CaptainSMan Posted yesterday at 04:41 AM Posted yesterday at 04:41 AM I've driven a few routes now and often I'm struggling to keep to the timetable, ok I figure I'm not experienced and have messed up here and there, but I just drove a route I thought was driven fairly well, and on some sections without stops in order to try make up time I went over the speed limit consistently but fell even more behind schedule. Are the schedules realistically achievable, do you have to drive like an AI or do I need to go back to driver school?
jeroezie Posted yesterday at 02:59 PM Posted yesterday at 02:59 PM 10 hours ago, CaptainSMan said: I've driven a few routes now and often I'm struggling to keep to the timetable, ok I figure I'm not experienced and have messed up here and there, but I just drove a route I thought was driven fairly well, and on some sections without stops in order to try make up time I went over the speed limit consistently but fell even more behind schedule. Are the schedules realistically achievable, do you have to drive like an AI or do I need to go back to driver school? Its not you, the timetables are very strickt for the passenger trains. 2
T_cave Posted yesterday at 04:39 PM Posted yesterday at 04:39 PM 11 hours ago, CaptainSMan said: I've driven a few routes now and often I'm struggling to keep to the timetable, ok I figure I'm not experienced and have messed up here and there, but I just drove a route I thought was driven fairly well, and on some sections without stops in order to try make up time I went over the speed limit consistently but fell even more behind schedule. Are the schedules realistically achievable, do you have to drive like an AI or do I need to go back to driver school? In my experiance most of the MP timetables are achievable without speeding, as long as the dispatchers are cooperating. If the dispatchers send you over a slower route, or over a slower switch it can already cause a few minutes delay in some sections. There are also a few mistakes in the timetable, and the bot dispatchers aren't always helpfull (understatement of the year). But as long as dispatch doesn't make a mess, you can be on time on most services, but as @jeroezie said, especially on some passenger trains the timetable is very tight and you really can't hang about. You almost have to drive like a maniac to be on time everywhere. 3
Pospec76502 Posted 5 hours ago Posted 5 hours ago My two cents... Bots are way too perfect drivers. They should make some random mistakes as we humans do. There is no legal room for improvement when your train is delayed, the best you can do is to keep the delay. Most of drivers (all bots) just ignore neutral sections which is borderline cheating for me. And remember, long neutral section on uphill track can easily make up some time which you can't compensate in any way. It's long time ago when I gave up on being punctual, I'm only trying to do my best without stressing about delays.
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