Questions on a review
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:26 am
Karsten, your review on Lamas' Northern Germany map was nice, but a bit confusing.
Warll, this is not an arguement. It is simply someone wanting to find out a few answers.
Karsten?
PS - from your CIC Guide
All the work I did for this forum and 1/3 of my posts have been deleted. Sad, very sad.
I'd ask you to rewrite that statement, but I doubt it will happen.
The Mud Workers concept was simple, Workers turned into Goods and Tools turned into Passengers in a lot of the out-of-city industries. Workers are produced in all but the smallest citytype and Passengers in all but the 3 smallest citytypes In Northern Germany the 3rd class do the dirty work at the out-of-city industries and are available from all size citytypes. It's just that the smaller ones produce them slower. And then there is the Ticket Office producing them slowly too. The larger cities upgrade the 3rd class to 2nd class and the 2nd class to 1st class. This may be a distant style of Lowells' concept, but not an extension. Did Lama even play Mud Skippers?Quite a brain teaser, with 3rd class passengers morphing into 2nd into 1st a bit counterintuitive at first. But once you see it as simple good transformation, the concepts all fall into place as an extention of Lowell's "Mud workers".
You lost me on that, I cannot find any mention of a 'service building'The service building concept is a very neat innovation.
What is this 'CIC standard' now? All of my maps have had those 'standards', for lack of a better term. Many maps before SAMs and CICs had them. In your 'CIC Guide' you gave requirements for CIC type maps. All the SAMs posted, at least on BR, no longer have FPKs and do have working Event XMLs. Does this make them CIC style now? A CIC is a SAM, a Stand Alone Map, it requires no other material or maps in order to run. To quote you from 2 years ago, "At the end of the day, CIC simply tries to achieve what most of us presumably want: maps which load and run without problems," But that has not been achived with all the 3 or 4 CICs yet, and only within the last year with 2 of them. Even your maps were written in the style of SAMs, not CICs, Lowells' style of double XMLs.A very polished scenario, everything works perfectly smoothly, no crashes, gleaming icons, pleasing landscape: overall certainly what I call an excellent CIC standard map!
Warll, this is not an arguement. It is simply someone wanting to find out a few answers.
Karsten?
PS - from your CIC Guide
"Adv. 1 inadvertently - without knowledge or intention" Just for the record, there was nothing 'inadvertent' about the designing of the SAM concept. I'd point you to the thread I wrote where it was explained how we started working on them because it was what Tijer and I intended to create in the first place to solve the Global problem, but alas, because of the requests of certain members, the whole thread has been deleted. The Stand Alone Map concept was what was intended and what we spent 2 months working on. We did not stumble on it, nor did it slap us in the face screaming 'Hey, here I am!'.I am quite prepared to believe that Snoopy got his ideas independently, inadvertedly making SAM maps "self-contained" by reducing unnecessary/harmful elements being loaded into memory.
All the work I did for this forum and 1/3 of my posts have been deleted. Sad, very sad.
I'd ask you to rewrite that statement, but I doubt it will happen.