The training center really does not fit TSW5 at as a main training facility because it's made out to be a very strange ultra modern brick bunker like building which looks like a shopping center or an office building. I think if your locomotive training takes place back on the route itself in a yard or something rather would make alot more sense. You had it right in TSW releases such as 1,2 and 3 where you basically got "on the job" training but ever since that new training center came out, i feel very weird doing training scenarios.
Fully agree with this. “Training” should also include operation of the train and route safety and signalling systems which is impossible on the TC. And pretty much all the TC runs boil down to once around the inner or outer circuit, one or two station stops and the lecture about coasting. Old hat, as they say.
I think maybe you're talking two different things. The Training Center is for very BASIC controls... start, stop, brakes, etc. Not signals and such. Now, to be fair there really ISN'T route-specific training like you suggest (what the signals look like, special rules, etc) They just tell you to "get going" once you know how to turn the loco on and move it around. They expect you to just KNOW the route from the manual (if there is one) A walk-through on the route of things specific to that route would be a very good idea since they vary a lot from place to place. The Training Center has a solid purpose (in that programs tie to that as well as the route, so you don't have to have the route to spawn a dependent DLC like in the "old days" of pre-TSW 4. However, you have a great idea for "route familiarization" that is lacking for most routes. Yes people can read the manual but I'm not sure if that's a PC thing? Is there a "manual" available on console? I know I download it on my computer to read, but if you only had a console....
Didn't they add the Training Centre so that loco DLCs could stand on their own without requiring a home route like base locos? Pretty sure that was the case.
