Week 1/2024
January 1^st-7^th, 2024

Simulator

• chudya - hostel model in Uhrusk

• chudya - Ł34 loader model

• Tests, tests, tests, and more tests bringing us closer to the release of 2023.3.1. A total of 36 issues were reported (excluding duplicates), with 5 tickets yet to be resolved.

Sceneries

• margo22 - Józefów - scenery submitted to the SSS
• Sunsie - Lesznowola - scenery's passed the stage I check in the SSS
• Popio19 - Rojowiec - scenery passed the isolation check as a part of stage III in the SSS
• Kryszakos - Wielgowo - scenery passed the isolation check as a part of stage III in the SSS
• Rybson, Newmikus2k et al. - Węglowce - scenery published and entered into SWDR, with a Forum thread, currently available upon authorization

Wikipedia

• trichlor, dominpiano - publication of the instructions for UZE lock assembly and operation
• EUgenio07 - Scenery list updates (with newly released sceneries added), removal of unsupported faults in the SUP guide.

TTSK Association

Team Changes
With the arrival of the new year, annual elections for Team Leaders for the 2024 term were held. On January 4^th of this year, the following were appointed to these positions:

• Head of Developers - _l0stfake7,
• Head of Constructors - EUgenio07, who replaced trichlor,
• Head of Moderators - marbas83, who replaced peter0133,
• Head of Editors - Wewek,
• Head of Trainers - radocha26, who replaced babisz_fajny.

In connection with the changes, information about the Team's plans for the year 2024 has been published. This document gathers in one place all the intentions of individual departments for the recently started year.

Moreover, peter0133, the former Head of Moderators, has left the Team on January 5^th of this year.

Heads' Announcements

• Head of Moderators reminds about the possibility of taking advantage of training organized by Trainers Team, which allows reducing the number of penalty points assigned to the account, following the rules described in the Tariff. More information about training can be found here.
• Head of Trainers reminds about the upcoming Trainer Educational Session on Saturday (January 13^th), which will start with a meeting at 6:30 PM CET. More information about the session and the registration form can be found here.

Selection of information from the Forum

• An interesting thread and discussion questioning the thesis of the "death of the TD2 simulator."

Week 3/2024
January 15^th-21^st, 2024

Simulator

• A new version of the simulator was released - 2023.3.2 "FPS". More information about the release can be found here, and the discussion about the version here.
• Additionally, tonight (last-minute information), patch 2023.3.3 has been released, fixing high-priority bugs. More information can be found here.
• xoorbes - Temporary launch of an additional mirror "Turbostonka" to increase the available bandwidth when downloading the simulator.

Scenery

Note: There are still difficulties in extracting data from GitLab. I apologize for any potential omission of stage changes or scenery releases and kindly ask for information about such cases in private messages. In that case, the section will be updated.

• Announcement from Head of Constructors regarding adapting sceneries to version 2023.3.3 "FPS". More information here.
• Kb1, Rybson, Maszn - Borki - release of the refreshed version of the scenery
• emik - Włoszczowa Północ - adaptation of the scenery to version 2023.3.2
• Thanks to the courtesy of NieAktywny, current schematic plans for the Wola scenery have been developed, which have been included in the simulator package with the release of 2023.3.3 and posted on the forum. In addition, a manipulator for operating the railway-road crossing in this station circuit has been installed in the "Wo1" signal box.
• deemixx - Wola Rzędzińska - the scenery has passed stage I of check in the SSS
• Other sceneries adapted to the FPS version: Rajcza, Sól, Poreńsk.

Apps & Tools

• matseb - Screenshots of vehicles for version 2023.3.x have been taken and added to Pojazdownik by Spythere.
• kojonek2 - Completion of a new SPK repeater checking desktop hashes

SSO

• xoorbes, janoxxx - Intensive work has been ongoing in the last week to launch and integrate a set of applications for the new authentication system on the server. After several dozen hours spent on configuration and problem-solving, the first full-fledged connections between applications that will make up the entire SSO system have been established. This is definitely a milestone on the road to integrating all current and planned applications with a single authentication point. We hope to share more details soon.

