WCML North Career Scenarios Losing Points Driving Pendolino

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Currently done half way from Carstairs Jn to Lockerbie on a career scenario and already lost over 1000 points due to what appears to sideways motion. Been a while since I did a HS CS with the Pendo (having done one last night with a max speed of only 95mph between Glasgow, Motherwell and return) but I seem to recall having the same issue before.

As I am still part way through the scenario, I don't have the evaluation yet, but where I am losing points is on sharp curves where linespeed is probably 110+

In some cases the linespeed has been 125mph and (partly due to a service in front) I have been doing only 110-115mph and still lose points hand-over-fist = miffed!

Anyone else experienced this?
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Now complete and was "Drive Quality Sideways"

This is after it ending with an "Invalid Consist" over an hour after leaving Carstairs and literally in Carlisle Station!

I am wondering, however, if the program has got a bit stuffed as on arrival at Carlisle, two carriages were missing (not sure if they came off en-route or if they were just not showing) off the back and although the HUD knew I was in Carlisle station, the track diagram thought I was by the signal in rear (or just past it) and I was getting AWS warnings for signals long past (causing me to SPAD one without it realising!) and speed limits not applying until later than they should. I therefore cannot be sure speed was a factor and if the track diagram was suggesting a higher permitted speed than was permissible in this case.

Any comments still welcome, though

 

[Alan1310]

I have the same sideways thing I have emailed rsc about it with no reply

 

[jon91]

The Career scoring system is a steaming pile of poop, it won't take into account the tilting ability of the Pendolino hence the losing points on the curves when travelling at EPS speeds.

I doubt that there is anything wrong with your copy of the game, more likely the basic coding of the game engine which dates back to 2007 and the original RailSimulator released by Kuju. RSC inherited this and have done nothing but make it shinier and improve the performance.

I say this yet I've had it since 2011 and have clocked over 2500 hours according to the Steam guilt-inducing device...

 

[bairy]

I too have had the same penalising. I've found that some of the scenarios don't appear to have been tested at all as some break. One that I forget the name of has you run a pendy one way then return however you can't return because the points are against you, the signal on red and if you spad you derail.

Thankfully for steam owners there are some brilliant and perfectly working user made scenarios out there.

 

[brad465]

This is after it ending with an "Invalid Consist" over an hour after leaving Carstairs and literally in Carlisle Station!

I am wondering, however, if the program has got a bit stuffed as on arrival at Carlisle, two carriages were missing (not sure if they came off en-route or if they were just not showing) off the back and although the HUD knew I was in Carlisle station, the track diagram thought I was by the signal in rear (or just past it) and I was getting AWS warnings for signals long past (causing me to SPAD one without it realising!) and speed limits not applying until later than they should. I therefore cannot be sure speed was a factor and if the track diagram was suggesting a higher permitted speed than was permissible in this case.

Any comments still welcome, though

I've had this as well. What happens is those two coaches somehow become detached and run separately 1/4 to 1/2 a mile behind the train roughly. Don't know why this happens but you can see this if you click free roam camera and go back along the line until you see the coaches.

 

[trainmananthon]

I have a similar problem with the WCML north aswell, with the fact that half the scenarios won't load because there are lots of missing markers, even though the markers are there