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Alongside my love of this game is a wish list and bubbling to the top of that list (at least today) is tractor trailers.
1. Makes tractors have some point in the game
2. another use for 9.4L engines giving them greater purpose
3. different trailer types! - oh how I long for a car carrier so I can ship 5 vehicles on that trailer...Box trailer so there is an alternative to the Lorry.

...and turrets. 360 degree firing arc but they'd have to take up 200 space so that they can be mounted only on limited vehicles such as Lorry, FE, Box van and the aforementioned, coming-soon trailers

Maybe limit gun size to 40 - dropping a tank gun in a turret might be overkill.

I'm sure nothing here that hasn't been posted before but I felt like dreaming a little.

"oh that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch thy steering-wheel..." -- William Shakespeare (loose translation).

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Posted Jan 10, 2017, 10:36 am

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It's the engine. It's older and doesn't support some stuff. Doesn't support one thing connected to another like a trailer would be (articulation?) Someone else may be able to chime in.

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Posted Jan 10, 2017, 4:13 pm

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There are at least 3 uses for a 9.4l engine I can think of

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Posted Jan 10, 2017, 7:38 pm	Last edited Jan 10, 2017, 7:40 pm by goat starer

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Groovelle said:

It's the engine. It's older and doesn't support some stuff. Doesn't support one thing connected to another like a trailer would be (articulation?) Someone else may be able to chime in.

Constraints. It's true, the physics engine in Torque doesn't have them.

Regarding 360 degree turrets.. the original idea (way back in 2006) was to add them but as the game was developed over the next couple of years I came to the opinion that the game is better without them

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Posted Jan 18, 2017, 6:09 pm

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I bet Sam is hard at work in his secret skull-shaped volcano lair on DWVR. Cannot WAIT.

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Posted Jan 18, 2017, 9:31 pm

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Not to hijack the thread, but while we are discussing a wish list I'll add mine: Cycles, or better yet (to my mind) 3-wheelers. It would make Cyclist skill useful.

Personally I always found the Trikes in CW very interesting with their combined front/side arcs of fire. It could add some interesting situations to the game without unbalancing things as much as turrets might. As long as the small size keeps the weapon load relatively light. Also the low profile (meaning difficult to hit) balances out the relative fragility (meaning any hits count).

And I assume that it would be easier to model the physics of a 3-wheeler than that of a 2-wheeler (could be wrong there).

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Posted Jan 18, 2017, 9:42 pm

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Turret to fire 360° like in car wars

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Posted Apr 18, 2018, 6:45 pm