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Route and loco prices for TS Classic (DTG and 3rd party) cover a huge gamut- and there are a fair number of customers who are willing to pay...

Nothing? Oh, I disagree. What has been taken away is anticipation, as well as hope, and trust.

Part of the problem is that the texture mapping doesn't allow for multiple reflectivity layers, so one can't do matte dirt on top of gloss paint.

Part of the way this was mishandled goes beyond the error of jumping the gun and announcing, too early, features that would not in the event come...

IRL, locomotives are only glossy when they're fresh out of the wash, with fairly new paint. They get dull pretty quickly in service. Amtrak...

Yes, but different HEP secondary engines.

No. He's really more the shop foreman, keeping the line workers at their jobs. He isn't the bloke in a suit with the ledgers.

JD's job is Community Manager. He's literally paid to understand the community.

You sure about that? We have just learned that Riesa-Dresden has been hacked down to worthlessness because there "wasn't enough developer time"...

Not entirely true. A game purchased on Steam can only be played via Steam, and vice-versa; no Steam DLC can be played with the Epic version. Just...

It's simple, Natalie: the player base want better and bigger and more interesting routes, not just more of the same - and, very importantly, would...

(Insert long row of applause emojis)

I haven't bought all the existing German routes, because they're all pretty much the same. No interest in another one, unless it's interesting.

I evaluate routes for purchase by three criteria: interesting gameplay, new, diverse rolling stock, and nice scenery. Cane Creek's A+ in the last...

Sam: "This [prolonged and intense player backlash] is the kind of thing that gets the level of attention needed to make some changes." Whose...

Yeah, Sam is what Tom Wolfe dubbed a "flak-catcher" and he carries out a lousy job amazingly well. Respect.

In other words, PPP=PPP (poor prior planning = p***-poor performance)

Insult to injury. First yesterday's announcement, and then having punched us in the face now they spit on us. "Of no interest to existing...

While I understand what Sam is saying - I am not a DTG basher, just disappointed - and I do understand the business realities the firm has to deal...

That is true of absolutely every route with layers. One doesn't get "full use" (in your term) of HMA either without also owning several other...

No, but you have a pretty good idea. If it's the Dodgers or the Berliner Philharmoniker, good performances are a safe bet. The Orioles or the...

But at least on PC it can be fixed with an .ini tweak.

The problem is that when shunting, "front" and "back" don't really exist.

No branches are ever added. DTG don't do route extensions.

In which case, you're still hungry.

It's like cutting out 25% of a mystery novel-- the last 25%

If you don't like the tough, charred steak we served you, don't eat it. Simple.

Rather removes the point of "Rush Hour" to cut out the actual commuter lines!

Except that with at least two of the routes you're buying a pig in a poke. Pre release there's no way to tell whether they're worth buying. A...

I'm probably in the same boat, not as a protest but simply because the castrated route holds zero interest for me. I can run point-to-point under...

What it boils down to is that for me, any future route would have to be hit for six, as judged by the community, before I'd spend money on it.

While I understand what you are saying, and I expect it would be roundly approved by the faculty of Harvard Business School, to my mind short-term...

I voted to delay Dresden only and include the S-Bahn. Why not add London Bridge? Because it was never part of what was originally promised. The...

As to that, the six routes for the next fiscal year were chosen back in Feb-March. Three of them we know, the other three we don't yet.

That, and the staggered release makes the bundle/pass thingy far less appealing, since many players, I believe, like me never, ever buy in...

Now am unlikely to buy any of them until and unless both Boston and Brighton have been released and are well reviewed, then might buy the bundle...

May as well make it the year 2031. There is never going to be an editor. You can stop holding your breath.

And DTG have really created a cleft stick for the customer. Imagine a player is interested in NEC. Assume further that NEC is released to...

TBH, I think it more likely that DTG's venture-capital backers are insisting on a constant flow of releases, with no slippage in shipping product....

Just buy the bundle, then delete Riesa-Dresden.

Exactly. If when RH was announced two months ago DTG had stated "Three routes for forty bucks, staggered release in September-October," and...

One question, important at least to me: Why why WHY were the airport and Meissen lines cut from Riesa-Dresden??? You've just removed all that...

German DLCs certainly have fallen into a boring rut. Why buy more of the same?

"Want?" Yes. "Deserve?" Do get real.

The decision to nerf Dresden has turned me from a "Buy whole package at launch" customer to "treat Riesa-Dresden like Hamburg-Lubeck" - i.e. wait...

The Dispatcher is a core game function; it goes beyond any one route, or Adam's team's abilitiy to upgrade. Simply put, until the dispatcher, in...

Note also that even if you have a 143 layer, the loco is too slow to keep to the passenger timetable on HMA.

Actually, it does work from the pause menu map, but it doesn't seem to: in other words, you can't see the purple line move, but the switch really...

You have to work fast. No time to dawdle!

Well, that stinks. And up until now I was looking forward to R-D being almost a network.