Fictional Or Half-fictional Routes: Would You Buy It?

If I working for/with DTG I think the only route I'll make is real: for what I know they're interested only in real line, they want to keep safe any contracts with rail operators (especially if someone create a LIRR based network without safety system in it, this is a recently discussion) and maybe can Help you with a license of a specific train....
So in that case the best think I can have is building something real....
But if you're alone and do it in your free time maybe it can be free

 

No thanks

 

I always keep an eye on the Holiday express, the first and yet only fictional route DTG released. I think the DLC does not use a logo of a real operator, the locos are branded with fictional "Richie Rails" logos. Yet it kind of uses a real train, the F7. If one has the skills, it might be possible to get a fictional livery like that on a real based train for a fictional route to not infringe any trademark laws and harm contracts.

 

I’m interested in routes that maintain a certain level of realism so I wouldn’t want unicorns and flying trains… but I am fine with mixing in occasional fictional routes that attempt to capture the spirit of a region/time period.

Give me some old school US stuff on a fictional route that mimics a Midwestern setting and it’s possible we end up with something more enjoyable than what exists in real life.

 

What you quoted of what I wrote is called decontextualizing. And magically what I wrote completely changes meaning.

You talked about financial problems assuming that the route developer ran out of resources to close a realistic project...

I reversed the problem, assuming that I, the customer, did not have enough money.

My problem, of course if I had financial problems the developer would not come to my aid. Without ifs and buts.