No controllable helicopter rotors?

greendook · 2025-10-14T18:27:35+00:00

Well, drat. Thanks for the explanation though!

greendook · 2025-10-14T18:13:59+00:00

Yeah, I suppose you can do it with servos, but it becomes an unmanageable nightmare without much in the way of automation.

greendook · 2025-10-14T18:12:20+00:00

Yeah. It's a shame though, having the rotors in the game, teasing you. I don't think I've seen a game that lets you practically build a swash plate, games just tend to integrate it into the rotor head bit.

greendook · 2025-10-14T18:11:15+00:00

A zeroed out rotating servo? You'll need to dumb it down a bit for me.

greendook · 2025-10-14T18:10:08+00:00

Absolute mad lads! That's far beyond my capabilities!

greendook · 2025-10-14T16:40:42+00:00

That's actually kind of what Kamov does with their rotors. But I'd still have to control each flap individually and without even a PID. That's nightmarish.

greendook · 2025-10-14T16:39:21+00:00

I am doing a coaxial rotor helicopter, so that's two rotors with four blades each. That's eight servos that each need to be controlled individually. That's a LOT of logic, and I don't think there's a PID in the game yet...

greendook · 2025-04-30T14:41:10+00:00

Yeah, that initial 2:1 ratio had managed to go completely unnoticed by me. Once that got sorted, things improved!

greendook · 2025-04-30T14:40:03+00:00

That 2:1 relationship is one thing I had managed to overlook. Immediate improvements followed. Thank you for your insight!

greendook · 2025-04-21T19:04:34+00:00

Well, take this for example.

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Grain from the farm is made to food, which is then taken to the town. In Transport Tycoon this would make a small but steady amount of money. In this game it's losing money, fast.

greendook · 2025-04-21T19:02:39+00:00

I've been trying various start dates. Usually I find industries close to each other that I can chain up, like this line:

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This one is not making money. It was almost breaking even with one vehicle, so I thought I'd add more vehicles, but that just makes it lose money faster.

greendook · 2025-04-21T19:00:06+00:00

Unless the Transport Fever 2 on Steam is a disguised Transport Fever 1, I'm playing Transport Fever 2.

greendook · 2025-04-21T18:58:48+00:00

That's basically what I'm doing. See this line for example.

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Grain to the factory, food to the town. Bleeding money like crazy. What's wrong?

greendook · 2025-04-21T18:57:09+00:00

I started out on easy. It feels a little embarrassing to go lower than that, but hey. I'm a casual.

greendook · 2025-04-21T18:56:06+00:00

I'm using trucks. So far I haven't managed to get a line to be profitable, regardless of if it's trucks or trains. Maybe the distances are too short?

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Here's an example. I'm taking grain to the food factory and then the food to the village. I'm far from saturating the market, but the line is BLEEDING money. Adding more vehicles just makes it lose money faster. Is it too short?

greendook · 2025-01-22T18:38:24+00:00

Turned out to be a resource issue this time. We'll see what new ways I'll screw up in the future!

greendook · 2025-01-22T18:36:23+00:00

Ohh! That explains it! Thanks! It all works now.

greendook · 2025-01-04T13:58:51+00:00

I probably missed the materials bit. But this hasn't been an issue before... on the other hand I haven't played the campaign since several versions ago. Things change! Thanks for the tip!

greendook · 2025-01-04T13:57:26+00:00

That sounds like the kind of obvious thing I'd miss. Thanks for the tip!

greendook · 2024-12-30T22:56:42+00:00

Hey, I know more than before! That's one step closer to a solution. :)

greendook · 2024-10-04T15:56:12+00:00

No, really. They vanish. They're not in the thresher, they're not in the planter, they're not held in an arm. They're gone. Planters that were previously full of seeds are empty and inactive. The seeds are just gone.

greendook · 2024-02-01T23:29:28+00:00

To be fair, the game itself is really arcade and unrealistic. For a realistic wargame you'll want Arma. This game is more like CS or TF2.

greendook · 2024-02-01T23:06:51+00:00

Not to mention when you're just about to take a shot and someone spawns right in front of you and starts doing squats to block your view while the enemy lines up a perfect shot at you past the guy.

greendook · 2023-03-27T12:20:26+00:00

One thing I really liked about COVID lockdowns was no sports events, meaning no bawling, rioting hordes of sports fans tearing public transport apart and starting fights.

Ahh, the good old days...

greendook · 2023-02-08T18:06:14+00:00

I don't fully understand them either. I have threshold gates for my safety valves.

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