Failures Sliders Settings

The sliders allow you to manage the probability of infrastructure failures occurring and the potential length of time they will last, the potential for delays and the severity of those delays. As a general rule I have signal, point and track circuit failures set 3 clicks each from zero (using the arrow button to the right of each slider), in my experience this gives a realistic level of failures (albeit on some of the largest and busiest I set them at 2 clicks to make it manageable). Depending on the sim (how large and busy) I select a max of 2 or three concurrent failures (small window, bottom left). I normally set all the delay and failure probability and time sliders (the bottom four) at mid-way between low and medium to give, again in my experience, a representative picture of what a fairly average day would look like.

The F11 menu allows you to manage failures to some degree (read the wiki for more info). A MOM is a Mobile Operations Manager, normally the first person a controller calls to attend a failure such as you have here to get trains moving before the S&T or P-Way arrive to attend to the actual failure.

Thank you for the outline of slider settings. The one bugbear I have is that more often than not as soon as the technician phones to say a problem is cleared, another one immediately takes its place (sometimes before I've answered the call!). I accept that an arbitrary limit is not prototypical, but surely neither is this.

Would it be easy to program it to an 'average' number of failures with a maximum as well, so just occasionally we might drop to none for a few minutes, or does that never happen IRL?

Thank you for the outline of slider settings. The one bugbear I have is that more often than not as soon as the technician phones to say a problem is cleared, another one immediately takes its place (sometimes before I've answered the call!). I accept that an arbitrary limit is not prototypical, but surely neither is this.

jrr in post 141172 said:

Thank you for the outline of slider settings. The one bugbear I have is that more often than not as soon as the technician phones to say a problem is cleared, another one immediately takes its place (sometimes before I've answered the call!). I accept that an arbitrary limit is not prototypical, but surely neither is this.

With my failure settings set as in Bugsy's repost of my comment from an earlier thread, I can go for hours without a failure, or I may get 2 almost at once, that's the luck of the draw, just like in real life (many things can influence this, such as time of day/year, prevailing weather conditions, location, infrastructure with a repeat failure history, to name but a few). Many years of Simsig use have enabled me to tailor my failure and delay settings to mirror my real life experiences. If you're often getting a new failure occur almost as soon as an existing failure has been given back in order, maybe your failure sliders are set too high.