Talk:Simutrans Transport Simulator

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[edit] Minor update

So it looks like there isn't a talk page yet, so I thought I'd create one... I'm going to try and make a minor update to change "is developed by" to "was developed by" Hajo. It's been a year since the move to the new forum, so it's probably time. He is still the Father of Simutrans, just not a *current* developer... Isaac.Eiland-Hall 05:40, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Open source

freeware (but not open source)

Is it really necessary to state in the opening paragraph that the game isn't open source? It comes across as a criticism, like we're bashing the author for not making it open source. I could understand the qualifier if open source was the norm, but at the moment I believe there are far more closed source freeware games in existence than open source ones. 217.155.20.163 23:51, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Very few free-but-not-open games are of the same advanced level of development and complexity as Simutrans. Jpatokal 15:56, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links proliferation

I've removed the following links from the External Links section (see WP:NOT#LINK). I have left the less redundant links not belonging to the simutrans.com domain, but some/most of them are probably unwarranted anyway. Anyone wanting to review them more carefully, please see Wikipedia:External_links for guidelines on how external links should be treated on Wikipedia.

As well, I've removed the section dealing with command link options and cheats, as Wikipedia is not a manual.

LjL 19:34, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Comparison with other transportation simulation games"

Large parts of this section don't make much sense in English. "the physically same" isn't English; I've no idea what internal means in the sentence "The internal as also suburban bus traffic can be easily mastered"; "capacitive" is a term from electronics, the writer probably means "high capacity"; I don't understand what "or even distributed by cargo carrier vehicle" is trying to say; I don't know what "Tunnels can be built with just an entrance and end in the tunnel or you can make another exit which is not exactly the same point as the tunnel entrance" means.

I've edited the parts I think I understand, but the rest will have to be rewritten by someone who knows the game. Merlinme 12:32, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I've had a rejig of this bit, in particular I've done my best to solve issues of neutrality by removing unsubstantiated qualitative claims. I also improved the English as best I could. Londonstudent (talk) 15:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)