The game is definitely not dead, both from a development perspective and (of course) also from a modding perspective.

For sure there will be more updates and patches for Train Fever. In a next step, we very soon release a major performance and bug fix update. The update also includes a bunch of small improvements.

After that we plan to release additional updates. Among other things, we want to improve track construction, and if everything goes well we will be able to release the widely requested X-crossings.

Because we are busy with planning the future of Urban Games, we unfortunately didn’t find enough time to develop updates and post news in the last weeks. For sure the communication will be improved in the future.

Please add cross X !

Regards,

A great addition would be some marking out tools for planning. I’m thinking along the lines of Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific. Just a superficial overlay for curves, lines, measurement of walking times in minutes, terrain markers, that sort of thing.

Also I mentioned earlier that I was happy to see the main connection mod and now that I have started playing again, WOW, you guys are really getting things together. I’ve noticed a lot of little things like the camera not going through hills and stuff and you’ve really put a dent in the performance issues. Well done guys, you deserve a bit of praise foe these latest efforts.

My idea of having coastlines really was simply to give some distinct form to the landscape to make it interesting in and of itself.

That said, having ports would be one element in addressing the other issue I feel is contributing to the generic-tract-of-land feel of the maps. The industries are spread mostly evenly and aren’t tied to any specific conditions. I think if there was some kind of mapping that limited raw resource industries only to areas of the map that “contained” that resource, and maybe limited secondary industries to other conditions, like proximity to workforce or water supply or such… it would make cargo hauling a lot more of an interesting challenge.

RE: “Maps need alterable dimensions, more use of water – ideally coastlines”

It would be really cool if you could come up with containerports where goods and raw materials could be shipped in and out to distant lands. Also doublestack container trains would be awesome too.

I agree that the existing maps are boring and repetitive.

Maps need alterable dimensions, more use of water – ideally coastlines, and in the event that an updated map generation script is too much work, we need a heightmap importer.

Other updates are great to see, but I’ve really not seen a patch since release that’s really added anything truly substantial to the game experience, and that’s including the recent DLC pack. The maps need more variation! The game *is* the map you play on… this needs attention!