General info
- Most trains (newer than 81-703, and all SPB trains) have some sort of automatic safety systems that relatively easy to trip and limit control outside of "main line", i.e. in depots, so general advice is to spawn train on a station or in a dead end.
- Depots typically also have their own power delivery system for safety reason, so getting train out of depot is extra complicated.
- SPB trains are generally more complicated and also broken in metrostroi, some require to be on specific type of map to work properly, so - avoid them.
- 81-502 kinda works
- 81-717 SPB variant(s) work but require extra effort to get working + weird
- 81-717.5П is fucking broken and works every once upon a blue moon
- 81-722 works but has somewhat weird control scheme and requires extra effort to start
- Newer trains are easier but also complicated/annoying
- Starting with 81-718 trains are generally easier to control because of better electric control system (transistor/thyristor/variable frequency drive instead of rheostat-contactor control)
- Starting with 81-720 trains also include some sort of computerized system that you need to please in order to get train moving.
- Sometimes they even require a hard-coded password that can only be found on wiki pages, PDF files and addon descriptions. Ain't that fun?
- Some maps use 1/5 signalization and some use 2/6 - technicalities aside in general 1/5 means track will tell your train only the currently allowed speed and 2/6 - it will tell your train currently allowed speed AND allowed speed of next section as well, and generally maps that use 2/6 also don't have many signs (or even semaphores) along the track and you are supposed to rely on indication in train cab, and 1/5 you are meant to watch the signs and act according to them.
Train info
- 81-502 (Ema)
- SPB train
- Has autodrive system but it REALLY depends on map and/or not actually implemented
- Has ARS/ALS (1/5 only)
- Renovated cab is decent, older cabs are messy and require a lot of head movement. Still, better than E
- Despite the number (81-502) it's actually newer, the 5 just refers to LVZ, factory that produced them.
- 81-702 (D)
- No safety systems besides autostop
- D stands for Derail
- As shrimple as that
- 81-703 (E)
- Very similar to D
- Still no safety
- Cab layout somehow worse than D
- Mostly there because some newer trains tend to use those as middle wagons
- 81-707 (Ež)
- Improvement over 703
- Has ARS/ALS
- Decently clean cab
- Probably the oldest train you can safely drive
- 81-710 (Ež3)
- Has ARS/ALS (1/5 only)
- Classic and HJ's favorite
- One variant uses a bell instead of beeper
- Has some sort of autodrive system that isn't implemented in Metrostroi
- Has some sort of thyristor control scheme for braking at high speeds
- how high i don't know. Better watch the ammeter...
- 81-717 ("Numbered train"/"Nomernoj") and variants
- Has ARS/ALS (SPB version only supports 1/5, others support both 1/5 and 2/6)
- The most widespread and popular one
- Very nice cabin
- SPB version has
- 81-717.5П
- 81-718 "TISU" (after the control scheme used)
- Has ARS/ALS
- Uses Thyristor control scheme which means you can decrease the acceleration/deceleration rate after increasing it, making precise braking a lot easier
- For some reason no ASNP (announcer) option
- 81-720 "Yauza"
- Has ARS/ALS
- Weird one
- ".1" variant has different (and mislabeled) cabin and interior
- "A" variant uses VVVF (?) drive
- Password: 1234 (2004 for the "A" variant)
- 81-722 "Jubilee" (Anniversary (of 60 years of SPB metro))
- SPB train
- Has ARS/ALS (only 1/5)
- Unorthodox control scheme for adjusting the driving/braking effort
- 81-760 "Oka"
- Most modern train in Metrostroi at time of writing this
- Has ARS/ALS (both 1/5 and 2/6, although on one variant 1/5 is called "ДАУ" - Autonomous Redundancy Device, go freaking figure, it works the same)
- Has autodrive system(s) - "PrOst" and "KOS" (Precise Stopping, Train Stopping Control), PrOst fully controls the braking, and KOS mostly blocks doors opening until train has reached the stopping point.
- Password: 2010
