was driving a freight across marias and suddenly out of nowhere a large freight truck crossed the tracks about 6 inches from my loco. this is just a sim but still i felt some kind of panicing fear when it happened, it really freaked me out. made me think about what real life engineers have to deal with if they ever get into that situation.-Justin Cornell
aka NorfolkSouthern_37
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Arrow (25 posts)
Jan-22-02, 08:29 AM (EST) 3. "RE: Traumatized" I guess this is what they mean by "As Real as it Gets"

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nscaler732 (18 posts)
Jan-22-02, 09:13 AM (EST) 5. "RE: Traumatized" Just wondering where to find the crach probability rate. I have never seen it in my game.
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trainee (57 posts)
Jan-22-02, 02:07 PM (EST) 7. "RE: Traumatized" >Just wondering where to find the
>crach probability rate. I have
>never seen it in my
>game.nscaler732, here is where you look for the "Crash probability" % box.

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dejoh (14 posts)
Jan-22-02, 07:12 PM (EST) 8. "RE: Traumatized" Trainee. Loved the picture of the billboard in your post. How can we expect somthing like this in MSTS? I always thought those blank boards needed something. P.S. I'm a sign maker by trade. Here in Chicago, there's signs all over the railroads.
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Euston (759 posts)
Jan-23-02, 01:52 PM (EST) 10. "RE: Traumatized" Those billboards are already avaliable, you might need to search the forums for a link, not sure where they are:
http://clix.to/trainsim Lanserat East RR - 31% complete see images on my website. Now with 4 custom locos. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Frisco2 (16 posts)
Jan-22-02, 11:47 PM (EST) 9. "RE: Traumatized" Hey Rocky, My video card is not quite fast enough to handle my MSTS. so I have my display setting back just enought to acheive 10 to 12 fps. So I dont see any crossing traffic at all. But on the other hand I do see hikers that stand in the middle of the tracks, and believe me they dont move. You know I wouldnt have thought that microsoft whould have factored crossing mishaps in my little nerf world. HA HADavid Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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