Im kind of curious about this so thought id create my first ever poll. Dont be too critical- its just a bit of fun multiple votes allowed. Feel free to comment on how you enjoy your train driving.
Depends entirely on the route. I know NEC extremely well, so I will not use HUD there. But if I was playing RSN, I would.
This is an interesting question to ask because if you put a person on a foreign route to them (RSN to me for example) then I’d use the HUD. But if you put me on a route I know very well, then I wouldn’t use the HUD or any helpful in game pointers. This is one of those questions where it can never be a straight answer for anyone.
I generally drive all the routes with the speedometer and stuff kept on on the bottom right. I manually turn the markers for the signals and speed limits on and off as needed using their associated macros to keep screen clutter down.
I recently went into the gameusersettings folder and turned everything to false except the next station distance counter. Im slowly getting to know GWE so I only pop it up when I need it but Im impressed at how much route knowledge is actually required. Ive more than once found myself either speeding like a lunatic or sat at 40mph leaving paddington when its an 85 limit.... The marker board system in RSN sounds good too! Thanks for the responses When the editor comes out and if its possible to do, it might be fun for someone to do an audio file like someone teaching a new driver the route. That might be an intetestingly different project..
I mostly only use the objective distance and the next speed limit on the HUD. On RSN I don't need the next speed limit marker as all speed limits are announced on the signs or signals. But for NEC on the freight route or sandpatch it's usefull. I did build now my own version of the EBuLa so I can completly switch off the HUD on RSN, I only need to switch it on to see if the passenger loading is done. With "HUD" on my TSW looks like this, EBuLa on the right display: Dostos Cab: BR143:
