People in MSTS?

i was doing the Mixed freight to Whitefish activity, and saw hikers alongside the tracks in places. I thought MSTS didn't have people.

It's something that can be added to a route as a static object. With a clever hack, you can even make people move (basically, make a 3D object of a person, tell the sim it's a car, and use a carspawner object to animate them over a "road" textured to look like a path or something), but for the most part, it's just a simple model stuck in there (like a station).
I know the Activity Editor includes a slider for "persons" as a hazard, but unlike the "animals" slider which adds deer along the tracks, the "persons" one doesn't visually do anything (and it's unclear if it does anything at all).

what happens when you hit a deer

does your train derail

li7039 wrote:what happens when you hit a deer

does your train derail

Nothing happens, I don't think that would be realistic if a deer derailed your train...

li7039 wrote:what happens when you hit a deer

does your train derail

No, no derailments from hitting a deer. Usually the sim moves the deer off the track by the time your train gets there, anyway.

As for what that "people" slider does, I came across a theory that, if it's set high and you fly through grade crossings with no warning too often, your run will end as though you had derailed or run a red.