[solved] Can We Have Yards Back Please?

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  1. Redbus

    Redbus Well-Known Member

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    What prompted the move to feet?
    Just completed a service on Cajon Pass and judging a stop with the distance displayed in feet is a major challenge when you’re used to yards and metres. It seems like a step away from usability; is there a way to switch imperial back to yards that I haven’t spotted?
     
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    nepclassof84 Well-Known Member

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    They said in the stream yesterday you can configure this in the settings. I’m going to do this when I get the game because I’ve been using yards for so long
     
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    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    Technically do they use “yards” much in America? Certainly driving on the roads over there ISTR most distance warnings in feet. Same with “stones” as a unit of weight. Still I agree it should be user configurable.
     
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    Crosstie Well-Known Member

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    Yes, we still use miles, yards, feet etc. You won't find much in the way of metric units and none on highways and railroads.
    Whether it's yards or feet depends on the context. Shorter distances might be in feet, but there's no hard and fast rule. I think my car's GPS uses feet.
     
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    Disintegration7 Well-Known Member

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    Oh man, hope there's a toggle- this is going to really throw me off.
     
  6. nepclassof84

    nepclassof84 Well-Known Member

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    We use miles and feet on our roadway signs. Sometimes yards.

    It IS configurable. They said so on the stream yesterday.
     
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    It is - under the ‘hud and gameplay’ section in settings. You can chose measurement, imperial distance, imperial mass, temperature and gradient units.

    Was one of the first things I changed!
     
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    Redbus Well-Known Member

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    You can only choose it seems imperial, metric, or automatic distance. Nothing to toggle between imperial feet and yards that I can see.
     
  9. Boerboel85

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    There is, you can switch between the two
     
  10. Boerboel85

    Boerboel85 Active Member

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    Imperial distance units lets you choose
     
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    Redbus Well-Known Member

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    Thank you I found it, just couldn’t see the wood for the trees!
     
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    Yeah miles and feet are used frequently, yards not so much. I would love to have the option personally of it displaying miles and then switching to feet at like 1000ft or 2000ft. I would even take 3000ft (game currently shifts from mi to yards at 1000yds, and it’s 3ft to 1yd) That would make more sense to me personally at least.
     
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    Suryaaji#2369 Well-Known Member

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    I'm actually preferred the feet compared to yard, because it's more precise and give me additional challenge to judge the distance, especially when bringing the long & heavy train to a complete stop. The only downside though, the switch between miles and feets is way too early. When using yards, the switch happened on 0.6 mi mark (around 1,000 yds i guess), but when using feet, the switch happened around 2 mi mark if I'm not mistaken. It could be switched a little bit later, 0.5 mi is okay to switch from mi > feet.
     
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