Die Veröffentlichung der 3. Phase der Virtual District Line steht kurz bevor.
1. Teaser zur Phase III: https://fb.watch/9bfMbOB6FR/
Alles anzeigenAfter 18+ months work, we obviously wanted to show off the R49 and the new section of track. It's only 12 route miles (bi-direction) and almost all in dark tunnel. Might sound boring to someone used to driving at speed on long stretches of open air on the NR tracks. But there's a LOT to keep you occupied. Realistic and accurately placed signals appearing out of the gloom, colors changing that tell what is happening around you. A total of 14 new bespoke highly detailed and unique stations. The Lower Circle is a very dense section of track through the city. AI (DR and Circle) traffic all around you running typical headways of only minutes apart. And you are in the middle of all that, trying to maintain your schedule and not hold up the train behind, and not SPAD a signal in front. And in addition to the 5 authored scenarios we extended the Quick Drive scenario capabilities to include the key Lower Circle stations, including bay platforms where appropriate.
Quick Drive is good for a, um, quick drive and has some AI traffic, but a scenario can put you in a complex situation or even tell a story. We put the R49 into 3 different time periods - you training in it in 1950 as it came into service replacing the Standard Stock, later driving one of the last Silver trains in 1982 as the D78 began to take over, and last an imaginary (and long) Heritage Tour in present day.
As you know, the Lower Circle is shared by District and Circle services, supposedly getting in each other's way at key flat junctions like Minories (Aldgate) - and that sparked an idea. Write a scenario with a player D78 going to to Whitechapel and back among all the other traffic, including competing Circle trains. And then take that scenario and change the player train to be one of the Circle C69s running Inner Rail High Street to Aldgate. Now we can experience a typical Lower Circle working from both sides. Does the previous player train, now AI, now get in your way? And to make it harder we will make all the stops timetabled
It won't be much longer until you can see these. Scenario test will finish today and then we're into installation kit build and test, and a very brief Beta test. Everything (route, assets, R49, scenarios, docs) looks good. We've taken more than 18 months to get this far, so please understand when we take great care over the last few steps to make sure you get a rock-solid Phase III.
Umfang
grün: bereits in Phase 2 enthaltene Streckenäste
orange: in Phase 3 neu dazukommender Streckenast
grau: restlicher Abschnitt der District Line (nicht in Phase 3 enthalten)
Impressionen der Strecke
Hauptneuerungen
- Streckenabschnitt von Gloucester Road / South Kensington über Victoria, Embankment, Blackfriars, Cannon Street, Monument, Tower Hill und Aldgate East nach Whitechapel (+ 12 Meilen & 14 neue Stationen)
- Underground R Stock
- Wechsel auf VP track and 3rd rail
- Lichtverbesserung an bestehenden Stationen
- neue Bahnsteigtexturen
- verbesserte Verwendung der JustTrains LU-Signale
Voraussetzungen (stand Phase II)
- Metropolitan Line or (Steam)
- European Community Asset Pack
- Isle of Wight- VP Track Pack and Third Rail incl. texture patch
Für ausgewählte Szenarien:
- S7+1 Advanced Underground Stock
- S7 AI Circle Line Repaint- S7 AI Hammersmith & City Repaint
- London Transport Heritage Pack
- London Overground Class 378 EMU
| Quelle 1 | https://lur.boards.net/thread/353/phase-iii-news |
| Quelle 2 | https://backdatedtrainsim.weeb…irtual-district-line.html |
| Quelle 3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_line |
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