Welcome back to the Train Simulator 20 Screenshot Contest! This is the 2nd Week of November 2019 This week's theme: DETAILS Follow us on Instagram (instagram.com/trainsim) to see your screenshots featured on our feed! How it Works? Every Friday the Dovetail team will be choosing the winner of the previous week's contest, announcing the winners immediately and opening the new week's thread with the new theme. Competition Rules: Limit is 2 screenshots per person; 1 screenshot per post. Include in your post the route the screenshot was taken on. Include the name of the train (if applicable). Screenshots must be in a 16:9 resolution, at least 1920x1080 pixels. Screenshots must fit the theme of the week, as stated at the end of this post. Official content only. Please make sure anything that is not available on the Steam Store or Dovetail Store is not shown in the screenshot. - This means no reshade, repaint mods, track upgrades or workshop routes. Your entry may be disqualified if it is deemed to not follow these rules. Please limit chat to only when absolutely necessary. Competition closes at mid-day Friday (UK time). The winner will be chosen internally by Dovetail team every Friday. Winner's Prize: The winning screenshot will appear in the game as a loadscreen for 4 weeks! T&C: Please see the terms and conditions for this competition here: https://dovetailgames.com/competition-terms-and-conditions/ Note that by submitting an entry to this contest, you are consenting to us using your screenshot as a loading screen and showing it on our social media channels. Due to licensing restrictions, we unfortunately cannot accept entries taken on the routes listed in this thread.
Have you used the AP track enhancement pack in this photo? If you have you will have to take down the screenshot as that is third party.
A BR 189 and BR 111 show off details of their roof mounted equipment on the Konstanz-Villingen route.
Sometimes when you're deep into a frenetic train simulation session it's nice to just sit back, enjoy some café culture, and watch the trains go by. Strawberry time anyone? Relax and watch a BR 111 glide into Konstanz Station on the Konstanz-Villingen route.
Class 40 40145 makes its way down the Wherry Lines to Norwich at a leisurely pace while a narrowboat floats in the River Yare.
V2 Green Arrow 4771 struggles up the Settle Carlisle line with 12 coaches slogging behind with a diesel at the back (Coming Home Scenario)
Pennsy K4 #5371 and her crew wait anxiously to highball out of Altoona with a passenger train on a fall evening in 1944. Route Used: Horseshoe Curve Locomotive Used: PRR K4
Heading up the famous Coast Daylight, a Southern Pacific GS-4 slowly accelerates out of LAUPT for her 9:00AM departure. Route Used: Pacific Surfliner Locomotive Used: Southern Pacific GS-4
A JNR 105 Series crosses a bridge while approaching a crossing en route to Yamato-Shinjō Station on the Wakayama Line Route: Wakayama & Sakurai Lines Route Locomotive: JNR 105 Series EMU
Southern Pacific Cab Forward AC-12 #4292 gets preped for an early morning run up Donner Pass in SP's Roseville yard. Route: Donner Pass Locomotive: Southern Pacific Cab Forward
Nice screenshot, but the Class 153 isn't allowed in the screenshot contest because it isn't available on Steam.
45596 'Bahamas' roars through London with a 12 coach train. Locos: Class 456, Class 375, Jubilee 45596 'Bahamas', Class 57 Route: South London Network
45596 'Bahamas' blasts up the 1:32 over Streatham Common Locos: Class 456, Class 375, Jubilee 45596 'Bahamas', Class 57 Route: South London Network
Wow, I'm actually blown away guys, so many fantastic screenshots this week! I think you all really nailed it with the theme, but since the winner can only be one, let's congratulate Meeper5 on his win! New thread: https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/screenshot-contest-ts20-3rd-week-of-november-2019.19320/
Meeper5, congrats on the win! But maybe change it up a little in the newer screenshot contests TrainSim-Dmitri ? The last 3 weeks (including this week) are only American screenshots hardly seen any Austrian (ÖBB), German (DB) or not even a Japanese or France or China screenshot, in the last few months. I find American stuff worth the while to drive, especially the passenger stuff, but as there was a complaint before that not much American screenshots were in the loading screens (mind that 4 places are available, 3 of them are now American stuff), the same happens now with other countries. I know this post will attract down votes, mostly the American side. But let base it on fact if you look in the archive of the last 3 months. 9 screenshots of American content, 1 Austrian and 4 United Kingdom ones. In the past there were complaints about specific country themes as people don't have content from said country. But there are people who do and hardly win or even participate because of the low change to win a specific country theme. Maybe try continents? Rotate them around so that each week a different country/continent is shown in the screenshot.
Well, at one point I remember people complaining about too much German stuff, although in all fairness we do not choose screenshots based on countries, instead, we focus on the quality of the screenshot and the upvotes that it has. I haven't actually paid a single bit of attention to which country is featured in the winning screen in a long time, so I didn't notice any trends. But we could run some country-focused themes, if necessary.
Still Meeper5, still the USA, it seems that to participate with a chance of success you must have a good community able to bring a lot of "upvote" ...
That isn't usually true. I've been flooded with upvotes on my entries but lost to (albeit good) screenshots that had very few upvotes sometimes. I think the mods choose who wins, not the other users.
Or get your family and friends to vote for you or have multiple posting IDs and vote for yourself, which was a bad practice from the past that made DTG publicly discontinue judging on the basis of the votes received, but somehow it seems to be creeping back looking at Dmitri's comments over the last three weeks. This unofficial judging on the basis of votes seems to me a bad idea as it opens the whole process up to the previous problems and now makes it even more biased in favour of contributors who post early in the week as late ones simply won't have the opportunity to collect votes, irrespective of their screenshot's merit. The other problem with vote based judging is that since this is an English language board it inevitably means that there will be less continental Europe or rest of world engagement, and favour a high proportion of North American and to a lesser extent UK players. It seems to me that people tend to vote for territories that interest them, not artistic merit or relevance to the set subject, which kind of undermines the process. So come on Dmitri, please come clean, is this competition vote based or not? If it is vote based then structure it to support that process, if it's not vote based then clearly say so. There seem to be an increasing number of people questioning what's going on here and if its not clear what's happening people will drift away. I think that would be a shame.