Off-by-one rail bug
I think you gotta move the mall and all your tracks in the heights. Unless of course EA is kind enought to address this via some sort of patch. Not to threadjack, but did anyone have luck and their...
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simp7fan wrote:HappyGamer73 wrote:Yes, good explanation. But, I think the key difference between how the SH tunnel works and the rail tunnel works is that the SH tunnel connects to and emulates a road and roads can only be placed every 4 blocks, so it makes sense that the tunnel can only move in broader chunks (more than 4 blocks at a time, but still). It doesn't make as much sense that the rail tunnel also moves in the same broader chunk as the SH tunnel yet connects to track pieces that can move 1 block at a time! Not even 2 blocks at a time....
I think the reason is that the size of the mountain blocks is a fixed size (have a look at the repeating pattern in the mountains), the same size as the tunnel block and the Homerlayas. In order to make it shift by only one square, they would have to change the way they do the graphics overlay for the entire mountain range, which would be like adding many more individual items to your SF and would undoubtedly slow things down more and reduce the item limit rather than increasing it like everyone wants. Yes, they took the easy way out, but I don't think it's quite as easy to solve as you make it out to be. Don't forget that roads and paths can't be moved by just one square either.
I'm not saying that it isn't a tremendous inconvenience for a lot of people, just saying that the solution may not be as easy as you think.
I don't know if I've explained that well... Images might help.devilhunt1449 wrote:Exactly 4 single track pieces (2 corrections on each side of the tunnel) would be great. I was looking at the shortest piece and wondering how it would make sense fake-logically, so maybe a 3-block wide track piece would be a better solution. Either way, given free.
the quick and simplest fix that I can see is to give everyone a few single track pieces
I do see what you're saying, but even the SH tunnel can't move by just 4 blocks. The movement is not governed by what they attach to, but rather by what they are covering, so they both move by one mountain block.
In any case, the easiest solution would be to provide some single pieces and let everyone adjust as they like. Just so long as they don't start giving out loads of singles instead of others as railyard prizes.
