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Train stops

@idea from Iris

Not sure if this is necissary, but It'd be nice to know where the train's next stop is before you get on it and pay your 45 chyen. This would help out newcomers quite a bit and save them many back-and-forth trips - and many dropped WW crates. I don't know how you could go about doing this - maybe a scrolling marquee thing in the station that would display which train will arrive next and it's next destination, or when the train arrives it's next destination pops up. Just a thought - what do you guys think?

I like it, having dropped many a WW crate in my days. How important it is and how easy it would be depends though. I don't know.
Or you could figgure out the trains schedule/route IC… It is, after all, very static. Just takes a little observation.

-Kevlar

I agree with the idea and its something the GMs could do if they got out and actually edited the description of each station.

Could make a child of one of the sign generics, 6 of them, custom description, locked to the station.

Player types: look sign

Wow.

I hate to be one to whine and bitch, but I have to agree–Bruce runs have become tortuously slow, and I'm even losing crates now waiting for the 'Levs, even running between both stations checking.  I realize there was probably some amazing insight into making the 'Lev paths more realistic or something, but you know..."If it isn't broke, don't fix it." Seriously, they were fine, now it's just...extremely, extremely aggravating.
And I'm tellin you man, if you took 10 minutes to figgure it out you would be golden.

If you get on the wrong train, you gotta go the long way. That's not broken. That's you getting on the wrong train.

-Kevlar

That'd be valid, if I was -getting on a train at all-, dig?
We may need a third train.

That's kinda a whole different matter.

-Kevlar

I can understand if you have one going on one route and the other another, but not when I'm standing around GOLD for 15-20+ minutes and not seeing a train go by.

I'd grab this baby and drag it to the top of 'The List'.

I'de really like to see documentation of this '15-20+' minutes.

I'll hop on the train right now and check it out and let you know what I find.

-Kevlar

Well, I lost one crate  and looking like I might be losing a second. I got onto GOLD a tad before 11 my time, and it's 11:20 right now.  I think it's fair to say that I know where the lev stations are at and how to run back and forth between them pretty quick, an even if 1 train managed to get by in that tiny window of me not being at a station, 1 train per 20+ minutes is really shitty.

There's your documentation. :)

Other factors apply and you know it. That's not a measurement of how fast the trains are.

-Kevlar

So I hopped on a train at ashling and measured when it arrived and when it came back into the same station.

Leaving ashlin: 9:21:00
Arriving ashlin: 9:32:05

So that ~11 minutes round trip. Which means worse case senario you wait 11 minutes for a train to arrive, and it's the -wrong- train, so instead of 2 minutes it takes you another 11 minutes… that still leaves you 8 minuts walking time.

Assuming the worst case senario.

-Kevlar

Yeah people quit complaining.
I don't know if this is too IC, but many times I've waited the standard few mins, taking the right train (they come just after each other, so many impatiently just take the first one they see) delivering the crate, and then casually going over to the last station on that level, waiting for under a minute (depending on how direct I went there), and catching the same train back up to Bruce's. That makes a round trip last about 10 minutes.

Not being able to know where the train goes isn't great maybe, but it makes people have to learn more, and makes the new people rightfully look like they're new. I mean somebody going to the London underground for the first time, should expect to have problems you know (I didn't, but then I planned before and asked people, but that's a rather big tangent *cough*).

The only thing that could do with some attention is that in every situation where I waited for the E7 at Soma station, the turnstile apearing empty, and even typing n just to make sure, I got a message indicating that the E7 is leaving the station…. It apears that one cannot enter the E7 at all on Soma station...but can exit it fine.

When that's resolved one can zoom around the dome making deliveries in very little time.

Relatated to the asking people for destinations...that could actually lead to various interesting RP, something which a sign doesn't do.

Sorry if that post is a little unstructured, but I have revision to do.


Lotus, stop complaining, and maybe you shouldn't take your days quota in one trip, and on the wrong train, you know ;)

Meh this is meant to be CP. I'm just imagining Case complaining about train departure times and routes, as he wants to get a little package delivered before it tires him to much, and it doesn't quite fit :)

Very ironic to hear you tell anyone not to complain. You've practically made it an art form.

And just for clarification, last night the trains weren't working, or something. Train E6 wasn't even arriving in New Light Station. They apparently are, now. Had you been going through what I was last night, you'd be complaining too.

:knob:
Artistry and science, who can complain ;)

That may have been true of a previous persona, but it seems that you took some of its characteristics when it distinguished :)

If I'd been going through it last night, I would probably have exploited the rare situation for some RP. However I was nearing finishing Count Zero, which is a great book by the way…


Heh Rastus your post wasn't there when I was writting mine :)
Quite :)

(Edited by Protagonist at 2:19 am on May 31, 2003)

Trains now have a lightboard on their side. Appropriate messages will appear. Additionally, the turnstile has been moved so that you pay to get into the station.
Yeah, it's fair to say I'm definately liking this alteration to the 'Levs. Not only are both changes convenient, the lightboard ads a new little touch of color to the game, which is always nice.

Great work guys!

:knob:
my personal opinion:
paying to get into the stations=not cool
the old way was fine, now that you took the time to make the signs keep them, but its not like the train schedule is very complex to begin with.

:stoner:

The turnstile was moved to the station entrance to make sure it'd no longer be possible for a player to pay and have the train leave the station on them. Long complained about.
I thought it was made that way because that's how real
metro stations work…you pay to get to the platform. Changing trains is free.
It was a factor too! :mirrorshades: