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5 hours ago, Gazz292 said:

SimRail supports TrackIr already.

The way you operate the levers in the trains is how a real driver operates them... and this being a simulator, that is simulated,
The 'ELF' and 'traxx's' levers are spring loaded in places,  they are not like the standard German levers where you just move the lever to a position and leave it, and that sets the power / braking amount,

On these Polish trains, you set the power and braking with a joystick type lever,   i agree they are awkward for someone coming from playing German train driving games,

I find i prefer to use my mouses scroll wheel to operate those levers, left click on the control lever in the train, then move your moses scroll wheel up or down a notch or 2, and the lever moves in sync with it,  i find this a much nicer way to drive.... of course one day i will make a replica lever with those movements on it, but for now the mouse scroll wheel is much nicer than key presses i find.

I even use 'autoHotKey' to bind a keyboard key to be my left mouse button, so i hover the mouse pointer over the power or brake lever, 
then press '\' (the key i chose) and that is the same as holding down the left mouse button, it keeps the lever in the train active, and i just move the scroll wheel on the mouse up and down and the lever follows.

Re: the EU07's 'extra throttle positions'
If you hold 'Left Shift' and then press the key to increase throttle, it will wind the wheel round fast to notch 28,  repeat that and it'll wind it fast to notch 43, 
hold 'Left Shift' and press the key to decrease the throttle, and it will fast wind the wheel to notch 28, repeat to get to notch zero,  takes about 2 seconds to wind all the way around,
Remember tho, when increasing the throttle, you need to pause in notch 1 for the 'starting contractors' to engage (blue light on the dash goes out) then you can fast wind to notch 28 or 43,

There is no point... yet another deleted comment from me. 

This time I promise it's the last time you'll see this profile here

Sorry again everyone for wasting your time with my useless idiotic suggestions made by a gamer that plays train games

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Disregard. I apologise for making this thread

 

[AI dispatcher didn't give a normal AI train a path on Katowice Zawodzie]

Now the same exact thing happened in Dabrowa Gornicza. This is how I found the computer screen. There are already 2 trains queued from the DGZ side. Seems like the AI dispatcher randomly just stops dispatching?

[AI dispatcher didn't give a normal AI train a path on Katowice Zawodzie]

I wanted to drive a train on EN2 but noticed a lot of trains were stuck, so I then realised there was a huge queue for KZ from SG, so I got into the KZ control tower and just found an AI train sitting there doing nothing, and the AI dispatcher wouldn't give it a route for some reason. I then gave it a route to get out of the station, shortly afte another player took over control of KZ, and from that point everything seemingly went fine. It also didn't give a route to the freight train waiting from SG, but I don't know for how long it was there, maybe it just got there as I took control?

From what I can tell the train was actually supposed to be there, as it was listed in the timetable, so I have no idea what caused the AI to act in such a way.  

Here is a video of how I found the station and what I did to "fix it"

This happened on the EN2 server 

[AI Train wouldn't depart from a station]

I do not know if a player messed with the train and the AI wasn't able to "recover" of if the AI itself made this mistake, but as I was dispatching I noticed that this train was stuck, so decided to go back to the menu and try to drive it myself to see if there was anything wrong, and everything was fine, but it was delayed, and the AI wouldn't depart from the station.

As I disconnected the Autopilot and drove away myself the message "You Passed Your Braking Point" followed by "Missed Stop" appeared on my UI. I then relinquished control of the train back to AI, and went back to dispatching, and everything else seemingly went fine.

Recording of me driving away from the station:

Train Status when I took control is attached