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JakobTischler / MoreRealisticDLCs

A lua/xml project that adds MoreRealistic to the Farming Simulator DLCs
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Bale wrapper wrapping time #42

Closed JakobTischler closed 10 years ago

JakobTischler commented 10 years ago

So, I checked out a real life video of the Ursus bale wrapper and found that the ingame wrapping is waaaaaaaay too fast. While the whole ingame wrapping process takes about 30 seconds, in reality it takes around 121 seconds (2 minutes).

Now, it's completely possible to slow down the animations accordingly, in fact I've done so already. But I do wonder, by slowing the wrapping process down to its "real" time, the game flow will be altered. I wonder if anybody actually wants to spend 2 minutes watching a bale getting wrapped.

Thoughts?

quadural commented 10 years ago

for combines, I set the unloading time to 2x faster than IRL one. The average player is not "patient". The "moreRealistic" engine is really "kind" regarding power, force and friction, but still, people complaint a lot about speed...

So, I think 30s is just fine, because this is already a "long time" to wait for something that you don't interact with. as you say, once the wrapping process is started, you only have to watch : nothing to do but waiting.

This is the same with filling the fuel tank or the sprayer unit => but in such case, you can do something else while the filling process is running. (drive another tractor) Regarding wrapping, I don't think the player would switch to another tractor each time he has to wait for the wrapping to complete.

So, gameplay wise, I don't think it would be great to put a real figure here. When you don't have anything to do, it is indeed boring. (except if you are chatting in mp or listening to musique... but still)

JakobTischler commented 10 years ago

I've decided to set the speed of the folding/unloading animations to 80% - meaning 37.5 sec total. That doesn't add too much time, but makes it look just a tiny bit more realistic.