Anyway, there are a couple of things I’d like to comment on. The whole thing feels somehow unfinished, even rushed. For example, look at the sky, the new sky texture has an ugly line right down to the ground, something that some kind fan has already fixed and released a patch for on the .net site. Also, mistakes like the Mikado loco from 1898 having the same end date so anyone who doesn’t know how to edit a TF model file will not have it and have a sizable gap in their rolling stock. Also the annoyance of several vehicles having the wrong expiry dates, so you get an annoying popup claiming your train needs replacing when it’s only 7 years old! Did they not play this? did they not even do ONE run through from 1850 to 2000 at least to make sure everything worked? Common guys….. There’s also things like the very nice ‘wild west’ style buildings with cracked wooden signs all adding to the atmosphere, only to have the illusion ruined by having some German style shop next door complete with German writing! Also, whats with the silly brand names? I understand that you can’t just slap Union Pacific or Amtrak on something without legal problems but come on, ‘Common Atlantic’? ‘Artamk’? You guys seriously didn’t think either of those sounded silly? No one?

Another major anoyance is the change to the mods that came with this latests patch. Fine, change the way it’s done, I even LIKE the way it looks and appears to work but I still have NO CLUE how to actualy add a mod now. I downloaded a couple of things and clicked on the start page that now has the mods section on it, nothing. I put them in the mods folder that has been created in the games directory, nothing. Is it asking too much to tell us whats going on Urban Games? I like to think i’m relatively savy with mods, etc but i’m confussed.

It seems this has been done the same way as all the other updates have been done, rushed and without proper testing or thought. It’s been the same way since launch back in September and its such a shame because with just a BIT more care and attention, this would be amazing. Overall though, I want to be positive. As I said, it’s free and it does add to the game, so overall, thankyou Urban Games, it can be frustrating but it’s also fun!

So far I am enjoying the different look. UG I will pay for a dramatically improved map generator (that answers the many requests by the community) as well as dramatically improved supply chain systems (more goods types, food, luxury, mail etc). Hopefully these are things you are working on next for DLC.

258 hours on TF standard, insane!

I found some Mods to change the Town names to US, street names to New Zealand (the closest I could find to US street names) … and noticed that all new maps, including European style would now be with US/NZ names !!!!

I don’t understand why it was not possible to assign local names to a DLC. This should not be too hard to program.

Once I noticed this, I stopped playing the DLC. The gameplay is basically the same than on a European maps …

10 days to go until Cities Skyline release date …

It’s basically the same as everything else Urban Games have done in TF, half finished. You really do get the impression they all sat there and said “oh that’ll do, it’s free anyway…”

Nevertheless, I welcome the added rolling stock, I already had the ‘BigBoy’ and loved it and in future games, i’ll be happy to mix the two groups as i’m not really after a simulator, just a fun trainset really.

It will keep me busy until March 10th though, I have Skylines on preorder! 🙂

However, at least the new DLC changed the looks of the game, which helps a lot.

>Have you seen the interviews with the Skylines staff and the other vids regarding it’s features and development? It looks so well thought out, so well researched, dare I say it, ‘finished’! 

Have you played CiM2? I had the same opinions about CiM2 before it got released. It was also so pretty, hyped a lot (for a transportation game anyway), and when it released it certainly wasn’t a game i would call “finished”