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warpus
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I've tried that, but couldn't get over the limited placement options i.e. the square grid thing. That's how TTD used to do it to, but it was fine in the 90s because all games were like that. Train Fever gives me a ton more flexibility when I'm building, I could never go back to a square grid now.
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I tried to play Train Fever and I couldn't get past the tutorial.
warpus
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Video game bragging rights do not easily translate to money or women though, so that currency is useless to me
It was a brilliant idea to put together my map btw, I have been following the design that I posted a couple days ago and so far it has been a success. This is a map of the state of my rail network as of now:
What made that more difficult than it has to be, is that I place the following restraints on me when I design my train stations:
1. Trains from different lines do not use any part of the same track or station platform, ever
2. Train track crossings are not allowed to exist anywhere
3. There is a road on each side of the train station, which ends up going all the way around it, connecting in a loop.
If you are wondering why... The first rule just makes each line run a lot more efficiently. The other two rules make it so that the city can expand behind the train station and beyond AND so that I can one day run a tram/streetcar line there. If there were railroad tracks, I couldn't.
These design decisions lead to a lot of bridges and tunnels. Here is what all those lines coming into the capital actually looks like:
It's now a couple years after I've built these new 4 lines, and the population of the capital jumped from under 650 to just under 1200! This project has basically been a phenomenal success. Right now the light blue line is even by far the most profitable, probably because it was the first to use electric trains as opposed to steam ones. As soon as I saw how successful it was, I also electrified all other lines and upgraded them to trains capable of going up to 200 km/h (up from 120 km/h). So all in all all the dominent domain powers I had to abuse to make this immense project happen were well worth it and the citizens of wherever this is are definitely enjoying the spoils.
The fact that my capital doubled in size means that I really have to completely re-design the LRT system there. I have already completely re-designed the LRT system right before I built these new 4 train lines, right before the population doubling.. But now there's so many new people, new density considerations, the city is more spread out, I think I really need to redesign my LRT lines so that everything is as efficient as possible. Most of my LRT lines throughout my transport empire are losing money, maybe 65-80% of them. My transport trucks always make me a nice amount of money, consistently, ever year. The trains fluctuate and some years make me a couple million, some years cost me a couple million. Overall each year I usually make anywhere between $2 mill to $12 mill, not including any vehicle purchase/replacement costs, which happen every couple years. My transport empire is basically an over-engineered public transportation experiment funded by resource and consumer good transportation profits. And now finally after so many years (it's now 2080 or something like that) the trains are now looking to perhaps become profitable themselves on a consistent basis. Next I am rebuilding the capital's LRT system from scratch and after that it's time to build the 2 relief lines from the 50 year plan (which has turned into a 100 year plan) It's a bright future ahead for whatever it's called transportation company
It was a brilliant idea to put together my map btw, I have been following the design that I posted a couple days ago and so far it has been a success. This is a map of the state of my rail network as of now:
Spoiler :
What made that more difficult than it has to be, is that I place the following restraints on me when I design my train stations:
1. Trains from different lines do not use any part of the same track or station platform, ever
2. Train track crossings are not allowed to exist anywhere
3. There is a road on each side of the train station, which ends up going all the way around it, connecting in a loop.
If you are wondering why... The first rule just makes each line run a lot more efficiently. The other two rules make it so that the city can expand behind the train station and beyond AND so that I can one day run a tram/streetcar line there. If there were railroad tracks, I couldn't.
These design decisions lead to a lot of bridges and tunnels. Here is what all those lines coming into the capital actually looks like:
Spoiler :
It's now a couple years after I've built these new 4 lines, and the population of the capital jumped from under 650 to just under 1200! This project has basically been a phenomenal success. Right now the light blue line is even by far the most profitable, probably because it was the first to use electric trains as opposed to steam ones. As soon as I saw how successful it was, I also electrified all other lines and upgraded them to trains capable of going up to 200 km/h (up from 120 km/h). So all in all all the dominent domain powers I had to abuse to make this immense project happen were well worth it and the citizens of wherever this is are definitely enjoying the spoils.
