Why scrolly?

Paged is, in most cases, the more accurate and realistic, and I personally don't find it much harder to get to grips with than scrolly.

Out of interest, is it possible to build a 'proper' paged simulation on the Loader?

The very quick answer is that a paged sim is limited to 6 views and a scrolly sim has no size limit.

However, I do not know why there is a limit to 6 pages.

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Out of interest, is it possible to build a 'proper' paged simulation on the Loader?

Yes, but what you can't do is make the choice on launch. It has to be one thing or the other, though which is simply a T/F setting in the data.

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The very quick answer is that a paged sim is limited to 6 views and a scrolly sim has no size limit.

However, I do not know why there is a limit to 6 pages.

It's certainly not a limit on real signalling centres, as several now go above 6, but perhaps it was a limitation in the original IECC software?

It is always worth remembering that if some of the more recent larger sims had been issued as paged sims, they would not have been possible. Indeed one of the sims that I'm currently working on will never fit onto 6 screens, or at not in any easy to use format.

Paul

IECC was limited to 8 but bear in mind only 2-3 of those would be overviews; the rest detail views. It's since been increased (to 12?) but I think only for supervisory screens or big, back wall overviews (like Rugby has, albeit not IECC), not for signallers. There is a ruling somewhere that says the signaller must be able to see all of their trackage at once without impediments like pop-up menus overlaying the track.

Paged sims don't really work too well on widescreen and hi-res monitors IMHO, which are somewhat more common now than 15 years ago when SimSig was first produced.

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It is always worth remembering that if some of the more recent larger sims had been issued as paged sims, they would not have been possible. Indeed one of the sims that I'm currently working on will never fit onto 6 screens, or at not in any easy to use format.

Paul

Reminds me, as I may have said before, Edinburgh started life as 2 Sims (North and South) of 6+4 pages respectively. I suspect Motherwell would have been similar.


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IECC was limited to 8 but bear in mind only 2-3 of those would be overviews; the rest detail views. It's since been increased (to 12?) but I think only for supervisory screens or big, back wall overviews (like Rugby has, albeit not IECC), not for signallers. There is a ruling somewhere that says the signaller must be able to see all of their trackage at once without impediments like pop-up menus overlaying the track.

Paged sims don't really work too well on widescreen and hi-res monitors IMHO, which are somewhat more common now than 15 years ago when SimSig was first produced.

Is that per workstation or per box?

Peter

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It is always worth remembering that if some of the more recent larger sims had been issued as paged sims, they would not have been possible. Indeed one of the sims that I'm currently working on will never fit onto 6 screens, or at not in any easy to use format.

Paul

Reminds me, as I may have said before, Edinburgh started life as 2 Sims (North and South) of 6+4 pages respectively. I suspect Motherwell would have been similar.


" said:

IECC was limited to 8 but bear in mind only 2-3 of those would be overviews; the rest detail views. It's since been increased (to 12?) but I think only for supervisory screens or big, back wall overviews (like Rugby has, albeit not IECC), not for signallers. There is a ruling somewhere that says the signaller must be able to see all of their trackage at once without impediments like pop-up menus overlaying the track.

Paged sims don't really work too well on widescreen and hi-res monitors IMHO, which are somewhat more common now than 15 years ago when SimSig was first produced.

Is that per workstation or per box?

Peter

So far no one has mentioned the fact that six pages really require six monitors (screens). How many players are able to afford more than one?

But there are some regulars on here who say that £25 for a payware sim is unaffordable.