Monthly Masteries

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  1. dal#7945

    dal#7945 Well-Known Member

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    Still no word on this months mastery problems.
     
  2. foggy#2817

    foggy#2817 Well-Known Member

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    Have you submitted a ticket? I will as soon as I have time to play.
     
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  3. dal#7945

    dal#7945 Well-Known Member

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    I tried but it just kept kicking out the website
     
  4. OldVern

    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    WRT to Free Roam, aren't there two ways of doing it? Either by selecting the specific free roam option on the menu, or spawning on foot then placing your train. I think last time only the first option worked.

    TBH if DTG can’t get it working properly, just shelve the idea until they can fix the underlying code that keeps causing the glitches.
     
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  5. dal#7945

    dal#7945 Well-Known Member

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    I have tried both ways and nothing.
     
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  6. OldVern

    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    Quite ridiculous. I mean just going into Free Roam without actually doing anything should trigger as complete.
     
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  7. dal#7945

    dal#7945 Well-Known Member

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    They have not even acknowledged the problem yet witch annoying.
     
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  8. foggy#2817

    foggy#2817 Well-Known Member

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    Have some patience. Their first workday of this month is only a few hours old.
     
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  9. OldVern

    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    True but this seems to happen every month without fail now. It needs to work properly, not to avoid taking up support resources each time.
     
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  10. miss#1791

    miss#1791 Active Member

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    My support ticket about the mastery also is still unanswered normally it gets answered quickly but now nothing happens
     
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  11. foggy#2817

    foggy#2817 Well-Known Member

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    Let's hope they are busy getting GWE:R out :)
     
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  12. Inkar

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    CMs are probably working on the roadmap.
     
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  13. dal#7945

    dal#7945 Well-Known Member

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    Have you got anywhere with that free roam one yet. Seems they have forgotten about this.
     
  14. OldVern

    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    I won’t be going on the PC until after tea and then I have a run in SimRail to finish up first.
     
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  15. DTG Alex

    DTG Alex Senior Community Manager Staff Member

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    Hey folks - let me raise this with the group, I think we've definitely not quite hit the mark with our Monthly Mastery with how we support this enough, and I apologise it ends up being more frustration than enjoyment.

    Let me get back to the group, and see if we can knock out any issues with Feb, but also look more widely at how we're supporting this, so that we can get you all a better experience.
     
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  16. DTG Alex

    DTG Alex Senior Community Manager Staff Member

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    Just as an update - the Free Roam mission should now be fixed, and easy to unlock :)

    Of course, I've started the debate about how we support this further moving forward, and will come back to you all once I get more news on that
     
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  17. vodka#2734

    vodka#2734 Well-Known Member

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    Everything worked. The second level is open.
     
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    eMAyTeeTee Well-Known Member

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    I got the free roam done too now. Apparently clicking return to free roam after completing a timetable service is enough
     
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  19. OldVern

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    On it...

    Edit: Yes and that worked.
     
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  20. BBIAJ

    BBIAJ Well-Known Member

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    You can quite literally just pop into free roam and then immediately quit back out again for it to count, easiest Mastery challenge yet?
     
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  21. vodka#2734

    vodka#2734 Well-Known Member

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    Instead, we could have set a 500-kilometer target. At least...
     
  22. OldVern

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    Yes. You don't even need to do anything else. Return to Free Roam then exit to the menu. Kind of pointless, really!
     
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  23. vodka#2734

    vodka#2734 Well-Known Member

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    It would be possible to complete another trip along the chain in this mode.
     
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    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    I guess, if you could find a service and finish it - bearing in mind the save game still doesn’t work properly on subsequent runs.
     
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    vodka#2734 Well-Known Member

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    That would at least be somewhat interesting and challenging to implement. Although quite a few services on some routes start on lateral tracks. You start the first part, prepare the train and deliver it to the station. The service ends, you press the button to return to free mode and a new service begins with a full ride.
     
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    And it takes ALL of them to do that does it
     
  27. foggy#2817

    foggy#2817 Well-Known Member

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    No, they actually fixed the mastery today, remember? :)
     
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  28. miss#1791

    miss#1791 Active Member

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    Alr only 1 challenge left and that is the 480km thing rn on 180km so 300km left
     
  29. Inkar

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    No, but the ones that are working on that are not checking discord, forums, instagram, facebook, etc ...
     
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  30. spamdog#2920

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    500 km is easy-peasy on Würzburg - Kassel with Inter City Express ICE1
     
  31. OldVern

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    It would only ever become a challenge if a caveat of “under 75MPH/120km/h was applied to it.
     
  32. vodka#2734

    vodka#2734 Well-Known Member

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    I agree, there are only three full trips along this route. But it's still more challenging than simply entering free roam.
     
  33. vodka#2734

    vodka#2734 Well-Known Member

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    Only when using class 08.
     
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  34. foggy#2817

    foggy#2817 Well-Known Member

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    Such experimental stuff would have to be thoroughly tested though :)
     
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  35. BBIAJ

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    Just had to submit a ticket, as Tier 2 is no longer tracking for me after clocking a handful of completed timetables.
     
  36. rjeeves#3580

    rjeeves#3580 Active Member

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    I'm going to log a ticket as well. After getting the free roam section to track now the rest of my timetable runs for tier 1 have stopped tracking.
     
  37. OldVern

    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    I got Tier One finished okay, albeit Tier 2 briefly showed as complete and some of the mileage has spilled over. Save scummed the scenarios as usual with Sherman Hill yard, but gone back to SimRail for the next couple of evenings as I want to keep Tier 2 to work with the GWE remaster.
     
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  38. foggy#2817

    foggy#2817 Well-Known Member

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    Anyone else bothered to complete the festival of rail mastery? Had to go out of my way and install a US route and a German route to get it. Chose Köln - Aachen for the German one because of its imminent remaster :)
     

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    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    Not yet. How long does it run for?
     
  40. foggy#2817

    foggy#2817 Well-Known Member

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    I assume till the end of Festival of rail. So Wednesday (or Thursday?)
     
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  41. OldVern

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    I had better get cracking then!
     
  42. Inkar

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    Just found out about the Festival of Rail mastery because you just posted it.

    Was it posted anywhere by DTG?

    Could have ended without me noticing.
     
  43. foggy#2817

    foggy#2817 Well-Known Member

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    Hmm, you could be right that it wasn't posted anywhere. Only noticed it when checking my monthly mastery progress.
     
  44. eMAyTeeTee

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    I just cheesed the US and DE parts of the Festival of Rail mastery with short empties lol
     
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  45. richtayls

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    Thanks for the heads up, done a couple of high speed runs in US/Germany as still needed milage for the February one.
     
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  46. OldVern

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    Revisited the 140 for the German one. Just wish it layered on more routes than the rather boring Stuttgart to Hellbronn.
     
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  47. dal#7945

    dal#7945 Well-Known Member

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    It does tho
     
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    I think the Poster we got for "Festival of Rails" is 1000 times better than the tenth "Visit Country" Poster we received this Month from Mastery. If anyone from DTG reads this, how about we get the old TSW Covers as Posters in the next few Months?

    Train_Sim_World_Cover.jpg
     
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