Mulltiplayer is a must for this community to grow. I usually wont even buy a game if I cant play with other people. It brings more to the table when you can have team objectives to accomplish. I think that MS should look into maybe making MSFS and MSTS a interchangeable package.
Say flight sims are your thing, Have it so you get 5 or 10 cities in the default game. You could only play the flight sim but could see us using the trains using MSTS.
Or say trains sim is your thing you would get the same 5 or 10 default cities. You could only play the trains sim.
Of course if you got both you could play either or but in the end even if you only had one it be cool to see planes flyin and trains drivin.(LOL I already see us getting buzzed by some noob in a piper cub.)It also be nice if they built this on an engine that was capable of using the old stuff from MSTS and have a solid foundation for future improvements in technolgy that can be added on instead of starting from scratch.I think the best thing they could do is build an acurate model of the earth. And acuratly lay the mainlines that run interstate and intercontenental and also the major airports maybe even the highways too. So say you get the packaged deal. You could run ur trains through all five cities or just be based in one city setting up cuts of cars for someone to come pick up and take to another city.Then when you want to do your own route you could make it and put it up somewhere for people to download. And the multiplayer game would be set up so that say you and your friend are playing in Philadelphia PA. Someone joins the game and they have Somewhere,MD. Your friend has the Somewhere, MD route but you dont. But youd still be able to interact with somewhere md. The activites would be made up and you could choose what to do from a screen. You work the philadelphia yard and set cars for your friend to take to Somewhere, MD. I could talk all day about this. Here in philly theres so many things you could do. Ride the el on the frankford 69th st train. run the subways that go up broad and down to the sports complex. amtrak regional lines run right through the city. They even are connected to the airport. LOL if your late on a passenger run you could hold up someones flight. Theres the PATCO line that runs from center city over the Ben Franklin bridge into camden and into south jersey. And the penn line runs parrel to the NE Corridor. A lillte north up from center city those penn lines run into NJ. i think they should concentrate on doing major cites that you can have a choice of what to do. In philly you could run 5 different things wither it be passenger or freight. Wether you want to switch cars in the yard or run the patco from NJ and back.So if they made it so there were 5 based cities each with their own activities. plus capable of interactivites with the other 4 cities. That would be great. The multiplayer game could just never end. You could run off dedicated servers and get reports from the nights before and new work orders for whatever day of the week it is. So that way people could come and go and start activites and what they didnt finish could either be finishes automatically after they leave the game or be set up for you to finish as an activity. They could have daily news papers. You could see if anyone has gotten their train or plane into any kind of trouble. And remember all this would be multiplayer and maybe even working MSFS and MSTS together. If they were to add multiplayer the community would grow 10 fold. I bet lots of people never even heard of MSTS and dont get it. But alot more people would be exposed if they saw us in their MSFS drivin our trains. That and when you talk to others while ur playing you all learn more and can help keep this great game going.
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