Page 16 of 18
Posted: 23 Apr 2004 22:24
by krtaylor
Totally not true. In TTD, you can't do crossing, bridges, stations, or hills in the diagonal direction, but as long as the land is flat and there's nothing in the way, you can build in a straight diagonal line as far as you want. So if you have two towns that are diagonally opposite each other, you can easily connect them, you just have the actual stations diagonal to the direction of the mainline track connecting them. In TG this will be very much harder. But it's too late to try to fix it now I guess.
Posted: 24 Apr 2004 21:43
by Born Acorn
you can't do diags in TG.
Posted: 25 Apr 2004 13:44
by calciumcowpat
i would say that the 4 diagonal direction are extremly useful
Posted: 25 Apr 2004 18:48
by krtaylor
Agreed, which is why I may not buy TG.
Posted: 25 Apr 2004 20:51
by calciumcowpat
i will still buy TG as i would try to find way around this problem 1
It's a skill
Posted: 25 Apr 2004 21:30
by Snorbuckle
In Industry Giant II, it's also not possible to do diagonals, which really annoys me. But since that's about industry and not transportation, it doesn't make as big an impact.
Posted: 25 Apr 2004 21:57
by Born Acorn
this is about industry too!
Passengers are just another type of goods, thats the way the game sees it.
Posted: 26 Apr 2004 06:49
by Snorbuckle
I know that, but transportation is a sideline in Industry Giant II, making the diagonals less important.
Posted: 29 Apr 2004 12:23
by calciumcowpat
Snorbuckle wrote:I know that, but transportation is a sideline in Industry Giant II, making the diagonals less important.
How did you come up with that statment
Posted: 29 Apr 2004 16:39
by Hyronymus
Wasn't the goal of the game to connect industries by vehicles and then transport the produced goos to the cities? What do you mean with transportation as a sideline then? I think your remark derailed somewhere.
Posted: 30 Apr 2004 20:08
by SHADOW-XIII
A capuccino, please
(click to zoom)
While a train is taking the coffee beans to the roasting house, a cargo plane is already waiting to take the freshly packed coffee to the consumers as quickly as possible.
Posted: 01 May 2004 08:22
by spaceman-spiff
Those planes sure have good brakes
Posted: 01 May 2004 08:35
by SHADOW-XIII
indeed ... quiet unrealistic ... was the same with IG2 though
Posted: 01 May 2004 09:46
by eis_os
Hans said on the german tg forums that planes get reduced in size when taking off / landing...
Posted: 01 May 2004 09:47
by Louie Armstrong
The thing that gets me about this screen is the engine shed at the back of the station with a Loco sticking out, It cant go anywhere. Just seems odd to me
Posted: 01 May 2004 10:54
by Chris 'Awkward' McKenna
eis_os wrote:Hans said on the german tg forums that planes get reduced in size when taking off / landing...
That must look mighty odd!
And imagine what the passengers must think, they get onto a nice spacious plane, stretch out their legs, but then wehn the plane gets to the runway it suddenly shrinks. I don't think I'd fly with that airline again!
Chris
Posted: 01 May 2004 11:20
by John
its a cargo plane, not a passenger plane
is see what you mean Louie, sure looks weird
Posted: 01 May 2004 13:01
by Chris 'Awkward' McKenna
John wrote:its a cargo plane, not a passenger plane
Would you put your valuable cargo on it?
Posted: 01 May 2004 13:46
by eis_os
Hmm, can't find the thread anymore about the starting and landing
But here are two pics so you can see what I mean:
http://www.transportgiant.com/images/ss ... eek_12.jpg
http://www.transportgiant.com/images/ss ... coffee.jpg
Posted: 01 May 2004 15:31
by Zimmlock
I like the grafix of TG but, look carfully, the airplane has no wheels, its just floating next to a odd placed engine shed, Louie pointed out