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| Delayed Yard Permission 29/10/2018 at 12:28 #112959 | |
Splodge
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Enjoying the new Port Talbot sim, but the difficult setting has given me several trains bound for Margam Yard East entrance, and not in booked order. In this situation, to add interest, is there any way the code could be altered to maybe request a certain train is held back until a certain time rather than permission being granted as soon as the preceding train has left the area? It feels like a system that could be added to quite a few locations (Longsight on Manchester Piccadilly for example) where a shunter might have to change points and liase with the PIC before another train can be brought in. I know Trent had a basic version of this, but on most sims any permission will be given as soon as the entrance is clear, and the slot given moments later. Of course it wouldn't work on all sims as there won't always be anywhere suitable to recess a train, and on some it would require calls to the PIC/Shunter to be made very early (Trafford Park for example) so perhaps something for the harder difficulty levels. Just something I was contemplating, I appreciate it might not be wanted or possible! There's the right way, the wrong way and the railway. Log in to reply |
| Delayed Yard Permission 29/10/2018 at 12:38 #112960 | |
Danny252
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The ability for the shunter to tell the signaller to "Call back in 15 minutes" would be quite an interesting one - payback for years of phonecalls to the (sim-)signallers that have ended in the same way for the poor drivers and shunters of SimSigland! Perhaps it could be tied to the delay probability sliders, to make it scale with difficulty, as you mention? Some thought might be required to avoid trains being refused for hours when trying to enter an unoccupied branch, though. (Cue tales of such things happening in the real world...) Last edited: 29/10/2018 at 12:41 by Danny252 Reason: None given Log in to reply |