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Article #545Re: Idea for a new game... has anyone else thought of this?
From: Stephen Down
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:00
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Yeah, just like SimCity ... except for planning routes, setting fares, competing against (or working with) other companies and most of the rest of it. There is a lot in TT that seems to be taken for granted, like fare prices, that could easily be incorporated into the game. And I do agree that the scale is ever so slightly out of proportion, but *less* so than it is in SimCity. Paul Forsdick <fors...@bigfeet.com> wrote in message news:7po8e6$bc7$1@uranium.btinternet.com... > sounds like sim city to me... > > Paul > fors...@bigfeet.com > (replace feet with foot to reply) > > Dan Ros wrote in message <37c1e4fb...@news.freeuk.com>... > >How about a game, similar to TT, but you have to build transport > >networks within a city that covers the whole map? That would make the > >scale much more realistic, at the moment the tracks and stations are way > >out of proportion to the cities and buildings. > > > >You could build underground railways and tunnels, connections to other > >cities or main line stations built by some other company, operate bus > >routes and manage things like fares, which you have no control over in > >TT. > >-- > >http://www.uplink.freeuk.com - ICQ: 15212336 > >I leave you with today's subliminal message: > >
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From: "Stephen Down" <ste...@sjd117.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: Idea for a new game... has anyone else thought of this? Date: 1999/08/24 Message-ID: <7pupgp$kj9$1@pump1.york.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 516684903 Sender: soc...@york.ac.uk References: <37c1e4fb.19406703@news.freeuk.com> <7po8e6$bc7$1@uranium.btinternet.com> X-Trace: pump1.york.ac.uk 935520601 21097 62.136.198.105 (24 Aug 1999 18:50:01 GMT) Organization: The University of York, UK X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Aug 1999 18:50:01 GMT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Newsgroups: alt.games.microprose.transport-tyc X-Complaints-To: ab...@york.ac.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit