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Steve gotta love those curvy shapes. Buses just don’t have the character they used to these days.
Ah a man of the old school, remember those lovely old trams too? Like the Liverpool Goddesses and those lovely 30’s Blackpool Balloons and Railcoaches, now replaced in Blackpool by modern low floor continental trams.
Showing my age me think’s well let’s put it this way, I was 13 when the Liverpool trams finished in 1957
I don’t think for this type of game, it would be possible to make it more like Rail Simulator, where you could control trains to perform certain shunting movements. I don’t think that was the intention from the outset. It has been modelled more like Sid Meirs Locomotion and Cities in Motion, rather than a proper driving simulator. But Trains seem to be classed as the most important transport system in the game, hence the name Train Fever. It could just have easily have been called Transport Fever.
It won’t bother me, I don’t use multiplayer, had too much hassle in the past, so prefer to play on my own. No one can criticise then!
That’s brilliant news Steve. I think you mean William A Stanier, he was the main loco designer for the LMS. Anyway, good luck with your project, but don’t forget the London Routemaster bus, this has to be the most popular Brish bus ever built.
First let me say that this title is going to be the crème de la crème of transport games. The graphics are absolutely amazing and if it is mod compatible, it won’t be long before we will be seeing some British loco’s and rolling stock. Having said that, what is needed are locos from the early periods through to modern day, so that starting a scenario from the 1800’s, appropriate locos and stock can be incorporated.
As a starter, how about the ‘Rocket’ or maybe this would be a little earlier than where the game starts. The Stirling single would make a good starting point and maybe other later well known loco’s like ‘City of Truro’ leading up to the 1930’s with locos such as the A4, A3 (Flying Scotsman) Coronation Class (Streamlined, such as Duchess of Hamilton) and maybe some Southern, School’s, BOB or MN Class. Then later during the 60’s period some Diesels like the Deltic, Class 37/40 and 47’s.
But hey, let’s not get too ambitious, even the old British buses could be included in a full British Transport add on pack.
I am sure that this game is really going to catch on pretty fast, as going off what I have seen in the Beta release video’s it will take some beating. There is lot’s of scope for this game, by adding goods transportation, ships and even aircraft, who knows what it may lead to. One thing is certain, it has a bright future and if sales really take off worldwide, it will be around for many years.
