Lack of rail bridges

[PkK]

I've been playing openpak128 for a few days, and there's just one thing that I really miss compared to normal pak128: Rail bridges. I have TGVs and ICEs and the fast tracks to match, but the fastest bridge is just 110 km/h.

All the other things missing (some engines, including the total lack of early engines) are relatively easily worked around - I can just start at a later date. But the lack of bridges is really annoying.

[Václav]

See linked post to get some (my) bridges. There is bridge for speed 280 km/h. And via this post you can get bridge for speed 400 km/h.

Else high speed bridge is in archive - http://archive.forum.simutrans.com - but I am not sure where - but may it be that exact link is in else post in topic linked above.

[Zeno]

This lack of bridges is well known; it's because the bridges in pak128 are not free objects, thus they can't be added to openpak128. We hope someone can contribute some faster bridges to openpak128 in the future.

[VS]

This is really hard to fix, and by "hard" I mean a few man-months of work. Bridges are one of the hardest items to create, hence the inclusion of non-free material earlier (little to pick from) and lack of them later (nothing to pick from).

[Václav]

I think it would be a little harder than it can be thought - because making next bridges would mean making also new tracks - I know that some already present bridges don't fit to tracks as well (I think one or two of the slowest ones) - but it could be good if bridges fit to tracks - for this reason I tried to make also tracks, not only bridges.

[PkK]

See linked post to get some (my) bridges. There is bridge for speed 280 km/h.

I just tried those. I get the bridges up to 160 km/h and the 400 km/h track, but I don't see the 280 km/h ones - do they have an introduction date later than 1993?

IMO if these are free they could be used as placeholders in openpak128 - graphically they don't fit well with the rest (e.g. the sleeper spacing is too far apart), but they make openpak playable.

Philipp

[Václav]

1. Yes - they are free. Sources for some are on graphics.simutrans.com - but not complete - but I can publish sources for all ones somewhere if somebody would ask for it - as it is
2. Track (and bridge) for 280 km/h has set intro year 2000

[Fabio]

Bridges (and tracks) are on plan.
Since i finished the bulk of work on roads, i'm likely to start having some time to devote to the railway set.