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  • There’s gotta be a mod for that, right?

    Up until whatever came after Black Flag I was a die hard AC fan. Midnight releases and everything. And I’ll admit, the modern day sections are bad and jarring and completely unnecessary. At some point you’re a game developer wandering around an office and it’s obvious they had no idea what to do with those sections, because at that point the modern day story had been told. There was a brief cameo from some of the people you would remember from earlier games but it never got to the level of intrigue from 1-3.

    Though an assassin’s creed game set in like modern day Manhattan could be fun. Watchdogs got kinda close to that before going completely off the rails.










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    19 days ago

    That is wear and tear on your engine, and the meager benefits you get from that are far offset by the maintenance costs.

    For example, my not so fuel friendly car has, over the course of 3 years, shut itself off at stop lights for over an hour and a half.

    Through doing this an entire gallon of fuel has been saved.

    Over 3 years.

    It’s engine down time is usually less than 10 seconds.

    I get that it feels like this is a benefit if you have all of the cars everywhere doing it, but this ain’t it. Even environmentally, the extra batteries we need to produce will be more harmful than the miniscule exhaust will be.

    Service trucks will put many, many more miles on them in that 3 years than I will. Their idle time might be a great deal more if they’re leaving it to idle while they go try to make a delivery. But, two things: those systems are ridiculously easy to turn off, by design, and diesel engines really don’t like working that way. The wear and tear would be worse, more expensive, and more harmful.

    I’m not saying throw your hands up and give up. I an saying that the service vehicles are the ones we actually should be making exceptions for. Even in a consumer car free society, we’ll still need the service vehicles to do work.