Amusing Animation Conflict.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Today while observing one of my cities that I have been working on over the region to get a ferry service working between tiles, I observed a funny set of circumstances which indicates that the animators were probably not seamen.

This city has two ferry ports just above a bridge, and an adjacent city on the same "river" has one at the little farming town to the north. A south bound ferry from "out of town" approached one of the ferry terminals, and the one from the industrial pod on the port side approach without the right of way, sank rather than dispute the collision with the incoming foreigner. I later observed the same thing to happen on approach to the industrial pod's port as well. All that was needed was to idle a few moments until the other ferry cleared the docks.

While the industrial pod's ferry, clearly loaded with commuters, was the burdened vessel, I don't think the loss of life was worth just up and scuttling the boat when a slight slowdown would have sufficed.

How many people have noted this "I give up" attitude in the animations?

In this case, the "stand on" ferry gave way improperly by sinking. What a hoot. The animation is clearly secondary to the simulation, as it should be.

[Blurque 9]

Have seen it many times, happends a lot when I build a bridge and one of the pillons is in the old route of the ferry route, it will just sink just before it hits the bridge instead of going under it (while the bridge is high enough).

[Titanicbuff 1,262]

I've seen all the ships sink- no matter what one it is it sinks for some reason instead of just going off map like in the old ones

[iowndiscti 141]

Have seen it many times, happends a lot when I build a bridge and one of the pillons is in the old route of the ferry route, it will just sink just before it hits the bridge instead of going under it (while the bridge is high enough).

that actually blocks ferry route. if you route query it you will notice that ferries dont go pass bridges of any height if the pylons are too close together. i noticed it the other day ( i had to redo the bridge in my town and used blue's Highway RHW4 bridge cause the pylons are spaced far apart)

[T Wrecks 10,209]

I've seen all the ships sink- no matter what one it is it sinks for some reason instead of just going off map like in the old ones

LOL - sorry for this silly post, but your user name gives that statement (particularly the first part of it) a touch of irony that I enjoyed very much.

[Titanicbuff 1,262]

I've seen all the ships sink- no matter what one it is it sinks for some reason instead of just going off map like in the old ones

LOL - sorry for this silly post, but your user name gives that statement (particularly the first part of it) a touch of irony that I enjoyed very much.

ya- I didn't catch the irony until you said someting given my screen name having something to do with an ill fated ship.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

In that same city, by the way, I have an extra bridges rail bridge that has pylons transparent to ferries. They pass right through. Apparently, ferries follow the deepest bottom contour. You can change the route by using the Mayor Mode civil engineering tools.