Why no Cardiff Central in GWR route?

[consolepcgaming]

Odd that a major station is not on the GWR route to London Paddington. Why has Cardiff Central been left out of the route seeing as it one of the main stops on the GWR route to London Paddington??

[Majickthyse]

I was going to accuse you of trolling but I decided to check the store page first.

All it says is 'Take control of the iconic Great Western Railways HST and command it to 125mph along the Great Western Main Line out of London's Paddington Main Line Station'.

What it fails to say is 'only as far as Reading', which is where the DLC stops unfortunately.

So how about it DTG? Why doesn't it stop at Cardiff? The store page says nothing about it stopping at Reading :) In fact it even says 'access all areas in Great Western Express.

[consolepcgaming]

Regardless of what you say Cardiff Central is still a Major Station on that route. I am not trolling just want to know why it was excluded. Im sorry if that offends you but it is a valid question as the real route does have that station? I dont know why you think Im trolling its a valid question I asked why it WAS excluded never said anything about the store page.

[Majickthyse]

Originally posted by consolepcgaming:

Regardless of what you say Cardiff Central is still a Major Station on that route. I am not trolling just want to know why it was excluded. Im sorry if that offends you but it is a valid question as the real route does have that station? I dont know why you think Im trolling its a valid question I asked why it WAS excluded never said anything about the store page.

Read what I said again

[consolepcgaming]

ah yes misread your reply

[Majickthyse]

No worries, they definitely need to change the store page IMO.

[lefty1117]

Does that route stop at Didcot

[Majickthyse]

It stops at Reading. So no Didcot :(

[consolepcgaming]

or they can add the relevant stations to that route :-) I bet that will only come at a cost though as is the norm with Dovetail lol

[Majickthyse]

Originally posted by consolepcgaming:

or they can add the relevant stations to that route :-) I bet that will only come at a cost though as is the norm with Dovetail lol

Generally they limit the length of a route to about 50-60 miles. I think the longest route is the one that comes with the German bundle (84 miles?).

All sorts of reasons have been put forward for this ever since the first TSW, such as limitations of consoles as it is cross platform, lack of graphical assets etc etc. Although routes were usually longer on Train Simulator, the longest tended to be third party developed (like Just Trains' Great Western Penzance to Paddington).

Some people say they prefer the short routes as they don't want the play session to be too long. As long as there is no save feature I can sympathise with that haha.

[consolepcgaming]

Originally posted by Majickthyse:

Originally posted by consolepcgaming:

or they can add the relevant stations to that route :-) I bet that will only come at a cost though as is the norm with Dovetail lol

Generally they limit the length of a route to about 50-60 miles. I think the longest route is the one that comes with the German bundle (84 miles?).

All sorts of reasons have been put forward for this ever since the first TSW, such as limitations of consoles as it is cross platform, lack of graphical assets etc etc. Although routes were usually longer on Train Simulator, the longest tended to be third party developed (like Just Trains' Great Western Penzance to Paddington).

Some people say they prefer the short routes as they don't want the play session to be too long. As long as there is no save feature I can sympathise with that haha.

ok but a solution would be to split the route into sectors so you can do part of the route but at least the option is there rather than have a route missing half the stations lol