Re: Canals

Michael Blunck wrote:
> Jonty wrote:
> 
> [canal locks]
> 
>> I agree that they would be more realistic, and surely not too hard to 
>> implement; all you would need is a way of detecting that a boat has 
>> entered the lock, close the gate, raise the boat and open the other 
>> gate! You would have to make sure that more than one boat wasn't in the 
>> lock at a time, though.
> 
> Problems, problems, problems, ...
> 
> Which have been discussed years ago, BTW. Without a possible solution, BTW2.

Indeed, if it were so easy to do it would've been done long ago.  Both the
ship handling and showing the lock gates and changing water level are
quite difficult problems.

-- 
Josef Drexler

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