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  • in reply to: Bug – Trains reversing when track is modified #19154
    moriety
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    @ PMV:

    AGEOD in France is pretty good at listening, but with the two key coders (and owners) also wasting time by replying to queries it wastes their working day. Employing a person to remove that burden would be good.

    This firm has done a great job on many aspects of the game, but it remains unfinished. I WANT to pay £35 for train Fever 2, just as I did with Ascaron from Germany with the production of Patrician 2, having played the original text-based version, and am still upset this company has now gone.

    This company has as much potential as Auran in Australia within this genre, but key issues need to be addressed for Fever 2.

    I will wait to hear if Urban Games decides to fix some major issues like double-track, common all over the planet except the America’s, and the major bugs when you immediately try to double up, reverse tracking etc.

    This is a game with potential, add in a stock market and competion and we finally have RRT3!

     

    in reply to: Bug – Trains reversing when track is modified #18910
    moriety
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    @Partyschrek:

    Hi mate, back again.

    It is small companies such as this that make future games, and provide jobs for us in Europe.

    This company has built the back-bone of a second version of this game.

    I could do a synopsis of the game, much will be negatative (but in a positive way), but equally much will be positive: Basically, the models are superb, the countryside is great as going overboard on countryside graphics overwhelmes the PC and isn’t what the game is about. Etc, etc, There are many, many things that please me, along with many criticisms that can be addressed if enough of us ask for it IN THE NEXT VERSION, at £30.

    You know what mate, paying £6.50 was almost like an insult. In London, it is the same as buying a pint and a half of beer, which is then drunk within a single hour: Only one remains in the morning.

    This company needs to get off their backsides so we can tell them what improvements or changes need to be made.

    If we leave aside our common desire for competition and a stock market, at least Train Fever 2 might get going, and I would welcome it here in London. Since RRT2 I’ve never seen a great railway game, these lads could change all that and make this man (now getting older and increasingly grumpy, and now a grandad!:) happy!!

    If you think I’m an old grandad now, think again: This video below was MY London as a young teenager, and a Punk: a video that is now almost impossible to find it seems: It shows the UK as she then was, the obsession the government had with the Warsaw Pact. Now we are all friends and can talk with other. I hope all of of you takes away a bit of learning from this video.

    https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KLqIEcQIVVawwA8LEsnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByZWc0dGJtBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDMQ–?p=siouxsie+and+the+Banshees+Video+Jigsaw+Feeling&vid=071a82cd1c7b615cec3ee375039f0dfe&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DWN.pw%252bAX9pjureHjnP0N4fMLw%26pid%3D15.1%26h%3D225%26w%3D300%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOe1WVwbQLEs&tit=Siouxsie+and+the+Banshees+-+Jigsaw+Feeling&c=0&h=225&w=300&l=283&sigr=11bva5qr3&sigt=11af7dupo&sigi=12mn8l0b3&age=1375718400&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&tt=b

    A little piece of European social history.

    This was our weird world at the time, and modern Grandads like me are probably a tad different now, especially those of us who came from the Punk days in London: .  This video records exactly how the centre of London was back then. It was our life, for us London lads. So, we never wish to annoy others now we’ve got old ourselvles: The Police despised us lot BTW.

     

    My last comment to the lads working in the company: Talk to your customers!

    Nothing like burying your head in the sand without reason or excuse. Thus far, you’ve done a great job, now stick your head above the parapet and simply listen fellahs to your future customers.

     

    These days, small start-ups are few, we in Europe really need them right now.

     

    in reply to: Bug – Trains reversing when track is modified #18849
    moriety
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    On this we agree.

    The biggest error in Railroad Tycoon 2 was you could transport passengers from a town to anywhere. One of the German games I used to own tried to fix this problem, but set 10 destinations  for each town of specific passengers going to others. It overwhelmed you. It is a problem transport games face. This game wins on this aspect with the 20 minute rule. It is the closest I’ve seen any game since the A-Train to dealing with a realistic world.

    You mentioned Simutrans, but then dismissed it due to capacity balance fails, like this game. I must confess, I’ve not brought it, would you recommend buying it?

    I’m away now for probably a month and will look forward to your reply when I return on that game. I just want a game I can sit down to, enjoy and chill out too. As I get older I grow more more intolerant of games that make you work, after a real actual hard days/months work, companies that produce games that make you work miss the instant money us older gamers always have to buy their product.

    I predict that eventually all games aimed at young people will appear on Mobile phones, all games for the older generation will be on Console or PC only. Anyway, I’ve rambled on this, but you helped me to solidify my thoughts on what the developers could do with this game, as opposed to what they are currently doing: Nothing.

    I paid £6.50 or something for the game, it is worth far more, but only once they begin to re-code it. A second version at £30 is feasible if they simply fix the obvious problems.

     

    in reply to: Bug – Trains reversing when track is modified #18847
    moriety
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    Your comment makes no sense at all.

    In my opinion their has never been a good Railway game since Railroad Tycoon 2 (not 3). I simply wish to find a decent working 3D version of what is arguably the best railway game ever made. This game wins in some minor aspects but manages epic fails on the most important aspects, such as building track and roads. (or the the almost impossible task of doing either), along with capacity of vehicles versus the expanding cities, combined with fares that on hard level don’t really pay the laughable maintenance costs of any railway or road vehicle.

    Had the actual costs on hard level been accurate, then the UK would never have bothered to invent the Railway back in the 1660’s, as the first Colliery wooden rails would have remained with a single pony/horse carrying two packs instead.

    in reply to: Bug – Trains reversing when track is modified #18844
    moriety
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    I am sorry to hear you have found my 6 or 7 posts annoying.

    I only come here when this game has infuriated me so much, so I never start off in a calm and collected matter.

