Re: 'Old people' games

conniekat8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> I found railroad tycoon a bit too limiting...

I thought that too... but then a friend and many online players showed 
me deeper levels. In fact the financial and industrial sides are much 
more im****tant than railroad operations (a pity, if you like playing 
with trains) despite balancing efforts in the released patches.
I wonder if that was a design decision or an unintended consequence of 
the game's mechanics. Perhaps the designers tried to appeal to a broad 
range of possible players.

The high fragility of networking in RT3 (it even ex****ts crashes on 
connected machines!) leads me to ask: how large a time slice is 
usually allocated for debugging in the game planning phase? And how 
large does it turn out to be in practice, given budget and marketing 
restrictions?
I know that the general answer is "It depends" but hearing about 
different experiences would be interesting.

   Enrico