There was a huge conversation about this before the crash, started in a thread about the idea of having Barney wave at Gordon as the tram passed.
I think it can be pretty safely said that the tram is a remarkable scientific achievement built by the boffins of Black Mesa, and that the actual details into its operation should be left to the imagination.
I’m also confident that the devs wont leave huge sections of unsupported tracks lying around.
Skip to 4:00… I never knew the mars rover was equipped with a zero-point energy manipulator!
Are you saying that having the surface you travel on in-game lean to one side creates a very frustrating experience?
I’ve lol’d too when I seen that 
Whether that’s what he meant or not, I’m sure it does indeed.
Anyway, the leaning angle required to not have any radial forces only depend on the speed and the curve radius… I bet if you calculated it you’d get ridiculously small angles, at the speed the thing is going.
oh no i didnt mean anything in any offensive way. you can suggest as much as you want.
I’m curious… how can something be easy AND frustrating?
If it’s frustrating… there has to be something hard about it, right? :S
But anyway as I said, it would be annoying to play as well… the leaning only feels right when you’re there to feel the forces, since you don’t feel any lateral force, but in a videogame, it would just make you sea-sick … or… tram-sick… whatever.
Because it’s simple but tedious? Here’s an example, take a large book, begin reading it, and each time you come across the word ‘the’ get up and chalk a mark on the wall. So easy a small child could do it quite competently, and so annoying that it would try the patience of a saint very quickly. I don’t know if that’s the kind of point Ram was trying to make.
If you’ll have to make it lean every damn turn, sure it’s a pain and extremely boring.
Nah, I suggest to leave the tram as it is.
Great suggestion, I hope they include it in the mod
Like the crowbar or Gordon.
You can accept an Antimass-spectrometer that opens up a gateway to the borderworld, but not trams that don’t lean?
On the contrary. Imagine painting an incredibly small and detailed image. It would quite easy to slip and ruin everything, not to mention frustrating.
While talking about the tram, i often wondered in halflife how the tram rail was simply floating in the air with nothing supporting it, also, in regards to the upper rail, how can it possibly be supported other than in the begginning and end if the tram car hangs on it.
One could postulate that the bottom rail can be supported from the bottom if the tram doesn’t wrap all the way around it.
It was held up with pritt-stick and science.
In any case, rationalised in Black Mesa with handy supports.
To the OP. In response to your propulsion question, how did you miss THIS? (Look at the bottom-left of the picture)[/SIZE]
It could easily be suspended from the ceiling.
Something that is ‘easy to mess up’ is usually labeled as ‘hard’
Depends what the final objective is.
lol in Half-life=crowbar+shotgun=science.
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