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slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 9:49 am
by gwgardner
What does this slider do? TIA

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:03 am
by wacampbell
It tells you your Driver Achievement Level in a bar graph form. In your case you have an achievement level of about 0.5. ( about half way between award level 0 and award level 1 ) This will increase as you successfully complete career scenarios.

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:53 am
by HankySpanky
I wish they had made a better way to do the fly-outs. The type is still way too small and I'm getting tired of having to keep squinting. Dern whipper-snappers!
!!jabber!!

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:56 am
by gwgardner
wacampbell wrote:It tells you your Driver Achievement Level in a bar graph form. In your case you have an achievement level of about 0.5. ( about half way between award level 0 and award level 1 ) This will increase as you successfully complete career scenarios.


Thanks. Wow, I'm a .5!

I don't recall ever doing a career scenario.

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 1:14 pm
by Bananarama
wacampbell wrote:It tells you your Driver Achievement Level in a bar graph form. In your case you have an achievement level of about 0.5. ( about half way between award level 0 and award level 1 ) This will increase as you successfully complete career scenarios.

Instead of simply adding a number to the left and right, DTG felt it necessary to add what appears to be buttons? *!rolleyes!*

Thanks for the answer though, as I was thinking the buttons were supposed to slide, but were broken! !**duh*!!

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:59 pm
by Chacal
Me too. I guess the "buttons" are actually medals or some other shiny award.
This should be under the "career" tab anyway.

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 6:50 pm
by artimrj
Chacal wrote:Me too. I guess the "buttons" are actually medals or some other shiny award.
This should be under the "career" tab anyway.



That's a me too from me also. I figured my score was not high enough for it to move. Mine looks just like Gary's, 0.5

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 12:54 pm
by wackyhuman
> Mine looks just like Gary's, 0.5

Cause you never play career scenarios !DUH! !*roll-laugh*!

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 1:15 pm
by artimrj
wackyhuman wrote:> Mine looks just like Gary's, 0.5

Cause you never play career scenarios !DUH! !*roll-laugh*!


Actually I do not play too many scenarios period. Grabbed some from the workshop and most were just basic point A to B's. I end up writing my own and play them while testing them. Then of course there is the route building. Don't get credit for that only time in.

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 1:37 pm
by hertsbob
I think the assumption must have been that it's obvious what the disc things are, although clearly this isn't the case!

If you look at the Profile tab the disc/medals/whatever are repeated all over the place, so I guess once you've seen that screen it might make more sense. Obviously it won't if you never look at the Profile tab!
ProfileScore.jpg

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 3:43 pm
by Chacal
My profile information is all wrong.
I can't possibly have the progress it is showing, abd it says I have 74 unique scenarios completed and 75 unique scenarios failed, although I have not played more than 2 or 3 career scenarios total.

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 5:11 pm
by hertsbob
Wouldn't be at all surprised! I think it's partially mixing up Career and normal scenario information on the same screen.

The reason it's showing the favourite route and loco in my screenshot is because I wrote a couple of Workshop scenarios for the ECML route using the Class 365 and obviously spent a while testing them... !**duh*!!

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 11:34 pm
by Ericmopar
Chacal wrote:My profile information is all wrong.
I can't possibly have the progress it is showing, abd it says I have 74 unique scenarios completed and 75 unique scenarios failed, although I have not played more than 2 or 3 career scenarios total.


I've noticed that too.
I now have a huge number of scenarios that I supposedly didn't complete, when I know I did.
In fact my ratio of completed to uncompleted scenarios is crazy. It's now saying I've hardly completed any at all, when it's the other way around.
If it wasn't for my XP and medals, most of which are Gold, a person might think I'm a noob. *!greengrin!*

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 1:10 am
by Chacal
Also it says my preferred loco is the BNSF ES44AC, although I don't recall ever driving it (not sure I even have it), and anyway I spend 99% of my time in 1950s diesels.

Re: slider at bottom of drive selection window

Unread postPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:16 am
by OldProf
wacampbell wrote:Instead of simply adding a number to the left and right, DTG felt it necessary to add what appears to be buttons? *!rolleyes!*


Come on. let's try to think like simulators: buttons always worked on longjohns and flys, why not on a user interface??? Personally, I would have used zippers, though. **!!2cents!!**