If DTG offered editable mini maps with their virtual end stations such as Kassel, a route building community member could build a route to, say, Gottingen, to which users could hop. In the case of Frankfurt, we probably have to rely on DTG to connect us to Mainz, but with Mainz, a user could build out. Bad Homburg is another instance. Otherwise how will we reach Siegen, Giessen, Braunschweig ? DTG might never share a Hannover or Hamburg, but a Magdeburg would let us reach Braunschweig. How else can we connect Leipzig to Erfurt, Dresden and some station closer to Berlin ? Offering an adjacent station with little investment in surrounding scenery by DTG seems to me to be a way forward that largely protects DTG content, but might bring in more third parties. Union Workshop cannot do much of Japan on their own. Without a kludge, we may remain without France, Italy or simply Brussels. A station made available as a hop would let developers do what DTG does not: get out and see the station as we would in Fernbus or ETS2 as we do today. For a step outside the fron entrance of L.A. Union Station, we must wait on DTG to offer a prize tile, but third parties could offer a feature to entice buyers or to entice co-developers of free community add-ons. Or am i off the mark ? We may not get to where Flight Sim is today, but get a step closer to other Unreal 5 sims tomorrow.
On London Commuter the Balham station is a case in point as we have the Southern line split here, we can walk to the SE rails of that split, the sidings are on our live map, but how could we build SE from there without being able to hop at Balham ? What would it cost DTG to give user-builders a Balham tile solely for builds SE over-ground in South London extending Southern lines ?
