A month and a half of silence. – Train Fever /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/feed/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:31:29 +0000 https://bbpress.org/?v=2.6.13 en-US /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18516 <![CDATA[A month and a half of silence.]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18516 Sat, 09 May 2015 19:45:54 +0000 Leszek March 25th is the last update on the main page.  We are now well into may and no new information has come.  This is the longest gap since October 2013.

This isn’t necessarily bad, you guys could be working diligently on an awesome update.  On the other hand you guys might no longer be existent.  The last post leaves us with a progress report and loose ends.  Lack of information leaves us to our imaginations and people have a bias towards bad news when it comes to their imaginations.

Some news would be greatly appreciated.

]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18517 <![CDATA[Reply To: A month and a half of silence.]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18517 Sun, 10 May 2015 01:48:04 +0000 isidoro Well, people used to complain here when there were a bunch of updates frequently…  As I pointed out then, this opposite situation is much worse, isn’t it?  A logical outcome after that much criticism.

 

]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18518 <![CDATA[Reply To: A month and a half of silence.]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18518 Sun, 10 May 2015 08:18:17 +0000 Norfolk_Chris The ominous silence from Urban Games is worrying.  Are you still there?

]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18519 <![CDATA[Reply To: A month and a half of silence.]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18519 Sun, 10 May 2015 09:04:37 +0000 peycke I have send them several mails concerning lack of communication and technical support. They do work on a patch on loading problems several users have. Good news is that they will hire a communication manager and they do admit that their communication with the community has to improve. So we should all give them some more credit before we give up.

]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18520 <![CDATA[Reply To: A month and a half of silence.]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18520 Sun, 10 May 2015 09:53:16 +0000 Martin Mulder @isidoro: People were not complaining about frequent updates. They were complaining about frequent patches and bug fixes.

People would love frequent updates (lets say: every three weeks) with new features and nice additions. People hate it when they are very buggy and are in need of much more “updates”.

]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18523 <![CDATA[Reply To: A month and a half of silence.]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18523 Sun, 10 May 2015 13:41:51 +0000 Azrael @peycke

I can confirm this too, on Facebook, though in German, they said that they’ll release a new performance and bugfixing patch soon and that double track switches are high on their priority list:

https://www.facebook.com/TrainFeverGame/posts/1607587879494932

]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18524 <![CDATA[Reply To: A month and a half of silence.]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18524 Sun, 10 May 2015 13:48:29 +0000 electricmonk2k According to their post in this thread, which post-dates the release of the last patch, they refer to “the next patch”, which implies they’re working on another patch (or at least started working on one).

As much as I’d like to see new features in TF (and removal of some annoyances), from reading the forums there are many people who cannot even get the game to start, so if I were Urban Games, I’d be giving those bugs a higher priority than anything else.

Personally, I think that if an update isn’t likely to be ready by some deadline, the deadline should be pushed back rather than the development rushed. An example of this was when the USA DLC was released (at the last possible moment of the “by the end of February” deadline) and the user-interface on the mod-selection screen had some problems if a large number of mods were installed (although to be fair, Urban Games did release a patch fixing this within a few days).

Also, I think that as well as hiring a communication manager, they need to hire more programmers and adopt some programming-practices suitable for modern post-release game development, such as having two code-streams to enable rapid bug-fixes without disrupting the development of new features too much (I can tell that this probably wasn’t the case because in the beginning of February, there was a bug that causes some savegames to not load, and nearly one month later, a patch came out (that included what was needed for the USA DLC to work), which was the first patch since that bug reared it’s ugly head).

]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18525 <![CDATA[Reply To: A month and a half of silence.]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18525 Mon, 11 May 2015 00:04:39 +0000 isidoro @Martin Mulder: my point is that what is best, bug fixing or silence?  If there are errors and those are corrected, this is nice, isn’t it?  Of course that free additions are most welcome, nonetheless…

]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18526 <![CDATA[Reply To: A month and a half of silence.]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18526 Mon, 11 May 2015 00:47:42 +0000 RAAndre It’s the lags that are killing me.  The game becomes unplayable.  I hope they are seriously working on that.

]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18542 <![CDATA[Reply To: A month and a half of silence.]]> /forums/topic/a-month-and-a-half-of-silence/#post-18542 Wed, 13 May 2015 22:48:37 +0000 Traian Trante raandre, teh lags are manageable with a couple of mods. Also, another good thing is not upgrading your cities to their full potential and just not connecting some cities at all. if i play like that the game is totally playable for me.

 

I know that we shouldn’t  do that, but at least there is the option to do that.

 

And when i red about the double track switches i felt like cheering :D:D:D:D:D:D i just hope it’s true and they’re coming !

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