Have had Spirit of Steam since it launched for TSW2. When TSW3 launched with the upgraded SOS something broke in it and I started getting Service Failure". Thought that I might be able to get somewhere when the Steam Railtour pack launched for WCL but again other than completing the training I have yet to be able to complete a run in a steam loco without getting the dreaded "Service Failure." Yesterday I tried deleting my game save data (series S) and tried again. After a lot of faffing about (seems my DTG live data is bugged and causes the game to crash to dashboard when I sign it in) I did the steam tour run on Edinburgh-Glasgow and on an unsigned in game I still got the "Service Failure" run ending. It makes no difference what route I'm driving the loco on I cannot finish the run due to the Service Failure message!
Has been auto or assisted since I first bought the Add-on. Doesn't matter which of those it's on either I still get service failure on every run
Thanks to Stujoy and Antony Henley for the advice of having firing set on auto. I managed to almost get to Glasgow on that railtour before the dispatcher decided that they'd park a 37 in the platform I was supposed to use. Hopefully that's fixed the issue I was having
Yeah, and the auto firing isn’t producing enough steam so driving isn’t really that pleasurable at the moment.
When there is a fireman/woman having to keep opening and closing the firebox door every few seconds is annoying. It should be so If the loco is working hard the fireman/woman leaves the firebox door open whilst they pile on the coal.