Railroad Graphics

[RMF]

I’m a new poster, but a long-time player. I love Civ4. I’m very pleased they brought it out now, and didn’t wait till it was perfect. My complaint is only about a detail.

The railroad graphics are pathetic. They don’t even join up. I built a railroad 8 tiles long in a straight line (North to South). Each tile had bits and pieces of railroad making X shapes or O shapes Or ) ( shapes or others. It looked nothing like a railroad joining the two cities.

I looks terrible but – much worse than that - I CAN’T SEE THEM (‘scuse the shout). In amongst the trees and farms and units and stuff, they are very hard to see unless you zoom close in.

So – apart from looking terrible - there’s a strategic problem. Railroads are the superhighways of the game. We should be able to see them from high up.

Please Please can they be made more like the old ones.

There – that’s off my chest now. Anybody feel the same?

 

[Mad Hab]

I agree,

It seems the only way to play the game with a decent degree of control of each tile is with the grid turned on...

Cheers,

Mad Hab

 

[bowervt]

It seemed like the railroad graphics on Civ3 were much better...each square changed as you built railroads around it. I agree, the Civ4 'x's and 'o's look pretty bad. Why such a backwards step on railroad graphics when everything else seems so much better than before???

 

[Lordclane]

I agree too... the railroad graphics could stand some improvement.

 

[biratets]

Agreed. It's very hard to tell where a railroad runs at the moment. It's just some gray mess on a tile. I would be really happy to see some visible railroad "quick" links between my cities. Kinda the stuff you see when going to a foreign metro/ubahn and looking at the maps - fat lines between points.

 

[Gram]

For the most part real life railroads run in straight lines from one destination to another, circles and crazy x's aren't very railroad like.

 

[Xanthra]

Yea and they shouldnt be built EVERY where, just from city to city and immediate surroundiing towns/villages and resources thats all.

 

[Bushface]

I most heartily agree with the above posters. The tracks are so much fainter than roads that they almost disappear from tiles which are not unimproved flatland, and the weird squiggles do not resemble any tracks outside theme parks. Even those would not have the common pattern of four tracks all leading ON to a circle, but none off it.

 

[Cdrommel]

Its also sort of strange how when the railroads and roads meet they just stop and turn into the other. Would be kind of strange to be driving along and all of the sudden the road turns into train tracks O.o

 

[Ekmek]

Does anyone know of a mod that improves railroad graphics. I too am having ttrouble seeing them.