The "spiritual sequel" to Transport Tycoon Deluxe: Chris Sawyer's Locomotion is the latest game from him - general discussion about it here please!
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by GoneWacko » 03 Apr 2004 19:53
Well Locomotion is ofcourse WAY too long a name to efficiently spam er I mean post on this forum...
There for we need an abbreviation.
L ?
Lm?
or my favorite, by patchman:
LoMo
I'd say LoMo would be best to use...
Any other ideas?
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by Arathorn » 03 Apr 2004 20:01
Lomo sounds fine, the problem with this game is that it's only one word, and that being a long one, so it's hard to find a nice abbrevation like TTD for it.
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by Born Acorn » 03 Apr 2004 20:11
Lo co mo
locomo
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LCM
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by dizcon » 03 Apr 2004 20:15
TT2 would do, how do we know Locomotion will be the final title?
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by Born Acorn » 03 Apr 2004 20:17
we will never know, maybe atari will say, hey, name it TT2, then it opens up to more people.
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by GoneWacko » 03 Apr 2004 20:20
Then again, it would only make people wonder "I don't know TT1, so I'll never understand TT2 either"...
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by Born Acorn » 03 Apr 2004 21:04
I wonder... if they could call it Transportation tycoon (2)?
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by Bart » 03 Apr 2004 21:22
Well, that would be totally dumb, since there are thousands of Tycoon games... giving it such a name will at least seperate it from the masses (not every people heard of TT, and everyone has heard of every possible Tycoon game possible)...
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by Born Acorn » 03 Apr 2004 21:26
yeah, but if they caled it transportation tycoon then all those people who threw away or damaged their TT or TTD disks would say, transport(ation) tycoon, yeah I distantly remember that and how good it was!
a lot of TT and TTd were sold in comparsion to those in these forums, that would get confused between the two, and with Atarigrames bad rep, they'd go for it just to boost sales
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by Derek McD » 03 Apr 2004 22:31
Locomotion is the project name. That is what they call in internally and before a title has been given.
Considering that Chris has games like Transport Tycoon , RollerCoaster Tycoon , RollerCoaster Tycoon 2.
There is a big chance it will have Tycoon in there somewhere.
This is a management and construction game. So it is only fitting to call the game a Tycoon , since that is the name you give to a person that has control over all things business.
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by tenacioustheforesaken » 04 Apr 2004 02:04
well i have seen a game called locomotion, made by some other company and its not that old. so i dont think they can actually use that name for a game
the cupcakes made me do it
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by krtaylor » 04 Apr 2004 02:59
Locomotion Tycoon, anyone?
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by Patchman » 04 Apr 2004 04:42
I still like LoMo, because it's the only two-syllable abbreviation that doesn't sound stupid
(And if the game seriously tanks, we can always change it to lame-o. Or if it's very laggy, to slomo. The possibilities!)
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by Me_Simon » 04 Apr 2004 08:32
meh lomo it is
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by Marco » 04 Apr 2004 08:55
TTL? (Transport Tycoon Locomotion)
TT2?
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by Hyronymus » 04 Apr 2004 09:08
Didn't I read that CS uses Lomo himself?
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by Lundis » 04 Apr 2004 09:53
I like Loco.
Chris Sawyer's Loco, even funnier.
And TTL is already taken by transistor-transistor-logic, but it would also be a good akronym.
Come on come on DOOOOOO the locomotion with me!
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by dizcon » 04 Apr 2004 11:32
Also means Time To Live
I don't think there will be a name conflict on "Locomotion", the previous Locomotion games are ancient. Besides, it seems the name will be "Chris Sawyer's Locomotion". So how about CSL?
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by DanMacK » 04 Apr 2004 11:48
CSL? Nahh, that'll remind me of
this Then again, I'd like to see some of the items on that page in LoMo
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by krtaylor » 04 Apr 2004 12:25
Lundis wrote: Come on come on DOOOOOO the locomotion with me!
I think we've just discovered what at least one of the songs in the game will be...
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