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In Idzikowice when you give a straight path to line 573 over track 2 it'll still show a 40 km/h restriction as opposed to vmax. Maybe a bug? Maybe a that's how it works IRL? Same goes for signal G to line 574 over track 1.

First out of curiosity, what simulator are you talking about? Second, I don't see any changes upcoming for a different point distribution. If dispatching can affect point scoring of a driver all hell will break lose. Punctuality does not come into play, efficiency does. As a traffic controller you have no reason to hold a train which can be send in sequence. Any train which has the option to be send out of sequence should be communicated and agreed upon. You may wish to read Instrukcja Ir-1 (R-1) chapter 51 to ensure you're doing the proper thing. Last, as per OP holding up a Pendo at Psary will get you on report. Possibly followed by a kick and ultimately a ban. You have been warned. (Or any other station for that matter. 😄)

And thus we get to what I would say is the station for week 8 although @uetam seems to hint at more surprises. 😁 While Idzikowice did not score high on the poll it looks to be an interesting addition. With it I'll replace it's entry with Strzałki as we move further north. Again I'll keep Sosnowiec Południowy to allow for voting for the mechanical version. You can vote for any station you would wish to see, even multiple or all if you so desire. If your favorite is not on the list post it so it can be added next round. Let the voting once more commence until we have our next station (although I will keep it open if we get surprises this week (hint hint 😁)).

20230221-buzzer.mp4 I was expecting the buzzer to sound when I got the WBL from Idzikowice.

Hehe, maybe @uetam knows?

Note I do not have a good screenshot, but I can ZKB to Opoczno Południe on track 2 when it is inbound. Now that Opoczno Południe is a panel it can no longer acknowledged.

As can be seen on the screenshot, the WBL on track 2 did not light up.

As already noted here (but not in patch notes 😄) we now have Opoczno Południe as a panel instead. I think the work needed to get dispatchers stations in play has been seriously underestimated. One station per week sounds too ambitious to me and even 1 station every two weeks might be overpromising. Work on the north end of Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice is progressing steadily but the south end is where the real complexity lies. For now I'll keep the poll open as I think it would make more sense to have more stations as opposed to reworked stations to better reflect reality. But in the more stations I would rather see the final iteration as opposed to an intermediate solution. Having developers work on an intermediate solution is doubling the effort put into a station. Then again I could be wrong and we might want to open a poll on it. 🤔 As a wild alternative maybe we could have the community create computer stations. I have no clue how feasible this is in terms of complexity and access to the definitions (which currently live on the traffic server). Maybe there is already an editor to assist in this. What do you all think about this? And maybe developers want to comment on feasibility?

That is the professional edition of SimRail. 😄

I think the 3rd button on the screen gives you a big speedometer.

Well you would have to do it yourself then. 😁 20230127-whistle - 480p.mp4 Have we not been here before? 😄

No restriction.

At 126.4.

How is this handled in real life? It currently works as a regular route cancellation.

Now that Sosnowiec Południowy has been unlocked as a dispatcher station we can boot up the next round of votes. I will keep Sosnowiec Południowy on the list though as we don't have the final version yet. This is a temporary placeholder to show that we players can do so much better than the AI managing this station. 😁 And thus the wishing for the next station can commence. Note that I'll keep this poll open until the next dispatcher station is revealed as it turns out that pesky players can create a bundle of bugs that need to be taken care of as well. 😄 To make things a bit different you can vote for any station you would wish to see, even multiple or all if you so desire. If your favorite is not on the list post it so it can be added next round.

1:44:19 it remains to be a nuisance, right @SurvivorSean? 😄

We already have shift plus&minus to put the throttle (in the EU07) between "notches". Maybe something similar can be done for the brakes? And I fully agree that it is way too easy to slip into emergency braking on some locomotives.

When using substitute signals be aware they carry a 90 second timeout by default. So if you give a substitute signal to a stack of closely queued trains you may see multiple trains pass the signal. Hence ensure to use OSZ at the right time (as I got reminded to by @firleju 😁).

With week 4 being over we have yet to see the unveiling of the next dispatcher station. We already saw Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice and Sosnowiec Południowy appear on the radar at times so these are strong contenders. Even some spoiler imagery came up of Sosnowiec Południowy and Stawiska (!): However now that kojonek2 has done some fixing to the AI we may not need Sosnowiec Południowy too badly. We can even say that players may disrupt testing the AI too much. https://forum.simrail.eu/topic/3534-system-rule-do-not-route-a-train-down-a-single-track-without-asking-for-clearance/ 😁 Anyway, let the speculation commence and the wishing for the next dispatcher station continue as we enter week 5.

The AI is still flawed, yet it will tell you if track is available or not if you ask for it. To find those flaws we need to ensure proper procedure (https://tutorials.simrail.eu/index-en.html#section30) is used. But as long as players (admittingly) do not use proper procedure then flaws can not be unequivocally be attributed to the AI. Even on a layout as "SG - SP - SK - DGS - DGZ" you can easily create a scenario in which it would appear SK made the foul while in actuality it would have been SG. So in order to find those AI flaws every external influence needs to be contained, hence the suggestion of the system rule.

Looking from the fence towards junction 66 you see the track not lining up correctly.

20230126-buzzer.mp4 I was equally surprised when I heard it the first time. I was actually expecting an external buzzer but apparently these are built into the table. I have no clue where in reality but again I would personally expect it more centerline like below the amp/volt meters. Does anyone have a video of these cubes in action? I would love to see those.

As I read Ir-1, the usage of telephone is mandatory to control the traffic flow (for at least single track operation). The usage of the interlocks is only to ensure safety but not traffic flow. It is not deemed a mere formality hence my suggestion to have the system rule.