https://www.rsslo.com/product/maxima_40cc_hvle/ new german diesel loco by RSSLO. I thought I´d leave this here, because German diesel locos have always been a rare thing in TSC.
I've read the rail-sim thread, seems to be a low quality effort with ridiculous sound and jerky physics. No thanks. I mean RSSLO is what it is, though their Treuchtlingen route is ok, after playing AP MML it looks at least ten years dated still. And their locos (if not made by RWA) are just LOVE. (Jerky, immediate traction force, LZB not working correctly, etc.). Cheap and efficient "rapid assembly line" stuff. Only for a highly reduced price and taken care of by modders.
Community will sort it. Just bought it and testing now. I hope not. If so, well, I have a new AI loco. someone is already replacing veg for the route and tracks have been replaced. I think it´s one of the better efforts by rsslo. I use to drive the route in real life and it seems fine to me. As no one else is doing german routes, we have to work with what we can get. PS: one or two people at railsim saying ,that something is LOVE means nothing. There are some hyper critical folks on railsim. I actually enjoy some add-ons, that are considered "worthless" over on Railsim.
Yeah, community will sort it but RSSLO get the cash for a simple model and copypaste blueprints / sounds, so no cash from me until heavily reduced. (Would rather give René a few bucks for a soundpack...) And I won't buy directly from RSSLO, their failed DRM on Treuchtlingen (if you don't have M-N) needed me to expose their DRM (0-byte textfiles in some Railworks subfolders, filecheck via hidden signal script.) They have not responded ever since.
Spikee1975 I just did a testrun on the inselbahn. In reality the Maxima is often seen hauling a very heavy grain train towards Mukran. I hauled 22 fully loaded wagons (most locos in TS would struggle with this task) for a couple of minutes and the physics seemed belieble enough for me and a lot better than with the Eurodual by RSSLO. Not too much jerking going on (some jerking on a fully loaded train is totally realistic by the way!). Breaking was also fine. I don´t regret buying the loco as of now.
I keep complaining to RSSLO of their use of UK wagons from the ELAP in their Quick drives. They use vehicles that are not seen outside of the UK and the way they assemble the container train is stupid.
The couple of scenarios that come with the routes are known not to be the greatest. RSSLO is the only company left churning out German and Austrian routes since DTG stopped. They know the communties will modify the routes and make scenarios. Allthough scenarios have become a rare thing over on Railsim. No comparing to ATS, where you get one or two scenarios uploaded a day. Over on Railsim, it´s more like one a week now. Too many alternatives with Simrail, Zusi, Train Sim World and all that jazz. Allthough Train Sim Classic remains to have the largest collection of German rolling stock and routes. Sometimes I´m actually suprised how much this game still has going for it ... but users and scenario creators have definitly been fading away the past years. Understandable to some degree. Making scenarios is a pain in Train SIm Classic. I´ve built several routes, but when making a scenario, I loss my patients after one or two days. The dispatcher seems random at times and process of setting up AI trains is tiresome. I hope we get some kind of AI application one day, that can help out with that subject. We have allready seen external applications doing announcements and graphic enhancements. So why not have something make scenario creation easier?
What’s needed is quick drive plus, so you can set up your run in a bit more detail, including station calls and any odd routing you might fancy and decide if you want it to top up your career score. I’m currently enjoying a renaissance with TSC especially after setting up my randomiser system, but fear it won’t last. TSW does provide an inexorable draw particularly with the all day timetable. I mean, Suburban NW Glasgow came up using my system last night and it’s pitiful. Six scenarios for a busy urban commuter route, which don’t even run the full length of the line and one of which is a Class 158 test run! With TSW5 or at the least a major update due to land in just over a month, I fear the temptation will be too much. There also likely expansions to SimRail to consider plus the ever present truck sims and Snowrunner. And the occasional bit of Run 8. It doesn’t help that TSC seems to have entered something of a limbo where future development is concerned. We don’t really know how much resources DTG are allocating to the game and other than the beta forum, no clear roadmap or presentation regarding the future as we see with TSW. We know DTG have discontinued new in house content for TSC, how long before they decide to draw a line under the core and leave it as a legacy product putting all their focus on TSW?
I do not understand you, you're long enough with TSC to know that the supplied scenarios should be considered a starter pack for the hobbyists, giving you an idea what's happening there and inspiration for your own creations. For the pure gamer it's a set of jobs to do for achievements and completing a DLC. There is 35 scenarios on the workshop for this route. If you don't use workshop, you'll miss out on the best scenarios for this game. Again I mention my favourites Coasty and Not.Silent with really awesome scenarios full of life and added scenery. If you reduce the TSW timetable to unique services, there's only a handful left per timetable. You can run Cathcart clock or counterclockwise. Same services, only different times. QD is stronger in TSC (and you can just make passenger stops without needing an instruction.) Considering different routing, just add a player spawn marker to the QD with your desired path. Just like people start adding paths for scenario planner in TSW, this job is a hundred times easier in TSC. And I know you'll be coming back again Vern after the next TSW disappointment What's the relation to the Maxima? Not sure...
I don't understand your reply to my question of using incorrect locos and stock in a scenario? Will you be using a Union Pacific SD40-2 with a few Swiss wagons on a German local route?
You can run anything you like anywhere you like in TSC, that's one of the beauties of it. UK wagons turning up in the middle of Europe doesn't seem particularly far-fetched, there is a mainline rail connection underneath the Straits of Dover after all, and that quintessentially British steam engine the Flying Scotsman has run railtours in Australia and the USA. There's an old saying that goes something like there is a prototype for (nearly) everything.
The difference with the Flying Scotsman it the loco was exported to the US and Australia for a number of years. And if having the correct type of train on a route is not important why do scenario creators go out of their way to put what they consider the proper wagons on services. Don't they have the EL&AP? If you have travelled extensively in Europe as I have to see something that is out of place and does not look right stands out. RSSLO use UK Wagons in their PreLoad consists which does not look right.
My concern with what I've seen of RSSLO's Maxima 40cc Hvle is that the external texturing is very flat, with no tonal variation or weathering at all. Is that concern real?
