Today I embarked on the magnificent flying Scotsman scenario to recreate 100 year record this is a awesome scenario however in areas I struggled to get speed up so I played around with loco and what I found to my amazement helped me was ratio for example 50% forward 50% regulator and by matching the 2 didn’t take long to build up speed so much so once I hit 100 mph goal I stayed there till I needed to slow for Peterborough I hope this tip helps
Running at high speed in 50% cutoff in reality would trash the valve gear. The old Simudrive text based game used to sack you if you exceeded a certain speed without reducing the cutoff. We will have to see how FS performs using the no more than 25% on each damper as per the SoS experimental thread. One thing certain, seems despite FS now being the fourth steam loco in TSW and in a new version of the game, steam physics are far from perfected.
I managed to hit it by keeping it maxed out when I was recording a YT video and it took me about an hour or so to hit 100mph (granted I did pause a good number of times for photo mode) but using this method I managed it in ~30 minutes
Wanted to jump on this thread and say, when I was running the Scotsman I was having difficulty picking up speed, I was trying to operate similar to how I operate the jubilee and 8F but picking up speed on any sort of gradient (even something like 0.3) was getting no speed increase.
You don't need to 100mph until you're on the downhill between Grantham and Peterbrough. You'll hit it ok
I'm struggling to get over 60 to 65mph. Regultor fully open and reverser back to 25%. I'm trying to trash it on training centre but not getting much out if it. It accelerates quicker than the Jubilee but maxes out about the same from my TSW3 experience.
I always have automatic firing on. I don't mess about or bother with the dampers or open and close the firebox as a don't fully understand their effect and if modeled in the game.
Worth trying manual firing then. Start with dampers at 50% (both front and rear), ensure the firebox door is open and see if that improves matters. With the Jubilee we have been finding winding cutoff back to the unrealistic 15% actually balances speed and steam usage better for fast running.
Completely sideways question here, does one need to be manual firing to get the platinum medal in the Scotty tutorial, because without manual firing I can see and bloody tickle it being only 50 points away from said platinum medal......
I’m glad I read your comment. I had the regulator set to full and reverser to 75%. I was wondering why I couldn’t reach 100mph. The 50/50 method worked perfectly. Many thanks
The highest I’ve got it up to was 119 between Grantham and Peterborough. Was using the gradients to back off the reverser and build pressure so that I could use more power heading southbound, enjoyed it!
I am confused about dampers - are they correctly simulated and why the recommendation for both dampers fully open? I understood that only front dampers would be open in forward motion
Nothing is correctly simulated on the TSW steam locos... Generally you can get away with both dampers set to 50%.
