There is also the fact that both games use the same, identical engine with different calls. The game files are still required and is, as a result, fair use (still requires an official copy of the game.) Its only an engine rewrite, not a complete release. It would be nice because the first place of attack would be to remove some of the games more obvious limits or failings within the gameplay aspects and that requires modification of the EXE.file, but since the policy of this forum is that we respect the integrity of that item that would only happen IF "Atari" and it's successors abandoned their claim to the copyright of this game and since the game is still making money through sales and of course the Steam version that will not happen in the short to medium term. It has been discussed on several occasions before, and since the original creator has shown little interest in the project since it's release and Atari itself is broken down into a myriad of different license holders, you would be in for a hard slog to find a starting point to get over the existing copyright and IPR issues. This thread is ENTIRELY subjective and, personally, TTD in general is too clunky and OpenTTD hasn't improved that (coming from a person that enjoyed Simcity 2k) Considering how well OpenRCT2 is turning out and the fact that Locomotion and RCT2 use identical engines, would anyone even be interested in this? Mathwizi2005 wrote:Merely re-asking the community.
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