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Re: Another nice feature option?

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From: Hyronymus
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:16
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Tony Polson schreef:
> Afoklala <afoklala@afokla.la> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Op Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:51:18 +0100 schreef Tony Polson:
>>
>>
>>>"Carlos Correia" <cak@oninet.pt> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Another feature i always asked myself why C. Sawyer
>>>>did not introduce was a kind of "map rotation", like
>>>>"Sim City 2000" (i think). The game has a N-S / W-E,
>>>>being the lower right corner the SE. Is it possible to
>>>>introduce any option that makes the map rotate, alowing
>>>>the view of the map for the 4 corners? I believe it is (even if
>>>>it gives a lot of work...). 
>>>
>>>This feature is available in Roller Coaster Tycoon and in Locomotion.
>>
>>But not in TTD. And that's what we're talking about here.
> 
> 
> 
> True.  But Roller Coaster Tycoon was a development of TTD from the
> same author - Chris Sawyer - and Locomotion is a further development
> of them both.  I am sure it would not be beyond the wit of man to add
> the rotation feature to TTD - the only questions are 
> (1) who would do it? 
> and 
> (2) would there be enough of a market for it?
> 
> I would happily spend my $$ on an updated and improved version of TTD.
> 
>  
I think with 'being in RCT' afoklala means it's not coded into the TTD 
code. If you're familiar with stories about how patches are added to the 
game you might also know how many limitations TTD has in its code. So I 
don't think it's even possible to add rotating maps to TTD.
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