West Coast Main Line: Trent Valley From All Aboard Studios

Ahem you said only modern trains were real life and there was nothing worse than slam doors. Arrogant and designed to get people’s backs up. Own your statements. It’s not a good idea to call someone who disagrees with your somewhat arrogant post deluded either.
You need to learn to be tolerant of other people’s likes and get off your high horse.

 

The obvious solution here would have been to set the route around 2005 when there were still loco hauled sets, 321s, HSTs AND Voyager, Pendolino etc. Best of both worlds. But then of course you wouldn’t have the 805/807 which I don’t really think anyone is that fussed by!

 

And if I were you I’d mind my own business.
It was a post rubbishing slam doors and saying only modern trains were worth having in this game. DTG are influenced by people’s opinions in this forum going forward and an arrogant yahoo who is totally discriminating against anything not modern is trying to influence them.
Ever heard of live and let live? I for one wouldn’t dream of rubbishing trains from a certain period like that, it’s childish and arrogant. As it appears you are too for having the nerve to intervene in a private matter between me and him. The fact you are taking his side means you probably have the same loud and discriminating outlook. Sad.

 

Yes that would work very well. Something totally different and catering to all. Hopefully certain people wouldn’t throw their toys out of the pram because it’s not totally what they want. Me me me!

 

Hardly any different of a comment compared to what a lot of older users say about modern traction.

 

Clam down. You are completely misunderstanding simple sentences. Read things more slowly.

 

He had a right to his own opinion. I've seen many people do the exact same thing in favour of older trains. Of course DTG are going to try and listen to opinions and obviously modern is more popular because of the amount of modern routes that are released. He has a right to say he doesn't like slam-door EMUs in the same way you can share that you don't have much interest in Modern locos

 

He wasn't discriminating against anything, simply stating he does not like them and would not be interesting in that sort of content, he never stated they shouldn't be made or wanted by others.

 

I don't think era popularity comes into it, it's more a choice made for convenience by DTG. The last DTG-produced route that wasn't set in the past ten years was Northern Trans-Pennine, released eight and a half years ago [Correction: actually it was Spirit of Steam in 2022, I thought it was older than that.]

I don't recall them ever asking customers what they'd like in the game other than the recent question about remasters in the survey, so of course if you only sell modern-era routes then it's easy to say 100% of your paying customers want modern-era. It's a good job we have JT taking care of the 80s for us. I'd like to see some 90s and early 2000s routes appear but as far as I'm aware the only reason we ever got a 90s route was because of a licensing issue that forced Rivet to backdate it.

JB

 

You should read that post again before you start an argument, because that's not what he said at all. I suppose you read what you wanted to read, but not read what someone is actually saying.

 

I don't care what era it is, the main thing is an interesting route and trains.

We have the southern half of the WCML with a modern timetable, and the northern half with an old timetable.

the ideal would be to combine the WCML routes (London - Crew and Crew - Glasgow) and create separate timetables for them.