What Are The Plans For Tsc?abandon It Or Completely New Stuff And Countries?

TSW is getting a lot of routes and locos and new countries but do we get in TSC?
Have seen that TSW is getting Czech Republic but when will that happen to TSC?

I had really hoped that TSC will get Poland and Czech Republic as that are very interesting traincountries.

And of course more rural trainroutes from Japan.

 

Guess it depends on 3rd parties now...

 

This topic has been discussed time and time again and for good reason but these days the TLDR is:

- TSC is essentially a “legacy” game, new generations of people on computers both gamers and devs alike won’t want to put up with the now old and admittedly flawed way the game works and how complicated it can be in some areas with little to no guidance even if TSC triumphs over other rail simulators when it’s at its best. So not only does it appeal to a niche interest, it now applies to a niche side of gamers, which gets smaller and smaller by the year. The people who continue to play and develop for TSC are mainly those who started playing the game years ago, I myself started in late 2013. This group is unfortunately getting smaller too, as a lot of players are older folk where as time goes on life responsibilities take up almost all your time to play a railway simulation game and in the worst case scenarios the elderly playerbase end up in situations where they’re hospitalised due to natural causes. I’ve seen a lot of people on this forum who I’ve known to be around and above the age of 70 abruptly disappear overtime and I worry it is for such reasons.

- Due to the factors with the shrinking playerbase, it isn’t worth it to put time, effort and especially money into an old game that will now yield little return compared to TSW titles and the new Sodor game (which I’m personally excited for) which are optimised for modern audiences which enjoy it more, as it’s far more accessible and their “fandoms” are way more active.

- Third party developers are now the sole parties making new content for the game, mainly out of passion which I heavily respect because I doubt the money is there to make it worthwhile as a proper business anymore.

- Even if new third party content dies out completely, years upon years of developed content is still around and exists for players. We will essentially never run out of things to do. I don’t think I’ll ever complete all the scenarios of the DLC and content I have installed for my game at the moment and I still intend to get more of course LOL. Can’t help it! I’m still young and will probably play this game until the day I die regardless what happens, I just enjoy it that much and have done for over a decade now.

 

If you want a Czech route for TSC and you don't wish to download all the Freeware required then contact the people making the Czech route for TSW and see if they have any plans to make it for TSC.

If you want another Japan route contact Union Workshop, the makers of the previous route, to see if they have any more in the pipeline.

 

Doesn't take a genius to guess the outcome...

 

TSC is clearly only 3rd Party stuff.

 

You don't know if you don't ask.

 

Amazes me people think it is easy to port a route from one sim to the other. Completely different game engines if it was that easy TSW would have the TSC catalogue by now

 

It seems that "porting" routes from TSC to TSW is actually a pretty common / popular move, mostly for DTG but other TSW devs do it too. Of course they don't "port" it by just copying the route over but with models / assets and information already gathered in creating routes for TSC some are translated over to TSW as well. Even if they likely have to build the route from scratch again, they already have a lot of the aforementioned info and assets they need for making it from when the same railway lines were made for TSC.

A lot of TSW routes already exist in TSC. Some examples include Cajon Pass, Peninsula Corridor, Bahnstrecke Leipzig - Dresden, Riviera Line (with an extension to Plymouth for TSW), Southeastern Highspeed (just London-Faversham high speed but with an extension of HS1 to Ashford International), Long Island Rail Road, Ruhr-Sieg, the Leicester - Derby & Nottingham section of the Midland Main Line and Sherman Hill just to name a few but there are many many more. Heck, even TSC's weirder routes such as The Holiday Express was re-done for TSW and it's almost the exact same thing that's in TSC just in Unreal Engine.

 

Models etc are easy to port over as they are 3d assets. What is totally different is the route editor itself. You need to inport the data different and create the lidar data etc. The editor is totally different to the TSC editor and is a VERY STEEP learning curve but one i am having fun with.