Will Dtg Ever Go 'international?'

I know nothing about game development but one thing crucial in my opinion that DTG should start doing is work to improve dispatcher and create more complex situations that may ocur in railways. Faulty trains, passengers causing delays, etc...etc... I don't even know if this is possible to achieve but if so, would bring a whole new world of possibility as a train simulator. Dynamic Weather on TSW3 can be a start if it work as I imagine.

 

I agree and that is why Duisburg Oberhausen Utrecht should be the first dutch route and is International from Germany. For Starters Duisburg Utrecht merged with HRR Duisburg/Bochum Utrecht gives a DB BR1429 to HRR for S3 S1 subsituting the DB BR422 if one owns HRR and furthermore Mulheim Styrum is not dead basically making it more busy. The message for DTG is that if they want to expand into a new country they should use an existing station in-game as a start point for international routes. Munchen Hbf on HMA can go to Innsbruck via Garmsich Partenkirchen SKA Aachen Hbf to Belgium Liege Dresden Hbf Riesa Dresden Dresden Chemnitz to Poland via Gorlitz or Czech Republic via Schona and Bad Schandau these two are seen on Riesa Dresden Dostos S1 from Meissen. Hamburg Hbf on Hamburg Lubeck the Padborg Flensburg Hamburg Line introduces Denmark. Sadly DTG doesn't seem to listen to the community on international routes from In-game countries to introduce a different one. On the other hand, Germany to Austria is a run-through operation due to DB OBB using PZB since the 1960s. Need an electric shunter locomotive that can do a job of DB BR363 inside Hagen Vorhalle if built and HMA Rbf Laim OBB routes give 1064 1063 1163 to German routes in return 204 363 G6 can work OBB yards

 

They should rebrand this as UGU Train Sim. UK, Germany, USA Train Sim. But in all seriousness, I give up hoping for variety on this platform. This is why I now spend more time with Train Simulator Classic. One day, another company my come along with a product which is more global.. and when that day comes, I shall kiss TSW goodbye and delete my install.

 

Well, speaking of competition... DTG just got it. Not gonna advertise it here obviously but now TSW is not the only train simulator in Xbox/PC town.

 

Spill the beans, we are all non biased here.

 

Based on the PC version on Steam, the train driving in that game is very arcady, and not realistic.

 

Either way, competition can only be a good thing. The more options customers have the better. Heck, I would rather play the latest Densha De Go at this point, because it's Japanese, runs butter smooth and is much fun, even if it's pure arcade. I hope the market gets more lively in the future, otherwise TSW will never progress meaningfully content-wise.

 

Whilst true, Train Life does offer a different style of gameplay if you like manager games

 

Same here. Uninstalled TSW and just sticking to TS Classic, got a bit tiered of the South African stuff now as while the scenery is accurate (to a point), the sounds, graphics, and physics are really not good. Looking at the Australian and Dutch stuff that’s available online. I do see there is Japanese stuff, but high speed running between 2 or 3 stations really doesn’t interest me.

I have been playing Farming Sim 22 quite a bit lately, and it got me thinking about how diverse other sims are. I mean with the flight simulation community, addon airports are made for countries all over the world, even small airports out in the middle of nowhere that only 2 people in the world know of. Then there is Farming Sim, and people make mods of things that are from all over the world. You then have GIANTS making DLCs for different aspects as well - I mean logging in Farm sim is not nearly as big as any of the other farming you can do, but yet the platinum DLC is featuring logging, even though a larger majority of the fs simmers won’t be interested.

Really makes DTG look narrow minded, but anyways, with non of us on here being game developers, we unfortunately stuck with what we got and what we keep getting.

 

Only one of the Japanese routes is a Shinkansen route, the rest is rural commuter type and they are all quite different. And even the Shinkansen route has a commuter mainline going alongside it for a while that you can drive the 701 series on. So I can really recommend the japanese content for Train Simulator.

A new train or route is also in the works by the developer, judging by the work in progress screenshot it's going to be a modern commuter EMU (JR E232 series or something similar, featuring the double decker cars as well). So if that route releases, I will also hop back into Train Simulator Classic for a while.

 

But there's a huge difference between making an airport for a flightsim and making a route for a trainsim - the world outside the airport is already there, and so are the planes to fly in and out. I'm sure there are clever folks on this forum who could build a detailed representation of (say) Euston station, but that wouldn't do much without a route to connect it to and suitable equipment to run on it.