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Slowest Dispute?

In the Linerunner page, AND this page, the Tanker page, it says that the truck mentioned in the particular article is the slowest of the 3 available in San Andreas, so which one is ACTUALLY the slowest?

I had all three of these trucks driven in a SA:MP mode which features a speedometer. The Linerunner is found to be both the slowest and least powerful, followed by the Tanker, and then the Roadtrain. The latter two are pretty capable of hill climbing; the Linerunner isn't. - ZS 08:42, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

We should rely on information from the game data files, instead of in-game tests, but i trust that information anyway. Ess-Tee 09:25, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

It's actually better to use information on in-game tests when testing the performance of a vehicle. There are too many factors that determines how well a vehicle performs and deciphering how the game interprets the values of the data files is not worth the trouble.--Spaceeinstein 23:32, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, but that's the raw information, if we were going to do it in-game, shouldn't we all agree on some sort of conditions for it to be done under? And if it's more reliable, then why do Gboyers' handling.cfg results show different to ZS' in-game test results? Ess-Tee 02:18, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

According to my unedited handling.cfg, the PETROL (tanker) has a top speed of 120, and accellation of 25. That is identical to the Roadtrain and the Linerunner. You can only really differentiate them by their mass (ie weight). The petrol and linerunner weigh 3800, whilst the Roadtrain weighs 5000 - so you could say the roadtrain is more powerful due to it being heavier and achieving the same speeds? Gboyers ^talk 23:45, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

That's a valid point about the Roadtrain, but it doesn't solve the problem of which is the slowest out of the Linerunner and the Tanker, I don't mean to be a nuisance, it's just that I came across the 2 articles, and they contradicted each other. Ess-Tee 02:18, 22 May 2009 (UTC)