What you always wanted to see for MSTS

[lateagain]

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.

I'll second all of those!

Dip and Sway exists in BVE and I'd settle for that only in cab view mode in MSTS? After all that's where it would be most impressive?

Geoff

BTW Vern what's the train in your new avtar out of interest?

[pendolinobasher]

What i really wanted to see was my local line Norwich-Liverpool Lime Street, with a good supply of 158s,156,170s and 153s it would of been really good plus with mstsbin easily making the user switch cabs it can switch over at Ely and i think Sheffield

[NiallGray]

I would have loved to have seen a SPT route, ie the entire Strathclyde area, allowing a huge range of activities and stock possibilities. There are a number of routes which cover a lot of the SPT area, but would have been nice to have it all in one, and ideally, MT to make it!

That said, should Glas-Car ver 3 ever be completed, I'd probably be open to working on a version 4 extension, should there be someone who'd be willing to do the trackwork and signalling (I'd do the scenery). But any such decision on that is still a loooooooong way off!

Commercial-wise, the following are all hypothetical and just my own thoughts.

WCML is one of the few EB routes I like, I would have loved to see that series continued. It's not perfect but the era is more for me than Thames Mersey.

As for the MT routes, LSE is an excellent route and maybe would have like to seen that extended further into Kent. As for Scottish Capital Express, extend it westwards out of Queen Street towards the West Highland line, and give me chance to run 26/27s up towards the likes of Oban and run EMUs on the local services around Dalmuir/Helensburgh.

That said, compared to other sims, we're a lot a better off in terms of overall choice and personally, the new stock with SCE means I almost have everything I need for retro acts now.

[bigvern]

BTW Vern what's the train in your new avtar out of interest?

It's a Japanese electric Class 153! Officially I believe designated HK100 and used on local services across the Hokuhoku line from Naetso to Echigo Yuzawa. Was actually the first train I "drove" in Densha de Go and having recently reacquainted myself with the game thought it represented a suitably quirky avatar.

[lateagain]

BTW Vern what's the train in your new avtar out of interest?

It's a Japanese electric Class 153! Officially I believe designated HK100 and used on local services across the Hokuhoku line from Naetso to Echigo Yuzawa. Was actually the first train I "drove" in Densha de Go and having recently reacquainted myself with the game thought it represented a suitably quirky avatar.

I guess Densha de Go explains the almost total lack of new Japanese content for MSTS. Shame really as I'm sure that with all their systems this is an untapped goldmine of routes and stock

Geoff

[danny3]

I've always wanted to see a route with Aylesham (kent) in it, although i've long given up hope since no one is really interested in kent

[thenudehamster]

I've always wanted to see a route with Aylesham (kent) in it, although i've long given up hope since no one is really interested in kent

I'm not even sure where Aylesham is and I spend a lot of time trucking through Kent...
Apart from my well known bias towards East Anglian steam, I'd like to have seen more historical lines from anywhere. MSTS and all the other simulators despite their shortcomings have the capability of showing what railways used to be like, from day one with Trevithick's little chugger through Puffing Billy and the Wylam Dilly, Locomotion, Rocket, and developments thereafter worldwide. After all, we can see what modern image looks like by buying a ticket, but history could be lost forever if we're not careful.
Some historical oddities to consider: the Swansea-Mumbles tramway, Cromford and High Peak, the Vokes Electric Railway at Brighton - yes I know it's still running, but it's still historically important - 'cut-and-cover' Metropolitan steam, the Snaefell Mountain Railway from the Isle of Man, and many more.
Then there's the mechanical quirks like the Brienze-Rothorn Bahn in Switzerland, the Wolfsburg Bahn in Austria, the Mount Washington cog railway in New Hampshire, the Jungfraubahn in the Bernese Oberland, the Darjeeling-Himalaya from India (though modelling the 'ogg-wallahs' might be difficult) and many more.

Of course, as Jon has intimated, having a simulator which actually works might help a lot...

[buffy500]

What would you give anything for to see in MSTS

Version 2.

[40058]

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

Theres a very nice 05 on the ELR classic traction pack.

40058.

[40058]

Woodhead in finescale MT style with DD Class 76's
A Refman 24 to go with his lovely 25's
Great Eastern 70's style Colchester to Harwich/Ipswich Section semaphore, telepoles and signal boxes.
Peterborough to Leicester line
Hope Valley Line

Not gonna happen no harm in dreaming

Some real great stuff on the way anyway

40058.

[darren10000]

I would love to see MT extend GE to Norwich and Yarmouth/Lowestoft via the Broads and the East Suffolk line including Felixstowe. Also LSE extended down to Gillingham (Ramsgate & Dover as well) would be Fantastic

Darren
73E

[danny3]

I've always wanted to see a route with Aylesham (kent) in it, although i've long given up hope since no one is really interested in kent

I'm not even sure where Aylesham is and I spend a lot of time trucking through Kent...

Its between Canterbury and Dover