Talk:Sid Meier's Railroads!

Right now, the article is more like an ad than an encyclopedia article.--Almost Anonymous 22:12, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Dshirk had copied the "Features" section from the firaxis website. I removed it. FiggyBee 06:19, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

I've added the infobox and boxshot for this game. If I've put down any incorrect info, please change it. Born Acorn 23:57, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

The criticism section has ton of unverifiable/orignal research material still in it. I was able to source a good portion of the complaints. If we can't source the rest they should probably be deleted. --SaintD1970 00:29, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Reception

Right now, the review scores in the Critical reception section of the article are the two highest scores given to the game (of those listed on Metacritic). "Railroads! received a generally favourable critical reception; GameSpot awarded it 8.1 out of 10, while Game Informer gave it 8 out of 10." There should be a lower score mentioned, as well.

Might add one myself, if I have the time. Almost Anonymous 12:14, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

At the time these scores were added, these were the only two scores listed. I didn't add them but I did check at the time. --Yamla 14:31, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

WTF??? I already answered this one, but it seems to have disappeared without a trace.

Anyway, what I said was something like: "Yes, that's what I figured." I also mentioned I'd like to see what score Edge gave the game, but I didn't know if the new issue was out yet. Almost Anonymous 23:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

I have edited the page to reference Metacritic instead of a handful of random reviews. While metacritic may be somewhat biased (hopefully not) it's thier bias and not the Wikipedias. This makes the article a lot more neutral. User:SaintD1970. —Preceding comment was added at 00:25, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Flag icons

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)

Baron Rothschild

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)

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)

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)

Vista help?

This article only gives one sentance on the crashing involving vista... I myself have random crashes, but other users, and forum goesrs seem to have no problems at all. Has someone figured out away to bypass these problems?

Edit: Nvm. Found a fix myself.

Vista Help pt 2

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][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)

Sources

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)

Criticism?!

"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)