Pak128-During development people wanted larger graphics. PakHD is an art of its own kind - It is completely drawn by hand using pencil and paper. Its features concentrate on massive passenger networks and urban planning. However, certain aspects still tell the 8 Bit heritage.Ībo Set (pakABO) is a 64px tile set inspired by the countries on the Baltic coast. Its appearance is somehow similar to pak64, since historically it shares many buildings.
PakHAJO gives the appearance and play-feeling of the long term stable 84.xx versions, which are still around in some distributions. PakJapan evolved from pak64, after original images were replaced by Japanese versions. PakGerman evolved from pak64, when original images were replaced by typical German versions. Pak64 is the main and a base set for Simutrans developed along with Simutrans executable. A detailed list with screenshots and links can be found here ): Simutrans will also look and act different depending on which "pak" set you are using.Ĭurrent List of Paksets for Simutrans:Standard (note that some are not finished yet. Each version has different financial and operational parameters. Also note that there are currently two different versions: Simutrans:Standard and Simutrans:Experimental. While graphically, Simutrans is a bit more simplistic than Sim City, it can be quite challenging. In Simutrans you make money by transporting goods, mail, and passengers.In Sim City, you do not. In Simtrans you choose the vehicles that run on your transport networks.In Sim City, you do not. In Sim City the goal is to build a successful city. Interconnect cities, districts, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions by buiding a transport network you always dreamed of."quote> Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship and air. : Release of Pak128.Britain 1." Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Most of all though, we hope you enjoy playing pak128.Britain - please provide feedback on the forum, look forward to future releases, and consider contributing to the drawing of new graphics and balancing of existing ones!įIX: bridges and some stops missing with timeline onįIX: needs to be separateĪDD: Swedish translation (Thanks to sanna)ĪDD: Partial Japanese translation (Simutranslator)ĪDD: Partial German translation (Simutranslator)įIX: furniture factories have a sensible production rateįIX: metropolitan motorised tube stock intro date fixedĬHANGE: Pharmaceutical Factory in 1860 no longer requires chemicals If you really want to use these in a pak128.Britain game, other simutrans graphics objects of 128x128 tilesize (e.g.pak128, pak128.German, pak128.Japan) will also run in pak128.Britain, although they may look out of place and will not be balanced from a gameplay point of view. In particular please note that there are currently no monorails and only a limited number of planes and boats available in the game. financial, industry production, vehicle acceleration, etc.) please post these in the pak128.Britain board of the simutrans forum. Also if you have any comments to make on the balancing of the gameplay (e.g. If you have spotted any graphical glitches or other problems with the pakset, please post these in the pak128.Britain forum. There may also be bugs present in the pakset which have not been weeded out. This version is a beta version - there are many aspects of the pakset which are incomplete, missing, or not well-balanced for gameplay. error messages, crashes) please make a post in "bugs" board of the Simutrans Forum - Please also state which version of the Simutrans executable you are using and which operating system. Pak128.Britain is released open source under the terms of the Artistic License. However, the pakset is still a work in progress and many items are still missing or unfinished - please bear with us or consider contributing yourself :-) You will therefore not be able to continue using save games saved in the 0.0x with 1.0. There are many new objects since the release of 0.03 and as such this version is NOT compatible with previous versions of pak128.Britain.
it does not require any other graphics objects to run (unlike previous pre-release versions in the 0.x series which required elements of pak128 in order to run). This release of pak128.Britain 1.0 is the first standalone release of pak128.Britain, i.e. Use of the latest version of Simutrans is therefore recommended.
This version is compatible with Simutrans version 102.1 - it has not been tested fully with earlier versions of Simutrans and may not work fully. It requires a Simutrans executable in order to play. Pak128.Britain is a graphics set (pak) for Simutrans.