A small issue with railway crossings

January 03, 2009, 03:06:37 pm

This is one that I have been thinking about for a long, long time. But didn't know how to formulate it, especially since this issue is now long past...

As we all know, after a train leaves a certain crossing of a particular road, the crossing opens to let traffic on the road p**** through (immediately after the train p****es the railway crossing). From a realism perspective that's not really... It should be a in-game map tile (or even two) after the train p****es it, after p****ing through the crossing (except for station tiles near that crossing: as it might block traffic to a particular road). Also if the train p****es a particular railway crossing (behaviour I've seen of crossing from real life), and stops after (the tile exactly after) p****ing the crossing, the crossing doesn't open for approx. 3-12 seconds (sometimes even 3-23 seconds). It just probably just buffers the train on the crossing

(Did it p****? Well the crossing is clear so I'll wait a bit, then I'll say it's clear and I'll open and let the traffic (cars, vehicles, etc...) to p**** through me...

)

$:-\$

EDIT: I know this issue is now been a problem long time ago and it's now solved... But I was just adding a bit more from a realism perspective (from what I've seen where I went, anyway... if I'm wrong... $:-\$ ) Faulty crossings even have more waiting time (unless it is waiting for an opposite train, which then it's definitely not faulty (speaking of two adjacent train lines near one another

). But you're absolutely right, as this decreases gameplay enjoyment and fun (including diversity). So faulty crossings is definitely not an issue to consider, IMHO.

Above maybe make it 30 seconds on average... if you so decide to have this... $:-\$ As to not keeping traffic on roads stuck too long...

Re: A small issue with railway crossings

Reply #1 – January 05, 2009, 07:10:20 am

Is it somehow wrongly explained? $:-\$

Re: A small issue with railway crossings

Reply #2 – January 05, 2009, 11:10:31 am

I guess it works that way because then it's just a matter of checking if there is a train on the tile. Anything else is probably more complicated, code-wise.

Re: A small issue with railway crossings

Reply #3 – January 07, 2009, 09:00:50 am

Yes, that is very correct, VS.