Chronic Logic

It appears that the problem has been fixed.

Since the recent post to "New Ideas" seemed to state that there were no topics until a new post was made, I am going to try the same with this forum...

Tadaa! It worked! Ikonboard is strange sometimes....

It appears that M6 are trying to earn the site motto again - seems by accident or hacker attack, most of the files in the root directory of the CL site have disappeared...

looks like it's fixed again.

This has been discussed at length in the http://www.chroniclogic.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=5&topic=30" target="_blank">My Tower rips itself to pieces thread. Feel free to add your observations!

Holland Style Drawbridge

http://www.pontifex.mendelsohn.de/forum/drawbrg.pxl" target="_blank">[IMG]http://www.pontifex.mendelsohn.de/forum....brg.pxl

Be sure to set Difficulty to Medium, and run a 1 car train after the bridge is fully raised.

Well, I am just an innocent bystander who's just guessing, but...
...possibly because of the intermittent server downtimes we've been experiencing accessing the forum all through October and November, the configuration screwup that replaced chroniclogic with jesussnack content, and the long wait to get some stuff back in order after the last mishap (see the announcement), not counting server security that may have allowed it in the first place? In short, because of the bad service record accrued in this short time span?

A close contender for "worst webhost ever" must be the German provider who offered email virus scanning for an extra fee, yet failed to detect Badtrans 2 days after it'd been discovered (and been notified that the scanner wouldn't detect it). There may be some nice litigation for damages coming up, what with the users blaming the provider for damages and the provider putting the blame on the scanner software manufacturer...

Just click on the image to download the bridge file.
It's done using nested URL and IMG ikoncode tags.

http://www.pontifex.mendelsohn.de/forum/drawbrg.pxl" target="_blank">http://www.pontifex.mendelsohn.de/forum/drawbridge.gif" border="0">
Be sure to set Difficulty to Medium, and run a 1 car train after the bridge is fully raised.

Physics Bug fans should watch the link box that ends up lying on the ground, unevenly stressed!

Idea (untested): If the "hinge" of the drawgridge was not on the shore, but on a ramp above the water, could a counterweight be used to make it drop more slowly?
[There is a (quite old) bridge type used in the Netherlands that has the counterweight on  a seperate hinged beam above the bridge).
Perhaps the counterweight holds the drawbridge up until the train pushes it down - that way, the drawbridge would rise up again when the train has passed!!!
The hinge would need to be supoprted by cable only so it can rotate. And you might need to adjust the engine force (short train = weak engine, long train=string engine; easy=little momentum=small "crash", hard=huge momentum=hard impact).
Gee, I have all this before my inner eye now, I to try it right now....

Great Idea!

Excerpt from my post on the  http://www.chroniclogic.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=6&topic=18&start=30" target="_blank">pre-tensioning thread:  (Please reply on that thread, since the "Next Version Ideas" forum is more suited to this kind of discussion.) If the members were still pin-jointed as they were in BB, the sag would not induce much extra stress, so instead of demanding prestressed cables, we could instead demand a no-diagonals beam (demanded elsewhere on this forum as well, if I recall). I dub this "swinging bar".

Swinging bars could be easily implemented as a new material type without changing the current file format, and it could even use the same colors now used for light and heavy steel.

Maybe people are busy trying to make sculptures to post in the Misc./modern art thread?

I think "dirty" and "clean" Pontifex are two different games, much as "Deathmatch" and "Capture the Flag".
Both can be fun, and some people only like one of those.

I agree that a map pack should perhaps not mix the two, i.e. either have levels that are all realistic, or state up front that you have to expect "dirty" work to complete these.

Personally, I like "dirty" levels better...