After playing on the Bakerloo line for a couple of hours I have noticed some odd things about the signalling. First of all, in open sections, I did not receive any cautionary (yellow) aspects, and this makes driving without the HUD on nearly impossible, as you have no idea whether the next signal is red or green. Finally, I have noticed that whenever I am stopped at a station and the platform starting signal is at danger (red), the signal only clears exactly when I close the doors on the train, not sooner, not later. As most of the signals (particularly in tunnels) are automatic or semi-automatic and thus controlled by the passage of trains, I think the signals should not be influenced by events occurring on the player's train.
For your final point, they addressed this issue in one of the streams, it is something to do with the way the train is pathed only to the next station and only receives its next path once station duties are complete. I'm pretty sure they said it should be fixed when the enhanced timetable comes out.
Signalling is really badly implemented and adds to the overall experience a lot because its a very important part of railway operations. At present state the Signaller practically can't do anything with regards to changing signals as it should be. So very simple example of this non existent signaller is when you pass through green light and reverses train back just before that signall, it will never change back to green even if sections ahead are all clear.
With lack of traffic (on a 2-3 minutes a train route) what else do you expect? IRL if you would have a tube train 6 minutes ahead of you with timetables made the way they are done, to never catch the train in front, it would be green too. So to make it visually appealing they put scripted red aspects. Arcadey crap. Fanboys love it.
I know. It is not only badly done, but there is no traffic, no immersion, no annoucements. Just a virtual visit to greatly modeled tube line. Bought the game only for that line. Had to force myself to keep driving on first go. Prefer by far ICE route. I got more immersion by OpenBVE or Circle line even if so old now.
Yeah I agree. Hope some of the issue with the dispatcher changing the aspect when your doors close gets fixed with the upgraded timetable. For me it does ruin a bit of the immersion though; Like the starter at Queen’s Park station (facing Elephant Castle) being on, and then in the next block (a few hundred metres), the signal aspect is visibly off. Small things like that just bug me and ruin the immersion.
We can hope that this might change when the enhanced Bakerloo Line timetable is out, as they said the signal only changing once the doors are closed should be fixed then so it would make sense to do it all at once.
