REAL DRIVE advanced München - Brenner - München. A virtual Train Simulator dayshift ride. Everything in a REAL DRIVE advanced scenario is randomized (except the route of the player train). Just the combinations of places where you might be stopped by a red signal can exceed millions of permutations. All trains and rolling stock on sidings are random generated too. Just like in real life the railroad line can be busy or not so busy. Ofcourse it can also happen (very rarely) that the line is free all the way. If you want to play these scenarios (and more) there is a link in the youtube video description. Video link.
I’ve pasted a regular link in there as well now. EDIT. Apparently not. Why on earth does video link not work here?
It does. Maybe you're bitten by the same thing I'm sometimes - pictures not loading in threads. (Right click load image option exists.) Might also be somewhat complex, such as are you signed in, etc. There are some threads with an obscene number of Youtube links which might also trigger something. You could include the link to the scenarios instead of ... some people use this technique to increase viewer count. Backfires if people don't actually watch the video.
It’s actually the first time i’ve ever included links to the scenarios in the video description, and it’s by request. Because, believe it or not, i don’t care about stream counts or how many download the scenarios. I am only making the Real Drives for my own driving pleasure, if anyone else happen to like them it’s just a welcome bonus. Same reason i’ve never put donation links in there, dispite quite a few players wishing to donate. But you are right, putting links to the scenarios in the thread is an obvious idea, i was just being lazy. EDIT: can’t even post the link to my filebase entry list here. What on earth is going on? Oh well here are links to the three seperate scenarios. There are many more on the German forum: https://rail-sim.de/forum/filebase/entry/9802-real-drive-advanced-münchen-rosenheim/ https://rail-sim.de/forum/filebase/entry/9795-real-drive-advanced-holzkirschen-wörgl/ https://rail-sim.de/forum/filebase/entry/9789-real-drive-advanced-wörgl-brenner/ Here is a link to a playlist of recent REAL DRIVE videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHeeAcfK_EP5dih7gXR5pZG5kDMdpmGiE&si=DFzM2DUk75ZueR5V
Weird, you may have hit some limits. In any event, in case I wasn't clear, I'm seeing a Youtube frame - twice. I noticed the forums don't like editing posts, such as when posting a screenshot competition thread and making a mistake.
I don't really see an appeal to this, trains aren't random irl, they follow timetables, or at a bare minimum patterns, having random AI is basically just quick drive with another name. A quality scenario will reflect the traffic patterns of the route irl, whereas this just seems to pull trains out of a hat.
On the contrary. Delays happen all the time, dispatchers change routes and departures of freight trains, particularly in Germany. In real life you must be prepared at all times to react to signalling. The real life drivers who drive my scenarios say they are reflective of how real life driving is. There is even one here, why don’t we ask him? 749006 Recently i was messaged by a prospect Austrian train driver who use my Real Drives to practice signal interactions. Seen from a purely gamepoint of view, you have a scenario that is never ever the same as the last time you drove it. All parked stock change, all driving stock change, red signals are in other places. Just like in real life. And i think the players like it because i have many thousands of downloads of my Real Drives.
I'd argue that regardless of realism (normally you'd be aware of what's going on, there may be occasional hiccups), this kind of scenario is a great idea to fill the gap between static programmed scenarios that are interesting once or twice a decade, and quick drives (and most standard scenarios anyway) where you just apply the necessary power, lay back and watch the story unfold in the next 60-90 minutes, without any sort of interruption or involvement. In that sense, stopping commuter services, loops and junctions at least spice it up.
That’s exactly what they are meant for. Can i add that in Germany you generally will not get contacted by a distatcher just because of a red signal ahead. There are thousands. of cab ride videos that will confirm that.
I'm well aware the dispatcher isn't going to tell you there's a red signal ahead (and if I implied that it wasn't intended) but at the same time trains follow schedules, even freight, and said trains are made up in certain ways depending on their destinations. For example I'm currently working on a 1990 bergen line scenario and the commuter trains there all follow a specific timetable (same in germany) and the freights generally have scheduled call on times (which tbf can absolutely vary, both in the US and in germany) and both the freights and the passenger trains are generally made up in fairly consistant and specific manners, WPFS-27 carries grain to a mill for example. A random scenario isn't going to get the train formations for any specific line/service pattern right without a fair amount of work, it's not going to have the natural ebbs and flows of traffic that occur irl at varying times, etc... I don't want to sound too harsh, I think from everything you've showed off this is a really nice improvement over quick drive, I suppose I mostly just take issue with calling something randomly generated 'real drive' when irl trains are anything but random.
Your assumption is based on every train running to its timetable. That is a Standard Scenario and every time you drive it you see the SAME AI trains passing you at the SAME location. If you caught the same train to work every day would every other train you see be formed with the same loco and coaches Every Day of the Week and would you pass them at the Same Point on Every Trip? If you have travelled on passenger trains in UK and Europe you would see that does not happen. I could catch the same train from station A to station B all week and it is never the same from one day to the next. The Freight trains that pass will either be on time, really late or not run at all. Try one of kim's RealDrives and see if you get a clear run or not. See if the same loco passes you on the same train at a location or if its a different loco/train or it does not run at all. When I run a RD I have no idea if my train will be delayed at the same station as the previous time I ran it I have no idea if I will see an OBB loco or a DB loco on a freight going the other way Verity is what makes the trip interesting.
It feels like we're talking past one another without understanding. Nowhere did I say every train runs to its schedule, it doesn't happen in the US, it doesn't happen in Europe, it doesn't happen anywhere. The lack of replay value for more realistic scenarios is absolutely a fair point which I can sympathize with. And yeah, of course trains (especially freight) run early, late, or not at all, but once again there are patterns, or if you're doing the UK hell just use RTT or freightlocate and find exactly what ran and when on a given day, with other countries you have to fudge it a bit more, but it's still very doable to make trains run realistically. I won't be playing any of these 'real drive' scenarios myself because I don't feel like going down the german content rabbithole again, but I feel it's fair to judge a scenario based on youtube videos. This is absolutely true, but at the same time there's a difference between different power and stock running at certain times, and having an IC2 set in the same scenario with a full rake of coaches in IR liveries. All that being said the randomized delays do seem quite impressive, that Kim's managed to make that work is frankly a really neat addition to TS1 scenarios.
Without it you will have almost no freight services. But it will run without. It is a pack that is used for a lot of scenarios, so it is really worth it.
Thanks. It seems that and the Im Koblitzer Bergland route from Aerosoft unlock a lot of the freeware on rail-sim.de. So probably worth the investment.
