{"id":1208,"date":"2018-08-31T22:53:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T05:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2018-08-31T22:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T05:53:02","slug":"wow-oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wow-oops\/","title":{"rendered":"wow&#8230;. oops&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the last post here was in February about an upcoming update. It&#8217;s now practically September. Sorry about that! Was it some kind of ground breaking or technologically advanced feature being worked on behind the scene that&#8217;s holding up the update?<\/p>\n<p>Not really.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we over here did add one more human being to the family roster this summer. I&#8217;ve been busy developing his independence and behavior and that&#8217;s taking a lot of time!<\/p>\n<p>Truthfully, other than the OSX version, there really isn&#8217;t anything new or exciting that will completely change the sim. If you have the sim now, you&#8217;ll hardly notice a difference with the update.<\/p>\n<p>Well, except for a few of my favorite features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Glowing\/dimming lamps. The electrical lamps will glow and dim as the generator kicks in when the train is in motion or slows down. It&#8217;s pretty!<\/li>\n<li>Keyboard control: additional keyboard control has been added to the throttle and the Johnson Bar, if you get tired of moving the mouse around (even though that&#8217;s like one of the main &#8220;feature&#8221; (uhh&#8230; goal) of the sim&#8212;to show the fatigue from operating the controls all day long!)<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic fireman. In the current version if you select &#8220;auto firing&#8221; your fireman Otto will always do a very good job of holding about 130 psi. In the update, you can select the &#8220;experience level&#8221; of your fireman from novice to pro. If you select novice, expect to see the pressure gauge swinging and a lot of &#8220;hunting&#8221; for the pressure. If you select &#8220;expert&#8221; of course you can expect a rock solid pressure! This can make your pulling experience quite interesting when you have a novice fireman in the left seat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s about it&#8230; not much to it if you&#8217;ve been waiting this long. Like I said, you can basically enjoy the sim as it is now and you&#8217;re not missing much from this update.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a not-so-secret secret about the sim that&#8217;s to be revealed much later also!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the last post here was in February about an upcoming update. It&#8217;s now practically September. Sorry about that! Was it some kind of ground breaking or technologically advanced feature being worked on behind the scene that&#8217;s holding up the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wow-oops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-simulator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}