The fact that my capital doubled in size means that I really have to completely re-design the LRT system there. I have already completely re-designed the LRT system right before I built these new 4 train lines, right before the population doubling.. But now there's so many new people, new density considerations, the city is more spread out, I think I really need to redesign my LRT lines so that everything is as efficient as possible. Most of my LRT lines throughout my transport empire are losing money, maybe 65-80% of them. My transport trucks always make me a nice amount of money, consistently, ever year. The trains fluctuate and some years make me a couple million, some years cost me a couple million. Overall each year I usually make anywhere between $2 mill to $12 mill, not including any vehicle purchase/replacement costs, which happen every couple years. My transport empire is basically an over-engineered public transportation experiment funded by resource and consumer good transportation profits. And now finally after so many years (it's now 2080 or something like that) the trains are now looking to perhaps become profitable themselves on a consistent basis. Next I am rebuilding the capital's LRT system from scratch and after that it's time to build the 2 relief lines from the 50 year plan (which has turned into a 100 year plan) It's a bright future ahead for whatever it's called transportation company
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warpus
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Is the Turkish guy cutting his own head off?
warpus
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I just bought a 100cm x 70cm print of fantasy map of Poland. It looks pretty slick in the pictures and happens to be 20% off today compared to the other maps. I don't see any good shots of it to post here, but here's a link, they also have similar maps of Canada, Europe, Italy, etc. for sale
Why did you not state this before?
warpus
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^Looks a bit strange. How is Turkey just a hybrid regime anyway? ^^
Also not sure why Spain/Germany/Uk/Austria supposedly have more democracy than Greece, France, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus? (also not sure why Finland is higher than the previous group?).
For starters the UK has first past the post, which itself is sort of against proportional/correct representation in parliament.
Also not sure how Turkey or even... Iraq (!) is better democratically than Russia. A bit politicized?
India also seems a bit surprising. Doesn't it still have casts in some way? (eg the "untouchables").
EDIT: nm, i just saw they have Syria as the worst thing ever, but Egypt is a far better place with its military dictatorship sentencing hundreds of people to death, ie mostly the same as Russia in the chart.
Also not sure why Spain/Germany/Uk/Austria supposedly have more democracy than Greece, France, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus? (also not sure why Finland is higher than the previous group?).
For starters the UK has first past the post, which itself is sort of against proportional/correct representation in parliament.
Also not sure how Turkey or even... Iraq (!) is better democratically than Russia. A bit politicized?
India also seems a bit surprising. Doesn't it still have casts in some way? (eg the "untouchables").
EDIT: nm, i just saw they have Syria as the worst thing ever, but Egypt is a far better place with its military dictatorship sentencing hundreds of people to death, ie mostly the same as Russia in the chart.
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warpus
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I mean, there is a source, so it's probably easy enough to figure out how they compiled the data for this map. I would assume they take into consideration a whole bunch of variables, and not just "at a first glance" type stuff like you're doing
Definitely. But it is the 'Economist', which is known for being uber-politicized in the first place.
warpus
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I don't think it's fair to say there's bias in the map unless you can find some flaw in their methodology.
But you would say there is fault if someone claimed that fish can learn human languages, or would you wait to see the methodology leading to that conclusion? (quasi parallel) For in that case as well one might have twisted meanings enough (or presented trivial factors as poignant enough) to validate a somewhat absurd conclusion.
warpus
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You're just upset that Germany beat Greece again, and I once saw a guy who sort of looked like a fish so there you go
It's a composite index based on a lot of scores for diffferent things, and "trust in political institutions" type stuff is a significant divider between the dark green and medium green full democracies and the flawed ones.
Specifically these are the categories: Electoral process and pluralism, Functioning of Government, Political participation, Political culture, and Civil liberties.
Greece scores poorly for functioning of government and for participation in particular.
http://pages.eiu.com/rs/783-XMC-194/images/Democracy_Index_2016.pdf
Specifically these are the categories: Electoral process and pluralism, Functioning of Government, Political participation, Political culture, and Civil liberties.
Greece scores poorly for functioning of government and for participation in particular.
http://pages.eiu.com/rs/783-XMC-194/images/Democracy_Index_2016.pdf
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Do I have to point out to you of all people that Germany has more democracy than Greece does because it is ruled by Germany?
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