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Post by llewelyn on Jan 15, 2009 16:30:42 GMT -5
'k, I know the theory of how to turn off fatigue and police...
BUT. the damn' game keeps re-writing the config.cfg without the police and fatigue lines in it at all!
And, no, I don't want to drive everywhere at 90 and ignore red lights. I want to be able to play the game for more than about 10 minutes without getting fined for being over-hours. Thsi is one aspect of all the SCS games that just doesn't work: time is accelerated in the game about 60:1 so that game-time minutes are about real-time seconds, but it doesn't work out: For example, I start a new game, drive up town to the service place to upgrade the truck brakes, pickup a load, drive out on to the freeway and I get "you're tired". The driving in towns takes WAY longer in game-time than it should, meaning you don't get to drive anywhere without being "tired".
Also on 1 game I got fined $28K for hours violation, after playing for about 20 minutes. That was on ALH, where I'd turned fatigue off but left police on.
To me, these aspects spoil the game. So I try to turn 'em off, except it doesn't work... Tried a re-install of the game, no dice, it still resets. If I edit the config file to put the lines in, the game log looks like it's read them, but after exiting the game, it's gone back the way it started.
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Post by llewelyn on Jan 16, 2009 13:07:22 GMT -5
OK, I now know what's wrong, I just need a fix:
The game needs patching. There's a patch online at (low)valu-soft, but it doesn't work with the downloaded version of the game. The website says this, when you look closely, and also says that a patch for the download version is due soon, but the update is dated over 2 years ago.
So: 1) anyone got a patch that works on the dowloaded version of the game, or know how tio make the patch work.
2) anyone got an ISO image of the CD installation they'd be willing to put somewhere I can get it, which should be what's needed to make the patch work.
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Post by Jackson on Jan 16, 2009 17:47:01 GMT -5
OK, I now know what's wrong, I just need a fix: The game needs patching. There's a patch online at (low)valu-soft, but it doesn't work with the downloaded version of the game. The website says this, when you look closely, and also says that a patch for the download version is due soon, but the update is dated over 2 years ago. So: 1) anyone got a patch that works on the dowloaded version of the game, or know how tio make the patch work. 2) anyone got an ISO image of the CD installation they'd be willing to put somewhere I can get it, which should be what's needed to make the patch work. The patch does not fix the time. It is almost impossible to change it. AppleLover |
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Post by llewelyn on Jan 17, 2009 9:08:58 GMT -5
yeah, 's ok. Ideally, the game would have variable time-scaling so that you didn't take like 3 hours of game-time to drive across town, or from a pickup point to the freeway. However, by turning fatigue/police off you can ignore it. Also, you don't get booked for running the odd red light  I reckon the fatigue thing could work OK, if the time scaling was reduced by a factor of about 5, so that game-time hours are about 5 minutes of real time, not about a minute. Then the map needs to be 5 times as big between cities, the cities themselves staying the same size. The apparent speed of the trucks etc. can stay the same as it's more or less realistic. There also need to be enough rest areas and such to pull off and take breaks, but at least you'd get a bit more warning: currently, you get "you're tired, you shoudl take a break" then there's not enough time to find anywhere to park. I doubt that pulling up on the emergency lane for 8 hours is gonn escape the attention of the law... This would slow down the game-play, obviously. A 4-hour journey, say about 200 miles on the freeway, currently takes about 4-5 minutes, it'd take at least 20. But the overall game would be more realistic: in real life, you spend an hour or so picking up a trailer, and driving out of town onto the freeway. You then spend like 4 hours, 10 hours, whatever travelling to your destination city. The same problem runs through all the SCS games, including ETS, except in ETS the time-scaling is different when you're stopped, which makes it slightly better. The time-scaling when driving is the same, though, meaning you spend a much higher percentage of your time in dirving in cities and on intersections than you ever do in real life. |
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Post by llewelyn on Jan 17, 2009 9:10:51 GMT -5
oh, BTW, I fixed it in the end by downloading a torrent of game plus patch. There's no credible support from valu-soft and/or ETS or the online vendor, the last named does at least have a means of raising support queries, I put it to them that there's no patch for the download version, will see if I get any reply.
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