SZR GTA

Why doesn't SZR have a train on it? That would make it a lot easier to get from island to island and hard-to-reach places within Los Santos. Why not make it like a job, where there is a set engineer who carries passengers from stop-to-stop, much like the Taxis do. Doesn't anyone else think this is a good idea?

John_Jackson wrote:Why doesn't SZR have a train on it? That would make it a lot easier to get from island to island and hard-to-reach places within Los Santos. Why not make it like a job, where there is a set engineer who carries passengers from stop-to-stop, much like the Taxis do. Doesn't anyone else think this is a good idea?

While I like the idea, I dont think there is enough demand for it yet.

One of the greatest moments on the other server was durring a round of OJ and watching someone plow a train into the escaping Bronco.

Make trains taxi-only, please. Can't have the public transit system at odds with itself, now can we?

EDIT: If we can find a way to make them unaffected by the /modcar command, as I've heard that can have horrifying consequences.

trains are still pretty broken. Greg spawned one for me and Elroy a while back for testing and it didn't work. Nobody could enter the driver's seat and there could only be one passenger.

Yes, but couldn't you mod the train so that when you say /enter it takes you inside (sort of like the private jet thing)?

John_Jackson wrote:Yes, but couldn't you mod the train so that when you say /enter it takes you inside (sort of like the private jet thing)?

This is actually a great idea, that I imagine would work... Coders? Could work for the bus, too, even!

We tried this once a long time ago, and it made the server buggy as shit iirc

Spawning the train is probably really buggy, yeah, but I don't believe a train that's actually coded in would be that buggy. We have no problems with the train or the tram that brains coded into Goon Theft Auto. And we do some pretty crazy shit with it, like launching cars a thousand feet in the air.

Then again, I don't think there is much of a demand for a train. It's boring as hell to drive, it can only carry one passenger, and criminals could easily use it to run from the cops forever.

The train is a desynced laggy abortion of code and can't be made into a consistent useful entity, it will constantly respawn while people are still driving it and not appear for new players effectively forming infinite invisible trains.

The only problems I know of with the train on Goon Theft Auto are a)it's pretty tough to actually enter the train (I think because entering it is controlled by the server, rather than the client as with most vehicles, so you may appear to be standing next to it, but the server thinks you aren't, due to vehicles being completely unsynced when there is no driver) and b) the cars stay behind when the train respawns. If we had a train with no cars, a command to enter as the driver, regardless of whether or not you are standing near the train, and another command to go into an interior linked to it similar to the shamal it should be fine. I don't see much of a point to it though because there isn't really a reason to go to the other cities, and even if there were it'd faster to just drive there directly.