My only and very simple question (or concern as you chose to call it) is and has been since post 1
Now, I guess it's finally clear NOW.
The reason I asked about this in the first place is I always find it very unrealistic when objects be it clouds, baggage trains as in this example or whatever kind of object all of a sudden just pop up in the simulator "out of the blue".
Then you should have simply asked "why vehicles pop-up, in general ?". From your previous message, it seemed you were concerned about the different behavior of the baggage trains not related to your service:
- when you ask for boarding, they DON'T pop-up at the parking, and others comes from far away.
- when you start with Fuel/catering, they DO pop-up, and also others comes from far away.
You shouldn't be worried about pop-up "in general", otherwise you should be worried about the Pushback truck and the Stairs too,
which are also popping out just the same, regardless if you call them or not. The issue is, those vehicles (except Fuel, Catering and Follow Me) are all tied to the parking, so they spawn from there.
This means pop-up it's normal, it's just we made a special case for the Baggage Train that comes from far away when boarding, since THAT would be the one and only case where it would really looking "wrong" to pop-up and load bags after having made only a few meters on your own parking, so they HAVE to come from far away.
All the rest are falling into the general "pop-up" case, which might be a bit annoying to see, but surely less worse than the Train issue.
Of course, the obvious question might be "then why you don't simply have everything coming from far away ?", and the answer is that by not having several vehicles running on the apron at the same time, we minimize the risk of collisions, it's already tricky enough preventing collision between the arriving/returning baggage Trains with the arriving/returning Fuel and Catering (and between each of them), if we had every vehicle running freely on the apron, it would be almost impossible to prevent any collisions, because GSX vehicles do not have the ability to handle traffic deadlocks on their own.
So, we did that special case for baggage Trains only, but I'm not sure we would be able to handle more cases and have everybody coming from somewhere, which is of course the most "realistic" situation, in an ideal world.
As for the screenshots sorry for braking any rules, that really was not my intention. The only reason I included them was I thought they might have helped clarify what I meant and to make sure we were talking about the same thing.
I haven't said you shouldn't have posted them. I've said you should have posted them according to our rules, which ask to use the URL tag instead of the IMG tag, if use an external server. OR attach to the message, if you are uploading here.
Honestly I didn't even think of checking any rules since rules regarding screenshots often are quite relaxed as long as the screenshots are hosted elsewhere
Now I'll explain it to you: those forums rules that you call "relaxed" (so you might lead to believe they are more "friendly" to you) are allowing to post anything as long as it's external, because they are only concerned about THEIR own upload bandwidth. If an image is external, they don't care. Of course, this means they don't care of the bandwidth of their USERS, if the uploaded image is large, and a user is on a slow connection or (even worse) on a pay-by-traffic connection, such 3G wireless, who cares...
Instead, we DO care about our users bandwidth. Which means, we ALLOW to upload things here (consuming *our* bandwidth), because when you upload here, there's an automatic thumbnail generation, which means nobody is FORCED to download a large image unless he really wants (which happens when you use the IMG tag), and if you prefer to use an external server, by using the URL tag you obtain the same result: you don't force anybody to download a potentially large image without knowing it.
That's why we have those rules that might seemed "backwards" and different than everywhere else: it's because we care about wasting our users bandwidth more than we care wasting our own and our server space, which we gladly offer to store image attachments.
