Hints & tips

• Interposing times in the opposite berth to a train headcode is a useful reminder for later, just don't do it when you're in multiplayer on a fringe to another panel


• Use your scroll wheel/trackpad's scrolling feature to have much finer control over the speed setting in F3


• Do use the F8 Simplifier in conjunction with the train list

Do you have any tips you want to share?

No doubt Max will have plenty to say on the subject lol

[quote="robert" post=58039]No doubt Max will have plenty to say on the subject lol

- Try things! Start your sims at 00:00 and use the first trains through to test how bi-directional tracks work etc. Try to set every route you can think of. Look at a signal and try to figure out how many routes are possible for it. Learn every possible move, because you never know when you'll need it! When you get up to a sim like SwinDid there are stacks of ways to get around trouble if you know how to work it.

If you've got lots of trains in the area, use the overview hover feature.

Reduce (the number of steps needed to Interpose) to just one click, by right clicking on the signal, holding it down, then releasing it on the Interpose option.

That just leaves the F1 key which AFAIK does nothing in SimSig. What a great opportunity for macro developers.

The basics of playing SimSig for me involve knowing each train's TT and its current status. I check the Show Timetable window so often, there's no point in hiding it; simply move it down out of the way (many TTs are mercifully short) and if necessary, hide its bottom offscreen. Don't bother to close it; that's a waste of a keypress or click. Simply click on the next train's berth to overwrite it.{

Train List is so large that you should close it unless you have a spare screen

(Has anyone else considered whether it mightn't be a better idea to list a train's stops in inverse order in the Show Timetable window (or at least offer the option to do so)? If you have 20 trains all following the same timetable but changing headcode to a different service at the end of it, all one really needs to know is the headcode(s) of the new service(s), so keeping this at the top means you can sink the rest of the TT below the screen.)

Real signallers, eat yer hearts out. As I've always said, SimSig is a game. I've never received a paycheck from it.

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(Has anyone else considered whether it mightn't be a better idea to list a train's stops in inverse order in the Show Timetable window (or at least offer the option to do so)? If you have 20 trains all following the same timetable but changing headcode to a different service at the end of it, all one really needs to know is the headcode(s) of the new service(s), so keeping this at the top means you can sink the rest of the TT below the screen.)

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well when you read anything you always read whats on top first. timetables are just the same, reading down the list gives the exact order. also the likely hood of having 20 trains all following the same timetable may not be correct. if you assume that then you'll miss the one that has a 5 min dwell time at a station or loop to allow a faster train past, or give you an incorrect platform allocation. Generally when reading a timetable you need to know the next couple locations. Thats why a running timetable only displays the next 10 or so locations rather than a scroll bar for the entire tt.

And there are in fact several trains with the same headcode that take different routes in some sims - I believe the West Midlands lot have a good few where trains several hours apart reuse headcodes.

And there are in fact several trains with the same headcode that take different routes in some sims - I believe the West Midlands lot have a good few where trains several hours apart reuse headcodes.

not to mention on heritage timetables where trains for the same general route sometimes use identical headcodes for the general route for all trains, however individual actions and timings can vary, along with the pathing and platform allocation!

(Has anyone else considered whether it mightn't be a better idea to list a train's stops in inverse order in the Show Timetable window (or at least offer the option to do so)? If you have 20 trains all following the same timetable but changing headcode to a different service at the end of it, all one really needs to know is the headcode(s) of the new service(s), so keeping this at the top means you can sink the rest of the TT below the screen.)