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Re: Locomotion Opponents

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From: Aquila
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:58
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"Matthew Clark" <clarkbhm@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> I'm impressed/annoyed with the opponents in Locomotion. I'm impressed that 
> the quality of the competition is greatly improved over TTD. At one point 
> in one of the scenarios, three of my competitors were worth more than $300 
> million while I was piddling along at 20 mil or so.
>
> There are some things I don't like though... I don't like that you can't 
> turn off the competition altogether like you could in TTD. Further, I 
> don't like how difficult it is to do "war" with the competition. You can't 
> buy them out! You can't destroy their trains, buses and trucks. You can't 
> buy land in whole areas around their stations to prevent them from 
> building. Heck, you can't even buy land around your own stations to 
> preserve space for future expansion (a frustrating flaw). In essence, all 
> of the little things that made the competition in TTD so much fun are 
> gone. Now, they're just annoying...
>
> As an aside, I also think I should be able to control the color of the 
> competitors company. I realize that in "real life" I wouldn't be able to 
> tell another company to change colors, but for game play reasons it'd be 
> nice to have them change to colors which contrast each other instead of 
> blending end with each other.
>
> Does any one share my frustrations with the opponents? Disagree?
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew

Have you tried altering the scenario in the editor so you have no 
opponents(I realise that this probably won't work but it's worth a try)?

>
> 
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