Re: 'Old people' games

Enrico Colombini wrote:
> 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.

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