Basically it would be cool, if we could just build a bridge directly from ground level, and not have the game force the embankments untill the track is x meters high above ground. This would have to come with narrowing the bridges a bit, because if you have two tracks near each other, the bridge graphic is glitching into each other.

I agree with this so much

As I just replaced my (not game-capable) laptop with a Surface Pro, I discovered another major flaw. It is not possible to change the size of UI items and fonts. On my desktop, there is no problems using a 2560 pixel wide 32″ display. On the Surface Pro, I get 2735 pixels on a 12″ display. That makes the target icons smaller than the tip of my pen. TF is just barely playable with a lot of patience.

Since I am nearsighted, the tiny text font is readable. It is, however, hardly clickable or selectable. These days, one must expect that users can have any display size from 5″ to 50″, and design the UI sufficiently flexible to adapt to any of them.

There seems to be a modern thing of moving away from decent map generators and instead relying on pre-built maps instead.

I have two wishes, both relatively minor, I think, for the future.

1. A compass. Seems I can only tell which way is „North“ is by plopping a truck stop or something until one gets auto-named „North xxx“ or so. Can’t I just have a little translucent compass somewhere? Maybe an option to disable it, of course… I’m a big fan of options. See #2.

2. Let me disable the „new vehicle notification“ window. Actually it would be awesome if I can disable/enable -each- notification. As a newb I definitely appreciated the notifications. Now… well, I am still a newb, but I get the mechanics well enough that e.g. I don’t really need notifications about old vehicles, or new ones for that matter. I’m mindful of aging vehicles, and the only time I really yell at this game is when I’m busy working out a great rail line and get interrupted by „hey, check out this awesome new ship“ popping down in my face, sometimes right where I’m trying to put a piece of track. I also hate „check out this new locomotive that’s 3x better than the one you JUST BOUGHT.“ Ok, that one’s just bad luck, but it wouldn’t tick me off as much if it wasn’t being thrown in my face. 🙂 Anyway, I’ll see new vehicles when I go to buy one.

Ah… 2b) sorry, just remembered this – in the buy window, please include the -length- of the individual locomotives and wagons! I like my trains to fit the stations. Even if it doesn’t actually matter (yet?), if one car is half hanging off the end of the platform, I may just live with it. But I can’t decide what combo of locomotive and wagons will suit my needs and still fit without trying to buy them first. Yeah, I can see the total train length, but if I’m short on funds I can’t „plan ahead“ for an entire new train. Maybe I’ll borrow 5M to buy it, I don’t want to borrow 5M just to see if it’s what I want though.

One not-so-minor thing perhaps, it would be great if all new towns – when creating a free game – have just one little truck stop already in them. As it stands, half the time I start a new game I end up having to smash existing stuff to put one in. Never mind how much I hate „eminent domain,“ I’ve just started out, often in 1850, and using the limited funds to smash a couple expensive shops and factories just doesn’t seem fair, but there’s (almost) never a good open space to put one down.

t would also be nice if they had optional appearances. E.g.the current models are fine as drop-off/pickup platforms by industries, but what about an actual warehouse? In town it’s almost obvious (in fact, at least one campaign features a warehouse). Outside town… well, I’ve learned I can drop a truck stop next to nothing and send different lines to it – like an actual transfer hub i.e. warehouse. But the existing models kinda look like hell for that. Yeah, modders can do and probably have done this, but a vanilla option would be good, e.g. a small warehouse about the same size as the large truck stop, and maybe a large one with about the same footprint as an industry.

Ok, that was two things, I suppose. 🙂

I haven’t run into performance problems others complain about, but I’ll chalk that up to being a newb and not really having a large-ish map with hundreds of lines running… yet.