Kaito Kid

This is madness. 😂 It's down for about 2 goddamn minutes too! 😅

Is platform 5 the one that's alone sitting in the corner of Katowice? If it's the one I think I did saw pictures of DMU's there. Edited: Nvm, videos I saw are from 10 years ago. 😂 It seems Peron 5 is the last remaining thing of the old Katowice station... Which now I'm curious about, are there any good old photos from it? When was it refurbished?

You've picked my interest about custom made content and public servers @Dignité, I hope we get some answers concerning this point.

About the penalization system: - About setting routes that are not the "normal ones" I would honestly disregard this point entirely as depending on the situation, a path that's not the normal one would be needed in some occasions. - Same goes for removing an already set route when a train is close to the signal, I know of similar situations in real life. Be it a failure of the signal or the dispatcher trying to stop a train for a determined reason. - Maybe the dispatcher wants to put you on an alternative route for "X" reason, be it congestion, points not working, etc... - At least in Spain, you don't need to inform to the neighbour station if the B.A is working, unless it's a BT, or BTS then there's actually "no need" to inform. - Is the time written in the timetables updated into the system? I mean, do all people that are checking timetables at the official dispatcher system have the information updated? - Agreed about sanctioning someone for trolling. ------------------------------------------------------ - Again the dispatcher can set an alternative route for you for "X" reasons, but he/she should inform the driver on this matter (that's what I normally do). - Agreed on the other 2 points. ------------------------------------------------------ Night at stations is very darn close to reality TBH, I've been in several stations at night and you practically see nothing until the train is in the 1st lamppost, also notice that PKP didn't start refurbishing stations until not so long ago, apart from this, once again I agree. (I'm pretty sure someone can provide a photo of a Polish station at night here) About big panels, I would love for the panels (be it computer/relay/mechanic) to be able to have 'em in a window, with the possibility of scrolling it (be it with the middle mouse button or the arrow keys).

Is this a joke? I hope it is.

Now I'm curious about these boxes in real life, what do they have.

I guess it's because the signal box is next to it @uetam?

Fair point but as I said, it's going to be quite the challenge. As I said several times before I take Simrail as a serious simulator and not a game, for that we already have other "train simulators", I think that this simulator should (more or less) be at the level of Flight Simulator (in a future) in terms of gameplay/operation.

In real life you need to know the infrastructure, station and what tracks have or have not a platform so yes, if you enter a track which you're suspicious/know that doesn't have a platform, you need to stop and await instructions... So answering your question maybe I wouldn't be able to stop before fully entering the train to a certain track, but again, the important thing is to stop as soon as you are aware of it. Same applies to tracks without platforms and in junctions: https://www.eltriangle.eu/es/2023/05/15/un-tren-de-ferrocarrils-de-la-generalitat-se-equivoca-de-via-y-envia-a-los-pasajeros-a-sabadell-cuando-querian-ir-a-terrassa/ In both cases if the driver fails to stop driver is at fault too. Maybe only happens that driver is at fault in Spanish regulations but not in the rest of countries? I'm curious about Australia, what kind of rules does a driver have to follow if he/she is being sent to a wrong track/direction?

As a train driver you need to know where you're going, in case a train is sent into a track which is not the correct one and the driver fails to notice, both driver and dispatcher are at fault. I honestly don't know how you can "evaluate" a dispatcher in the sim as it's quite tricky.

I personally welcome anyone to the Spanish server, but the least they could do is speak the language.

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As we would say in Spanish @Sean the Sheep, estás como una cabra. 😂 https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=estar como una cabra

Hmmm just in case... Are you using the shunts too @Sean the Sheep? (6 extra notches)

Before having this long cue, the cars when taking this roundabout where also doing strange manoeuvres.

This I was wondering the other night, if it could have any solution at all.

Again, I expect Simrail to be the most similar to a Flight Simulator experience (procedures and such), don't wanna have a surrogate game that would remind us all of that one who's name can't be mentioned, where you go looking for tokens and doing other unnecessary stuff.

Yeah, it can be very tricky, fortunately there are some technical dictionaries English <-> Polish 'n vva out there too. 😅

Google translate or any other translator that can accept .pdf files.

I do like roll playing but there are certain limits to it too, stupid situations I normally don't implement them (fake smoke release, fake "drunk" passengers, problem in a train) as they're not really that related with the infrastructure, however we do like simulating a failure of the automatic blocking system, use of the left track in case the right track is intercepted (f.e works in the tracks or other possible real situations), for this we normally implement ADIF's rulebook and we stick to it, if there's a failure in the automatic block system we start to use the telephone blocking system for example... Anyways, this is still an Early Access and as such, gameplay is not that really important as it's more important to report bugs/suggestions, therefore is also good to have these kind of situations in my opinion, cause if everything goes "smoothly" problems will occur when the final version is released.

Agreed, anyways, people are already providing a lot of information concerning routes.

I think it's the camera that collided with the canopy's bounding box (I think it has one?).

Maybe not mute but the option to regulate the volume in general chat for these kind of situations? IRL you can regulate the volume of the communications.

Now the next step is to hook up a real telephone to call the stations. 😛