Can you guess the next key feature for Trainz?

OK. Gradients and their influence on train motion physics (is this already incorporated?)

Rob.
 
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My guess would be interactive industries and a money system to purchase and build using the TANE engine. Something like a specialised version of Railroad Tycoon. :D
Phil
 
Hi everybody.
A version of the game in which one doesn't need to be an IT guru or have a first class degree with honours in computer science in order to play the game!

Rob.

Robd, the above is the most sensible posting there has been on this forum for a very long time and it is certainly not off topic. I also think that a less complex version of Trainz would be best achieved by turning to the Google Android platform for major future development.

New Google Android laptops will be entering the “mobile market” within the next few months with screen sizes between 13 and 15 inches. There are also plans to introduce an Android desktop with a 21 inch screen size, although how anyone can describe that as being in the mobile market is beyond me. Without doubt these laptops will not possess the processing power of a Windows desktop or even high-end laptops, but many analysts believe that they will further push forward the Android gaming platform to a new level for its tens of millions of users all round the world.

Android devices have always thrived on being user-friendly and it is being advised that the new laptops will continue in that vein for all its users. Therefore, a new android version of Trainz perhaps along the lines of Trainz 10 specification could lead N3V into a much wider market and the increased revenue that would bring with it.

As Tony Hilliman has stated in another thread today that N3V needs to increase its user base if the features many T:ane users are “crying out for” is to be obtained. Therefore, a less complicated version appealing more to the mass-market could be of great benefit to its high-end counterpart T:ane.

I was one of the long time users of trainz which a survey was sent out to this week asking why we have not purchased this latest version. I replied (along with many more it would seem) that on reading this forum and others I had come to the conclusion that T:ane is too complex and complicated for me to enjoy.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not against learning. Indeed I left school at 15 years old with no qualifications whatsoever. I have spent my life learning by first obtaining qualifications in the British road haulage industry and then on through to industrial safety where I have spent the last 30 years continuously learning. Therefore, now in semi-retirement I have no desire to learn the “ins and outs of the Windows system” just to run a game. I do not mind learning how to run the actual game, but changing and altering files in the Windows system, forget it.

Trainz 10 was perfect for me as at the end of a long day you could just start the PC and within a few minutes be once again building my North Devon branch lines route. A Google Android laptop or even perhaps a desktop could return the above to me and perhaps introduce trainz too many millions more.

The geeks can continue with T:ane, but I just want once again a user-friendly version of Trainz on an operating platform produced by the biggest and most successful company in the world, Google, or in its new name Alphabet.

Bill
 
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Is it: Yet another Kickstarter campaign, requiring more money, for a brand new version of Trainz, from Trainzers, that already have 6, or more, unsupported versions of Trainz ?
I doubt it.

A random thought but perhaps the core game could become open source? N3V could make money from the DLS, first class tickets and some decent content, and manage the various talents of programmers/creators that are evidently out there in the community.

R3
 
OK: Candidates for the One Feature that would make the NEXT (New Era eXtended Trainz) version of Trainz of great interest to the majority of Trainz users would be:
1. Comprehensive dispatch and scheduling systems
2. Improved animations of passengers and goods when loading or unloading
3. A DirectX 11 or 12 version capable of SLI or Crossfire
4. New sky dome with realistic starscape at night and the sun position based on the Lat/Long set for user's current route
 
Bill

Loads of respect for your views, but I guess Tony might appreciate you spelling his name correctly at least once...

R3

Spelling was never my strong point. As I said I left school with no qualifications whatsoever. However I am sure Tony will understand, if not I apologise :hehe:

Bill
 
Spelling was never my strong point. As I said I left school with no qualifications whatsoever. However I am sure Tony will understand, if not I apologise :hehe:

Bill

I know what that's like (the spelling side that is - I haven't had experience on the other side). I've got a friend with dyspraxia that has problems with spelling (as long as the first and last letters are in the right place though I can normally understand it).

Shane
 
Bill

Thanks for acknowledging. No criticism intended, but repeatedly misspelling a name could be interpreted as a degree of disrespect, which I'm sure wasn't intended.

All calm.

Regards

R3
 
That's one reason why I'm trying to help simplify things if I can through my tutorials and guides (although my basics guide is now somewhat out of date due to all the changes).

Just out of interest, has anyone looked at N3V's videos on Youtube lately?

Shane
 
... I also think that a less complex version of Trainz would be best achieved by turning to the Google Android platform for major future development..

OK, my guess is (specially for Bill & Co) the next big thing will be TS 2004 adapted for Android. In game purchases for locomotive and rolling stock will be available along with scenery and suchlike items (for a modest sum).

Players will get points for crashes, with a bonus for each passenger killed and a 'highest death rate' table will be the main feature on Trainz Portal (where further purchases may be made).

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and so, back to reality :p :).
 
Bill

Thanks for acknowledging. No criticism intended, but repeatedly misspelling a name could be interpreted as a degree of disrespect, which I'm sure wasn't intended.

All calm.

Regards

R3

Thanks rumour3. I always use Dragon Naturally Speaking for longer posts or documents and it has never learned Tony's surname spelling. Strange as it always has picked up everything else very quickly including names. Cannot figure out why that is . Perhaps my Dragon does not like him (LOL).

Bill
 
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OK, my guess is (specially for Bill & Co) the next big thing will be TS 2004 adapted for Android. In game purchases for locomotive and rolling stock will be available along with scenery and suchlike items (for a modest sum).

Players will get points for crashes, with a bonus for each passenger killed and a 'highest death rate' table will be the main feature on Trainz Portal (where further purchases may be made).

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and so, back to reality :p :).

And posts like that are why Trainz is not gaining new user as it should be. Demonstration of some on this forum closing their combined minds to a changing outside gaming and platform world.

Bill
 
If Trainz ever goes down the dumbed-down, lousy-graphics, unmoddable, freemium route that is the mobile gaming market, I'll stick with my "geeky" old versions of Trainz.

And I've spent less on new hardware in the last four years than many (if not the vast majority) of smartphone owners have during the same period of time.
 
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