Hi Everyone,When driving 'Bubble' Cars, in my case the 'Classic' DMU type. The most logical place to stop was 'centrally' to the point where the station entrance/booking Office/ Station building was situated. There were no markers for single car units. Likewise, you didn't have a computer bawling you out for a mm stopping difference, here and there, which is quite rediculous and an annoyance in BVE. Obviously with longer trains stopping markers are placed and stopping at these is also the logical place to aim for, but again mm's of difference aren't used as a black mark against the driver. The computer treats everyone alike, as idiots, and as I have mentioned previously, when passengers see a train is gong to stop a little further ahead or shorter than expected, they tend to move the next point on the platform where the next set of doors will most likely stop and any delay is kept to the very minimum and not usually a problem in the total timing of the journey.
Giving that the average length of a coach is apprx. 60ft a central position would give you an allowance of apprx. 15ft each side of the central point to stop within.
Of course, BVE is still a Game and so it has the same sort of 'competitive' measures built-in, but this kind of computerised precision is an annoyance to me, as on the real railway the length of stopping error that I generally made would not be given a second thought. If train companies are training drivers to this level of precision on their simulators then all I can think is that they are trying to produce a bunch of trained Monkeys and not 'Human' drivers. But then, that's only my 'personal' opinion.
I suggest that if you stop, whatever train reasonably centred within the stopping mark for your train then just ignore the 'warning' messages just as you ignore 'You have passed the station you should have stopped at' when you havn't got to a station as yet, or "Move back/forward to correct position" when stopping at a signal not liked to a station. They are just a quirk of BVE. Then you can start enjoying your driving on BVE. Apart from when timing trains for Beta Testing, I tend to switch of the timetable and just drive the train, stopping where required, without worrying about the precise times and I know by the way I am passing through the sections and stopping at stations or arriving at freight terminals, how well I have done.
The trouble with computerisation, TPWS and the rest is that while they have their positive uses it means pen-pushers (or should that be keyboard-tappers) are now driving the trains from their offices, instead of the driver in the cab.
Cheers.
BillEWS.
