Mega-chain opportunity

Sounds like a mega-chain opportunity during the holidays. Wimbledon + Feltham + Victoria SE + Victoria Central if you can find 24 players. Or, if you can find a few more, you could make it 28 by adding West Hampstead to that chain....!

Dave

And of course, Rugby, and refreshes of Saltley and Gloucester, to add the West Midlands and Western megachains to the existing megachain ;)


Exeter, Westbury, Bristol, Swindon A&B, Gloucester, Saltley, Birmingham New Street, Aston, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Rugby, Watford Jn, Wembley Mainline, Wembley Suburban, North London Line, Victoria Central, Victoria South Eastern, Wimbledon, Feltham, West Hampstead, King's Cross, Cambridge, Peterborough

phew! :p

Brighton and Lancing can already be chained.

Dave

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Brighton and Lancing can already be chained.

Dave

Yes I know they can. What I am saying is, if/when Croydon and Gatwick come out, then Brighton and Lancing can be added to the aforementioned mega chain...

a) Prefer them to concentrate on reworking previously released sims like Gloucester, Saltely, NLL, Trent, and Sheffield to name but a few...

Then if I'm not mistaken, Derby and/or Doncaster springing into existence would add the East Midlands/North East chain that exists, namely Trent, Sheffield, Worksop and South Humberside ;)

(Unless I've missed another sim that would have to come between them)

• Smaller sims such as Lancing and Aston are pretty boring in terms of variety (although good introductions to the basics)


• Many other sims that are mid-level in terms of train count and layout size have complex or unique features (signalling in a nutshell, admittedly) - e.g. NWC or NE Wales both have awkwardness with Tail Lamp Cameras (even with block instruments off), the strange arrangements for Blaenau, or some of the GFs on NE Wales.


• Payware is little good for getting people's interest piqued - that's what you need to do before people have to pay!

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Then if I'm not mistaken, Derby and/or Doncaster springing into existence would add the East Midlands/North East chain that exists, namely Trent, Sheffield, Worksop and South Humberside ;)

(Unless I've missed another sim that would have to come between them)

South Humberside and Worksop currently chain, and Trent and Sheffield currently chain. You can't, however, chain between those two sets at the moment.

Older sims such as Gloucester, Peterborough, Southampton, and Cambridge would add quite significantly to the number of sims aimed at the intermediate level, having enough trains and layout to keep someone on their toes, whilst not requiring dedicated manual study.

(Incidentally, since Cedric mentioned the subject, I'd be happy to become a SimSig developer, but the impression I got from the wiki was that you needed not only programming skills, which I have, but also some rail industry "insider knowledge" or connections, which I mostly lack aside from a reasonable knowledge of signalling systems mostly picked up from SimSig itself and a keen interest in the industry in general but from an enthusiast's perspective).

i would also like to see a version of clive's ConvData that works with the new timetable format

And I wonder if, in time, Simsig is going to have to address its own licence issues as more and more of the country goes over to ROCs often with new layouts Simsig as it is currently is in danger of becoming a simulation of yesterday's railway rather than todays - one of its great attractions has been that on Simsig you are playing (sorry, operating) pretty well the real thing.

(Incidentally, since Cedric mentioned the subject, I'd be happy to become a SimSig developer, but the impression I got from the wiki was that you needed not only programming skills, which I have, but also some rail industry "insider knowledge" or connections, which I mostly lack aside from a reasonable knowledge of signalling systems mostly picked up from SimSig itself and a keen interest in the industry in general but from an enthusiast's perspective).

Ni programming knowledge or connections required, but signalling knowledge is a must. The very few developers I do take on go through the ranks - making themselves known on the forum through good posts, becoming a tester, then maybe a developer. Developers also have to commit to actually producing simulations: I've been burnt a couple of times by developers who just wanted to play with the tools and thus let me down in the process.