Lack of Competition

[Emma]

Is their a way of getting a real economy working, and getting other AI controlled Companies, Who work against the Player, Otherwise this is just a boring Simulation, that few people enjoy. It must be possible in this day and age to have a Transport Tycoon from last century, type game in this century, Turn this graphically awesome game into a true ever lasting Epic.
After all most people have Awesome Computers These days, but this uses less than 5% of its actual Power, Their must be a Way?????????????

[doug]

No, thank-you.

[david.artrex]

Originally posted by doug:

No, thank-you.

Agreed.

[genemead]

I could list dozens of reasons for no AI, but it's been said many times already.

[RadicalSolution]

Ai would be a nightmare.. I hate those kinds of games. Ever tried playing a game like civ and Ghandi descides in year 100 to blow you up with a nuke? No .. no thank you. I'll play in my sandbox.

[jgvandijk]

Not a good idea, IMHO

[doug]

Originally posted by RadicalSolution:

Ai would be a nightmare.. I hate those kinds of games. Ever tried playing a game like civ and Ghandi descides in year 100 to blow you up with a nuke? No .. no thank you. I'll play in my sandbox.

I was at the point of muskets and canon. It was the Romans who dropped the nuke...

[General Tso]

If you are playing Civ 5 and don't like nukes. Just use my mod and disable them. The option is in the mod's game options screen.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=126959669

Sorry for the interruption. Now back to Transport Fever 2. :)

[sergetechone]

No AI for me. When I play Locomotion, and the play was having a few AI, the AI's place over the place roads and rails like spagati. So I setup the game play with NO AI. Way better. Same goes for Capitalism Lab. I dont like too many AI over the place.

[CunkFeatures]

Loads of ways to get some good competition going...

Pre built scenarios where all the AI needs to do is upgrade. You'd have to offer faster/cheaper alternatives to get the trade.
Would be more than happy with the AI sticking to just roads, sea and air.
Multiplayer is an obvious one.

But wont happen in 2.

[Emma]

Originally posted by Emma:

Is their a way of getting a real economy working, and getting other AI controlled Companies, Who work against the Player, Otherwise this is just a boring Simulation, that few people enjoy. It must be possible in this day and age to have a Transport Tycoon from last century, type game in this century, Turn this graphically awesome game into a true ever lasting Epic.
After all most people have Awesome Computers These days, but this uses less than 5% of its actual Power, Their must be a Way?????????????

Thanks Guys for your feedback, It just seems really strange Why when you start a new game you start with a Bank Loan which One pays interest on, and the Running costs and Construction increases with game difficulty, does anyone play this on Hard. So the AI is already there, Just need to find One of you clever Guys to maybe explore that Avenue a bit more, Maybe it's me but i haven't found any Nuke's in this game
Thanks for your Time

[gGeorg]

In the first game, Train fever there was AI competition. It worked somehow. But they strugle to make it properly. WIth they lack of communication and game design skill, and without any betatesting they added improvement the "main connection feature" which turned game to unplayeble at all. As this feature effectively disabled building. After the update, steam number of players fall ike a stone. This execiise made them resigne to any simulation, in the next two games they are delivering just sandbox. No AI, no economy.

[Superhai]

I am no fan of AI players either, for the same reasons mentioned by the others above. Multiplayer would however be interesting. I like the game how it is with just building almost like a model railroad. But for economics it makes it more like a transport company for a communist country, you can't set any prices, there are no competitors and a class-less society.

[RadicalSolution]

Maybe not a nuke. Perhaps a bird flock hitting a plane. Or a random road accident every 15 year.

'Bob was hit and killed today by your coffee bean truck. You are due 100 000 dollars in legal fees.'

Or maybe not.

[Tsubame ⭐]

This has been discussed a lot already. It is not a good idea given the amount of work needed. Just as an example, these guys took a while to switch to Vulkan and implement Mac. The time and work required is much better spend doing something else.

Also it would significantly affect the computer's performance. Not just the extra lines on the map, but the actual pathfinding to look for suitable routes as well - anyone play Planet Coaster and tell the AI to auto-close unfinished roller coaster loops? Not to say that it will also force people to play on play mode - and not on pause - which will further decrease performance...

[Sistermatic™]

I'd much prefer they spend their time finishing the map editor so it doesn't do dumb things like working out the costs to landscape.