Talk:Transport Tycoon

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Is it me or is this article not written from a neutral PoV? GoneWacko 00:13, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Investigating. I think you may add something about your worries. Patrickov 16:55, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Just take a look at
  • "One major minus of the game is the woeful artificial intelligence"
  • "but during development he changed his mind"
  • "It was released in September 2004 and was critically panned, despite being touted by Sawyer as the 'Spiritual successor to Transport Tycoon'."
  • "but was overshadowed by the Deluxe version"
The article seems positively jubilant when discussing the "new uni-directional signals" -- Ec5618 20:20, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Example 3 is just a description like "Somebody said this", not "It is this". Example 2 can be NPOV if Sawyer himself said so, but a reference is necessary.
Agree changes to the others, and I'd like to put some more disputable sentences for discussion once I found any. Patrickov 18:02, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Couple of points about the article

I think it bears mentioning that Locomotion is not a spiritual successor although am not confident to judge how the wording should be fixed Cratuki
One major thing that's been left out is mention of the music. This game had far and away the best use of music in any computer game I've played. John Broomhall's jazzy compositions are a fantastic enhancement to the atmosphere as well as being distinctly good tunes in their own right. By comparisson, the themes in Locomotion were limp. Cratuki

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[edit] Interchange Stations

Are interchange stations between two train lines allowed?

Yes, just have two lines meet in the same station... smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 07:33, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A little inaccuracy

Near the end of the article there is a line near the end about vehicle renaming and town renaming the inaccuracy is that you can rename towns regardless of ratings.



I added the OpenTTD website to External Links, because it seems odd to me that TTDpatch is mentioned and OpenTTD isn't. I accidentally submitted the change before I wrote my 'Edit Summary' completely, so I thought I'd mention my change here. Didero 09:18, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


I notived that under platforms it doesnt list windows 98 and 98 SE. It infact works under both. (Robotboy2008 05:48, 20 April 2007 (UTC))

I just changed that (Robotboy2008 08:16, 25 April 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Deluxe Transport Tycoon vs Transport Tycoon Deluxe

When I was trying to get a replacement for a TTD cd I damaged, I found a game in a bargain bin labeled "Deluxe Transport Tycoon". Turns out this was actually the original Transport Tycoon with some extra content (landscape/scenery as I recall). It did not have any of the game enhancements of TTD, such as improved signaling & monorails.

Is this version worth mentioning in this article?

--208.204.155.241 18:29, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

This is the "World Editor" version, with Martian landscape (IIRC). It's mentioned in one sentence, (A "World Editor" expansion pack was also released for the original Transport Tycoon, but was overshadowed by the Deluxe version released shortly afterward). Perhaps it'd be worth expanding on what the pack provided. --user:Qviri 16:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copytheft?

The Overview section copies vertabim this page. --CCFreak2K 23:29, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

No, it is straight opposite. This section in wikipedia is from 10 February 2004 [1], mentioned page is presumably from 2006. Page is using wikipedia content without attribution and thus breach of GNU Free Documentation License. --Jklamo 00:53, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coppyright holder

I feel strongly that something should be mentioned about the current owner of the name and the actual game. There have been many discussions about it on the internet. I shall try and find out more soon and write a section. Robotboy2008 10:17, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] gm MIDI files

Isn't the part about

                    (as such, the user is only required to rename the extension of the music files from ".gm" to ".mid" or ".midi" in order to render them playable in a MIDI player).

irrelevant? For example, in a linux OS, and with certain players, they couldn't care less about the midi extention. Also, it has hardly anything to do with the game.

[edit] Isometric view

I think that this game (and all its sequels and other similar games) should be mentioned in Category:Isometric_video_games and Isometric_projection. --orionsyndrome 77.105.59.191 (talk) 15:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)