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I wouldn’t call it “racist”. Racism is something entirely different. In fact, to do it based on what you can see yourself is not much less “racist”. When you develop a game based on reality, I would expect the dev to get familiar with that reality, not just locally, but wherever they decide to sell the game. And as you mention, offer the ability to change.
As I mentioned, central european countries do it in a similar way, but with the circle towards the track. I know because I have a train enthusiast in the family.
I understand though that the game is brand new and things like this could be added later.
I understand why the devs do it based on their local rail rules.
But it makes no sense in a game.
Why?
Well – TylerE is right. Azrael is wrong. Germany is the exception. Other countries have the signal arms aiming at the track they’re controlling not away from it. To be clear, they are on the right hand side of the track except for the UK, and the end circle of the signal aims at the track. This is typical for the circle-ended signals, except for German speaking countries.
There’s no point in doing it “wrong” like in Germany — if you want to aim the game for a big market, you do it following the big market’s rules. Generalize based on the main target audience rules. I’m pretty sure that’s not Germany.
When that is said, the makority of countries don’t even use these circle ended signals – which in Denmark have all been changed to digital signals.
