Traffic Giant and Simutrans

Marco · Post by **Marco** » 30 Oct 2002 09:13

Who has Traffic Giant ( http://www.trafficgiant.com ) and wants discuss about it?

TiMMah!!! · Post by **TiMMah!!!** » 30 Oct 2002 09:17

I have it, but don't want to discuss about it. There's a Traffic Giant Forum...
http://forum.jowood.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=24
I think it gets pretty boring after a while.

Marco · Post by **Marco** » 30 Oct 2002 19:54

The official forum is the only forum about TG in the world

TTD is better! But change game sometimes is beautiful

Post by **orudge** » 30 Oct 2002 20:01

Well what about Simutrans then? I've done some work on this game, it's quite good.

anaconda · Post by **anaconda** » 31 Oct 2002 07:15

orudge wrote:Well what about Simutrans then? I've done some work on this game, it's quite good.

My standard answer to that is: "I haven't tested the latest build"

I like the consept, but it's still too dull.

Marco · Post by **Marco** » 31 Oct 2002 07:35

I tested it 10 minuts, it is similar at TTD, but TTD is better

Omnislash · Post by **Omnislash** » 01 Nov 2002 00:58

Never really liked it much.

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 01 Nov 2002 07:47

i even have a non-related story about it
so here i go off-topic, try and stop me...

once upon a time long ago, i downloaded the traffic giant demo
(in my download folder, as always)
i installed and tried it for a couple of minutes
didn't like it and un-installed it
good
then sometime after i downloaded other stuff
it's the seti project download, i put in the same folder
as i tried to install it, installation went great, but i didn't find the seti folder or program, i looked everywhere
but there was traffic giant demo again

so the setup of seti ran the installation of TG ??
then i removed the TG demo and seti installed ok
strange things can happen if you let old stuff lay around in your folders

Omnislash · Post by **Omnislash** » 01 Nov 2002 13:09

I've had strange things like that happen before. Like the other day I shared a cd drive and accessed it on anther computer. And for some reason when I ran setup.exe it opened Yuri's Revenge. No idea why. Never did get it too work. lol

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 01 Nov 2002 13:20

just like me, it was a setup program too
so don't let old rubbish laying around

Jan · Post by **Jan** » 01 Nov 2002 18:30

I did play Simutrans just yesterday. TTDLX is crashing under XP after like an hour, so I did fire up version 80 of Simutrans. After building some stations and making some money, here comes competition. And guess what. All the material is stored now in his stations and my trains is waiting for raw material to be delivered or to be harvested.

Example: forest station had always around 350 pc of wood. When the AI start from the same forest, I got 0 and he got over 1000! And the autor was claiming on German forum, that his game is already better then TTDLX!? Pch.
Jan

Post by **orudge** » 01 Nov 2002 19:27

This may sound a bit stupid, but did you set up a route and let a train (or road vehicle) go there?

EDIT: Oh yes, you said you did.

Try e-mailing the Simutrans mailing list.

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 02 Nov 2002 04:43

Jan wrote:TTDLX is crashing under XP after like an hour

does he always do that, so after an hour he crashes, then you can play another hour, etc..
this seems a reasonable time limit
perhaps your parents set this up so you wouldn't get addicted

Jan wrote:And the autor was claiming on German forum, that his game is already better then TTDLX!? Pch.

in dutch we have a saying: 'hoogmoed komt voor de val'
i dunno the correct english for this, but such claims are rubbish
it's like saying duke3d is better than doom or unreal is better than half-life
all games have their own good/bad things and for some reason people like one game better than another
(ps. Pch means patch i hope)

Jan · Post by **Jan** » 02 Nov 2002 06:23

does he always do that, so after an hour he crashes, then you can play another hour, etc..
this seems a reasonable time limit
perhaps your parents set this up so you wouldn't get addicted

This will be very difficult, my parents are dead and I'm proud father of two, 22 and 25 years old kids. So, I'm old fart.

I do not like the crashing, because I am lazy b****** who never save enough and then I had to start again, the same tedious work of laying tracks.

ps. Pch means patch i hope)

Nope! More close to ... Use you own imagination.

@Owen

Look, I do not want to put this guy down, I do appreciate his work. But, please do not claim this is better then TTDLX! It is NOT! Period. End of the discussion, because non of them (and so many tried) and no company till today can claim that.

Jan

Post by **orudge** » 02 Nov 2002 09:48

Um... I never said it was better than TTD. It is not. TTD is the best transport game in the world. What I was saying was that I had done some work on it, and it's quite good, but not better than TTD.

Jan · Post by **Jan** » 02 Nov 2002 14:00

Owen, I didn't mean you personaly in the previous post. I ment that guy who set is better! More like this will go for everybody with similar claims.

Hmm, I thought this will give a problem, but it was already so late and I was to lazy to edit.
Sorry!
Jan

Post by **orudge** » 02 Nov 2002 15:27

Ah, were you refering to Hansjörg Malthaner (aka Hajo) - the programmer of Simutrans?

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 03 Nov 2002 05:04

yes, not you Owen

Jan · Post by **Jan** » 03 Nov 2002 16:28

Thanks for helping to clean up this matter. I do admire everybody who is able to do work like this (Simutran etc.). But, always BUT, most of the copies never even touch the complexity and sheer fun of Chris game.

Question. Did anybody saw the new RCT 2? A lot more graphical improvement? Because, if he decide to do TTD 2 he may (and I think he will) use all of the previous work for the new game, same like he did it with his first RCT.
Jan

Marco · Post by **Marco** » 04 Nov 2002 10:51

I opened a thread about RCT2 in the general forum.

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