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Article #28001Locomotion Opponents
From: Matthew Clark
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 05:28
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 05:28
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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
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