Selection of information from the Forum

• eryk2004w - Thread about the upcoming scenery Igrekowice

Week 5/2024
January 29^th - February 4^th, 2024

Simulator

• Krzys292 & Marcin_S - presentation of progress on the ET22 locomotive. Four liveries were tested: ET22-647 (turquoise), ET22-938 (blue PKP Cargo), ET22-1008 (green with "shark" headlights), and ET22-1014 (green). There are plans for 28 liveries, with around 10 to be included in the next version 2024.1.1. Work on the cabin and the physics of electric motors will continue over the next weeks, requiring modifications to existing scripts, removal of "LD" structures, and the addition of new features such as a differential relay or a demagnetizing coil for the fast switch. Additionally, the possibility of cold starts will be added to all electric vehicles, with the ET22 having an extended mechanism involving a small compressor to raise the pantographs.
• Lokol - Correction of the /sp command, used in autoexec files, to avoid situations where a different livery appeared despite providing the full wagon name. This mainly affected the 401Ka and Bau84 carriages. The corrections eliminated this issue.

However, it's important to note that when using the wagon draw command (/sp), you should provide the FULL names of carriages. The case of letters does not matter.

Examples of correct entries:
/sp Tm1:10 n:2,eaos (series Eaos carriages)
/sp Tm1:10 n:2,pkp (carriages of the carrier PKP, but not PKP Cargo (PKPC) or PKP Intercity (PKPIC))
/sp Tm1:10 n:2,111a (type 111A carriages)

Examples of incorrect entries:
/sp Tm1:10 n:2,gags (the full name of the series is Gags-t)
/sp Tm1:10 n:2,412 (the full name of the type is 412S or 412Z)
/sp Tm1:10 ep09 (locomotives or traction units should always be given with the full number, and we do not recommend welding traction units with the /sp command)

• On February 2^nd, 2024, the previous record for the number of kilometers traveled in one timetable was broken, reaching 349.01 km. The schedule was created by TrBLeMaker, and babisz_fajny was the engineer. Below is the mentioned schedule and a commemorative screen from the final station.

During the journey of the aforementioned schedule, Babisz also celebrated the milestone of 70,000 km traveled in the simulator, which happened at Krnów station.

• chudya - dispatcher model for the Warszawa Odolany scenery

Sceneries

• TrBLeMaker - Wschodna - the scenery has passed stage II in the SSS
• Rybson - Ciechany - the scenery has passed stage II in the SSS
• Kryszakos - Wielgowo - the scenery has passed the SPK check as a part of stage III in the SSS
• Kryszakos - Tarnowo Górne - the scenery passed all stages in the SSS and is awaiting entry into SWDR
• trainfun09 - public release of the LCS Sandomierz scenery from the Dispatcher level 6. More information here.
• KMSzczecin - Adaptation of the Brenno scenery to the FPS version.
• Ares28 - Adaptation of the Dobrzyca Towarowa scenery to the FPS version.
• trichlor - Adaptation of the sceneries: Płyćwia, Rogów, Poddębice, and Suszec to the FPS version.
• EUgenio07 - Adaptation of the sceneries: Gostynin, Kowalewo, Łapanów, Dziewoszyce, Rudnik nad Sanem and Grębów to the FPS version.
• Information from GitLab about adaptation of sceneries to the FPS version: Pszczyna, Sulechów, Głowno, Zgierz Kontrewers, Skawce, Milówka, Głębce, Arkadia Zdrój 2012, Wasilków.

Apps & Tools

SSO

• xoorbes, janoxxx, Hammer - Integration of the server API with the user interface, bug fixes, switch to a new email sending service

TTSK

• Statement of the Board, regarding the Discord server "TD2 Szkolenia" along with a survey, which we encourage you to fill out
• Announcement from the Moderation Team regarding new train categories in the simulator

Selection of information from the Forum

• English version of the Moderation Team announcement regarding the so-called "analyses on request"
• Torti - discussion on phrasing of point 2.15.2 of the simulator regulations

Week 13/2024 - clarification

Dear Users,

Some of you could have noticed that there was no English version of yesterday's rather emotional post in the pages of the Weekly. The genesis of that post can obviously be found by looking at the calendar. I'd like to point out (if any of you translated the post by yourself) that there was a lot of truth, especially about you being a wonderful community and me thanking each and every one of you for your presence.

Please let me refrain from further explanation of the joke, because if a joke needs to be explained, it means it's not good. However, I'm glad that some people actually fell for the published content - it means it was worth posting

On Monday, April 8^th, a combined issue of the Weekly covering weeks 13 and 14 will be released. Personally, I'll make sure that this time all the necessary information appears in the right places - not to satisfy my whim, but above all for you, because you deserve to be well informed about everything happening around the simulator.

With best wishes,
Patryk
still Head of Editors