Ship Simulator
English forum => Ship Simulator Extremes => General discussions => Topic started by: Toyguy on September 22, 2010, 00:20:23
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I was working on towing the Orient Star, and decided the way to do it would be to have a tug on each end. That way the front one could pull everything along until it came time to stop and make a pivot turn, at which point I would put the front tug's engines in neutral and set the aft tug into reverse to slow down the big liner. I'd then use the two tugs to pull in opposite directions fore and aft to swing the big ship around on its center axis, and voila, I'd be good.
I think it would have worked but for one problem. When the forward tug began pulling, the liner followed along but the other tug did not. It stayed where it was, with the tow line simply getting longer and longer and longer. Clearly that isn't the correct behavior.
Any hope of this getting fixed in the next patch?
Dave
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Try doing it again...maybe it's a random bug because did the exact same thing and didn't have any problems...
FYI the same thing happened to me once in ss2008.
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Thanks! I tried it a second time and it worked fine. :D
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You'd obviously connected the elastic line instead of the nylon one! :doh: