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[Posted on behalf of Michael Blunck]

In due time for Christmas the DB Set XL?s version 0.8 is out!

Besides from inplementing newest TTDPatch features, adding another couple 
of new locomotives, coaches and freight wagons and a massive redesign of 
most of the existing vehicles, version 0.8 makes available a novel price 
and cost scheme, full AI support and a better user interface.

Firstly, v0.8 implements the new dimension of recent patch features:

- wagon speed limits
- cargo sub-categories
- service refittability
- transparent engine allocation
- articulated engines
- special AI support for vehicle usage
- new price scheme

With regards to vehicle prices, the DB set offers real historical prices 
if used with the "hard" setting for building cost. Because the new prices 
are very much higher than before and because some of the very early 
rolling stock has been launched before the DB set?s start date in 1920, 
you?ll get the chance to buy those ones for a reduced price, though.

Higher prices for engines, wagons, track building and infrastructure, 
together with the features of "waggonspeedlimits" and "freighttrains" 
will put a new touch to your games. Now, it?ll be very unusual to get to 
use all engine models in a single game because engines are much more 
differentiated with the new features: some are well suited for hilly 
terrain, others are best at level ground, some are special for passenger 
trains, others for hauling heavy cargo - and the higher prices require a 
thorough investigation of transportation needs and route planning.

>>From now on, every game will be a different game.

Have fun
Michael

All changes in v0.8:

- redesign of all coaches and mail vans,
- redesign of VT-137, VT-08, VT-11 and BR612 DMUs,
- redesign of ET-11, ET-30 and BR420 EMUs,
- redesign of BR195,
- redesign of TransRapid, TR coaches and wagons,
- restructuring of coach allocation scheme,
- made all steam engines with tenders "articulated engines" (tenders will 
be added automatically),
- made the BR194 and 195 "real" articulated engines too,
- made TransRapid wagons refittable, veh-IDs 5E/3E and 63/43 have been
removed,
- decreased life span for short coaches / mail vans to 30 years,
- introduced support for the AI to make better usage of engines and 
coaches / wagons,
- introduced cargo text suffixes for wagons and coaches,
- introduced passenger-to-passenger refittability, thus allowing 
different services for a single class of coaches,
- introduced means for preventing adding freight wagons to specific 
engines, e.g. DMUs and EMUs,
- introduced a scheme for freight wagon speed limits,
- added the BR 75 (wü T5) tank engine in 1922,
- added the BR 85 tank engine in 1932,
- added the E 62 (bav. EP1) electric freight locomotive in 1920 in brown
livery of the K.Bay.Sts.B. (Royal Bavarian State Railways), later in DRG
gray and DB green livery,
- added the BR 515 (ETA 150) battery-powered railcar in 1954 in DB purple
red and in cream/blue livery,
- added the BR 614 DMU in 1972, in "pop" livery as well as in cream/blue,
mint and traffic red,
- added the BR 103 in "orient red" livery in 1987,
- added DRG "Hecht" coaches, mail/luggage vans and dining-cars,
- added DB "Aüm" and "Büm" coaches, mail/luggage vans and "Wrüm"
dining-cars,
- added post-war "Rheingold" coaches incl. dining and dome-cars,
- added a second TEE dining-car and a dome-car,
- added IC dining-car for the period 1987 - 1996,
- added additional freight wagons for the new speed limits scheme,
- added realistic historical purchase prices,
- added error messages for missing patch flags,
- added signals for PBS (path-based signalling).

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