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I did end up sending a 3-5 to try to cancel, but the train still seemed to be stuck anyways.

The changes in 0.0.8 are awesome! I appreciate the new sim time intervals, the different bell sounds, and showing sent and received bell codes. I did run into 2 bugs:

• If I have a faster time intervals set (e.g. 30s) and the game sets it to 60s due to someone belling me, when I press +/-, it does that based on that old 30s interval instead of the 60s interval now.
• I had an issue where I belled 1 to Stopham to see what the bell sounded like, but it seems like Stopham never sent me the expected train 1C03. I think if the player doesn't bell anything after that 1 after like 10s, it should return to the previous state. Here's the relevant log entries

```

1784631784.429: BlockDialogue: 08:01 → [Stopham] (player) sent 1

1784631784.429: BlockDialogue: 08:01 → [Stopham] (player) sent 1

1784631784.429: BlockDialogue:  → [Stopham] state is now 'fb_wait_ack1'

1784631784.927: BlockDialogue: 08:01 → [Stopham] (block) sending 1

....

1784632176.398: BlockDialogue: [Stopham] busy (state=fb_wait_lc_request) — queuing train 1C03

1784632324.3: BlockDialogue: [Stopham] unexpected player code 1 in state 'fb_wait_lc_request'

1784632328.945: BlockDialogue: 08:23 → [Stopham] commutator set to 0 (stored, no active match in state 'fb_wait_lc_request')

```

• For the levers, I think it might be better to just tap W/S instead of holding, but this is personal preference
• Commutator lever feels a little small to click, so an optional keybind for it when standing in front of it would be nice. I have no issues with the belling itself though, that works pretty well
• I wish the bells had different sounds
• The text from the other boxes should appear when they bell, not when you reply

• I think Hornby Junction is a decent tutorial level. It's equivalent to an easy-level Blockpost Software sim. I think the trains should come more frequently though, since it's a bit annoying having to timeskip forward.
• For timeskipping, I think the intervals should scale instead of being 5s intervals, since the 45s-55s time intervals are not very useful. So something like 60s > 40s > 30s > 20s > 15s > 10s.