Hello! Some of scenarios in TSC have objectives to pick up passengers. Although I always stop within green area of a platform sometimes they are marked as completed, sometimes they are not. I'm struggling to figure out what it depends on. Do I have to stop right before the green area ends, or is it about timings? Any help is appreciated.
In general you have to stop at least part of your train within the platform length AND give the load/unload command to open the doors. Some scenarios may have a time by which you have to do it, or you've failed the scenario.
If the loading bar appears, then it's about timings. In career scenarios the timetable has an effect on scoring. Of course you can miss objectives entirely. In standard scenarios the timetable is part of the objective. The UI shows arrival and departure, but there are a few more variables affecting whether it's a success. There also used to be a bug (if you play an older version) that the game had two clocks, one that would show in the world and the big counting numbers on the HUD, and the other that the simulation used internally for a bunch of things, it had a tendency to go faster and you'd see it on the ETA - fixed about a year ago, maybe a bit more. In the majority of the cases you'd compare the objective to the ETA. You are on time if you arrived not later than the end of the minute of the objective (e.g. ETA showing 13:47:59 is fine, 13:48:00 not) and probably the same about departure. I'd recommend trying to meet the objectives but not stressing too much. Eventually you'll drive confidently and succeed with all that is possible and fail all that is not. Some scenarios require excessive speeding, München-Garmisch internal track speed is like 200 kph and München-Augsburg also requires 135% track speed in some sections. Standard scenarios don't penalize for speeding.
One other thing to bear in mind is that at least one full coach has to be within the platform marker, which can be a little tricky at some of the shorter platforms.
Indeed, I just mean the ETA often expects you to go much faster. Particularly in the BR 442 scenarios, you have 8 minutes but it expects you to arrive in 4, rapidly delaying and then you arrive in 8. It's just confusing because at least the scenarios were tested and happen to be doable. Unlike everyone's favourite Director Special (or virtually any other Donner Pass). Or a default 75% Class 37 stopping timetable. What I intended to communicate is to not stress too much, some content is just messed up. And that you can use the ETA to guess the setup of the scenario. And train.
