What's everyones ORTS wishlists?

[Erick_Cantu]

My wish is for more people to learn modeling.

I second this - I am not interested in making 1,000 variants of the SD70ZQmBVBbDdcceeAACC or ETjvVN J44C2303280 that all amount to the same locomotive in the same 3 paint schemes with different radiators. I'd much rather build the early MIL and NSC tank hoppers or the VIEW cylindrical hoppers, neither of which have been built by anyone yet. What about CP's homebrew 40' appliance boxcars or the NSC 40-foot boxcars that were the backbone of CP's grain fleet? I'd also much rather spend my time making interesting Geep rebuilds than yet another modern GE.

[trainlover2923]

Wish for some gp/ sd35. And some C30-7s we got modern units to last us a life time ( imo ) we just need models of yester year

[Unoriginal]

BLW/ZT has various SD35 and GP35 packs and there are some reskins of Danny Beck's ATSF GP35/GP35u in the library. A new C30-7 would be amazing, we haven't had any in forever and the only good one we had has now turned into a "collector's item" as much as I hate saying that.

I do really want both modern and older era locos, but what I want more than those is proper routes to actually use those locomotives on. We get lots of cool locomotives for well-known and obscure railroads, but a lot of the time there's basically nowhere to run them. I don't even think the SOO or Rock Island trainsets from TS have any good pairing route-wise (rock island doesn't even have any routes at all!).

[TrainSimJack]

Is there an official wish list somewhere?
This thread is just conversation amongst fans?
I see a bunch of content requests intermixed with request for OpenRails.

[Unoriginal]

Id say it’s the latter. I’m definitely not any open rails developer lol.

[R. Steele]

Is there an official wish list somewhere?
This thread is just conversation amongst fans?
I see a bunch of content requests intermixed with request for OpenRails.

Yes, there is an official site...the Open Rails Roadmap board on Trello is the official place set up by the management and development team to submit suggestions and ideas for Open Rails. The Trello cards are used to plan the road map for open rails development and prioritize improvements. You can submit cards and vote on items you would like to see advanced. Join the board and check it out.

https://trello.com/b/DS2h3Pxc/open-rails-roadmap

afaik it has nothing to do with content development ( routes, rolling stock, modeling, personal wish lits, etc. ) only development of the actual OR program.

This identical thread is always popping up from time to time...you can search for the others, they are somewhat interesting historically --- to see how wants and tastes for different stuff have changed over the development span of OR.

[Kuckoo]

Random weather option working in Timetable Mode.

[thegreatone1980]

Dynamic lighting for night scenery like station and other lamps and AI trains would greatly enhance the sim for night time activities.

[rdayt]

More classic stuff. 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s. Everything, power, rolling stock, scenery items.
My modeling style is more of a place where trains wander though occasionally so, more high detail foreground stuff.
A guy can wish, and I've started making some of my own.

Randy

[tie]

Neils computer and graphics card! haha

[CSRX]

Dynamic lighting for night scenery like station and other lamps and AI trains would greatly enhance the sim for night time activities.

This, why exactly has no one decided to try and come up with this coding, instead of fiddling with other stuff that renders what was working, broken?

Would be nice to have the atmosphere lit up with street lights and other locomotives, not just the player train trying to light up the world..

[TrainSimJack]

This, why exactly has no one decided to try and come up with this coding, instead of fiddling with other stuff that renders what was working, broken?

Would be nice to have the atmosphere lit up with street lights and other locomotives, not just the player train trying to light up the world..

My old boss used to have a saying: "No job is too easy for the one that doesn't have to do it."

[CSRX]

My old boss used to have a saying: "No job is too easy for the one that doesn't have to do it."

I mean, I have zero knowledge beyond the occasional route building and repainting. Not even saying it's an easy task, so this doesn't make much sense to me.

Just crazy to see this game get left behind with this feature, when every other game in the world has it...

[wwhall]

Neils computer and graphics card! haha

And his talent! Of course, Rory, you are one of the most talented route builders in the MSTS/OR realm. If you could release NW7 as a "donorware" route, I'd bet that you would get enough contributions to buy a really good computer within a week or so. I would gladly contribute $30-$60 myself for Northwest V7, just from what screenies that you have posted.

[tie]

Meh, I've got money I'm just too cheap to spend it. I'm trying to get as much retirement as I can. Besides, there might be some payware that I didn't create in the route.