    I think the board and your team at the company understands that I have an extremely low opinion of both the company and the product you are still selling. I’ve yet to do a calm and collected review of this game, and it would remain better for you if I didn’t. The game is a basketcase, nothing is balanced and nothing really works.

    in reply to: Bug – Trains reversing when track is modified #18840
    moriety
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    This company has managed to trash their own game.

    They got crowd-funded don’t forget. This money allowed them to trash build the game whilst ripping off the funders.

    Money in advance makes humans lazy.

    The same problem exists for upgrading road sizes or adding tram tracks: The buses instantly relocate and generally return to the bus station they began from. The game is a mess and they now have spent all of the crowd-funders money in the Pub, I hope they toasted the funders as they enjoyed the beer.

    in reply to: Who are you and where you from #18839
    moriety
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    Good to see the international community here, despite my mislike of the poor programming this company aspired to achieve, and then managed.

    My love of railway travel has been dented by this company.

    Anyway, I’m from London, The UK. Greetings to you all.

    in reply to: Admiral James T #18838
    moriety
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    No.

    in reply to: [TOOL] Train Fever Game Manager #18837
    moriety
    Participant

    This game needs such a major re-start. It is unlikely modders will ever save the game as it has so many out of balance issues which combined with the surreal track and road building system (“Error: Illegal”) are insurmountable problems.

    This bunch of programmers created the most complicated track and road building system in the history of computing. The consumers didn’t bite and the crowd funders lost their money. Everyone lost.

    I was lucky enough to only pay 1 1/2 London pints of beer on this rubbish. Nothing is balanced in pricing or passenger capacity terms, and 90% of track/road building efforts end up with a laughable “Illegal” error.

    I hope this firm quickly disappears into a side note of history, where it belongs.

    in reply to: People die on trains #18836
    moriety
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    It isn’t acceptable.

    I’ve been attempting some of the “Hard” achievements: After about 40 new starts I noticed that train fares are so poor that only bright, brand new trains break-even or return a small profit at best, and only for about 5 years, and unlike Railway history.

    I watched in one attempt, my single train taking her first 20 passengers, at journey end 13 remained. That one journey crippled the entire game and wasted an hour of my life.

    This company needs to balance passenger demand along with train/bus/tram capacity against supply as the world grows, along with fares on the hard level. Their failure to do so on all levels gives me no confidence in the developers, who on ‘hard level’ seem to have decided fares on the back of a beer mat in the local Pub, but then forgot to check if it worked on Monday.

    I noticed this was a crowd-funded product, if this is the average level of professionalism this company works at, then I firstly hope to God they never go to work in the UK, and secondly think twice about crowd-funding a bunch of amateurs.

    in reply to: What is the 20minutes rule ? #18802
    moriety
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    If citizen A lives in town A but works in town B, the walking/bus time to the railway station, combined with the train journey time and the walk/bus journey once off the train exceeds 20 minutes, they will never use the available transport.

    A crazy concept for us Londoners who, during rush hour might watch the 6-carriage, 1,200 people, trains  pull in every minute, and wait for 4 more tubes until you finally can squeeze in against people you don’t wish to be squeezed against. Time is irrelevant, it’s necessity.

    The Tube during the morning ‘rush “hour”‘ is a living Hades.

    The 12,000 London buses are better, but during rush hour will have upto 100 passengers per bus. One reason I laughed my socks off at the capacity of the carriages and buses in this game. The developers must have come from a small village in Germany or Switzerland.

    in reply to: Understanding major bugs. #18800
    moriety
    Participant

    Nah,

    I just checked the line again, the entire line is both electrified and high speed. The problem lies with the loading of data from the Autosave, It seems to forget critical info like locomotive info (defaults to the latest locomotive) and forgets if your lines have HS and electrics. It’s a basket case.

    As I cannot use the save function I only have the Autosaves to work from, but this is where the gathering of data falls down I’d say and corrupts the game.

    in reply to: Understanding major bugs. #18799
    moriety
    Participant

    Hi Pasi mate,

    I really checked every inch of that line, I noticed that sometimes the AI for some reason creates tiny sections of track segments either side of a station, all are fine and showing they are both electrified and high speed,all hit the mark.

    I dislike Steam, and I would like the game to simply work.

    PS “Vice Versa” Thank you for speaking my language whilst the children of my nation are  no longer taught French (as was the law when I was a child: compulsory), or any other useful language such as German or Spanish. Our government ensures our children will never be able to compete for a job, equally, within our Europe.

     

    in reply to: British Trains, buses and lorries #18797
    moriety
    Participant

    Putting famous British Shunters into this game is pretty pointless: They did exactly what they were intended to do: shunt rolling stock around at individual stations or marshalling yards, and were never built for public service or speed, just traction and pulling power, the class 08 probably being the best example: high traction and very small for her output.

    I’d like to see the Castle (4073 class) and Deltic classes in the game! Seeing the then beasts of the railways: Classes 37, 52 and 55 would be good. The Deltic had two engines and her pulling power was such that it meant that no more than one engine was ever switched on, if a breakdown occurred (very rarely) the crew simply put the other engine on.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    in reply to: Where is the game going? #18788
    moriety
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    PS all:

    Re: The video of the night-train.

    Although that one of the two remaining night trains  still exists at all is good I noticed that the service arrives at 5am in Paddington,, but nobody need leave the train before 7am. We in the UK have little to tie our identity to any mast, this train is one of those quirks for us British that reassure us that we are British. The NHS is being privatised before our very eyes, the BBC will be offered for sale soon: It’s this ongoing bit of Brunels legacy that reminds of us all of our past: The thunder of the locomotive as it pulls out of Cambourne, whilst the UK faces politicians.

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