assigned locomotives

[vestal aspen]

There really should be a suggestion cap…

[forest oar]

I just post a bunch of suggestions I have on the top of my head

I am not trying to flood it or anything

[vestal aspen]

Some of these are just really bad…..

[forest oar]

My suggestions are very impulsive

[vestal aspen]

…that’s not a good thing.

[forest oar]

Noted

I will try to think before I post

[vestal aspen]

Ideas and suggestions and concepts should be thought out, planned. “Is it even possible” “if I had the knowledge on how to make this what would be the first step” “would this fit the concept of the game, or is it so outlandish and interesting that people would actually want it”

[forest oar]

Alright thank you

[elder terrace]

re-arranged steamer is a outlandish idea that somehow was actually possible

[lethal citrus]

i mean i saw it as theoritcally possible*

• issue being the amount of work it would take

[forest oar]

I just see this as a fun little challenge having to maintain your locomotive instead of abandoning it and using another one

[lethal citrus]

i was talking about rearranged

[vestal aspen]

I know but I did use theoretical logic.

[maiden latch]

It actually is. You never know which suggestion will be the one that someone else says "Oh yeah, that'd be really cool" and then two days later it's an actual mod.

[vestal aspen]

That wasn’t flawed.

[maiden latch]

BDR has had a couple of them that turned out like that

but it can't happen if noone suggests it

[vestal aspen]

Yeah those were great ideas!

[maiden latch]

but BDR had no way to know which ones were great ideas

literally the whole point of this section is for people to say "maybe do this?" and then other people to go "oh, yeah, that could work"

so - yeah, @forest oar keep posting - you never know which ones will turn out to be good ideas

[vestal aspen]

But if you put actual thought and care into ideas they have a higher chance of success.

[maiden latch]

false

demonstrably false

[vestal aspen]

Name one of my ideas that has completely fallen flat.

[maiden latch]

Please stop telling people not to post their ideas, crazy, zany, or normal.

[maiden latch]

I can't - most of your ideas I ignore as they don't mesh with what I want to do in the game

same with most of BDR's

but that's not what I said.

[vestal aspen]

Crazy and zany ideas are great if done well.

[maiden latch]

The fact is that you choose to only post ideas that you think have real potential - so then you have a high success rate of them actually happening

but you don't know which of your other ideas would have happened

[vestal aspen]

Exactly.

[maiden latch]

BDR takes the opposite approach - throws all of their ideas out - some of them you actively fought against which then turned into mods that people like

so knock it off

let BDR post ideas, not everyone has to approach this game or modding as a whole the way you do

[forest oar]

Did I accidentally start drama?

[maiden latch]

no, doctor did

[vestal aspen]

Eh? Kinda just the concept of ideas.

[maiden latch]

the problem is that some people (like yourself) have a very specific idea of what makes a good suggestion and fight with the ones you disagree with.

That shouldn't be a thing here. Either suggestions gain traction, or they don't - discord already will filter inactive ones down the list so if they don't gain traction, no harm done.

also, @forest oar I'd really like to know what the original suggestion was - but it appears you've deleted it

[vestal aspen]

Assigned locomotives.

Really cool idea.

[maiden latch]

that's a title - not anything more... what is it?

[vestal aspen]

I’ll just let BDR explain.

[forest oar]

Okay basically I have an idea of a challenge where you're assigned of only one of each locomotive

You have to take care of them and not just abandon them once you're done with your job

The only time you can use other locomotives is if it needs repairing or in multiple unit operations

[maiden latch]

so you get one de2 and unless you fully bin it you have to keep using that one de2 or the job doesn't count?

sub any specific locomotive for de2

or you get a penalty if you used a substitute locomotive?

[forest oar]

Yeah you get a penalty if you use a substitute locomotive

[maiden latch]

actually - that'd be easy enough to do - add a locomotive requirement to the job which prioritizes recently used locomotives - small penalty if you delivery the job but didn't have the assigned loco attached for at least 80% of the time

It'd go really well with persistent jobs I think - I wonder if banjobeni would be interested in adding it in there...

[forest oar]

Though if this was an actual feature added it would be ideal if it was a difficulty option

[maiden latch]

true

I don't really want to tag banjobeni here because they're pretty busy right now - but this could be an interesting concept for sure

[elder terrace]

huuuuuuuuuuum, mostly do avoid making mod suggestions mostly due to the fact that they wouldn't be appreciated, as is the case of changed gearbox for dm3

[maiden latch]

what are you talking about? The changed gearbox for the dm3 is a perfect mad mod for someone who wants to get a start getting to know DV internals

[elder terrace]

only made mod because of being ignored with agricultural trailers converted for rail usage

[forest oar]

Sometimes I do feel a bit shame of posting ideas only 20 minutes apart from each other makes me feel like I'm spamming

[maiden latch]

I mean, if you got too carried away maybe, but like, don't let just one person tell you to stop - because then you delete the one that turns out to be the most promising...

[forest oar]

He kinda pressured me to

[vestal aspen]

This was a great idea?

[maiden latch]

yeah - just keep in mind that doctor is not a modder nor a moderator - they have no authority here. if you get carried away and a moderator asks you to stop

and obviously - don't go too nuts

but yeah, this one is actually a good idea - just not sure how exactly to implement it, and would want it to be compatible with persistent jobs and passenger jobs

so there's definitely some work involved