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Posted 03 July 2014 - 08:30 AM

I notice when choosing activities to run on the main ORTS screen, they are ordered alphabetically.

In MSTS the ordering is based on activity difficulty; Easy, Medium then Hard; (and then alphabetically within those groups).

For example in the Marias Pass activities ORTS has "Auto Train with Set-Out" as the first activity, (after Explore Route) even though it's "Hard", MSTS has it second to last.

Is this deliberate in ORTS to do something different, or is it a bug?

It's not a big deal, but I thought I'd mention it.

Cheers

Alan

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Posted 03 July 2014 - 11:36 AM

I always thought that the MSTS way of ordering a list of activities was a bit wacky. Alphabetic is a normal way to do things, not alphabetic in sub groups. The difficulty of an activity does not really matter anyway. The only thing of any meaning is duration, can I complete it in the time I have available?. If not pick another one.

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Posted 03 July 2014 - 01:57 PM

I never understood what MSTS meant by difficulty... lots of weird signal heads?

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Posted 03 July 2014 - 02:00 PM

Maybe it was meant as some sort of guide to beginners. How much set-outs and pick-ups will have to be performed, etc.

But to be honest, what does it matter? You better start out driving a train over the road, but once you can do that (which should be after completing the first such activity), what should prevent you from doing switching?

IOW, Dave, :sign_thanks:

Cheers, Markus

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Posted 03 July 2014 - 02:03 PM

I agree that alphabetical is better!

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Posted 04 July 2014 - 01:06 AM

We could perhaps group them by difficulty, with visible headings in the list, but I am unsure it would actually be that beneficial.
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