Hi! After few days playing hard with SimRail testing the Cargo Pack DLC, I have some suggestions to improve this excelent game: ( Improvement are for both modes, Single and Multiplayer )
- NEUTRAL SECTIONS:
Now with ETCS, and before with signals, it will be a good improvement to make real neutral sections ingame. I don't know, but I think so, that now Overhead Line its only decorative. It will be an inmersive improvement because you need to cut power to the traction motors, open the main switch and then close it again.
- LIVE SCENARIO:
A great upgrade in the game is give movement in the railway environment, like track maintenance or railway workers in stations or trackside in freight terminals talking each other. A great idea that I will love is now when you are arriving to the last station of your train journey, automatically the game close and go to the main menu again. Will be funny to go out of the cab and then other train driver go inside, simulating you finish the journey and the other train driver follow with the train.
- IMPROVEMENT IN CONTROLLER MODE:
Having the possibility to sit in the chair of the traffic office when you are controlling a station in the same way as when you are driving a train. You can use the same key that is used to sit in the driver's seat so you can be static just by turning the camera while you see the screens. Obviously this improvement would only be valid for modern computer controlled stations.
- LOCOMOTIVE HEADING MOVEMENT:
Improve in-cab heading movement in the locomotive and EMU. Usually when the train is moving have more movment than in-game. Normally passing juntions and switches, or if you have speed limits for some reason related with the tracks.
- RANDOMIZE WAGON AND COACHES TEXTURES:
It will be fantastic have some textures for the same wagon or coach, changing the UIC number ( I don't know if SimRail have dynamic numbering ) and the appearance of the rolling stock. For example: dirty wagons with different type of weathering, clean wagons, patched textures, graffiti textures.
- RUNNING SOUNDS IN ROLLING STOCK:
Same as textures mentioned before, same with sounds. Each wagon or coach have his own sounds, for example if you have a flat wheel, brake rub sounds, buffers tounching each others, and coumping sounds when you accelerate or brake. I don't know if there is a limit of sounds in the same time.
- COACH DOOR OPEN AND CLOSE:
When you are in a station, to be more realistic, the door of the coaches opens and close randomly, giving the feeling that the passangers are boarding or leaving the train.
- INSPECTION TRAINS:
In Multiplyer sometimes we can choose "Maintenance Trains" ( ZGE / ZNE / ZXE / ZHE ). Searching in Internet, some Track Maintenance Trains we have different types, but for me the better option is create specific rolling stock like Inspection Coaches like this ( UIC: 99 51 9362 002-9 ) or ballast hoppers.
This are only some ideas from all I have to improve the game to make something spectacular, funny, realistic and inmersive.
If u are interested I will post more ideas. I don't know that if is difficult or hard to implement something from the list, but, I think that is interesting.
Work hard you're doing a great good job!
Morning! I think it can be a good idea to improve our ingame Rolling Stock with more KMKOL material. You have the branding license to use the logos, and it can be a little breath of fresh air into the simulator, giving to us a great experience and new trains to drive in the game while we wait for the long time DLC to be published as Lodz 2, CD 163 or Dresden Route. My idea is: EP07 with KMKOL livery. Simple repaint with some different numberings of EP07 [ 197, 222, 503, 538 ] EP07 - 503 in Warzawa Zachodnia. Photo: Santpoort - Nord. KMKOL P160DC ( Traxx ) - Adding some modifications in the body shape as the Destination Screen or ( I imagine ) cab controls for door operations and modifying the maximum speed of the locomotive up to 160 km/h we can have a new locomotive in the game with a colorful livery. EU47 - 007 near to Warzaw in Brody - Parcele. Photo: Kees. And yes, obviouly to make sense of this, we need the Double Decker Cars and the Control Cab Car. They need to be made from scratch and require work, especially the Cab Control Car to make it compatible as remote control with the PC160DC - EU47. But if I'm not mistaken, it's the same model ( the old one, not the new PESA ) used in Germany. Therefore, it could also be used for the Dresden route in the future with a repaint and some interior modifications. Control Car 80-78 - 002 in Warzawa Wschodnia. Photo: MarvelRivals.
