PC Journey Loco Roulette

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  1. hyperlord

    hyperlord Well-Known Member

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    Hiho,

    just one question to check if I'm sane: In journeys (for Example Frankfurt Fulda) there are often services, especially freight runs, where I'm spawned in the totally wrong loco. It's a Vectron run and I end up in an 185 - I reload (ESC->Reload) now I'm in the Press 155, reload again [...] finally a BR 193 (don't care now if RP, Cargo or Flix tbh).

    What is causing this and can I do something against this? Sometimes it feels silly to me to "save scumming" until you get the consist advertised by the service.
     
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  2. noir

    noir Well-Known Member

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    I noticed this too. I don't mind too much to have such thing as a feature, as it brings a bit of variety when it selects a loco that I would not pick myself, but it feels like the original idea of Journeys being a curated experience is recently falling apart more and more.

    It is long due to being brought to the table to revise what the Journey mode is supposed to be about, and how to improve that experience overall.

    Together with that we should bring much more information to the menu, so you have better idea what to expect in terms of time of day and consist. I think we should go as far as having the dev write individual description for each service to describe what's interesting about it and why did they decide to put it into the journey. Similar to what community does in the Awesome services thread, or what is in Zusi as "recommended runs" in each timetable.
     
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