Gwe Remaster: Appreciation And Discussion Thread

It not adding services is only half the issue, I was one of those the bunch complaining about it. You know what one of my favorite loco's is though? The MP36, adds nothing new, but the engine's so different from the standard F40 that it makes up for that, the F59PHR is in the same boat. The Class 20 now does add railtours, but before JT was doing their thing that wasn't too different either. It technically adds some services to Tees, but only three, outside of that bulk of what you'll be doing is just hauling the normal coal services. But again, the 20's different enough to be worthwhile even with that in mind.

The real issue is both that plus the fact of that plus the 86 is so similar to the 87 that's the bigger problem. The only really thing you're getting is a slower, slightly (and I do mean slightly) different looking 87, which I just don't think really gives this pack wide appeal. Honestly I tend to not even care which is which, the power decrease doesn't really feel that noticeable, and you zone out the differences like the windows probably 10 minutes into a run.

I think it also needs to be said, there's more options than just "doing it/not doing it". The obvious one to me would be to hold off on the 86 and save it for a future route. Alternatively, maybe we should've gotten the 86 as a Expert engine, that would've done a lot to make it a must have even with the 87 already in the game.

 

Yeah, and that can either be filled by the closest thing, or left hidden, until the train comes out.

 

I haven't played with the PC Editor much so maybe this is an obvious "no", but when building a timetable is it not possible to use one loco / unit in place of another to populate the services, whilst using a specific naming convention for those particular services? That would then allow them to act as placeholders and enable easy replacement later on. Even if it's a manual job it would allow for easy identification of the services that need to be updated.