Beiträge von Slovak_Eagle

Okay, I will upload it on the website here, not on DLS. Once I resume work or finish stage one, I will remove it from here and put it up on DLS.

I will pack it with a base session which includes all intended trains.

I want to apologize in advance for the lack of easy drive-ability, becuase I did not place any crossovers, so at one end of the route, you will be forced to use the drive mode "edit trains" to turn around. This is something I will have to fix later in development.

Due to slight issues with my hard drive and TRS19 SP4, there might be significant delay to this project. As such, if you guys are interested in having a demo of the current progress (Berlin - Bad Düben / approximately 67km) released, let me know.

Thank You for the support and I hope I will be able to continue the work soon.

So, quick update.

As TRS19 SP4 has released yesterday, two of us and one another of my friends have encountered unexpected problem with the game. This problem is "Crash to desktop" at startup. I have managed to trace the problem to the game´s content folder and as such, I suspect that either N3V accidentally created some form of hard limit on the size of content folder, which is highly unlikely, or that SP4 has broken some content during the update. If this is true, then we esentially have to go through 600GB of content we have installed over the years.

Fortunately for us, we can still access our content managers and extract our files from there. I have done some experimenting and after creating a new content folder, I managed to resolve the crashing. This means I can continue my work on the routes and sessions, but at a slower pace as I will have to get majority of the content freshly downloaded and installed again and at the same time, finding the broken asset in the original 600+GB folder.

So, please be careful when updating to SP4 and create a backup, just to be sure. You can not downgrade the game without re-installing it.

Thank You for your support and patience, I wish you all a wonderful weekend.

Casually testing how heavy I can make the consists.

Current progress update:

Stage 1: Berlin - Leipzig (70% finished)

Current WIP area: Bad Schmiedeberg - Bad Düben

Work is starting on the stretch of tracks between the two towns.

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Hello! It´s been quite a while since the last update on this project, so I figured I might post something. Since the 24th of September I progressed only a little, approximately 10 kilometers.

So, what is new?

The town and station of Jessen are 95% finished. As with other stations, I am missing only the platform decorations. The tracks split north of Jessen to allow for regional line connection from the South, to accompany the connection from North at Jüterbog. This connection will be finished when I begin work on the regional lines. Speed at platforms is 100km/h.

The town and station of Bad Schmiedeberg are 90% finished. Here I just have to add grass and platform decoartions.

This station is a bit unique and that is because it only has 2 tracks, rather than 4. However, the speed of the trains through the platforms will stay at 200km/h. As such, I had to create this station with additional safety for passengers, and that is a glass panel fence at the edge of the platforms. This comes with more limitations as well. I wanted the regional trains which stop at these stations to be Flirt 3. There are 4 and 5 car versions.

However, as you can see, the 4 car and 5 car versions have different door placement. The platforms are 200 meters long, which means they can fit 2x Flirt 3 sets couple together. The 5 car sets however, are very symmetrical. So much that no matter the orientation and order of being couple together (front 1 to front 1 or front 1 to front 2), they will have doors at exact same positions every single time. This means that only 5 car Flirt 3 sets are allowed to stop at this station. This is one of the two unique stations I plan on this line. These two unique stations will require precise stopping of trains.

The margin of error in stopping position is minimal and correct stopping points will be marked with H signs.

I have decided for this desing because I thought it would be more unique and bring a little bit of challenge to the player.

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Additional screenshots

I had to bypass that signal completely and use an invisible signal. Placed it after the problematic signal, moved the shunting train a little and used signal set rules to make it work. I am glad that the issue is finally resolved. Thank You for the feedback!

I am now thinking of giving the upcoming sessions out before official release to some people for beta testing. Because as proven here, even if it works on my side, it might not on someone else´s side.

Small teaser for one of the few upcoming sessions:

Time and weather are subject to change in final version

New update for the session is going out (48 hours and it will be up). Let me know if it works this time. I moved around some stuff so now the shunter should start moving when you are passing the platforms.

Old Autozug sleeper cars bought by TD Rail and refurbished for sleeper train services across Germany.

Because my original plan was for this route was to be set in fictional England, instead of Berlin I was supposed to use London. Because of that I have created the city in a way to look like futuristic London.

Just a map of current progress. White lines are markers of where other lines will expand. So far the route is 60 kilometers long.

Current progress update:

Stage 1: Berlin - Leipzig (60% finished)

Current WIP area: Jessen (Elster)

Work is starting on the town of Jessen.

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High-speed (Left) and Regional (Right) lines merge with their respective pass-through tracks outside of Jüterbog.

High.speed line passes over the Regional line.

High-speed line (Right) and Regional line (Left) diverge from each other.

Regional line diverges just outside of Jessen. The diverging track will connect to other regional line passing Jüterbog from the south.

At this point I don´t know anymore.

I am already forcing "proceed" state on the signals. Can´t do more than that.

And as for the derailments, I am out of ideas completely. 13th car is a twin-car with shared bogey, I will cut them out and we can see if that does something.

Yes that town. I am sorry for misspelling that. I even double checked
I did type it correctly on the message next to the poll, but not in the actual poll XD

Thank You for the compliments!

Yeah it was little bit of moving around, but it was quite easy. Most time on my side was spent on random things around my life so the progress was a little bit slow. Now some friends hooked me up on Snowrunner so I am trying to divide the work and fun time accordingly. However the development time should not take any hits from now.

I will take the poll results in mind when I reach the area of the first station.

The next area to work on is Jüterbog - Leipzig.

However, at my current plan, I would be avoiding two towns along the way and just making the 50 kilometers in a straight shot without stopping. The towns in question are Jessen (Elster) and Bad Schmiedeberg.

Current progress update:

Stage 1: Berlin - Leipzig (55% finished)

Current WIP area: Jüterbog - Leipzig

Jüterbog has now been finished. Last thing to do are platform decorations, but those will generally be the last thing to do at all the stations.


Station



Southern Intersection with Regional line (to Leipzig)

Northern end (to Berlin)

Map overview

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You may have also noticed that I removed the "Freeware" tag of this project. Let me explain.

Several people have told me that this project is already payware quality. I myself am conflicted about this and don´t think that this is payware quality. However I think I will give it a shot.

The freeware part of the route will remain Berlin - Leipzig (including freight facilities) and at least 2 additional regional lines connecting to this area and the circular line around Berlin, including a High-speed train yard / depo / workshop in the East, regular train yard / depo / workshop in the North and freight yard / unloading / loading in the West of the circular.

After that if I and others will be interested enough in continuing this project further, the additional high-speed lines and surrounding areas could become payware.

Now, this is not official and I have not decided yet. But if I go for it, you can expect something as described above, unless my entire idea of the route changes.

Okay I have hopefully resolved both issues with the session. I am uploading update to the DLS, expect it within 48 hours.