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I’m affraid i have to agree with Tattoo and Rustyrockets.
Being said that i’ve been waiting and wanting this game for over 2 years, i haven’t played this game for weeks now. The performance isn’t even bothering me that much, and they improved that quite a bit in the last build. But the game is full of annoying bugs and just isn’t compelling to play. I posted a mayor list of things to change and add, but so far none of the requests have been added.
I just reloaded a save game from my last play, looked around and saw what made me put the game away. I have a traffic jam between 4 cities! One city to the next. And guess where my buses and trucks are… Right, in the middle.
The handling of traffic is very poor. Why does EVERY car stop at EVERY junction? Even when there are no other cars or people at that crossing. Because of that, traffic just stops the game, both in-game and in real life. So i just quit the game again.
It feels pointless trying to build great networks when the game fucks it up. One of the things i like best in OpenTTD, is the constant attraction to improve tracks. As the amount of trains on a track increase, you hit new bottlenecks all the time. You’re constantly trying to improve and remove the bottlenecks to improve the ‘train flow’, and that makes the game fun. New chalenges all the time.
Unfortunately, Train Fever works the other way around: new annoying bugs all the time. I hoped for the developers to fix these bugs, but the game is now out for almost 2 months and it seems to me that not one of the annoying bugs/issues i’ve found is being fixed. I repeatedly check their website to see if there’s a new version available, but no, that’s not the case. For me that’s very, very disapointing.
I had great hopes for this game, but until now the only part they lived up to was the nice graphics. But i don’t play for the graphics, i play for the gameplay. Heck, i still love OpenTTD and i can spend weeks playing a single map, and that game has 2D graphics from 1994! I was hoping to recommend this game to my friends and family, but why would i if i’m not even enjoying it myself?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE developpers, make this game as it is supposed to be. You know what we want and you know what the issues are, it’s all over these forums. Fix those annoying buys/issues, let us try to have fun. Because i KNOW this game can be good if you put some decent work in it, and i KNOW i can love this game as it is as it was intended to be. Make this game the OpenTTD-killer we’re all hoping it should be. And please start changing it soon, because i’m affraid people, including me, are losing interest in a fast pace.
And if you can’t do it all by yourself, please include the fan-scene. I know there’re a lot of enthousiastic people around that are willing to help. OpenTTD is all fan-based and is now one of the best games to play. It’s not a shame to invite members from outside your team, and i think most people will help you for free. Make this game for the scene, with the scene, and you’ll get the greatest game ever, that everyone will love.
Ok, another point that keeps freeking me out: Bus lockups. Why do some buses stop when they can simply drive on, but they don’t? This results in a complete station lockup, just like in the original Transport Tycoon. Please fix this as a high priority bug.
Unfortunately i find myself shutting Train Fever off because of those bugs. They end up spoiling the fun of the game. I really hope they get fixed soon.
I also recommend the developpers to do something about this issue. This game is about optimizing your transportation(company). However, editing tracks is almost impossible to do without completely stopping the running trains (on a station f.e.).
I hope the developpers do something about that. If like in your case the track is one large section, they should split that track in seperate sections so at least you can edit parts of the track later without running into problems such as these.
