This vs railroad tycoon 3

[steven272]

Which is better

[GIJoe597]

Since this is an opinion, mine is RRT3. I am sure you will get differing opinions as that is what makes the world great. As Patton once said, if everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

[loupou22]

RRT3 with the Trainmaster Update - just google hawk & badger railroad for the updated exe files - I still love playing that :)
But this is perfectly playable - and I own it :)

[ronelst85]

I feel like I wasted money on this; it just feels wrong. RRT3 is one of my favourite games ever, so good, you just won't ever get a game that detailed again.

[Dray Prescot]

RRT3 is getting to be too old. I would rather play 2 than 3. The one nice thing about the RRT games was that a very small station could grow into a real City. In RE a Resource Site will never grow into area with housing, i.e. a village and then a City. Plus you could build Industries wherever you could fit them onto the Map. Plus they had more additional buildings that you could build at a Station.

The problem is that they were designed to run on much smaller and slower computers, and graphics.

One thing that I do NOT miss about RRT is having low priority trains just sitting on the tracks waiting (for LONG and indefinite times) to get into a City Station while high priority trains just kept skipping ahead of them.

[GIJoe597]

Originally posted by Dray Prescot:

One thing that I do NOT miss about RRT is having low priority trains just sitting on the tracks waiting (for LONG and indefinite times) to get into a City Station while high priority trains just kept skipping ahead of them.

Once my cities got that large, I always added a second/third etc station, strictly for express as well as cargo as required..

[Richon]

Originally posted by Dray Prescot:

RRT3 is getting to be too old. I would rather play 2 than 3. The one nice thing the RRT games was that a very small station could grow into a real City. In RE a Resource Site will never grow into area with housing, i.e. a village and then a City.

I've never seen a station in RRT 2 or 3 that wasn't already at least a village develop any housing. Are you sure you're remembering correctly?

[Tiki Bar Ted]

I actually prefer RE, but my memory of RRT3 is getting old. Have you guys gotten it to run on a 64 bit OS?

I like the graphics in RE, since I'm more of a virtual model railroader than anything else.

Thanks for all your inputs!

[Dray Prescot]

What I remember was that even a Mine or a Farm would start off with a small number of houses near it and the Station, and if you kept those houses satisfied you would see them add more and more houses. Every new Station had a Name of the location it was at, which was the name of the village/town/city that would demand things and provide things.

A really small number of houses would only provide or demand Passengers and/or Mail (I forget if it was provide or demand). But with enough time and care it was possible to grow those few houses into something bigger. I may be thinking of Sid's RRT (1) or RRT2 rather than RRT3.

I also remember that Railroad stations only drew stuff (Passengers, Mail, production) from within it's circle of range and only provided stuff (Passengers, Mail, goods being delivered) to Houses and Industries within that same range circle. Old or New Houses that started outside that range circle got NO service (pickups or deliveries)

If you built a Station or Industry or tracks on top of (or through) a house (you may have had to bull doze it first), that house and people staying there were GONE from that City, and you had to hope that they would regrow as you supplied the remaining houses.

So building a New or First Station and Tracks in a City would get rid of (because you bull dozed their houses to place the Station and tracks) some of your customers and their demands (for various items including Mail and Passengers) and supplies (Mail and Passengers were all that Houses produced).

If you did not supply the local houses, they would eventually shrink away. It was possible for very small cities to shrink away completely, leaving just any Industries or Resources that were there.

If the houses were not there when you first built a rural station (say to pick up coal, wood, grain, etc), I think that a few of the smallest houses would pop up shortly after you built the Station.

[Dray Prescot]

I remember playing them on 32 bit OS machines (Windows 95/98 and other later OS). I even played them (RRT (1) at least) on pre Windows 95 computers, with floppy disks instead of CD disks.

Try playing them in Windows 95/98 compatible Mode.

I have both RRT 2 and RRT 3 in my list of Steam Games on my computer (I think that I bought them in a sale years ago).