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[Bug] Excess space between city cars (R3302)

See the attached screenshot: city cars treat themselves as being far longer than they really are: this makes it difficult to manage congestion effectively. This does not apply to players' vehicles.

Tested with Standard R 3302 in Windows, 32-bit.

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Re: [Bug] Excess space between city cars (R3302)

Reply #1 –
Cars take at least one tile, iirc. This should happen with different player convois too. Afaik,  nothing has changed with the citycar code.
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Re: [Bug] Excess space between city cars (R3302)

Reply #2 –
Dwachs,

the player vehicles get much closer to each other than the cars do; and cars didn't used to stay this far apart.
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Re: [Bug] Excess space between city cars (R3302)

Reply #4 –
With player vehicles, the space that they leave is dependant on their actual length: with city cars, they all leave a very large amount of space whether they need to do so or not.
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Re: [Bug] Excess space between city cars (R3302)

Reply #5 –
James - you mean, as if the cars had all length of 16?

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Re: [Bug] Excess space between city cars (R3302)

Reply #6 –
@James: your claim is not true. Just test it with the short road vehicles in pak128.Britain.

I would consider this as intended (or at least as implemented) behavior. This thread is then an extension request rather than a bug report ;)
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Re: [Bug] Excess space between city cars (R3302)

Reply #7 –
James, since you have the sourcecode your should at least look at the relevant part before posting. The routine in question are called ist_weg_frei() and will block further driving, if on the next tile is any vehicle regardless of its length. (Actually, since the check is somewhat expensive, it is only done when entering a new tiel, thus it is simply not possible at the moment to stop in the middle of a tile). This is true for both, citycars and convoys.