The Yamanote Line is the famous “outer circle” route around central Tokyo. It has featured in Densha de Go on many occasions and the JR East drive the video clip sim also offers it - not sure if the full circuit. It would certainly be iconic for TSW, the only snag I can see, well two actually, are 1. Licensing as it appears Ongakukan have the JR East licence and, 2. The sheer urban complexity could be too much for TSW not to mention the timetable which runs at something like two minute intervals for much of the day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamanote_Line
Guess licensing isnt a problem if Union Workshop took care of it, though I dont know if they would be able to do it for TSW, their Toyko route on TSC was good, but they are taking a good amount of dev time for their 1st TSW route, that plus you really need ALL the traffic in Toyko to make the route feel proper, makes me thing this wont be an option.
Yes the Yamanote interfaces with so many other lines you would need multiple types of train for the AI. Otherwise it would end up being like Cathcart or BCC.
Oh ok, but also you need to stop spamming on the chat especially what happened to your last thread where it got locked.
At some future juncture it would be great to see some of the old Densha De Go routes make their way into TSW. However as I just noted in another Japanese route thread, the stumbling block appears to be Union Workshop and the very slow speed they are moving at. Unless DTG consider doing an in house JP route or can find other third parties competent to work with the editors, it could be a long time if ever before that dream could be realised.
So, yesterday, actually had a chance to play one of the modern Densha De Go Arcade cabinets with the Yamanote Line at a convention, and at one point, think approaching Shinagawa Station, ended up seeing at least 3 other lines at the same time, which included the E233 of the Tōkaidō Main Line, the E259 of the Narita Express, and another train of a line I didn't recognize. I just don't think TSW will ever be able to capture that same feeling in any commercial projects, either from DTG or Union Workshop, and the route would probably be heavily criticized, especially when compared to IRL and the Densha De Go counterparts.
The work around that UW uses is that they simply make trains and locations without the JR group's logo seen anywhere, similar to how DTG handled that one British rail company pulling out right before the launch of TSW 5. What makes their work decently executed is that, JR trains generally have super basic livery schemes and very minimal corporate markings. On the Kiha 40 for the upcoming Tadami Line, venerable rolling stock left over from the JNR era, I don't think JR East had their logo painted anywhere on the train car. JR West definitely doesn't anywhere on the exterior. If they did any kind of Tokyo based trains, such as the E235 or E233, the logo would appear on the sides and at the head ends with the JR mark and "East Japan Railway Company" painted on, which would be absent on their TSC renditions. Fortunately, the JR Logo is very easy to recreate as long as these trains are compatible with the livery editor.
