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westdetroit

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Crew Changes
« on: October 11, 2015, 03:12:20 PM »
Will crew changes be implemented anytime soon? It would really add to the realism of dispatching. I love the challenge of a short timer on the territory. ;) Thanks.

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Re: Crew Changes
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2015, 05:50:04 AM »
It will be some time, but we haven't thought about the details yet.

As you may know, we have work crews on call to address maintenance issues and mishaps. You can call the supervisor and ask him to send a work crew to do some work, but such resources are limited, and the workers are - of course - unionized. We are thinking about something similar for train crews, e.g. stand-by crews, that you need to send to the location where they can make the crew exchange. However, as some exchanges may be part of a regular schedule, there may be some variations right there. 

These are ideas floating around for CTC. We will revisit TD3 to see how it was handled there. Personally, I have disabled the crew exchange feature there - it was not a favorite of mine - so I don't remember all the details. As you probably have noticed, we like to put our own spin on things, so the crew exchange will be a little bit different I'm sure.

We'll keep you posted.

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westdetroit

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Re: Crew Changes
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2015, 09:39:42 AM »
Sounds great and my thoughts mirror yours. The system should be flexible as not all trains change crews at the same location on the same territory. One other idea is to be able to call a crew prior to entering a territory. Nothing worse than a train arriving a territory and then dies on the spot. The adjacent dispatcher should be pulled out of service for not doing his job of notifying the crew dispatcher earlier. :) Good enough. I was just curious and have faith in you guys with however you handle it. Take care.