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Posted on: January 28, 2018
brewaide
Verified ownerGames: 61 Reviews: 1
Multi-trac
I've played significant hours on Railroad Tycoon 3 and I was really hoping that this was a natural successor to that game. This is not it - at least not in its current form. Others will be far more eloquent than I am about the faults of this game but it all boils down to the UI. Its simply terrible. I'm really hoping for some mod that completely redoes it.
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Posted on: October 3, 2020
ribroast
Verified ownerGames: 277 Reviews: 18
Great! (to a point)
I love train sims so this should of been a insta-buy for me, but I held off on this one due to the bad reviews. I even passed when it was on sale, so I ended up paying full price. (don't regret it though). The dev's got the train mechanics down pretty good. The track laying is great, the trestles and tunnels that are built on the fly are amazing. The switch signals allow you to route trains and control the flow of traffic. All of this is great, I love it. OK, now the bad. I almost deducted two stars because of the annoying AI players. The artwork, or actually the character's that are the AI players, do not match with this game. Not a one of them looks like a legitimate rail baron, they are cartoon character's. And they have annoying cartoon voices always chiming in. Then they put in this thing where you can hire a spy to steal tech from your opponents and sabotage their trains, etc. The AI players do it constantly, and they always tell you all about it (annoying voices). I've played many games with spy's you could hire, and it did not bother me, but it don't fit well with this game in my opinion. There is a financial aspect, stock market, issuing bonds, etc. Like a rail baron game should have. I did not even know it was in there at first. So I've played the game quite a bit in the week since I bought it. I will probably never finish a game, I like the early game, laying out my tracks, optimizing the traffic, especially around my biggest cities. I ignore the AI players and just play with my trains. They sabotage my train, its just another break down to me. About 2-3 hours in I get tired of listening to the AI players so I quit. Next time I always start a new game and do it all over again. I do get a lot of enjoyment out of playing this game, but I'm not sure who the target audience is supposed to be here. It's like there where two teams working on this, the team working on the trains nailed it, but the rest of the game is not a serious train sim. It's a cartoon.
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Posted on: January 28, 2018
zetor2000
Games: 109 Reviews: 1
Improvements needed... i think.
I'm in trouble, because i did not played in PC for about a decade. But i have several thing that i have to mention: - The most problematic thing that i cannot move the map with my mouse. In most of the strategy games i click a left mouse button, and "grab" the map, and can drag where i would like to. In this case, i have to use the AWSD buttons. - I got a task to connect railway stations in X and Y Cities, but there were no signs of the destination city. A complex map where you can see all the tasks wold be great. Or the playing area... In the beginning, the tutorial has the "light" effect for example at the signs. The tasks could be similar. -You have to think twice how and where you build your station, because of the terrain. -Managing rails also a problem. In many cases, i have to build and demolish a track because merged to the wrong lane... and there are no trespass. - The trains are very special... They can rum ~30km or miles per hour, and a trip from one town to another takes 1-2 days, however the disance between these cities just about 50-100kms. :) interesting. - The signals... it is frustrating. Why are these are in the game? - Sometimes a train has a triangle on it, and says one item is missing, so it is slow. But you cannot recognise whats wrong... a little help would be nice. Or it can show what is missing/wrong. - The newspapers are annoying. They appear at the worst times. I think there are positive things also, for instance, the game runs on my machine. I have a 5 years old VGA. The graphic detali, and the elements of the map are coorectly made. You can zoom almost you can see the train engineer's eye. The strategy is not just build a train company, but you should manage cities with industry, you can build sights to lure passengers, You could improve your trains by adding staff on it, and you have to manage staff members. They cannot go on well sometimes with each other. Afterall, i like this game :) Maybe in the future there will be a revamped version!
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Posted on: November 4, 2019
Adamant102
Verified ownerGames: 134 Reviews: 6
Mapscale - to tiny maps for many tracks
Nice Music, nice design, nice tasks, nice research tree and some other nice things. But now the bad things : # AI follows not the same rules as the player, ( you will see it after you fusioned with an ai company -> all AI trains will be stuck ). # Sand+Watertowers everywhere. You cannot build sand and watertowers in stations. You have to place them somewhere between the stations. I think it looks ugly with many tracks and these towers everywhere. Would have been better if the locomotions would refill in stations and when I had only to place them if there were very long tracks till the next station, or if a train had to climb a long way. # Only 1/2/4 platforms stations. No 6 Platforms station, no 3 Platforms station. It is to restricted. # Only 2 Station per Industry/City. So if I build 2 stations in a city, the AI is blocked. Same counts for me. Was a easy way to keep the AI out of cities/industries for me. # Hire People for you trains. What was nice when I had 5 trains and a few people, became not so nice when I had 50 trains and lots of hired staff. Every one has an attribute that will make him/her like or hate to work with others. Like traindriver A with attribute A will like to work with people with attribute D and dislike people with attribute F. Four hired people can be on every train. With 50 trains that are 200 people you have to micro. By the way, the time does not stop when you try to micro them, so you are under pressure. # no Saxonia in the german dlc. # and now the biggest thing for me, the to tiny maps. The longer I played the game, the more ugly my tracklayout became. And that is because the maps are so small. The bigger the towns get, the more different goods they need. Now with the only 2 stations with 4 platform each station the switches, slopes, bridges, tunnels are so close to each other that is for me, NO FUN to lock at them. So THE LONGER I PLAY a map, the LESS FUN do I have. And that is a big NO GO to me. I prefer : Transport Fever
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Posted on: July 26, 2020
gog_fanatic
Verified ownerGames: 26 Reviews: 4
Missing the map editor
I have this game and all those DLCs but no map editor. GOG you should add this feature, it is already available. there are already videos in YT about the editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X761AtlSH6E.
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