Introduction to CTC in Railroader 

Great suggestion! Will try to do something like that next time.

Let's be honest, we're all simps for steam trains.

@@weylinwest9505 yep

@@weylinwest9505 I like diesel.

​@@Ben31337lthere are a couple diesals in the game

Glad it was helpful!

Fascinating! Yea, sounds like the "run down" timer unit, which grinds when cranked to set reset a signal to stop.

Glad it was helpful!

Ah sweet! Thats so cool! Looking forward to having you :)

Thank you! Cheers!

Itll be interesting to see!

If Simrail is anything to go on, i reckon it will be fairly popular

The map will get bigger, and there will be a need for multiple dispatchers as more sub divisions get added over time.

Its pretty easy to manage, least in our and our testers experience. Depends on how you run your railroad too.

@@railroader as far as I know switches were known as Straight and Thrown positions or also known as Open (Straight) or Closed (Diverging/Thrown). Was weird hearing it referred to as Reverse, everything else sounded right.

It can to some extent, you have to be careful where and when you send your trains on their own... Plan the meets ahead of time... Just to make sure there will be no issues. We hope to work more on making it more fool proof down the road. As a note: I play with AI trains almost exclusively and, so long as I plan it out ok, have no issues with how the system is setup now.

Makes sense, thanks. Super excited for the launch

As soon as we know we will try to let you know!

Not yet, I believe they said that they might give 2 weeks notice at maximum

@@railroader thanks

Dec 32

Thats our goal!

Our current system does not, but we are looking toward doing that down the road. So proper planning is a must for the time being.

If you double-click on the label you can choose to edit the text or delete the marker. Hope this helps!

@@railroader Very much so! Thanks! I work on the real things by trade, but I technologically challenged by choice, so I’m not exactly computer savvy.

Will this be a option in the future?

We will have to see!

We will look into your request!

The best place for this is on our Discord; two forums there are ideal for this: #bug-reports and #feature-ideas. Hope to see you there!

The footage goes into fast speed, there is a small jump cut in the footage. I had changed the controls to prepare the Left/West bound freight train to head into the yard at Bryson.

There are a couple youtubers who have done it!

We removed the signals on the Alarka branch for the Early Access release, but may look at bringing them back in the future. Sorry for the confusion!

@@railroader No worries, thanks for the clarification!

There are 16 steam engines currently!

There is an unofficial list in the Discord group, but we have not released the official full list.

There are, yes!

Cool, do you know where I can find said commands?@@railroader

So you accept contracts from customers, that will spawn cars at the interchanges each day. There are a few different ways to track them, including the switch lists.

@@railroader hay i just wanted to know if there is a free play mode in this game where you can drive all the locomotives like both diesel and steam without doing the tier system cause I'm use to doing trains sims like train simulator and train sim world where you can do that if you don't want to do scenarios plus i mostly more know more about diesels than steam and i see you have two diesels in game a little switcher and another one that looks like a GP9 or SD9 any way the game looks cool and i would like to get it especially if it has a free play mode.

Currently, engines fire themselves. You just have to manage the coal and water levels in the tender

in the secend half of December

Soon!

If you are on the "previous" branch, that is probably the problem - set "Beta Participation" to "None".

You can purchase CTC as soon as you get to Bryson; it will be available for Bryson to Whittier.

@@railroader thank you 🙏 I just got the game and I can’t stop playing it, the team did a great job

Walk around to the back of the Bryson station and find the door with "DS" above it. Walk through the door and you'll be on the stairs to it. You can also use the console command "/tp ds" when in first person to jump your player there.

The CTC's bell? Or the engine's bells?

You can, yes - click and drag on the cord!

You can turn every locomotive except for the B-65 on the turntables. Make sure you get them centered and they will turn!

The signal system will be updated and worked on over the EA, I know it does have its limitations at the moment.. You can revert/remove the signals with the /revert command... You just have to get the ID for which section you want to remove.

Yes!

Are you in Company mode? In company mode the CTC system is a purchased upgrade after you reach Bryson. In Sandbox it is toggled via the Map Features, but defaults to on.

oh okay thank you so much.@@railroader

yes

Yes!

Which points?

Points is the British term for switches.,A certain blue tank engine taught me.

Ah sure, of course!

What do you mean

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Based on what we've seen, this is not a game where you lay tracks to connect industries and build an empire. This is not a realistic train sim. So what sort of gameplay is left? Running rains on a fixed layout in a somewhat abstracted manner, including managing all your switches from a central control if desired, that is, model train set gameplay. I'm sure it's what many people have been looking for, but I'm not one of them. That's fine.

@@SkorjOlafsen By that logic though, isn't every train sim a "model train set" game? None of them - not a single one is accurate down to every detail. They can't be, otherwise, you just have a virtual job. Also, the real railroads are stuck with a fixed layout for the most part too. Aside from a handful of projects currently happening which are outliers, and aside from abandoning/reinstating industrial spurs from time to time, most modern railroads inherited their ROW's from their predecessors. The days of surveying a route and striking out into the wilderness to build a new railroad to connect towns together has effectively been over since the middle of the 20th century. So...I don't understand what the hangup is. Every train sim is more or less a model train set.

@@SkorjOlafsen @SkorjOlafsen when i think about model train game, then i think on TRAINZ, Railroads Online and so far what i see and know Centery of Steam, maybee Transport Fever also What is SimRail, RailSim World or Trainsimulator Classic for you? Yeah its maybee not the classic Train Sim, but its also not wath they want to be. Its more like some kind of Tycoon with FPV By the way. You had ever make a look on google earth? Waht i have see so far its very close to the prototyp