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Re: Train Driving Simulation

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From: Stephen Down
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 00:00
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Jim Guthrie wrote:

> I haven't played it for a while,  but I got round this by building my own
> alternate roads hoping to lure competitors vehicles onto them, then
> isolating them by appropriate deletions.    This only really works in the
> "country" and isn't really feasible in the cities. Otherwise put a railway
> across a road and park the cheapest train you've got on it.   Or
> criss-cross a railway track along a road and shuttle a train up and down
> it - you're guaranteed to knock off a good few vehicles that way - as long
> as they're not your own :-).

That's fine if you're only into sabotage. If you're trying to build a
productive network and want to move a road, it's no damn use at all.
Why does the AS build so many roundabouts and bends into it's roads? It
makes it impossible to bridge or LC over it, and even in TTO it is
impossible to remove them.
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From: Stephen Down <ste...@sjd117.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Train Driving Simulation
Date: 1999/09/04
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