Dovetail Games Cardiff City Network Preview Q&a

Thank you for everyone who Joined the stream last night, now locking this thread, here are the questions we answered below.

Can the 150/153 work with pacers 170s and 158s?
As shown in the Stream work together plus 158, 170 and 142.

Is there any blurring textures in this route?
We are continuing to work through this as a core issue, there maybe some reduced textures on Gen 8 Consoles.

Will we have access to the Class 153 toilet, in order to use the emergency coolant refill feature?
No

Have we had any Third Party Support in making the route?
Yes, multiple partners have contributed to this project.

Will the PIS at stations show off route destination?
Yes, virtual destinations are implemented

Why was the route back dated but the timetable is current?
The difference isn’t much. The timetable we could access is the current one, but we wanted to focus on a diesel period route just before the wires came in – its about 2 years. Backdating the timetable would likely have meant making it up.

Is the full timetable included in the route?
Mostly, there are some missing services compared to reality, but the majority are included along with a lot of AI.

What’s the Max Speed Limit?
75 mph

Is TPWS working and implemented?
Yes

With this being the first network style route on quite this kind of scale (as opposed to say Cathcart which is similar but less complicated), what were the biggest challenges to developing the route?
Being a network style route doesn’t really pose any additional challenges, if anything, it was refining the scope of the route to give a good experience because you always want to add more!