Open Rails - yet another slave to 'realism'

[zarker99]

That’s the difference from simulating what goes on in the cab of locomotive and what a engineer does and how he does it compared to simulating just going along for the ride or watching trains go by trackside, which as we’ve seen with other train games doesn’t hold the users attention very long.

LOL
like somebody said - we all look for diff things from a train-sim.

This probably seems to contradict my own arguments, but I just like to ride the cab at speed because i find it soothing. It's a great way to relax - at least for me. I dont want my brain exercised, I want my senses stimulated and my mind calmed.

But I'm finding that 'calmed', and being bored senseless are worlds apart. So if making the game more interesting means just making it busier 'in-cab', then I must be getting something from MSTS that shouldn't really be there.

Kind of a shame

Actually - I'm wrong. i do love firing and running the steam locos - about the only thing I like to drive in Kuju's sims, as the noise of the engine hides the minimal audio variety offered by them.

[conrail1]

LOL
like somebody said - we all look for diff things from a train-sim.

This probably seems to contradict my own arguments, but I just like to ride the cab at speed because i find it soothing. It's a great way to relax - at least for me. I dont want my brain exercised, I want my senses stimulated and my mind calmed.

But I'm finding that 'calmed', and being bored senseless are worlds apart. So if making the game more interesting means just making it busier 'in-cab', then I must be getting something from MSTS that shouldn't really be there.

Kind of a shame

Actually - I'm wrong. i do love firing and running the steam locos - about the only thing I like to drive in Kuju's sims, as the noise of the engine hides the minimal audio variety offered by them.

Soothing? lol, if I want soothing I call my girlfriend.

It doesn’t sound like you want train simulator at all really, why don’t you just grab RailWorks?

[zarker99]

Soothing? lol, if I want soothing I call my girlfriend.

That's because you don't live with her

It doesn’t sound like you want train simulator at all really, why don’t you just grab RailWorks?

Read my previous posts.

[conrail1]

That's because you don't live with her

Not yet anyway, but I’ve been down that street before, lol.

Read my previous posts.

Yeah but don’t you think one of those massage parlors in Queens might fulfill your needs better?

[zarker99]

I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce

[conrail1]

I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce

Sorry I thought you we’re still looking for something Soothing.

[zarker99]

Sorry I thought you we’re still looking for something Soothing.

Does your train of thought come with a caboose? Perhaps we can get back on topic?

[egbert]

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[OTTODAD]

Welcome to the forum, Egbert !

But digging up old threads it not recommended !

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[IVEMER]

why would someone would want a train simulator game to be sped up? That can totally throw its realism way off.. Plus it will be problematic even running a high poly train over a massively detailed route.. It's pointless.. On Flight Simulator its different, because obviously if your that bored to fly 10 hours from one destination to another, you can lower your settings ,but on train simulator ,details vary on how much work the creators put in to their works on routes & trains.. I doubt if even your pc can keep up on the high amount resources while speeding it up which is another thing pointless
Train simulator nowadays has become 100% realistic.. unlike in Flight simulator its 50% real & 50% unreal..
Why I say this? it's because newbies maybe enjoy crashing planes and have no knowledge of actually flying one professionally. and others want to learn how to fly one the proper way and they run theirs at max settings. Simulator games should remain realistic to enjoy, not something to make fun of its objective.

[norbertdx]

Well it's true I don't know how to fly a 737, but I figure as time goes on with learning and practice I will get there. I didn't know how to run a 40 car freight before I started with MSTS, but I have an idea now. Just relax...

[OTTODAD]

Why would someone would want a train simulator game to be sped up?

It's useful for checking routes, skipping a boring stretch in a long route MSTS and other train simulators like OPENBVE can do.

I use an "Explorer" which can do up to 2000 mph to test tracks in routes I have been and am working on.

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[GoGoran]

Easy way to speed up without speedup function: Save game - edit eng file - reload game.

[IVEMER]

Easy way to speed up without speedup function: Save game - edit eng file - reload game.

The best solution that has never failed... even Flight Simulator doesn't have that function.

[GaryG]

Save - Edit - Reload is OK ONLY if there is no AI traffic.

The timestep available in MSTS runs the clock faster and all trains, player and AI, move with the new clock speed. This way, all interactions between trains still occur at approximately the same locations and clock times.

GaryG