Gwe Remaster: Appreciation And Discussion Thread

I'm missing something here. Why the route hop point at Paddington and not Reading ?

 

Given the fact that DTG Matt didn't want a route-hop point between Wivelsfield on London Commuter and Lewes on East Coastway, I wonder what is different to allow route-hopping between GWE and the Cardiff route.

 

I suspect Liam wasn’t being entirely serious about this…

 

Oh man! I missed another joke!

 

More comfortable than five and a half hours on a GWR “cucumber”… Just have to hope the teleport doesn’t malfunction, like the first attempt at sending the monkey through in “The Fly” (the Cronenberg remake, not the original), or Star Trek TMP - “What we go back didn’t live very long… fortunately”

 

DTG Liam could you put Bishop Lydeard (west somerset railway) on the route hop at Paddington as well. Although we don't have Taunton in the game, trains do connect from Taunton to Bishop Lydeard or prehaps a route hop to Norton Fitzwarren from paddington?

 

I think I’m still in a slight state of shock at how poor a replacement the IETs are for the HSTs. I know they were getting to the stage of having to be replaced, but they really messed up with those things. (Sorry, slightly OT)

 

I'm still waiting for the route hop from Barking Riverside to Zwolle.

 

Better yet just get rid of the route hop markers and implement the ability to teleport to any route and station you want

 

A good suggestion I saw for instead of hop markers is to have a member of staff you can go and speak to. That wouldn't break the immersion and would seem very natural.

 

I do feel if you give some people an inch they'll take a mile of adding ridiculous ideas...

As Liam has just stated, the hopping points should only be placed in logical places that have relevance to the route.

 

Can't?
I'm no programmer but I really don't believe this.
Maybe you're using the word in a different sense to my understanding of it.

 

While I appreciate you doing this in your own time and it will awesome have time frame has to when you will start testing the route for release.

 

Any chance of nagging the people in charge to give us the ability to hide the markers? They are the only in-game markers that can’t be hidden and they are an eyesore especially at night. They might be nice for people who like the gimmicky nature of what they do or fans of immovable radioactive Daleks but for me (and I dare say many other players) they are just spoiling the view of a growing number of stations across the game. This was feedback given on the first day we saw them and we can still see them all the time now.

 

If not hide, at least make more discreet.

 

Like a period telephone box / booth?

 

Actually not a bad idea!

 

A TARDIS! How appropriate for travelling across time and space

 

Except that route hopping doesn't have you travel through time and space. Just the same time and spot in another DLC

 

I suppose technically it does, as not all the linked routes are set in exactly the same time period.

Now that opens potential for some paradoxes…

 

Well, we already came up with the idea of something like simply a railway employee you would talk to, which Matt liked and promised to implement around.. seven months ago. Yeah.

 

Never used the " hopping " feature and don't think I ever will. Maybe it saves you a click or two when changing from one route to another, but it's just another gimmicky notion instead of a feature with real utility.

It's there because some bright spark thought it was cool, not because any of us asked for it.

Multiple, reliable saves would be cool, too. Ever thought of that DTG?

 

Route hopping would be useful in this scenario….
You arrive in to Preston from Blackpool. While seated in the loco you select route hop and that positions you exactly where you are on WCMLoS with the same train so that you can begin a session on that route (obvs you’d need to run your loco around first before setting off!).

 

Except BPO uses a weekend timetable and WCMLoS does not, so even if route hopping worked like that it would not be possible sadly...

 

And how many more seconds to exit that BPO service, pick one from WCMLOS and hit " get started "?

Notwithstanding the fact that I wouldn't have time in one session to run two consecutive services.

 

I hope you appreciate that some of the above suggestions were not serious. Mine was just a light-hearted dig at DTG for the lack of an East Anglian route to fill the gap between London and the Netherlands.

 

The timetables are still virtually the same.

I've gone between these routes countless times by route hopping, and the majority of services I've seen at Preston arriv3led and departed at the same time on both routes.

 

Why is it so hard to keep on time with 166 I'm always late

 

At some point the physics got changed (corrected) to tame the acceleration but the timetable didn’t get adjusted to match. Hopefully the remaster will address that.

 

So doing a freight run and noticed the class 66 lights the so bright during i had turn them off should they be that bright.

 

On the subject of route hopping, it would be nice to be able to select a timetable when you route hop, it just defaults to the standard timetable if there's more than one timetable, e.g. on WCMLs

 

You using a TOD4 66? It's a TOD3 route.

 

Class 66 DB

 

Is it the one that comes with WCML South? The headlights on that one are dodgy. Overly bright, even on TOD4 routes and they look like they're off on the model until you're literally 5cm away from the locomotive.

 

Yes thats the one

 

that one is very odd when I look at the headlight then look away from them the sky is very dark for a few seconds quite odd.

 

I had this. If you were running on GWE then you were probably using a newer version of the 66, that has the Tod 4 lighting. Its because GWE isnt TOD 4 compatible yet

Hentis

 

I'd say as trains they are pretty good. The only thing that is a letdown on the GWR IETs is the seating. Avanti's 805s are quite nice I find.

 

Avanti and lumo both have some pretty good seats imo. (Standard class)

 

Did the class 166 ever run in 6 car formations.

 

It did

 

Just not in the game then

 

That sounds awesome

 

So playing the aggregates journey and it saying the last job is 8hrs long please tell me that is a typo