Upcoming Release Liberec - Stará Paka Czech Signalling Guide

For $40 I expect something with a bit more " oomph " than that frankly. But if you're satisfied with " quiet " and " less substantial " , go for it.

 

With the advantages it brings vs the caveats of busier, mainline (which you conveniently cut from the quote), I sure will.

 

It seems safe to assume Liberec Stará Paka is coming this week, together with the BR145 Expert. Dropping two add-ons in a single week isn’t logical and isn’t ideal for the sales of each one.
Edit: I mean Liberec Stara Parka this week and the 145 Expert next week of course.

 

End of the tax year in the UK, not sure what month DTG run their financial year to & from, but April is pretty standard. I would not be surprised to see even more DLC’s drop this month.

 

Well, I wouldn’t go that far, but I’m pretty sure they’re behind schedule in the release cycle. And that three‑month schedule is insanely full, so yes, they’ll have to start catching up and that’s exactly what seems to be happening, at least from how I interpret it.

 

Haha, yep that’s what I meant

 

And that may cause them to rush a bunch of releases to market before they're properly cooked, leading to the inevitable buggy or unpolished routes and trains, perhaps missing some track or catenary and, in my own recent experience, lacking Raildriver compatibility and save function reliability. Not to mention the first lockups I've ever had in more than 20 years of playing TSC and TSW.


(And to think my wife told me to give up complaining for Lent. Too hard, I chose chocolate instead. )

 

It was similar last year, we were getting a couple of things (sometimes nothing or just one DLC) around winter, then March came & we got like half the routes on the roadmap dropped. Mildmay, Cardiff City, Thomas & then Zwolle. Other than that we were seeing one route per month pretty much, with rolling stock/gameplay packs dropping between. The only busier month was July when we got 5 DLCs in 4 weeks, but again only one was a route.

 

Yeah though what’s new, we saw with ECW remastered it came too soon & you could tell they were wrestling with the date on that with how little notice they gave.

Id have hoped with more third parties they’d be better positioned to pace themselves, but it appears very 50/50 (at best).

 

Sorry, but I find it a bit far‑fetched and somewhat conspiracy‑like. We don’t know DTG’s financial situation, so I’m not going to get involved in that.

 

Haha what conspiracy? I just mentioned March is always the busiest month & that I wouldn’t be surprised to see it any different this year.

 

So far, in three months, not a single paid DLC made by DTG has been released. And if you look at the latest roadmap, about 95% of it is third‑party, meaning there’s very little coming directly from DTG as a developer. The only thing currently shown on the roadmap from DTG is the BR147 and New York to Stanford, so I don’t really follow the story you’re telling. I’m not going to blow up these kinds of nonsense theories or pretend I know anything about DTG’s financial situation. What I do know is that we’re in a new year and things are always quiet around the holidays, so it could very well be related to that.

 

I popped in on Matt’s charity stream over the weekend and while I was watching he said March is going to be a busy month for releases. Pretty standard for the end of the financial year.

 

Yay. Hopefully that means NY-Stamford is coming in hot. Alex mentioned on stream a month ago how the route was in “the final stages of development”.

 

Surely at least one of the 3 x 3P UK routes must be nearing release, or have they fallen into the hole of DTG announcing too much, too soon?

Anyhow back on topic, barring any yellow or red flags from the stream fairly certain the Czech route will be a Day One for me even if I would have preferred a 749/751 (plus loco hauled coaches) over the 750 and the dinky little 810 Railcar or meaty 850/851 DEMU as the unit.