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Re: Transport Tycoon 2?

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From: Tull Clancey
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:00
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If your trains are spinning round in circles there is a reason for it.
Trains can cover a huge amount of mileage and cover a great number of
stations if the track system is not too complex, start to introduce three
lanes of track on one system and you have problems.  Trains however are by
far the best form of transport overall.  I have played many games not using
anything else and you can beat the oposition hands down.

Sugestions for additions, well, game play is actually pretty good, enjoyable
and reasonably sencible.  No trains in most towns I have visited are not as
long as the town itself but, there has to be some reasonable graphical
representation.

As for catering with Nuclear waste, is this something we should really be
asking for in a game, maybe some way of not helping the Nuclear industry
thus forcing it into decline might be better.

The one thing I would like to see added (This connects with the 'One
passenger, one destination' idea) is a report telling me the popular
destinations from one town to another, thus helping to make the correct
decitions when building new track, hey BR wouldn't lay down new track
without a survey would they?

Cheers,
Tull.

Neil Stewart wrote in message <7c3pbf$jjl$1...@epos.tesco.net>...
>
>Graham Bassi <Graham...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
>news:7bs6ei$api$1@mendelevium.btinternet.com...
>>What do you think could be added to it to make it better?  Here is a list
>of
>>things I think should be added   Double Decker Buses, Bigger airports
which
>>catch more people, more industries such as nuclear waste form nuclear
power
>>plants to nuclear disposal sites.
>>
>>Mark Hunting wrote in message <36D9BD9F...@capitolonline.nl>...
>>>Does anyone know if microprose is working on a new Transport Tycoon?
>>>
>>
>>
>Why not allow trains to travel along a set route instead of having to
follow
>the most direct route. In my games this just leads to trains going round
and
>round in circles.
>
>
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Date: 1999/03/18
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