Improving The User Experience

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  1. LucasLCC

    LucasLCC Well-Known Member

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    Having given TSW 2 another go today, although actually playing with the preserved content, I've noticed a few fairly small things that would greatly improve the user experience. I've given each part a title, and explain what would help

    # Do you want to give up the service? #

    Make this default to no instead of yes. It's much better to click no and have to wait a minute, as opposed to accidentally clicking yes and losing your entire progress on that service.

    # The completed scenario screen #

    This gives you the options of what you can do next. The selected item is "Continue your journey". Now, when you've just completed a timetabled service, you're likely to want to continue inside the timetable. Can this option be made default instead?

    # Accelerometer #

    I have no clue why this is a circle. But a line would make this so much easier to read. It's quite hard to tell exactly where the circle is, and gives your reading quite a high margin of error. The line in TSW2020 worked far, far better.

    # This Service Starts at xx:xx #

    Why do we have to wait to find out where this train is going? Can't we have this information alongside the start time? I was frustrated earlier to wait 15 minutes, to then be told "alight here now".

    # Map #

    Been mentioned many times previously, but it really needs to have labels. At the moment it's pretty useless.
     
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  2. jackthom

    jackthom Active Member

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    Glad I’m not the only one who finds the new accelerometer extremely difficult to read. The old one in TSW20 was absolutely fine.
     
  3. Joker729

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    I don't mind it being a vertical line now instead of the horizontal, but the circle does bother me. Hard to get a good read on it.
     
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  4. Teflon490

    Teflon490 Active Member

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    All the points are pretty spot on, but the one I couldn't agree more with is the # Accelerometer # - why did they have to rework it in this totally unusable way? The old HUD had a clear line, where even the slightest change in acceleration/deceleration was visible. Now you can't even tell if it is cenetered or not, I have a feeling that even when train is stopped the lines INSIDE the ball are not aligned with the center on the main fixed line. It is simply a mess. Why change something that was perfectly working?
     
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  5. Dominik Tuchowicz

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    We need same PIS on ICE route as well.
     
  6. Inkar

    Inkar Well-Known Member

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    If you press T you will be able to see all the steps for the service (even if it has not started yet).
     
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  7. theorganist

    theorganist Well-Known Member

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    That is useful to know, thanks.
     
  8. lowlifemushroom69

    lowlifemushroom69 New Member

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    Does anyone else have an "issue" where the game auto joins the next service when selecting a route? This also occurs after completing a service; it automatically loads the next scenario.
     
  9. Paulo_1997

    Paulo_1997 Active Member

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    There's an option in the settings to turn that off. Called "Auto load scenario" or something like that
     
  10. jackthom

    jackthom Active Member

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    I rather like that feature TBH but I need a much more comfy seat as I'm now spending far too long sitting in front of the PC.
     

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