So it’s all or nothing.īeing able to express your own ideas about rail transit in the real world was a very important motivator for us. No matter what area we pick, we would leave people out. We also need access to the actual map geometry for gameplay purposes, our maps are not just a static image backdrop.īecause there is no right subset of the world. Paying a commercial maps provider like Google is extremely expensive, and setting up our own servers is not much cheaper. Second, even if we wanted to do streaming maps, we cannot afford them. Too many games now depend on internet connections for single player. Why not make the game stream map data like Google Maps / OSM / etc does?įirst, being able to play offline was a priority for us. A huge amount of effort has gone into making this map file size as small as possible while retaining most graphical details.

It includes almost every road and street available in OpenStreetMap. The game includes a full real world map for offline usage. And NIMBY Rails is a super niche game plus I don't have money for marketing this time, so I had to forget about the ports for now. TS:G Linux never recovered its investment in time and the Mac version barely did. I'm sorry about this, but I really have a lot less resources now than back in TS and TS:G. No Linux or Mac support is planned, for now. So that could provide a bit of hand holding for some players plus add an interesting new aspect to the management side of the game. They could ask the player to link locations on the map or move certain amount of passengers in an area. Rinse and repeat.Īs a speculative, maybe-who-knows, item in our roadmap, we have planned public contracts you can bid upon and win. Then reschedule, rebuild and optimize your network. You design track layouts, build those blueprints, select station sequences to form lines, buy and schedule trains for those lines, and watch the passing of time to see the ebbs and flows of traffic and demand. You must be motivated to build and manage rail networks, with a sort of technical interface in glorious 2D. NIMBY Rails is primarily a simulation sandbox.

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