Feature Live Train Timetables

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  1. lovetrains 3628

    lovetrains 3628 Active Member

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    i would like to see the abllity to use real train timetables in a silmmer way that microsoft flight simulator does. what does everyone else thank you so for example we go drive real trains instead of 2019 for example
     
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  2. alphaecho

    alphaecho New Member

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    What is different between this and the timetables already in the game?
     
  3. oakleymoss#1362

    oakleymoss#1362 Well-Known Member

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    TSW routes have been using real timetables since the start.
     
  4. lovetrains 3628

    lovetrains 3628 Active Member

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    see my edits the diference is using timeables that are based on is live so for exampple todays timetable and in 2019
     
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  5. jack#9468

    jack#9468 Well-Known Member

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    Each route is set in a certain time period. The timetables at that point in time were real.

    Having every route with the most recent irl timetable would make the game boring.
     
  6. OldVern

    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    Wasn’t even aware that was a thing in Flight Sim.

    However all other considerations aside, the game would not support dynamic timetables like that. Each timetable is basically hand built from the WTT appropriate to the time and each train given its paths through the route. The whole thing then needs to be tested to ensure it works. I mean, TSW can’t even vary platforming or routing if necessary so it could not cope with what the OP is suggesting.

    Maybe there is scope for a route to have more than one timetable, for example a Sunday or Summer Saturday variation, but again these would all have to be built by hand. Apart from Joe, I don’t even know how many people DTG has on timetable creation.
     
  7. UnlimitedMagic

    UnlimitedMagic Well-Known Member

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    Not really boring. Just indifferent to what we have now
     

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