Quick Drive Depart And Destination Menu

Happy new year folks

Just a quick question, ive recently started using quick drive scenarios more than i used to but one thing ive noticed is that the stations appear mixed up in the starting and destination menus.
For example if i want to drive from london to birmingham it would be ideal if that would show london and then in the right hand menu for the destination london would be the last selectable station but they appear mixed up. Is there a filter somewhere i havent found yet or thats just how the game is?. Thanks all

 

It’s sorted alphabetically. Some scenario creators solve this by giving destinations a number prefix. Some don’t bother.

 

Oh yes, that's one for the wishlist, sort stations/locations by distance from start point.

 

There are good reasons for it not being so. On mountaneous routes, you can’t count on the last destination being the farthest away. Nor on commuter routes. The Berliner ring being an excelent example. At least with the current system, the scenario ceator has the power to decide how it should appear. I alway number then with a (01), (02), (03) etc prefix.

 

What Kim said. It's up to the scenario author to give meaningful friendly names.

The menu knows nothing about the route, it just gets a list of destinations for each departure marker.

 

Did I say as the crow flies?

 

Thanks for the replies just wanted to make sure i hadn't missed anything

 

RW2 classifies and gives distances from the point of origin if that's the question...;-)
Richard.

 

You didn’t, but i assume(!) it’s the only technical way for the menu to know without the scenario actually being loaded, since it’s the dispatcher code that handles this. And you don’t want that running in the background calculating distances of what can (in my case) be several hundred scenarios. Your menu would crawl slower than a snail.

Even if there was another way, imagine the code that would have to run every time you click on a qd menu item, just to calculate distances.

 

If by RW2 you mean RWE2 then yes I know, but I wasn't on about 3rd party apps I was thinking more for the core TSC game.

Tbh I rarely use QD's now with such talented scenario creators out there, I'd rather use (and often edit or swap out stock) those.

 

Whenever I get a new route I have Openrailwaymap.org opened in the background to know where I am. A bit of route knowledge and you'll know where you want to go