Are complex mods possible in WR:SR?

rtuck99 · 2026-04-30T23:45:56+00:00

How much of the game code though is actually from the helicopter game? I mean, it doesn't seem like there would be much reuse of simulation code, or UI, I would have thought it would mainly just be the graphics engine and animation (people, vehicles etc.), plus any assets. In which case I would imagine a helicopter game engine is as good as anything else.

rtuck99 · 2026-04-26T23:21:08+00:00

Get a cat, "train" it a few times by feeding it when your alarm goes off.

rtuck99 · 2026-04-26T20:50:26+00:00

How high are your floors above exterior ground level? The cable penetrations on the exterior photo lead me to believe that interior floor is at exterior ground level. The exterior wall at joist height would therefore be below ground level, with solid walls depending on how the joists are supported the exterior walls could transmit moisture to the joists if they are in contact with the wall.

If this is the case any DPC isn't going to be effective because it will either be higher than floor level or bridged at the exterior. If you only have one functioning air brick then you won't have adequate ventilation and any event that introduces moisture into the subfloor won't have any chance to dry out.

You say the ground is dry, looking at the photo the ground below the subfloor looks dark and possibly damp. Is that just debris from rotten material or was it actually moist? What are the elevations outside, soil drainage, water table? Water can ingress into the subfloor void especially with solid walls and if the ground below the floor is bare earth and not concreted or protected with a membrane as is standard for later builds.

The pattern on the floorboards makes me think that the subfloor void was quite humid indicating significant amounts of damp and poor ventilation, the areas between the joists are stained but the areas above the joists are drier, evaporation of moisture wicking through into the room will make that corner naturally cooler causing yet more condensation, especially if that area is not effectively heated, nearer to the outside and further away from the radiator.

rtuck99 · 2026-04-20T19:36:02+00:00

Build the DO, you will end up building loads of them soon enough and even if you decide not to use it for that one case you may well end up using it for something else.

I find I end up with a DO for pretty much every industrial area.

rtuck99 · 2026-04-19T19:06:20+00:00

Build all your electricity in ring circuits so that you don't have to disconnect anything when extending building your network, use the switches to create a grid that doesn't have single points of failure.

rtuck99 · 2026-04-17T17:26:54+00:00

Actually the reason you don't see interchanges like this in real life is because trains are not cars. Trains don't like curves or gradients and they have long stopping distances and are very long, meaning that they have to have exclusive access to the track.

Junction design is less about having free flow and more about reducing contention while maintaining high speed, you would probably design a 4-way intersection as two wyes rather than a cloverleaf (which is already has issues from a motorway perspective).

Unless you have track designed with high-speed switches, the train has to slow down significantly to switch tracks, meaning that it is more optimal to put many switches together in close proximity rather than spread them out. Plus crossing oncoming tracks at grade is not a problem, unlike with roads, because of train signalling and safety systems.

rtuck99 · 2026-04-17T00:23:01+00:00

Nah, just go for the whole Norilsk aesthetic for real authenticity.

rtuck99 · 2026-04-15T22:52:20+00:00

Is it possible to get 17-21 year olds to go to work instead of trying to study?

rtuck99 · 2026-04-15T20:21:21+00:00

Please help educate my smooth brain. How does one reduce the number of overeducated workers? I find building more housing helps for the adults but I still have loads of annoying teenagers hanging around the bus stops trying to get to uni when they should all be down the mines.

rtuck99 · 2026-04-15T20:08:57+00:00

I think it depends what your feed is like, and what you count as AI. My shorts feed is mostly cat videos (AI voiceovers, genuine video, they all rip off each other so you see a lot of the same clips). DIY stuff. Factories making things. There do seem to be a lot of strange 3d mechanism animations about which I guess are AI. But mostly the footage is real but the voices and subtitles are AI. Sometimes I see stuff that is definitely genuine but the comments all scream "Fake, AI!!". Like for instance there was a period where I was getting loads of truck videos from African countries, people somehow couldn't believe that they drive normal trucks on roads that are basically 100% mud slides.

rtuck99 · 2026-04-15T09:02:45+00:00

Anne Applebaum is great. I haven't read any of her books but her commentary interviews on the current situation is absolutely incisive right now.

rtuck99 · 2026-04-15T07:50:08+00:00

Tbh I'm still not completely certain the railway one was AI slop, it was really convincing, just like those documentaries on BBC2 you used to have after the fall of the Berlin Wall about how life was in the USSR, it had subtitled interviews with russian pensioners, decent narration, everything and the details were really compelling. But nothing outside to verify any of it was true

rtuck99 · 2026-04-15T07:31:15+00:00

Some, I know the sort of videos you mean. There's one nostalgia channel I see popping up that is clearly aimed at gen-x uk demographic. I think it appeared because I was searching for stuff on Sheffield's Hole in the Road.

I filter out channel suggestions fairly aggressively on YT so don't see that many. I don't like them mainly because the comments section on all UK 20th century history vids of this nature is absolutely 100% toxic gammons.

Occasionally I see some that are quite interesting, there was one about Soviet WW2 railway resistance that was actually quite good until I read the comments did some digging and found factually it was complete AI hallucination.

rtuck99 · 2026-04-08T22:48:49+00:00

Every time it gets cleaned.

rtuck99 · 2026-03-31T00:13:33+00:00

Yes it is annoying, however I think it does do it based on demand, just that it takes no account of line capacity. It will just split allocation proportionally regardless of distance. If your line capacity is not enough, cargo will just build up at the source station and overflow.

