Really Hope That Dtg Can Open Up A Path Every Year For Players Who Like To Travel Long Distances (an

I hope that DTG can provide players with more than 100 miles of routes. I think this requirement is not excessive within one year.
During peak hours, the total mileage of these three routes has exceeded 100 miles.

 

Not really a suggestion

 

I think you need to suggest an actual route that meets your criteria

 

As long as there is a route over 100 miles a year, I accept it

 

I agree and I'm making the Austrian Federal railways Westbahn Salzburg Vienna 194 mi (312 km) suggestion here.

 

I made a post about a route earlier that I think would make everyone happy, and that is the CSX RF&P Subdivision in Virginia. It is about 100 miles long and is home to long distance Amtrak trains, Northeast Regional services, fast freights, local freights, interchanges, yard jobs and on line industries. I hope someone from DTG takes notice of it one day. #shamelessplug

 

100 miles is far too long at the moment. The longest currently out/in production is Riesa-Dresden (Rush Hour) at ~65 Miles.

 

I figured as much, I would think a more rural route would be ideal as it might be less resource intensive

 

That would be Clinchfield, the current record-holder at 62 miles.

 

I would imagine that with a flatter route that could be extended without causing to much of a performance drop. After all you can hide more on a flatter route and the system won't have to render as much

 

That's literally the opposite logic when it comes to game development, a flat route would likely require more distant scenery to be made because you can't hide things as easily. A route like Clinchfield doesn't need to detail the route so much because the hills can be used to hide tons of undetailed areas, thus is not as resource intensive.

 

Depends on the type of scenery. In flat open areas such as the American Mid-West sure, but in areas with lots of trees where you literally can't see more then 20 yards off to the sides you could probably save resources.

 

If the game only had cab cams probably, but not justifiable when you have exterior and free cams like in TSW or TS Classic.

 

TSW really needs a jigsaw ability like Run 8 or the ETS/ATS truck sims where territories can progressively be joined to provide an increasing game network. The policy of short fire and forget standalone short routes with limited motive power looks rather poor against ATS where you can now drive from LA to Denver, albeit at 1:20 scale, with Wyoming and Texas both on the horizon.

 

I mean, say for example they made Köln Wuppertal at one point, as the game only really loads local areas, it wouldn't be too hard, I wouldn't think, to use alternate timetables to make a unified service arrangement for owners of all 3.
And at the end stations (Like Köln) you could just get a pop-up saying load [route name]? And then you choose if you want to or not