The elusive bus

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The elusive bus

Postby ezz » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:24 pm

Has anybody seen a bus in Cantr ever, I haven't, I think this is because the benefits of such a large vehicle are far outweighed by the cost, its more practical to build a small van.

In real life, people can live on buses, its easy to install a coal burner, or even gas burner on a bus, I think this should be brought into the cantr world also, perhaps just a coal oven and a few over simple machines should be able to be built on the bus.
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Postby toon » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:05 pm

why not just make a camper? or a mobile home? same thing pretty much.
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Postby Piscator » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:37 pm

But why make a completely new vehicle if we could improve a existing one? Anyway, I like the idea.
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Postby T-shirt » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:45 pm

The bus is cool.
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Postby ceselb » Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:32 pm

There exists a bus ingame and I've seen it.
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Postby NaruShadow » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:26 pm

I agree. It's impratical to add yet another vehicle and continue to let the bus go to waste. It would be great if you could build a few things in it. Oven, drying rack, primitive smelter, pot still...that sorta stuff. And sir, I think you must have either seen a ghost, or possibly the only bus to ever exist in the entire game. :P
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Postby trexdino » Sat Apr 26, 2008 12:15 am

I have seen two different buses and a limo.

They exist, more so for the super rich people, or for army transportation.
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Postby tiddy ogg » Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:29 am

I think it unlikely you'll get machines installable, for the same reason they're restricted on boats... it makes living a nomadic life too attractive. Whether this philosophy is valid or not, I don't know.
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Postby ceselb » Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:43 am

Personally I don't agree with such a philosophy, but otoh it's probably not going to change anytime soon.
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Postby schroederjj2003 » Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:59 am

why not make it so some projects that require the machines to be used only when the vehicle is stopped. so if you trying to make a weapon for example, you can only work on that once stopped and not while driving down the road.
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Postby ceselb » Sat Apr 26, 2008 12:04 pm

That would take coding. With ProgD being near defunct pretty much only basic maintenance is being done.
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Postby fallenval » Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:22 am

tiddy ogg wrote:I think it unlikely you'll get machines installable, for the same reason they're restricted on boats... it makes living a nomadic life too attractive. Whether this philosophy is valid or not, I don't know.


I dont see why nomadic life is bad I agree that large vehicles should be able too build machines to allow nomadic life it would make the game more interesting.
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Postby Zanthos » Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:27 am

problem with that is that a nomadic life such as you are suggesting promotes striking out alone, where cantr aims to support group endeavors, adding sails to boats to speed them up to increase trade, adding fuel components to force trade, ect...
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Postby Chris » Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:43 am

Zanthos wrote:problem with that is that a nomadic life such as you are suggesting promotes striking out alone, where cantr aims to support group endeavors, adding sails to boats to speed them up to increase trade, adding fuel components to force trade, ect...

It takes a lot of people to make a bus. Also, if you are driving a bus alone, you might become a target for thieves. So a more likely scenario is a nomadic group, which seems a reasonable style of play in a multiplayer game. Any land vehicle is limited to a single continent, so the effect would not be the same as the huge oceans that can make sea travel so isolating.
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