Rail traffic ?

[Squatdrop 25]

Hi,

That would be nice to include trains traffic: high speed trains, regional, goods transportation... it would be a nice have to help increase realism !

Eric

Edited June 27, 2020 by Squatdrop

[abranpuko 369]

yeah! it would be great!

[RudyB24 296]

lol, a train sim could be built in as well!

[Tierborn 188]

22 hours ago, Squatdrop said:

Hi,

That would be nice to include trains traffic: high speed trains, regional, goods transportation... it would be a nice have to help increase realism !

Eric

I do not think trains in a flight sim add much to realism.   If that is on the development list, it should be very far down.  Simulating passengers, airport operations, ATC should come before trains.  

[stans 703]

I agree with Tierborn, focus on getting the flying and ground handling portions of the sim right, then worry about road, rail, and boat traffic.

[KERNEL32 500]

Yes true, (even though Flight Simulation is my #1 go-to), the Train Sim folks also are not forgetting how MS cancelled the "in development" MSTS 2 in 2009 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Train_Simulator#Cancelled_sequel

So, hopefully Asobo or some other Microsoft studio discovers it would be financially beneficial to use the new "FS World" to then create a modern day Train Simulator that we can enjoy! Why not start utilizing this new wonderful World that they are creating?!

Edited June 28, 2020 by KERNEL32

[Squatdrop 25]

I don't think it is so difficult to develop for ASOBO : they already developped road traffic onto streets network from BING images. So why not adding trains on railways ? That's not about train simming, just traffic  😉

[Pugilist2 878]

1 hour ago, KERNEL32 said:

Yes true, (even though Flight Simulation is my #1 go-to), the Train Sim folks also are not forgetting how MS cancelled the "in development" MSTS 2 in 2009 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Train_Simulator#Cancelled_sequel

So, hopefully Asobo or some other Microsoft studio discovers it would be financially beneficial to use the new "FS World" to then create a modern day Train Simulator that we can enjoy! Why not start utilizing this new wonderful World that they are creating?!

We can only hope! It would be great to have Microsoft Train Simulator back again.

[KERNEL32 500]

And I didn't mean to hijack the thread to make it about train sim, but let's just "hope" that one day the train traffic in MSFS would be derived from MSTS kind of like multiplayer traffic aircraft; and could work both ways so Train drivers cold see people/planes flying in Flight Simulator within the train sim world.

[OzWhitey 3,353]

Trains actually add a lot to X-plane. I miss them in P3D, and would certainly like to see them implemented in MSFS.

[OHN767 82]

 

Yeah it would be great, but i think they will have a hard time to get the trains to use the tracks.

[skully 1,045]

Going way out on a limb here but it would really be something to integrate Train Simulator into the worlds scenery.

The rail layouts are already there.

Take the Super Chief from Chicago to LA!

 

[Squatdrop 25]

23 hours ago, OHN767 said:

 

Yeah it would be great, but i think they will have a hard time to get the trains to use the tracks.

why should it be more complex than cars using roads network ? personally i don't care if they don't stop at train stations and comply with real traffic time tables...

And why not adding boat/vessels traffic too ? as Global AI ship traffic did few years ago ! it also brought a nice peace of life  😉

Would love to see it in partnership series...

 

Edited July 2, 2020 by Squatdrop

[WestAir 2,522]

As long as people don't get upset about the lack of realism. (Incorrect rolling stock. Incorrect speeds. Incorrect consist sizes. incorrect signals, etc) then it would be a great immersion factor.

I operate freight and commuter trains in the US and even in my rail roads dedicated train sim world addon a lot is modeled incorrectly or not at all. The key to immersion with train traffic is suspension of disbelief.

[Janov 2,383]

If this new game does not include trains with the correct number, type and livery on the cars, running according to correct timetables (even with the correct delays here in Germany!), honking before they enter tunnels, working signals and gates, passengers waiting at the platforms and the cars running with livestock smelling like they do... I won´t buy this new game!