Niko

When I play as dispatcher, any time I interact with one of the screens, it feels as if a limb has been amputated for how crippled I feel by the inability to reference the information displayed on the other screen. It would be supremely useful to be able to sit down at the desk and interact with the screens the same way one does the controls in a locomotive cab, instead of zooming in so that only one screen fills the entire monitor.

The UI showing the current trains in dispatcher mode disappears when interacting with either of the screens. I found myself wishing it was still visible in these views. This may be less necessary when train numbers are added to the SCS screen, but those still won't help the situation when the player looks at the screen with the table.

I loaded into a few trains today that were already enroute. Immediately, I was being docked 100 pts per second for driving with the radio turned off. Twice, I couldn't even figure out how to turn it on. (Maybe the buttons weren't working? Because I think I found the radio in the cab, and tried clicking every button I could see on it. That may be a separate issue. Alternatively, if it was user error, tutorials could help.) Only in the EU07 was I able to turn on the radio. In general, this was a very frustrating experience. If the train is already enroute, or at least turned on, when the player loads in, it would follow that the AI for which the player is taking over would've had the radio on. Thus, it would make sense for the radio to be turned on when the player loads in. This would also be a less jarring experience for the player, instead of being thrown into an already moving locomotive and immediately docked points for something they had no control over.

Very much looking forward to this! It can be frustrating to have the dispatching software refuse to do something you ask of it, likely for a very good reason, but without knowing why.

Mouseover hint, including text next to icon, etc. It doesn't matter to me how it's achieved, I would simply like to know what a button does before I click it the first time, rather than have to guess.

Feeling like a newb asking this (probably because I am), but could you say what SCS stands for? A search for the term only turned up the developer of the ETS/ATS truck sim games. 😬

Maybe that's why there was a train that refused to enter Dabrowa Gornicza when I was dispatching there earlier today. 🤔

Labels sound doubly useful for the situation when symbols are used. Symbols are meant to be universally understandable, but their meaning isn't always intuitive!

I noticed one of the servers (EN1) is labeled "[For Beginners}" (sic). Perhaps if there are enough beginner-friendly servers available that allow anyone to play either role, other servers may have limits placed on them? It begs the question though of how one is evaluated to be let into the more restrictive servers.

Thanks for the info; I look forward to that update! Currently pointing Google translate camera mode at my screen to try and figure it out. 😆