How Far Does A Train Sim World Make Their Maps

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  1. Louie

    Louie Well-Known Member

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    I just wanna know
     
  2. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    What do you mean?
    Do you mean how big are the maps away from the player, or how long the routes are in total?
     
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  3. Louie

    Louie Well-Known Member

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    260 miles
     
  4. pipanminuta#9703

    pipanminuta#9703 Well-Known Member

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    I don't understand anything
     
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  5. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    Me neither, hence not responding...
     
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  6. stujoy

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    The OP is wondering whether the entirety of the LIRR system can be made for TSW3 based purely on the length of it. No consideration for the complexity of it or the huge number of stations etc. just the maximum length of routes, or indeed lots of routes added together.

    The answer is that they don’t make them long enough for that and the length is not the only consideration.
     
  7. smugstarlord#4202

    smugstarlord#4202 Well-Known Member

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    Is this the same dude who keeps spamming the Facebook group
     
  8. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    Oh, so the question is more "what's the maximum length of DLC allowable in TSW?"

    The answer would be "there isn't one, it all comes down to development time" and given TSW3 routes have just blown what we thought were limits last week out of the water, I would not hazard a guess...
    Unfortunately the "new routes" seem to be fairly devoid of detailed up close stuff (like stations) so many long fast high speed routes are easy to build, hence being able to be longer, whereas a local slow speed metro route would be a lot denser to develop, so the route miles would be less as dev cost per route mile would be higher
     
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  9. Louie

    Louie Well-Known Member

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    Call me a op One more time I dare you
     
  10. stujoy

    stujoy Well-Known Member

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    It just means the original poster of the thread, the OP = original poster. You are the OP in this thread because you were the original poster. You are the OP.
     
  11. StokesJH

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    I don’t know what you understand by “OP”, but on a forum it means “Original Poster”, so the person who started the threat. It is absolutely not offensive.
     
  12. smugstarlord#4202

    smugstarlord#4202 Well-Known Member

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    op op OP
     
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  13. jack travers

    jack travers Well-Known Member

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    No need to threat dummy just because u can’t explain anything to save your life
     
  14. Blacknred81

    Blacknred81 Well-Known Member

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    But you are the OP?
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  15. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    Say "I don't know internet speak" without saying "I don't know internet speak"...

    As others have said, OP stands for Original Poster. It's a short way of not needing to go back to the top of every post and refer to their name directly
     
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    I’m more curious as to what OP thought OP meant?
     
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  17. stujoy

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    I found out what FOMO meant last night. I had to ask a millennial because I couldn’t work it out myself and always get jittery when I see an F in one of the shorthand phrases. Fear of missing out apparently.
     
  18. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    Yep, so for example, people may get FOMO for want of Ashford station because they can't get hold of TSW3

    The other one is YOLO, which is You Only Live Once. A way of trying to convince people to do things they otherwise wouldn't so they don't get FOMO
     
  19. MYG92

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    I think he thought the “OP” slang was more like a snitch or cops and he took it personally anyway I never really understand most of his posts.
     
  20. Hiro Protagonist

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    Or related to OAP...
     

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