Talk:Sid Meier's Railroads!

message: Right now, the article is more like an ad than an encyclopedia article.--Almost Anonymous 22:12, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dshirk had copied the "Features" section from the firaxis website.  I removed it. FiggyBee 06:19, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Apparently someone with an addiction over flag icons has edited the article. Really, that many flag icons just slows the loading of the page, without adding anything significant to the article. --Mika1h 19:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag icons 

message: The link for Baron Rothschild heads to a disambiguation page listing all Barons Rothschild.  I'd fix it, but I don't know to which Baron the game refers.  Could someone more knowledgeable correct this, please? --CPAScott 18:46, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's presumably supposed to be either Anthony de Rothschild (who was a Baronet, not a Baron), or James Mayer de Rothschild (who wasn't British and never lived in Britain).  I've piped the link to the former unless anyone knows any better.  FiggyBee 23:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

text: According to the game manual and the loading screen featuring his bio, it says that he is in fact James Mayer de Rothschild, and it goes into dteail about his life as a financier under King Louis-Philippe and then Napoleon III.  And yes he is French, not British. I will make these changes right now.  — Kjammer ⌂ 20:38, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baron Rothschild 

message: I have also have numerous crashes in Vista (currently one per quarter hour)but have not found a fix. It would be helpful to create a link to fixes others have found.  Many of the crashes and AI bugs that I have observed are the same ones claimed to have been fixed in patch 1.1, though the version I'm running is 1.1.0.0.61414.
The bugs listed below are referenced from [2k Games website notes on V1.1].
Crash - Deleting the section of track right before the train will no longer crash the game. 
Crash - If user changes the route to a depot the train is just passing the game will no longer crash. 
Crash - Laying a rapid amount of track will no longer cause the game to crash when trying to quit. 
Crash - Long track is broken up into smaller tracks to address the "long track crash". 
Crash - Overlapping a track junction no longer causes a crash to desktop upon quitting to main menu or laying a parallel track off a piece of track. 
Crash - When two trains are on one track, a double track is laid and connected to original track, and original track is deleted, the game no longer crashes. 
My observations for other situations causing crashes:
AI - Trains get stuck in a back and forth loop on some segments of track between towns.
AI - Trains taking the worst possible / longest route
Crash - editing depot track while trains are approaching / on the tracks
Crash - Long tracks requiring the screen to scroll at least two page widths.
Papabear 07:30, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vista Help pt 2 

message: I'd like to introduce a term: editorial oversight. If you want to use something as a source, it needs this unless it is a primary source. Forums, blogs, user reviews, comments and other sources of information that anyone can just edit and create with no accountability do not pass WP:V. Citing these things places undue weight on that user or users opinion, information, etc. There are potentially hundreds of thousands or millions of users of any product. Why should the opinion, feeling, thought or ranting of this user warrant such attention in this article? The answer is, it doesn't. Unless their opinion has been covered by a reliable source (e.g. a review or article mentions this user and their opinion, or the general opinion of users) it doesn't belong in articles and even then you cite the reliable source, not the forum posting, blog, bar conversation, etc that may have caused the reliable source to write that.--221.143.25.19 (talk) 07:49, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: "Players looking for the complex economic cycles of Railroad Tycoon 3 will find this particular game juvenile by comparison."
If you read the actual review from which this quote is taken, you'll see that this isn't meant to be a criticism at all - quite the opposite, in fact.
The gist of the review is that RT3 catered far too heavily towards hardcore math/economic nerds, whereas Railroads! is more in the spirit of the genre. 217.155.20.163 (talk) 23:31, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism?! 

message: There really should be the train info! I will revert the change because this is a railroads game and it would be simply stupid to just say "There is trains in this game." Information about the trains is important because interested ones can click to their real world version. Isn't that what Wikipedia is all about? 91.156.53.21 (talk) 18:31, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Train info 

message: What multiplayer features does the game have? - Commandur (talk) 05:44, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiplayer