Railroader News

Railroader 2024.2.5

Customers now receive a more appropriate number of empties for interchange services beyond the daily one.
Changed Graham County Pulpwood to a high volume pulpwood source, similar to Connelly and Walker. This means it now loads incrementally rather than with interchange service. This is a temporary measure; we plan to revise the Graham County interchange in the future.
Fixed jumping singleplayer player (or multiplayer host) to spawn when loading a game saved while ridiing on equipment. (RR-342)
Fixed Robinson Gap and Alarka mines not filling as many cars as they should while waiting or sleeping. (RR-345)
Fixed Bryson Freight Hours track FR1 appearing multiple times in locations panel. (RR-164)
Trainmaster and up can now use the `/fill` and `/setload` commands in sandbox.

Limited manual car mover (Shift-R) to 3mph and 5m away. (RR-339)
Fixed cases where low throttle setting could result in no fuel/water consumption. (RR-186)
Fixed AI engineer failing to release independent brakes in MU configuration. (RR-341)
Added workaround for sandbox games failing to properly restore map feature selections due to having been opened in company mode in the past. (RR-340)

Added milestone upgrade water columns at Alarka Jct and Almond.
Added lights at East Whittier.
Independent brake is now linked across engines when MU is enabled. Main reservoirs are also linked.
Fixed interchange served at top of hour, not at exact scheduled time. (RR-336)
Fixed animations not playing on newly purchased milestone elements. (RR-317 cont'd)
Fixed client unable to join when the equipment they had been riding has been deleted. (RR-337)
Fixed AI not proceeding once stop signal changes to approach at interlockings where the next signal is > 2km away. (RR-338)

Re-graded Alarka Jct through Cochran tunnel.
Railroader will now prompt to re-place trains with invalid locations (such as from map changes) when loading a game.
Reverted headlight control scheme to original: Front Full - Front Dim - Off - Rear Dim - Rear Full.
AI will now call approach, stop, and restricting signals at interlockings. This can be disabled in company settings.
Interchanges: Removed limit on per-service number of cuts. Changed capacity limit to 70%.
Additional interchange service can now be scheduled for those of you with particularly busy railroads. Automatic return visits for full interchanges use the same system. The service interval is 2:30. You can schedule interchange service in the Locations panel, as well as see when the next service will be.
Re-added "Limit to 60fps" option to Vsync dropdown (Graphics Preferences).
Fixed signals showing incorrect aspects for clients after purchase. (RR-325)
Fixed coal loaders not operating immediately after purchase. (RR-315)
Improved diesel "quill" when signaling for crossings. (RR-317)
Manual car move (Shift-R) is much stronger now.