As Peter said above, there are folks who will host files ...or as I do, I save the route and assets folders to Google Drive, share it and provide the link to it to the host. When people download the Folders from a host site they are actually downloading it from my Google Drive. In the future I will also create a separate Scenarios folder so that when any scenario issues are fixed I will not have to send replacement scenario files to the host for them to host, I will just need to update my scenarios folder and let the hosts know to mention that an update is available. For South Lancs. things got a bit messy with the first couple of phases as we had used reskins of assets from several sources, this meant a rather painful installation process for people so that assets and reskins ended up in the right place, but usually hosting routes this way does not create any more complexity for people downloading routes than via the Workshop.....so basically, don't give up simply because you can't use the Workshop......many ways to skin a cat. Andy
I find the german community is taking a big hit at the moment. Many projects have been stopped and a lot of people seem to be moving to TSW3 and Simrail at the moment. Also the numer of german freeware scenarios is getting less and less at the moment. Unlike the UK, that seems to be alive well looking at all the new scenarios everyday on ATS. Also UK, Austria etc. have most mainline routes complete at this point. I understand Germany is a big country, with a complex railsystem... but there is massive lack of mainline routes on the german side. Lots of small chunks of route here and there or branch line routes.... and unlike other countries, I don´t see anyone doing important german routes in the future.
DTG & RSSLO and a few other makes continue to release German routes. I have noticed the German routes that have been released by third parties have been Fictional Im Köblitzer Bergland, Brennitzer Linienstern, Bremerhaven-Bremen, Projekt Freiberg (Sachs) V2.1, Kerbestrecke 1994 V1.0 are 5 good examples and when Fictional routes are made it does nothing for the German map. http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/train-simulator-classic_252726#6/50.674/17.139
Ultimately there are only so many route builders out there, whether for freeware or payware. Many of us have been doing this for over 20 years since MSTS if not before with Train Driver 3 and start to get more than a little burned out. I primarily build in Trainz as even though the driving is pants, Surveyor with Transdem is the best route making tool out there. I have got a couple of projects in TS I look at from time to time, but both are semi fictional - the one I'm working on now being a UK heritage line built on the path of one of the closed Spanish lines now converted to a greenway.
I´ll have to correct you on this one. Bremerhaven-Bremen is real life and well done freeware route. I know this very well, as I drive it myself as a german driver and I´m also in close contact with the guy, who´s built this route. It´s currently beeing extented to Hannover. Acutally, it´s getting very close. He has a done a great. One of the last hopes of the German freeware community. I´m currently working on of the other freeware projects. The "Harz-Netz". This route will include some of the most scienic routes in the area set in the year 2000. We chose this time, because you can run old and new stock at the same time in this year according to the old timetable. It´s a real life set of routes, but will also depict a disused line, that was closed in the 1970´s. But I´m still hoping for DTG to give us something like Dortmund-Duisburg, Berlin-Potsdam oder Frankfurt-Würzburg on TS Classic in the future. The Pegnitzalbahn was done well, but the choice of route was an absolute let-down, because the german community is allready flooded with scienic routes running through the middle of nowhere (Moselbahn, Schwarzwaldbahn, Pegnitzbahn). If I want some mainline action, I usually head over to the UK and run a Class 90, Class 390 or Class 800 from London to X.
Yes. My bad. I had looked at it but I did not install it as I did not have all the requirements. It would be nice if DTG did some routes thru the Ruhr - those that exit are getting old and Koln - Düsseldorf is bad with fierce gradient changes
