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From: coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
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Subject: Re: Railroad Tycoon bugs?
Keywords: Railroad Tycoon
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Date: 27 Jun 91 22:26:42 GMT
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jonesie@cbnewsm.att.com (charles.e.jones) writes:
>	Now, for a bug I've come across.
>	Try removing a station from the middle of your network.

>	It seemed to *really* confuse the train routing for me.  All
>the stations in the routing window claimed to be some other city,
>though I could still schedule after a fashion.  And the distance
>between stations became just as confused as the routing.  (A 'Pacific'
>powered three-car passenger train set a speed record of 280 mph!)

>	(I suspect that if you 'patch' around the station with track,
>*then* remove it, keeping your network intact, you may not have this
>problem, but haven't both ways with the same set-up.)

I've seen this too. It seems to be a pretty catastrophic failure; I've
gone on for a couple years with such a messed-up world and it never
recovered, even when I tried patches, deleting stations, etc. On the
plus side, I've never seen this happen if 1) you remove the station in
pause mode and 2) you put another station in its place. I'm not sure how
necessary step 2) is, since I've done it a couple times without
replacing the station and it hasn't crashed, but I think it helps.

My favorite misfeature is the 32 station limit. Takes a great deal of
the fun out of the game (I've got a very dispersed railroad in the
northeast --- resources seem to be more sparse than usual in this world.
It's doing great, but I'm out of stations :-(). My number one priority
for the next release (ahead of speed, even ahead of the bug fixes) is
removing stupid arbitrary limits like 32 stations...

--John

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