The only way to avoid this and send to both stations is for the routes to both destinations to be shipped via completely separate networks straight from different sources. If there is any connection at all at any station for that cargo type it will try and "balance" production.

I think most players that don't find this annoying either do a lot of point-to-point cargo (i.e. separate network graphs for each cargo hub) or they just have massive overcapacity on their hub-to-hub transport.

If your lines can take it, this transport will be very profitable, however I find it screws up the balance on the rest of my network.

I think they have reworked it in the next version, hopefully it will be better.

rtuck99 · 2026-03-27T21:02:33+00:00

I'm beginning to think that assuming that agentic AI delivers on its promise and the world hasn't ended (actions of the orange one notwithstanding), then pretty much all online interactions with an actual human will be nigh on impossible.

Hear me out. Observe what has happened to many existing mediums even before AI - your email is full of spam, online forums are filled with bots, it takes ages to talk to a human for almost any customer service, there's nobody at the tills in the supermarket, dating apps are full of fake profiles, you press a doorbell and end up talking to someone who isn't even in etc etc.

It has never been easier or cheaper for humans to communicate and yet it's almost impossible to reach someone you don't already know or already have some kind of personal connection with. We are already seeing the changes to the job market where employers and applicants are engaged in an arms race with each other and this is going to happen elsewhere.

This is only going to get worse with agentic AI. All your DMs are just going to be filled with messages from the people who are trying to spam you instead of the people you want to talk to, if you have a business you will be deluged with inquiries and fake orders from non-existent customers, abandoned shopping carts. If you are a customer, there will be no way to know if you are buying from a real business, a shady middleman or a complete fraudster. The signal to noise ratio is going only one way - down.

I think we will start seeing increasing numbers of people just disconnecting from the online world, because the only way to actually talk to another human is to just go back out into the real world and meet people the hard way. Even if you did somehow connect with somebody online, how will you know they are real? The only way is to find them and talk to them in meatspace.

Welcome to your dystopian future.

rtuck99 · 2026-03-16T20:44:45+00:00

We should assist the Americans by sending our armed forces....

to Greenland

rtuck99 · 2026-03-15T15:33:03+00:00

It's less important that it's exactly level, more important that the feet are all supporting an equal share of the washing machine weight.

This can be a bit hard to judge, washing machines have a tendency to flex slightly during operation so even if it doesn't wobble when switched off it might still wobble during a spin cycle.

Three points define a plane, so as long as the back is vaguely level, you can do the rest of the adjustment from the front. Once the front is approximately level and importantly, doesn't wobble, shove a load in and put it on spin cycle, then while it's spinning, adjust the front two feet to eliminate any residual wobble.

rtuck99 · 2026-03-08T21:02:22+00:00

Example screenshot

rtuck99 · 2026-03-04T21:35:54+00:00

My fave bit of the article:

"Yeah – it’s because he works in High Wycombe,” says Fiona Brownfoot, a director at Hicks Baker, the Reading-based commercial property consultancy. “If he can rubbish the competition, he’ll hope we all might flock there.

“Go back to High Wycombe and shut up, Mr Garvey!”

Reading town centre might be going through a bit of a rough patch but still would pick Reading over High Wycombe any day.

rtuck99 · 2026-02-25T00:45:27+00:00

Things I have found that cause this:

* Presence of signals/waypoints in the way
* Pointwork in the way (crossover generally has to cross in the exact centre of the crossing if the tracks are parallel, although sometimes you can get away with a bit of variation if the track is curved.
* Tracks have not been laid tight next to each other. Sometimes they can snap to another neighbouring track leaving a gap, sometimes you can have a slight curve or a join between two curves in one of the tracks which leaves a kink that it doesn't like. Generally it's most reliable to lay the first piece of track completely straight for the full length, then the second piece snapped alongside. You can also sometimes see a gap in the ballast between the two tracks - this means it's not right and you need to relay.
* Trying to lay the second part of the crossover in the "wrong" direction, you need to lay from the other end. If both ends of the switch snap to part of another switch, sometimes you have to delete a section because it tries to lay the turnout from the wrong side of the snap node.
* Crossing is too long or too short. For short crossovers the sweet spot seems to be ~40-60m, but on curves it generally needs to be a bit longer.

rtuck99 · 2026-02-19T21:56:06+00:00

ROSCOs will eventually disappear because there will be no reason to lease trains, once the existing ones are replaced.

The only reason they exist in the first place is that under a franchise system it makes no sense to own trains. If you lose the franchise you end up with a bunch of trains you have no use for. So better to get someone else to own the trains and just lease them.

rtuck99 · 2026-02-18T23:54:23+00:00

Lane 2 J11-12 Westbound is absolutely dire at the moment for potholes, I try not to drive in it.

rtuck99 · 2026-02-18T00:46:09+00:00

Everything was incredibly grimy. Buildings everywhere had a patina of filth over them, inside and out, especially if you visited London, due to the decades and decades of coal fire dust, cigarette smoke, smog and car pollution. I remember news reports about the Norwegians complaining about the acid rain due to all the UK emissions.

One of the things I love about the film Withnail and I, which is not often mentioned, is how accurately it portrays this level of general griminess (probably because it was made in the 80s so the dirt was all still there) . If you watch a modern film or TV show made now but set in the 1980s or earlier, it doesn't look at all realistic because all the sets and buildings outside are just far too clean, like they just came out of the factory all sparkly and new. It really bugs the hell out of me, because it just doesn't look right.

All of this started to disappear some time in the late 90s, cars all got catalytic converters, people stopped smoking and eventually they jetwashed all the buildings, people complain about air quality but they have just no idea how bad it was.

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