[h.sie]

Diesel Damages Alpha (for V16A3)

With this Fix you risk random diesel damages if you agonize your diesels with FLANK or FULL speed for longer time periods.

Definition: T50 is the time period which corresponds to a damage probability of 50%. T50 strongly depends on your diesels load.

1) Under normal conditions (no diesel damaged) we have:

FLANK speed : T50 = 2 hours
FULL speed: T50 = 14 hours
STANDARD speed: T50 = 100 days
(Lower speeds: T50 = endless.)

If a random damage occurs, the amount of the applied damage is randomly chosen between 10% and 60% (thus, a diesel will never be destroyed). In this case, the LI warns you to reduce your speed, because otherwise you risk a total loss of the diesel. As long as the diesel isn't completely repaired, the chance of successive damages dramatically rises, if you don't reduce your speed to one third or slow, as one can see below:

2) Damaged diesel condition:

FLANK speed : T50 = 30 min.
FULL speed: T50 = 45 min.
STANDARD speed: T50 = 3 hours
One third speed: T50 = 43 hours
Slow speed : T50 = endless

Under damaged diesel conditions, the amount of the added damage is randomly chosen between 30% and 100%, thus a diesel can completely be destroyed.

Fix can be found in JSGME ready format on my mediafire page (-> Hardcode fixes / Alpha testing) . It contains only a german de_menu.txt. English speakers should add a message like

4893=We must throttle the diesels, otherwise we risk a total loss!

to their en_menu.txt.

Note: I used new, effective assembler commands and I don't know whether they are accepted by older CPU's. So this fix in Alpha state can cause CTD in case the commands are unknown by your CPU. Please inform me about that.

Have a nice christmas time.