#Sid meiers railroads money mods software
#Sid meiers railroads money mods mac

I have spent a good ten years now working on Mac ports and the effort required to port a game is not trivial. It's very easy to make assumptions when you are not involved in the process. The side game can fill the times when everything is running perfect and you are planning your next expansion move or you need time to allow the company to build up a bit of cash. Like houses, cars, boats etc as a small side game because it seems pointless amassing personal wealth at the moment. None cartoony graphics and something to spend your personal wealth on. The 3D engine (but better) of RRT3 but also a 2D top down option. The stock market of RRT2 (much more realistic that 3). This usually takes about an hour or two so the game ends right there!įor another classic RRT game we need the signaling controls of RRT1 (you could change them yourself). if you have less than 7 and the rest of your stock is bought by another player at anytime you can get a message saying you've been taken over = end of game. If you buy 7 of your own you cannot be bought out apparently.

There are 10 slots of stocks for each company (you can only have max 3 AI layers) so that means there are 40 stocks in total up for grabs. If someone buys you out BAMM thats it, game over. I keep giving this another chance but its more and more of a let down each time. HUGE swathes of areas (relative to the tiny maps in the game) are not used and dont need to be during gameplay. The graphics shouldnt require much oomph. Ports cost more money, particularly of the quality Feral is known for. They've got bills to pay just like the rest of us. Last but certainly not least, Feral Interactive is a business, not a charity - they need to make a decent profit to bring us high quality releases for OS X, otherwise it simply is not worth doing. It isn't trivial to properly test it on a variety of machines, configurations and operating system releases either. People often believe it is a trivial affair to port a game. I see a lot of that in gaming forums as well.

#Sid meiers railroads money mods software

Please don't underestimate software engineering tasks you probably aren't qualified to evaluate. This game is newly ported and it cost a lot of money to do that. You cannot compare the price of this to an existing windows version that is six years old. People don't seem to realize that it costs a lot of money to produce and carefully test a high quality native port to OS X of a game. I've noted a fair amount of complaining about the price of the game in this thread.