Minimum distance between industries?

[Rexxia]

If there is no minimum distance between place-able industries, then players will just place them all next to each other and removing the need for proper lines.

[DRACO]

why? it is your freedom to place them, no matter if you place them next to each other or you have to drive around the whole map to get to them

[Rexxia]

There needs to be some restriction to avoid players just placing them all next to each other

[Schlappspaten]

Originally posted by Rexxia:

There needs to be some restriction to avoid players just placing them all next to each other

No, free choices for free players. Nobody should be forced to do things in any specific way.

[solarus the iron horsemon]

Originally posted by Rexxia:

If there is no minimum distance between place-able industries, then players will just place them all next to each other and removing the need for proper lines.

What’s the point of free range if you can’t make a industrial town at the spon depot and have your raw resources cut where they need to be

[Rexxia]

Originally posted by solarus the iron horsemon:

Originally posted by Rexxia:

If there is no minimum distance between place-able industries, then players will just place them all next to each other and removing the need for proper lines.

What’s the point of free range if you can’t make a industrial town at the spon depot and have your raw resources cut where they need to be

With the way it is, the raw resource can be touching the industry that uses it. That's not ideal.

[waite]

There are two types of play styles.... Yours and other peoples styles.

[Rexxia]

Originally posted by waite:

There are two types of play styles.... Yours and other peoples styles.

People always prefer the easiest option by instinct. There needs at least some incentive for strategic placement of the industries outside of "I wanna roleplay."

[waite]

Or maybe they like really long trains and they place the industries very far apart so that the train won't be at the departure and destination locations at the same time!

[Quarren King of Q]

let people play the way they want. this isnt one of those situations to bring out a pitch fork. this is almost exactly like the console lads trying to find any excuse to make fun of pc users cause they can use mods or cheat codes. . that is one of the beauties of true gaming.

[Rexxia]

Originally posted by QuarrenKingofQ:

let people play the way they want. this isnt one of those situations to bring out a pitch fork. this is almost exactly like the console lads trying to find any excuse to make fun of pc users cause they can use mods or cheat codes. . that is one of the beauties of true gaming.

You are very hostile in these forums. I wasn't crying about this and was just pointing out a potential flaw.

[solarus the iron horsemon]

It’s interesting how some people like them preset and others prefer to set them themselves it’s up to you to decide

[Dr. Fao Xi, DO/MD [31 CHN]]

I kind of prefer them preset because then it keeps me from just being lazy and making it too easy to access them, and it also gives you a challenge to work towards, but at the same some of the placement on Pine Valley was not ideal and was annoying to work with.

I'm kind of struggling with placement on Lake Valley because I want to place them kind of realistic to where they would be IRL (logging camp in forested area in the mountains for example, or iron/oil in the desert) but I'm kind of left directionless since the map is very sandboxy the way it was designed. It would also have been nice if there was a prebuilt town or map exit (off map exports) to spring board off of.

Not sure if this is something that could be remedied by having a resource "heatmap", where iron or coal or oil is located in specific parts of the map (possibly even multiple locations) as a way of encouraging the player to put their industry in the appropriate biomes.

Or of course the most reasonable option would be to have two versions of the same map, one with preplaced industries and one that is blank.

[Eisenbauer72]

Hallo Freunde,
Sicher mag es für den einen oder anderen ganz toll sein wenn er mit einer leeren Karte, also nur Landschaft, beginnt und sich auf dieser dann alles selbst bauen kann.
Für mich geht da irgendwie der Charakter des Spiels verloren und ich finde es echt schade das man nicht die Wahl hat ob man mit einer leeren Karte startet und mit einer mit bereits vorgegebenen Industriestandorten.
Für mich liegt der Reiz in dem Spiel darin das es meine Aufgabe ist eine Schmalspurbahn zu bauen die die verschiedenen Industrien miteinander verbindet und letztlich Waren an das Frachtdepot zu liefern was die Verbindung zur großen weiten Welt darstellt.
Wo ich dann damit auch Geld verdiene um meine Bahn technisch aufzurüsten und mehr Wagen und stärkere Loks zu kaufen. Ich finde es schon schade das es noch nicht mal Geld kostet Schienen zu verlegen oder Brücken zu bauen oder das ich keine Betriebsmittel kaufen muss.
Wie ich bereits in einem anderen Beitrag geschrieben hätte würde ich es sehr gut finden wenn man nicht Mitten im nirgendwo starten würde, aber das kann ja jeder in meinem Beitrag "Neue Karte, Lob, Kritik..." lesen.
Gruß der Eisenbauer

[Jscassidy010]

I like the ability to choose and find that, often times, even though I can place industries on top of each other I don't. I have several moved industry maps where I have a mix, for example, I might put a smelter and logging camp on the same yard (but in a way that makes for some fun switching operations), or put the ironworks near the coal mine (but restrict the line between the two to only allow for geared locomotives and shorter trains, thus adding the need to swap locomotives for services from the rest of the map to the mine). And as stated above mine is just one of many play styles enjoyed by the community that plays RRO and if someone wants to play a certain way they shouldn't be restricted just because it isn't someone else's "right way" to play the game.