What you always wanted to see for MSTS

[terrycunliffe]

Well Ruf,
The Oldham loop will be included in NWE V3 (with reasonably correct gradients )

[rufuskins]

Well Ruf,
The Oldham loop will be included in NWE V3 (with reasonably correct gradients )

I'm so excited as The Pointer Sisters would sing!

As I've mentioned on numerous occasions the Oldham Loop disappears as a railway line this October and re-emerges as a Metro extension in 2012 - give or take in the current circumstances.

Will it be single line between Shaw and Crompton and Rochdale as present, or will you adopt a little licence and make it double?

Well that just leaves items 2, 3 and 4; and whilst I'm on a roll has anyone else got good news for me?

Ruf

[energize]

I've always wanted to see Cardiff-Southampton done because I think that route's been ignored for some time. Sorry I've forgotten - DC v6 will include Southampton-Salisbury :2gunfire: . Anyway, even Salisbury - Bristol would be welcomed due to the variety of traffic. For instance, one could take a 158 on a Pompey-Cardiff service from Salisbury to Bristol, a 33 with 5 mk1s, or even a 47 on a Speedlink from Eastleigh yard to Severn Tunnel Junction (included on BrisCard I think). Even the odd class 123 made an occasional appearance.

[rfletcher72]

4. EMUs - outstanding Classes 302, 307, 309, 316 and 501 to 504

Ruf

Classes 302 and 309 are included in Making Tracks' Great Eastern route.

Class 501 is included on the Thames Mersey DVD.

A Class 504 unit is included on the East Lancashire Railway add-on

[rufuskins]

Classes 302 and 309 are included in Making Tracks' Great Eastern route.

Class 501 is included on the Thames Mersey DVD.

A Class 504 unit is included on the East Lancashire Railway add-on

Thanks for the heads up!

That's the problem when you have so much stock and still trying to sort it - I've not included proprietary stock in my master TOPS folders yet, and hence a needs to be adopted. I've not installed Thames-Mersey yet either, but I am in the process of installing a number of routes so perhaps I was a bit too previous.

Ruf

[abclare]

Hi
Working turntable.

Cheers
Jon

Good one Jon i agree with that.

[qzdcg8]

A deep line Underground route but done so you could view the action from outside the train - i.e. as a cutaway so yuo could see back into the rail tunnels and station passageways

You mean like this?



(Euston tube station on Sjoerd Ydema's excellent Northern line route)

Tim

cool - where can I get this

[ashgray]

Simply by Googling it: http://www.simulationexpress.co.uk/msts.php

Ash

[lateagain]

One of my favorite and interesting routes, Woodhead, would love to see it updated with the tools that are available now.
Regards Ross

I'll second that!

Geoff

[lateagain]

What I'd like to see is a Paddington Westward Route fully and realistically sceneried. When you see MEP this is the standard I'm looking at.

Ditto for a London to Brighton Route set in the transition era.

I think that although there will always be stuff that is "new" (as in not done before) we should be looking at revisiting classics and making "era specific" versions. Many older members of the community know what railways were like in the transition era and the trains, track and traffic were a different world from todays railways. If there's a present day version of a route then revise the track and signalling and make a transition era version and vice versa?

Stock packs for routes that would give prototypical stock with compatible physics, brakes and couplings so that activities could concentrate on the movement rather than searching out and downloading stock.

Finally there is a lot in the library that most of the authors would admit was "an early effort" and often they've gone on to produce better quality models as their skill has increased. Updating early models would be a plus?

[gswindale]

Simply by Googling it: http://www.simulationexpress.co.uk/msts.php

Ash

Or by looking in the UKTS library

London Underground Northern Line [78691076 bytes] - northern-1.zip File ID: 19204 Date: 07 Jan 2009 - 5150 Downloads

[shebarose]

Thames Mersey relaid in UKFS (Better get started Dave *runs*)

Prehaps a route where you can start at a depot in a 47 then go and fill it up and collect some MK1s

[johnmnstl]

In a similar veign it would be nice if Don made BD2 compatable with BC1 and merged them into one route

(Now I'm running too)

[shebarose]

How about merging all the UK routes together and see which lines aint covered and build them to release UKTS - The UK by 2010

[bigvern]

Ft. William - Malliag.

Funny, I could swear I made that one...twice!



I think more than content it would have been nice to have seen a few more improvements to the core...
Modelling of train suspension movement and cab dip/sway.
A career mode/tracker.
Upgrading the AI to be dynamic, i.e. not sticking to the defined path but resolving conflicts and stand-offs.
Proper modelling of on train signalling/safety systems - AWS, ATP etc.

Unfortunately even Kuju's spiritual successor (RS/RW) hasn't managed much of that, other than a basic iplementation of AWS.