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I'm brand new to MSTS (hey thanks Santa!) I tried building a couple of passenger activities to start with. On the Northeast corridor it was very frustrating because I ended up 30 mins late at one station waiting on signals. It was cool waiting on signals for other traffic, but it seemed impossible to make the timetable. And yes, I started with a player performance level of 20% (but when I did a recalc for each station, it would come up with numbers like 50% or even 100% -- so what, does it just ignore my 20% limit?)So later I decided to try the Tokyo run, and discovered I was not restricted by speed limits. So what the heck, I floored it, ignoring all speed restrictions and wailing down the track (unrealistically) at 150 kph. Lo and behold, I was able to stick to the time schedule! But JUST BARELY (with 1-2 minutes early at each).So what's the deal with the timetable? Is anyone running into this too? Not much fun if the timetable is impossible to meet.I'd really like to do the freight ops too, but thought passenger ops would be a nice starting point. I tried building a freight activity and quickly found myself in over my head. (For a computer program they sure make you write a lot of things down on paper.)Please advise!
The routine that "recalculates" the arrival and departure times is pretty simple-minded. It seems to work OK if (a) you start with the train already in motion, and (b) you don't have any waits at signals.For anything more complex than that, you pretty much have to do it by hand. That means driving the route yourself a couple of times, and writing down your arrival time -and- the "loading time" at each station.Then you open up the Timetable window and do this: - Double-click an arrival time, enter the arrival time you want. - Double-click the arrival time again, enter the departure time - Double-click the arrival time a 3rd time, and re-renter the arrival time.Do that for each station in the timetable, and do not press "recalculate" ever again.
Re Bobs answer-Most times it does work but I found on occasions it doesn't, but by putting all the starting and ending times to zero by not ticking the stations in edit and saving changes then opening and ticking them - it always works.
>I'm brand new to MSTS (hey thanks Santa!) I tried building >a couple of passenger activities to start with. On the >Northeast corridor it was very frustrating because I ended >up 30 mins late at one station waiting on signals. It was >cool waiting on signals for other traffic, but it seemed >impossible to make the timetable.Isn't this actually 100% accurate for Amtrak? I know on the West Coast at least, it's usually 2 hours late.
