What Does The Tick Mean?

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  1. shhweeet#4292

    shhweeet#4292 Well-Known Member

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    Earlier today I was playing Saturday return special on NTP using the Class 101 DMU and instead of a medal I got a black tick in a white square box. What does this tick mean?
     
  2. mrcharliemiggins2.0

    mrcharliemiggins2.0 Well-Known Member

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    Could be one of two things
    1. The route has not been updated to have a medalling system, something Koln Aachen and Rapid Transit had. I don't play the route so I'm not 100% sure about this.
    2. You may not have done good enough to get a medal.
     
  3. solicitr

    solicitr Well-Known Member

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    I'm pretty sure that under ordinary circumstances, you always get at least a bronze just for completing a service or scenario. The only exceptions are route intros, and free roam "scenarios".
     
  4. shhweeet#4292

    shhweeet#4292 Well-Known Member

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    I’d played this Saturday return special before a couple of weeks ago and got a bronze medal previously so it did have the 3 medals. Maybe this tick is something better than a gold medal? Or maybe it’s saying I’ve reached some kind of mile stone?

    it’s a complete mystery I’ve never seen it appear before until now?
     
  5. Stephen Crofts

    Stephen Crofts Well-Known Member

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    I’ve got a few ticks in place of medals. Can’t figure it myself.
    Have thought it might be when there’s no internet connection to register the run on dovetail live.
    But I notice it more when I’ve done a timetable journey already and am viewing the list in journey mode or vice versa.
     
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  6. L89

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    If you don't meet the scoring requirement of a bronze medal I think you get a tick. That's usually very difficult because even taking over a service half way it awards you the AI action points from before (TSW2020 doesn't do this). It could also mean there are no medals for that service. You will get a different tick in journey mode to indicate that service was played in that mode.
     
  7. TheTipsyRaccoon

    TheTipsyRaccoon Well-Known Member

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    Yeah a tick is when you earn fewer points than required for a bronze medal.
     
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  8. shhweeet#4292

    shhweeet#4292 Well-Known Member

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    I’d played this before though and got a bronze so does a tick wipe out the previous bronze? Unless I didn’t get a bronze and just thought I had?:| It’s quite hard to tell.
     
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    TheTipsyRaccoon Well-Known Member

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    No it saves your highest score on that particular service/scenario
     
  10. shhweeet#4292

    shhweeet#4292 Well-Known Member

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    So does that mean I got a higher score than what was required for a gold medal? I’m playing and viewing this tick on this run / scenario via journey mode btw.
     
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  11. L89

    L89 Well-Known Member

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    If you get a higher score than the gold requirements you still get gold. You also get a tick for finishing on journey mode. This one is separate from the medals and basic completion tick.
     
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  12. TheTipsyRaccoon

    TheTipsyRaccoon Well-Known Member

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    The awards for a job completed go gold, silver, bronze, then tick. 100% of the points on offer will give you a gold medal and then it scales down from there.

    A tick basically says “You completed it, but you could do better”
     
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  13. shhweeet#4292

    shhweeet#4292 Well-Known Member

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    Yep your correct. Played it tonight and I got a gold.
     
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    Wait I still don't get it, I'm on TSW4 and got a platinum medal at the end of a service, yet when I checked again on the list it was a white tick? What's gone on there then??
     
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    rennekton#1349 Well-Known Member

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    The thread is 3 years old. Scoring system as a whole is broken in tsw.
     
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  16. bittersoul1172

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    Ok
     
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    I thought i was seeing things when this said 2021 but guess not.

    To answer the question the tick can appear for 1 of 2 reasons

    1. You score below the minimum to get the bronze so will resort to a grey circle with a black tick to show you have done that service
    2. Some trains will duplicate over from another route and layer into a new route. If you have done introductory to the trains etc in one route it will carry the tick over to the other.
     
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  18. ChengHo

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    Thank you! Was trying o make sense of it, as I had number 2 happen. Much appreciated, mystery solved!
     
  19. marcsharp2

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    I thought it was because that service features on Journey Mode and it was a sign that it had been completed even if you didn't do it on Journey Mode, so you got a tick instead of medal.
     

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