Ecw Extension

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  1. ben#4827

    ben#4827 Well-Known Member

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    Ok now route extensions can happen please please please, the east coastway need to finished of to ore, and this is my local route so I'd love have this and would also include 171
     
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  2. Asheix

    Asheix Active Member

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    I have wanted this ever since it came out. Brighton to Eastbourne just feels incomplete. I think the Class 171s only go as far as Eastbourne now, but I do remember when they went from Ashford Intl to Brighton with only 2 coaches. That was an awful experience during rush hour.
     
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  3. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    Better make it as Eastbourne Ore Ashford that way it links with SEHS extended the TSW 3 base route. Basically Ashford International is busy with 465/9 66 171 375 395
     
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  4. matt#4801

    matt#4801 Well-Known Member

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    I honestly wouldn't want to see this in game... yet. I am fed up with routes in the southeast with the boring flat wasteland which surrounds the tracks you are driving on, I mean come on there is nothing north of London in the modern era.
     
  5. AtherianKing

    AtherianKing Well-Known Member

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    It’s like DTG mimics the closing effects of the pits, after the 80s everything died off ;)
     
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  6. matt#4801

    matt#4801 Well-Known Member

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    I mean what are we thinking, how dare the north still exist!!;)
     
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  7. AtherianKing

    AtherianKing Well-Known Member

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    What’s the north again ;)
    “laughs as I realise Scotland and It’s capital is closer than London to me, rather significantly”
     
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  8. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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    It would be better extended to Ore and Hastings. Also could you include more detail such as stations and trains?
     
  9. jack travers

    jack travers Well-Known Member

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    Honestly didn’t think I’d ever see you Begging for a modern era route but since it’s about up North then I agree
     
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  10. UnlimitedMagic

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    There is Cathcart Circle.
     
  11. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    Build the Leeds network
    Or York
    Or anywhere other than Manchester (which is barely north anyway)... :cool:
     
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  12. matt#4801

    matt#4801 Well-Known Member

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    haha mysterious things happen ;)
    I mean it is time for some BR blue to make a reappearance though.
     
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  13. matt#4801

    matt#4801 Well-Known Member

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    Wow one route which is set in Scotland anyway so there is nothing up north which I generally think of and was refering to as the north of England as England and Scotland are different countries.
     
  14. samuelbrookes1

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    If they extend East Coastway to Ashford, I'd also like to see the section from Wivelsfield to Lewes, so you can drive services all the way from London Victoria to Eastbourne and Ore.
     
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  15. UnlimitedMagic

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    If they made a WCML or ECML up north that would be nice
     
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  16. matt#4801

    matt#4801 Well-Known Member

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    That is exactly my point as I would love to see one of these mainlines (much preferably the ECML) recreated rather than another load of rubbish from the southeast.
     
  17. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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    Cathcart isn't modern
    The trains you drive in CCL are outdated and were dis-used in 2009. The trains currently operating on CCL Irl are the Class 380 Simmens Desiro's.
     
  18. ARuscoe

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    Some people think the 60s was "modern"... 2009 gives them a nosebleed lol
     
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  19. transport

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    I agree although my preference goes to the WCML beyond Liverpool lime street up to Edinburgh Waverley or Glasgow
     
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  20. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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    Lol
     
  21. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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    WCML is probably too long. Unless they increase the max route size it would have to be a segment.
     
  22. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    There's no such thing as a "max route size" technically. Never has been.
    The route size limitation is on dev time and dev focus, so longer routes usually means more things to develop.
    The reason that longer routes are being done now is they have some auto build tools, but these generally work for long stretches of track with not much happening (such as high speed lines through the countryside)

    In game, the route is loaded as "tiles" so only the bit you're in at the moment, the few tiles ahead of you and some to the sides and behind (so you can see a bit further) are loaded. The rest sit on the hard disk til they're needed. This causes some of the "stutters" you see at tile edges, where the game is trying to load in more tiles and offload what it doesn't need anymore
     
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  23. transport

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    Good point
     
  24. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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    Okay, interesting but it would still use alot of storage
     
  25. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    I'm on PC. Storage isn't an issue (3.5Tb over three disks) but I'm sure for some it might be. That's also part of the balance DTG have to strike I guess
     

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