While I get how they got this to happen, not inckuding the very end (crashed), I have a least one question. REF While the AI train can go the track speed: #1 Is that limited to only AI trains only? #2 If not limited to AI trains only, hoe do operate/drive a train the track speed instead of limited to only 20 mph? Please and thank you
That's a bug. The Class 08s, being designed for shunting, have a max speed of 25mph. It shouldn't be able to exceed that in any circumstances. Then again, I have noticed the GWE 166 can go above 90 when operated by AI. Xbox BTW.
Most trains in tsw are capped at a certain speed. Some can exceed the speed limit and defy normal physics because they haven't been built with a speed limit. Real life trains have max speed limits in which they are save to operate at to not cause bad things to happen.
Yes, sometimes strange things happen...some time ago, I could finish München Augsburg with an SD40-2 in 30 minutes, 55 seconds, the M3A MTA (from Harlem Line) needed 30,59 minutes...so about 215 km/h/135 mp/h at peak...(with the Acela I´ve done it in 31 minutes 28 seconds).
A.i trains have separate physics, so maybe a bug? If the 08 is controlled by a player, at 20mph the overspeed device causes an emergency brake.
I was trundling along on GWE in an HST running under yellows on the fast lines, at 70 mph, when I was overtaken by an AI CL08 pulling some vans on the slow lines. Quite a surreal experience really
You could probably get a few MPH more than the top rated speed but push any harder and you would either trash the mechanical parts or if fitted the over speed protection would kick in and idle the engine.
I believe (happy to be corrected) AI runs on vastly simplified physics (to save processing power for your important train). That may mean (particularly in earlier content) that AI could do some odd things - like you have highlighted.
And they roll all over the place at that speed. The job of taking them out on the mainline (when they had to be moved between locations) was always a job nobody wanted. Hours of crawling along getting seasick.
