[fw] Rhein-niers-bahn: Duisburg - M-gladbach Discussions Thread

So, in case of a, let’s say, RRX license, who would you contact?! (Feel free to exchange RRX with other examples of regional train operators whom you would like to see)

 

I can imagine just as well the company may not give a LOVE or straight up say no. Why risk your image for a game, when their business is transport?
Really, the livery designer is so powerful that this is a rather minor problem.

If anything what they also seem to be rather lethargic at (minus TSG) is giving us alternate liveries that use the same licenses but from alternate times/places.

 

If it's a protected trademark, it has a recorded license owner, if it's not, then it's even easier.

 

I believe the problem with public transport in Germany is that you have a lot of stakeholder and the state is always involved. DTG have apparently made experience in trying to get hold of a license for the RRX (judging by what can be read here in the forums) and I am pretty sure that most of the other „coloured trains“ (that are not cargo) will have similar hurdles to overcome.

I am simply having a hard time in believing it’s as simply as „calling the company to buy the license“. I see those comments all the time but never see any proof that this is actually the case. I was hoping locobilly actually knows more than I do and would provide some evidence to his claim…

 

@locobilly
If it's so easy to get a licence, then get one yourself.

And who is supposed to pay for this licence, which can sometimes be very expensive?
You're making it sound too easy.

Otherwise, you can prove us wrong.

 

im sure if a license could be obtained by DTG they would have done it just like they have with numerous others.

Sometimes license holders have no wish to negotiate and no amount of throwing money at them is going to change that fact

 

In Germany, regions do have public transport federations (verkehrsverbund or something like that). There are some in game, like the ones from Dresden and Frankfurt. The trains itself are operated by different companies, so if you want to do it correctly, you need a license from the federation and the transport company.

When licensing is becoming to difficult, maybe it's time to have more fictive liveries, like correct collors but without logos. Just having older and/or DB only routes, is becoming quite boring. Rivet did something like that with Island Line 2022, and having this is better then having nothing. While I'm prefering to drive on German routes, I almost completely lost my interest in the newer ones, because of the same rolling stock over and over again. But even more modern DB trains are missing, new IC dosto or the new dosto on Main Spessart Bahn. DTG can do a remake of Main Spessart Bahn for example, but there are also still DB operated (branche) lines nowadays, even scenic ones. It looks like, almost all routes has to be around the bigger cities and with the same rolling stock.

 

The Main-Spessart route is locked into 2016-17, when the Rampe and Heigenbrucken were still in use before the new tunnel bypassed them.

 

Correct, so it has to be a remake to include the tunnel. But a longer new route on this line would be nice.