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Article #28422Re: Another nice feature option?
From: Aquila
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:08
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:08
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"Tony Polson" <tp@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message news:ffa1m1ho4vujinir0g589lhgnglebp3sc8@4ax.com... > 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. > > There already is. It's called Locomotion!
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!proxad.net!proxad.net!62.253.162.218.MISMATCH!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe7-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Aquila" <Aquila@Aquila.net> Newsgroups: alt.games.microprose.transport-tyc References: <1130275889.161522@localhost> <acrul1ts7jquv3pq67l7mc7pffgs527csr@4ax.com> <7164qsd41i37$.128qc6b1suydz$.dlg@40tude.net> <ffa1m1ho4vujinir0g589lhgnglebp3sc8@4ax.com> Subject: Re: Another nice feature option? Lines: 36 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <C368f.17064$6i4.7273@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:08:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.109.151.181 X-Trace: newsfe7-gui.ntli.net 1130425698 81.109.151.181 (Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:08:18 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:08:18 BST Organization: NTL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit