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Josef Drexler schrieb:

> In your humble(?) opinion.  I personally find it more fun, actually, 
> mostly due to the realism and the nice smooth vehicle motion and more 
> realistic tracks with curves.  I enjoy the freedom I get from the third 
> dimension, even though the AI abuses that sometimes.

I never played RCT before. When I first tried Locomotion, I wasted all 
my money when I tried to raise some land. It ended in a single tile, 200 
meters above sea-level. Very realistic, really. And very comfortable, 
really. The new (old?) build system is just lame!

> It's got lots of nice touches, such as trains having realistic breaking 
> distances, better signalling (including pre-signals, even though not by 
> name), more track systems like narrow gauge, trams etc.

Yes, but I think especially the rail system has been simplified way too 
much. When I heard "Locomotion" for the first time, I thought "Great, a 
game like TTD with special focus on the rail system". But what is this?

Sure, there are new features like trams and bus stops. But hey, where is 
the realism? No depots, new vehicles just drop down from heaven.

An the worst thing: Cool, Locomotion supports more variants for 
terraforming! But how comes, that now its just normal to see something 
like tracks or even stations over houses in a small village with 1000 
inhabitants? Or these sharp edges gorges everywhere? Everything looks 
more angularly than in TTD. And the snow looks like bad white-pixel 
icing sugar.

> You complain that Locomotion doesn't have nicer graphics than TTD (which 
> I absolutely disagree with, Locomotion's graphics are far more detailed), 
> but OpenTTD actually uses the same old graphics and now it doesn't bother 
> you?

No, it doesn' t bother me in OpenTTD nor TTD. Locomotions graphics are 
are browned out, everything looks like autumn and the cities look like 
shanties. TTD has bright and friendly colors and since OpenTTD, I can 
enjoy them in high-res at 1400x1050 (Notebook). Even the all-new 
Locomotion does not support that (very common for Notebooks) resolution!

> But then, I've never been a big fan of OpenTTD mostly due to its legally 
> uncertain origins as a copy of TTD's copy.

Currently, you need TTD original files to run OpenTTD. I don' t care 
about copyright when there is no place other than ebay where you can buy 
the original legally.

> Besides, it doesn't even support the new graphics of the patch, so it's 
> no contender at all ;)

It will support them better in the future.