Comments on: The missing Railroad Tycoon 2 map…

By: Venkat Koduru

Venkat Koduru — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:41:22 +0000

I got RT3 as a birthday gift a few years ago. It was awsome to say the least. And just a few weeks ago I tried out Tropico (the demo) … how I wish you’d get back into making those kind of games. I suppose you’re right though; I’m a minority; there’s not much of market for those any longer.

By: Chuck Castleberry

Chuck Castleberry — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:26:05 +0000

Thank you for your reply. Since sending my comment, I have solved it. Chuck

By: Phil Steinmeyer

Phil Steinmeyer — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:47:33 +0000

Sorry, I don’t even have RT2 installed anymore, so I can’t really take a look at this.

By: Chuck Castleberry

Chuck Castleberry — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:06:02 +0000

RRT 2nd ED ‘Mother Russia’ Campaign is programed to lose at least one territory at the end of the first day even if sufficient number of loads are delivered. I’m trying for Gold without any territories lost and am in need of a patch to correct this. Chuck, age 76

By: Phil Steinmeyer

Phil Steinmeyer — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:10:20 +0000

RTPlayer – I’m glad you liked them.

The color blotch thing is probably some sort of interaction with your video card – it’s conceivable that updating your video drivers would help, and somewhat more likely that a new video card might address it, but I certainly can’t guarantee that either would work.

By: RTplayer

RTplayer — Tue, 22 May 2007 05:48:32 +0000

I made a little typo when I said that “I would be surprised if when all is said and done your game has inspired some young people to become entrepreneurs.” What I meant to say is, “I would NOT be surprised…”

By: RTplayer

RTplayer — Tue, 22 May 2007 05:46:50 +0000

Howdy! My dad is a jr. high/high school teacher and uses RT2 in his business survey class for junior highers. Through it several of his students have gotten bitten by the “business bug” and I would be surprised if when all is said and done your game has inspired some young people to become entrepreneurs. I have three comments to make regarding RT3, which I also enjoy. The first is that I like how passengers and mail actually care where they are hauled (this is much, much more realstic than RT2 was in this area). The second is that I liked “drop-shipping” or “cargo depoting” and I’d like it if they were added (perhaps by way of a patch?) to RT3. I found this quite useful in RT2-Platinum (the version that first introduced me to Railroad Tycoon), but I’m not quite sure how this would be implemented in the RT3 economic . The third comment I have is that I have discovered a unique glitch in RT3, although I’m not sure whether this appears on computers other than mine. Having played through the whole campaign with the exception of the last 15-20 years of the final scenario (which I am currently working on), I couldn’t help but notice that the ground color slowly changes over the game years. It starts out realistic, but slowly changes as time progresses. I’m not sure whether the speed I run the game at (I spend most of my time on “very slow” because it gives me time to have creative solutions occur to me while it’s still early enough in the game to implement them). All I know is that after the first 15-20 game years, the ground has patches of all sorts of color, and after 30 years the ground is mostly white with scattered green and yellow “splotches”, and the surfaces of the lakes/oceans have become covered in blotches of many colors ranging from blue to pink. I’d appreciate any advice that could help me solve this problem. Just in case my description of the problem wasn’t clear enough, I have also documented this “chromatic evolution”, if you will, with screenshots designed to highlight the nature of this problem I’m having.

By: Hambone

Hambone — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:27:31 +0000

Hey Phil
Thank you for taking your time to make such a wonderful game! I am in my late 30s and still playing pc games like a kid. Time after time, I go back to RRT2 because of its outstanding playability. Game quality is not based on graphics, like most of today’s “eye candy” games but on easy playability, background, mechanics and expandibility. The ability to adjust the economy difficulty is an awesome feature. Some players like to micromanagement and some do not want to or are not ready too. RRT3 demo did not do it for me and the new renditions offered today do not meet the standards RRT2 has set. I would ask that RRT2 be brought back to take advantage of today’s machines…RRT4? Oh…please add more locomotives, double locomotive/cars, custom paint/real world railroad skins, rail bridges to cross competing railroad’s rails, triple tracks, smaller airports, semi truck warehouses and improved sea port trading.

Thanks again
Hambone

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 03 May 2006 19:42:05 +0000

Hello Phil, I loved RRT2 and RRT3 equally. You did eveything you could in RRT2, and then made a new game in RRT3. It was good, unique, and different. I still remember the challenge of getting a proftable route made through/around the mountains in the Swiss Alps scenario of RRT3. That was a lot of fun

By: North

North — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:24:33 +0000

> Sometimes I wonder if the RT3 economy model was overdone

Hi Phil, just wanted to say I love the RT3 economy model, it’s outstanding and has made RT3 as a game for me. I never was much one for micro-managing trains – love the high level strategy, only wish it could make be even more complex, e.g. running for political office, doling out pork etc.

Incidentally I was one of the guys who worked on the RT3 promo minigame at

http://www.railroadtycoon3.com/rt3/us/downloads/game.html

- that was fun, but not RT3 by any means