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Digital Gaming => Computer Gaming => Topic started by: MengJiao on December 01, 2018, 08:12:27 PM

Title: Mashinky
Post by: MengJiao on December 01, 2018, 08:12:27 PM

  Trains.  Trains driving into the pastel spaces of an imaginary world:

Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: JasonPratt on December 01, 2018, 08:16:37 PM
I've been watching this among other new 3D 19th century train sims.
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: Steelgrave on December 01, 2018, 09:11:14 PM
Quote from: MengJiao on December 01, 2018, 08:12:27 PM

  Trains.  Trains driving into the pastel spaces of an imaginary world:

Ahhh, quite the poet! I love me some trains.
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: MengJiao on December 02, 2018, 04:30:55 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on December 01, 2018, 08:16:37 PM
I've been watching this among other new 3D 19th century train sims.

These are 19th century trains, but the game dates are in the 1930s so that's puzzling.  Anyway the signals are working:

Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: JasonPratt on December 02, 2018, 05:31:05 PM
It's Soviet Russia, right? That might explain a lot. ;)
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: Skoop on December 02, 2018, 05:53:56 PM
How do you like it, I've been watching it for a while.  I ended up going with transport fever because of the grander scale and multi eras.
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: MengJiao on December 02, 2018, 08:54:58 PM
Quote from: Skoop on December 02, 2018, 05:53:56 PM
How do you like it, I've been watching it for a while.  I ended up going with transport fever because of the grander scale and multi eras.

  Yep, I think the consensus is that Transport Fever is better for lots of reasons.  There are multiple eras in Mashinky.  i haven't played Transport Fever so I don't know how they compare.
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: MengJiao on December 02, 2018, 08:57:19 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on December 02, 2018, 05:31:05 PM
It's Soviet Russia, right? That might explain a lot. ;)

  Supposedly it isn't soviet russia...It's not exactly Earth in the usual sense though or something.
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: Gusington on December 02, 2018, 09:25:12 PM
Say what?
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: DoctorQuest on December 02, 2018, 10:15:17 PM
Sounds like the latest Doctor Who episode.
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: MengJiao on December 03, 2018, 09:11:44 AM
Quote from: Gusington on December 02, 2018, 09:25:12 PM
Say what?

The landscape and so on is "procedurally generated"...You can alter the parameters or build your own "world"
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: Gusington on December 03, 2018, 10:22:06 AM
Soviet Russia builds itself, then...
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: MengJiao on December 03, 2018, 04:34:24 PM
Quote from: Gusington on December 03, 2018, 10:22:06 AM
Soviet Russia builds itself, then...

  Or steam makes you buy it and then try to build it.  There's the Soviet Republic city builder that Steam keeps recommending to me because I've
played two games "like it" Naval Action (there's a puzzle) and Mashinky.  Luckily the Soviet republic city builder isn't coming out until q1 2019.
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: Gusington on December 03, 2018, 06:36:38 PM
What's the name of that Soviet city builder?
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: DennisS on December 03, 2018, 06:56:16 PM
Not a bad game..but trains arriving at stations find it difficult to reverse, or head back to their original destinations. Very odd/bugged pathfinding.

I do like the additional layers of product...but seriously, get Open Transportation Tycoon instead. Far superior game.
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: MengJiao on December 03, 2018, 07:16:34 PM
Quote from: DennisS on December 03, 2018, 06:56:16 PM
Not a bad game..but trains arriving at stations find it difficult to reverse, or head back to their original destinations. Very odd/bugged pathfinding.

I do like the additional layers of product...but seriously, get Open Transportation Tycoon instead. Far superior game.

  They fixed reversing and you can control paths with signals
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: MengJiao on December 03, 2018, 07:20:35 PM
Quote from: Gusington on December 03, 2018, 06:36:38 PM
What's the name of that Soviet city builder?

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Title: Re: Mashinky
Post by: Gusington on December 04, 2018, 05:59:13 PM
HA I should have guessed.