Railroad Tycoon game (all versions)

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StorkNest

Stop that, its just silly
I used the first and second, never got to try the third or Railroads!

Only today I noticed the first is a free download.

Which was the best in your opinion?

Different sites have different reviews and rankings.

Offhand, I think the second was better especially in graphics but I managed to finish a game of the first not the second so the business model of the first may be better.
 
Railroad Tycoon II was the best version in my opinion. It seemed to went downhill after it. I loved playing North America with 30 other companies trying to expand as fast you can before your competing railway companies got the good cities.

hert:wave:
 
If you can find 3 for cheap, its worth having, but don't spend more then $5 or $10 on it. There are things about it I like, and there are things I hate about it. But its still an OK game
 
I have 2 and 3. I used to have SMR but it looked too toyish. So I am only using the ones made by Poptop. They are like a fine wine.
 
My say: Go for It, I love it!

I too have all three.

I have found that the first is hard to navigate and operate; I'm probably spoiled.

The second is alright, but it attempts to do a bit too much. I really like the setup for the station, though.

RT3 in my opinion is the best. Intutitive custom map and scenario editor setup. LOVE the 3D scrolling; a bit hard to get used to again after playing with Trainz! If you try buying too many industries, it will never fully display the end-of-year ledger page for that. Of course, the time-speed and money-rate is almost unrealistic, but I love it as a whole.

What if there was someway to combine Trainz and RT3? As you build new routes or buy new locomotives, your performance on a test run dictates how well that route or locomotive performs????? That would be really cool!!!

Also, check out this site: http://hawkdawg.com/rrt/rrt3/rrt3.htm

Lots of free downloads, updates, and other stuff!

I think the Sid Meir (new version) is indeed very toyish. Not as much variety as RT3 but a better graphics engine. But what do you expect from a 2003 program? It's still an incredible program, no matter what you compare it to.
 
The only thing I want in RT3 is that the campaigns be like RT2
A pre-1930 and a post-1930 campaign.
 
I like RT3 and Railroads more than RT2. But that is only because I do not have the full version of RC2. I only have RT2: The Three Continents.

But the best for me would have to be Locomotion!
 
Found that the free download of the first is the Deluxe version.
I do not know if they squashed the bugs but it does come with a program allowing it to run in Vista with almost no problems. The README said how to get around the one issue I saw. It can be run in Fullscreen or Windowed though the second cannot be resized and is not 1024x768 (my resolution), somewhere between half and two-thirds that.
The memories just from running the tutorial.:)
 
I can run RT3 on my Windows 7 laptop fine, its a little slow, but thats because its an old Laptop, and 7 takes up a lot of memory.
 
I have played the 1st one (first independently on XP, then using DOSBox on 7) & the 3rd one (which is incompatible with 7).
 
I have all three. RT 2 was a great improvent on the first release. RT 3 was the best imho because of its economic model (no $$, no choo-choo!). RT 3's only fault was its lack of adequate tools for attacking geographical problems; i.e. mountains! I still put RT 3 on the CD player every once in a while for relaxation and light challange. Loved to brankrupt IKB, Vanderbuilt, and their ilk, every time they showed their greedy noses! Favorite scenarios were those involving the US midwest and lower south.
 
If RT3 is incompatible with Windows 7, is it possible to run it in "Compatibility Mode", or do you need an emulator?
 
steamboateng said:
I have all three. RT 2 was a great improvent on the first release. RT 3 was the best imho because of its economic model (no $$, no choo-choo!). RT 3's only fault was its lack of adequate tools for attacking geographical problems; i.e. mountains! I still put RT 3 on the CD player every once in a while for relaxation and light challange. Loved to brankrupt IKB, Vanderbuilt, and their ilk, every time they showed their greedy noses! Favorite scenarios were those involving the US midwest and lower south.
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I haven't used the program in awhile, but I used to do the same thing.

Buy up their stock so they keep raising the price. Then sell it all so it drops to $1. They buy them out for nothing! Works all the time!

The lack of tunnels and other ways of tackling the grades makes the program somewhat annoying. The graphics are kind of weird too with the ground squishing every time it is adjusted.

John
 
I have RT3 installed on this machine, Windows 7 64-bit, you need to turn off hardware T&L inside the game. There was a patch on hawkdawg.com for vista, looks like it has been removed.
 
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There is a patch. I run RT3 on my Win7-64 machine with the patch installed. I forgot where I dl'd it from. Google 'RT3 patch' and you should find it. The patch I have is '105_106_RT3_Vista_Fix'. There is also a free download available for th Coast to Coast expansion, named 'RT3_Coast_to_Coast_eng'.
 
I tried the RT3 demo recently.
Looked nice but I did not like the track laying procedure at all. Instead of checking grades like in v1 and laying segments, it is more like laying flextrack and there does not appear to be a way to adjust bad grades especially with no way to check elevation in numbers that I prefer.
 
You can usually achieve 2 to 3 % grades across rough country by zooming in close and lay a route. It's a trial and error process, time consuming and the the one fault of the game. Sometimes you may have to re-lay track multiple times to deform the geogrphy to a suitable grade. There is a method to the madness, if you have the patience. Tunneling is an alternative, but jjust as aggravating.
 
I still have to admit, it was all I had for quite a while, and I still love it.

OK, I did have Trans-Con (by Lionel) and LEGO LOCO, but this was leaps and bounds above anything I had ever known before, and to a certain extent, it still blows Auran out of the water. (I hope you'll forgive me)
 
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