This is a $20 early access game that’s still in development. It is the most realistic ‘sim’ as far as that goes. Don’t let the 1990’s style website dissuade you from trying it- it’s the one I’ve spent the most time in of all the train sims I have. Run8 is very good, and supports multiplayer.
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Here are a few other products you should check out: 1 run8 buy direct from Ī group of people who made train simulator 1.0 add ons created a game called Run8. Some of the people that were on the train sim 2 dev project formed a company that released a product called railworks, that company eventually renamed to dovetail and the product became train simulator.ĭovetail may not be perfect, but at least they haven’t pulled the plug like Microsoft did. I know there’s a lot of hate towards dovetail which I don’t quite understand.īack in the day, Microsoft commissioned Train simulator 2, then pulled the plug.
I’ve seen old copies on amazon before, but the game is so old I don’t even know if it runs on current systems/screen resolutions. (We treat it more like a very large model railroad club) There are other servers that are more strict and do require more from their members. But that’s just on my server and the way we try to treat it. If you communicate, you’re not an asshole. And we know if you’ll be logging back in to finish it out not. That way when we see a half ran local we know that you had to go for one reason or another. This way if you are working say the Edison local but you stop for any reason you can let other know. On my servers discord we also have notes for all the yards and locals. Then when it’s all done AI it back to Needles. then when it gets to Kingman we’ll hold it there till that player or another player comes along to do the switching. So a crew member will AI it out of Needles and do something else as it can take a few hours to get to Kingman. For example, on my server we run the Kingman local out of Needles on the Seligman sub, since we don’t have another yard on Seligman to base it out of.
Locals can take some time, but again, you can get the big stuff like driving to the area you need to work with the AI.
With the AI it’s easy to just stop a train when you are done and let an ai crew take over. You can absolutely play for an hour or so.