Angelo Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 (edited) Tldr at the end. Hello there! Train dispatcher here. I bought SimRail and I really enjoy it! Congratulations to the devs for the great work. Of course there are many little things that need improvement, but a small one that would really change the experience as a dispatcher would be better timetables. I mean, playing as a DR is fun for the first hour, but then it starts repeating; and whilst passenger trains irl are often scheduled every 60', freight trains are way more chaotic - and therefore way more fun to manage for the dispatcher! Also, freight trains are rarely on time: it's common that they run 30' early or 60' late, depending on all that could've happened at the beginning of their journey. Also, it's a shame that branch lines outside the SimRail map are closed for the dispatcher: it would be so great to have AI trains coming and going from and to these branches! Also, one thing that would make it way more fun are random failures in the station devices. Tl;dr: I was wondering if it's already planned to: - make a more diverse timetable, at least for goods trains; - have delays; - have the station devices randomly fail; - have AI trains to and from branch lines. Many thanks to the devs and keep up the great, great work! Edited February 17, 2023 by Angelo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterFranky Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Its been mentioned the current one is set up for now to make it easier to identify and track bugs and basically a placeholder and will be making a more realistic one down the road. What it will completely consist of i dont know but yeah its for Eearly Access right now while they work on things. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoppturee- Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 There is a timetable update scheduled before the end of the month which should touch on some of the issues you raised. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz292 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 all of that is planned from what i read on the forum and release notes on steam, Random events, more realistic timetables etc, just remember the sim is in Early Access mode, so the idea is to find and fix the bugs, so a simple timetable that repeats over and over makes that much easier, same with random events / failures, you don't want people reporting these as bugs, and also when trying to find and fix the real bugs, you don't want the 'what if this is caused by a random event triggering or not' thing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelo Posted February 23, 2023 Author Share Posted February 23, 2023 It's great to hear that! Thanks for the replies. Can't wait for the next updates! See you soon in the sim 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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