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Wasn't the "paper timetable" feature supposed to come this week? "This" week is almost over. I hope to be proven wrong by the much-anticipated patch...

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There are some very good points raised above. I particularly like that you noticed bits such as "Let's roll," which would never be used IRL, and the nonsense of the driver reminding the dispatcher of the next moves such as switching to this and that train or finishing the shift here and there etc. Sometimes, less is more, just because something can be said does not mean it needs to be said. I like it when someone spots fine details like these! Kudos, MrSuttonmann!

Agreed. Totally essential piece of gadget.

No it has not been.

Good point well made. But the fact remains that the AI dispatcher lacks "basic skills" to carry out his duties properly, regardless of how many players are online and how badly players mess up the timetable and the traffic flow. The AI dispatcher should be able to prioritize more efficiently to ensure the timetable is kept or even to help make up lost time. While it is indeed a challenge to lessen the delay resulting from the subpar work of the AI dispatcher unfit for duty, I am not looking for these kinds of challenges. My aim is to simulate certain operations but when the vast majority (pretty much all) journeys result in a delay of 10+ minutes, it is no longer realistic. No, that's not railway life. In "railway life" it happens once in a while but not always. If it happened all the time as something inevitable, they would modify the timetable accordingly. The timetable, however, suggest a 2:33 journey time which is hardly (if at all) achievable with the current capabilities of the AI.

Even if they are working on a fix, the latest update was made available in April. I've been playing this game since after that update and my experience is that the AI dispatcher is doing an extremely sloppy job. It's sheer annoying. Completing an on-time run in the Pendo is almost a mission impossible with the AI dispatchers - even if you make it on time once in a while, it's pure luck. Today again it drove me crazy while driving from Katowice to Warszawa. After reaching Szeligi, I had enough and quit the game. I will be back once the dispatcher is fixed and a Pendolino Express Intercity Premium will be handled as a priority train. Today, I was first slowed down on the first ETCS section shortly after Zawiercie behind a lower priority service and made to crawl at a speed way below Vmax for about 5 minutes, building up an initial delay of 3 minutes. And then I reached Knapówka where the AI stopped me for two trains coming from the opposite direction - one was a freight train, the other a commuter. The Express Intercity Premium service was held to let these two services pass. Seriously? This is a joke. And then, with a delay of 15+ minutes thanks to the "super-efficient" AI, I was again made to stop before Szeligi even though there was no traffic ahead of me: neither in the direction of Warszawa, nor the opposite. At this point, my frustration reached the boiling point and I shut down Simrail. It was topped by the fact that the Pendolino has a bug that makes it hard to get it to move once brakes are applied. This was promised to be fixed almost a month ago, but nothing happened. The developers made no further comments or provided any additional information or updates.

I always set the zoom to 4000 m and then zoom in further if and when needed. The zoom level, however, does not change the fact that the ETCS section ended and the last instruction was to slow dow to 160 km/h.

Indeed. I must have passed an S3 without noticing - but if that was the case, I ignored it because I only focused on the ETCS instruction to slow down to 160 km/h - and then SHP kicked in with the first signal I paid attention to being an S5. I was confused because there appeared to be no forewarning that I needed to stop as the last ETCS instruction was a 160 and then it ended without commanding further deceleration. Next time I will pay more attention to the lineside signals when approaching the end of an ETCS section. Whether the above was an inaccuracy regarding the placement of signals or the logic or simply me not fully understanding what was going on is still unclear to me. I want to fully know what is what so I can drive accurately (without any aid such as the HUD). Thanks for your input guys!

I was operating the 1435 EIP from Warszawa in the direction of Katowice, running at 200 km/h, approaching the end of the ETCS section just northeast of Idzikowice. The in-cab signalling system instructed me to slow down to 160 km/h and then the system changed to SHP. At this very moment, I passed a yellow signal at 160 km/h and was unable to stop at the next, red signal. Although I am far from being knowledgeable about Polish signalling, I don't think a train at 160 km/h should be expected to slow down to 0 km/h within a single block. Normally, the train is first instructed to slow down to 100 km/h. I am sure I misinterpreted the signals or just don't understand what precisely happened. When I am under ETCS (in-cab signalling), I do not pay attention to trackside signals. I only started to scan the signals once the ETCS section ended and the system switched to SHP. But at that moment I passed the yellow signal and the train was kind of doomed. Am I missing some important piece of knowledge here? Can someone shed some light on how a transition from ETCS (in-cab signalling) to SHP is normally dealt with? When should I start to shift attention from the in-cab signalling to the lineside equipment? I do not use the HUD at all. Just raw data from the instruments/signals/trackside information sources.

Keeping the existing 2018 map would be doable I guess. Updating the stations to match the line today, infrastructure and scenery (potentially new trackside objects such as buildings) is probably why the "modernization" is unlikely to happen anytime soon. But if it ever does, different servers are the solution, as suggested above. I can't care less about how challenging a station is, because that is not what it is today in real life. But that does not mean I am right or wrong. I represent one group and there is the other group which likes the version we currently have in the game. Both groups would only benefit from options, the more options the better. And so, everyone can be made happy. But right now, bring on the extension to Krakow, the much-needed fix for the Pendolino's traction release, and whatever other major issues plague the game.

I completely agree with this. I use Dark/Night Mode in every app that features such. It would be great to have an option to select inverted colours, which would come in handy during hours of darkness.

Luv that wagon! When I still lived back home in Hungary I saw them all the time coming from Bohumín and Praha.

Brill idea!

I'd love an extension from Katowice to Bohumín, and also a Praha-Ostrava route for the Czech Pendo. Would be a scenic ride!