powered cart

[Shane]

this should be a mechanical item...

there is a huge problem in sp mode with vechiles vs importance, for example powered cart

now, i have my game finally at a point where the smelters are up and running with electric power and now pumping erm.... erm.... oh yea water back into water via a pipe system and waster filter, so i can now turn my attention to other options

and for far to long my hand pulled cart has required upgrade but i could not vs the goal of reducing global impact on environment, tailings requirements, iron making requirements, and so forth dirvert to any thing non essential to getting smelters up and running

its a strange paradox because since doing this my ground/air pollution is shooting up and up and up but im still yanking around this wooden cart !!

now...

when i look at the current scenario why would i make this powered cart, its got a very bad turn radius, and its load, speed and such vs making a combustion engine over making a steam truck dont make any sense at all does it ?


so my LAW proposal is that powered cart should be made with mechanical windmills rather than combustion engine (i care not for real life logic) because it fits in most with in game logic

the combustion engine is crafted at such a later stage then the steam truck, yet the powered truck has a lower load value, and is generally far worse of a vechile to operate and such. im not such on fuel not made either yet on this current build...

but im looking at whats next best option, and i did make a powered cart last time i played many years ago and they are terrible, but they dont even make any sense on a requirement for a combustion engine !!!

they just dont

[SLG-Dennis]

The powered cart is a legacy vehicle replaced by the Steam Truck. It's not meant to be crafted, we left it in for the diehard fans. (And because it takes no time to not remove it, obviously) In normal progession you would never use this vehicle and that's intended.

For Update 9.0 we rebalanced it a bit, so it can actually be useful at a specific point of the tech tree, but most people will still not want to use it due to its high turn radius - but it does have it's fans and we don't see the need to arbitrarily remove something.

[Shane]

lol okay then - steam truck it is...

[SLG-Dennis]

It's the first powered vehicle we introduced in the game, so it's pretty much part of history :)

[Shane]

well might have to just make one anyway since its part of history...
seems rude not to, but we will go steam truck first non the less