No punishment for dispatcher error

[Dolphin Invasion]

If we could have some way of not penalizing drivers for player dispatcher errors would be great.

I was driving a freight coming up to Bedzin when the player in control of the station took away my signal without warning. I was traveling at vmax with the signal only 200 meters in front of me. So no matter what I could have tried, I couldn't stop in time and ran the stop signal, train was reset, and  I  was punished with a 500 point penalty.

The player didn't respond for a while when I was asking what happened and eventually said they hit the wrong button.


If we could have a way where if players are in control of a station and take down the signal, it could simply not apply the penalty to that signal or even let a player actually run the stop in that situation (which could cause an automatic emergency brake application like many modern safety systems do)

[DazT]

That's a bit naughty of them. "Hit the wrong button", you don't just move the mouse to the button, right click and hold it by accident. I could understand if it were an older UK installation where "dead routes" are a thing after trains have passed, but none of the panels in the Sim have that, so a right click is a very conscious decision. 

I've only had to take a signal back once and that was with the driver's permission after and only after I contacted them and confirmed they were at a stand and that I was going to replace the signal to danger.

I've also had a signal go back on me as a driver once or twice, luckily I was quick enough on one occasion to quickly hit Escape and activate bot which brought the train to a stand in an instant. 

[Dolphin Invasion]

54 minutes ago, DazT said:

I've also had a signal go back on me as a driver once or twice, luckily I was quick enough on one occasion to quickly hit Escape and activate bot which brought the train to a stand in an instant. 

Yeah I didn't think of trying the bot until I was already a second away.

Not going to lie, because of how unexpected it was, it did make me feel like how it does in real life the few times I've had a signal dump to red right in front of my train. Its not a good feeling