Paksets
pak64.SciFi provides a futuristic theme for Simutrans players. Vehicles, buildings and ways seem they came from science fiction movie: very tall skyscrapers, buildings with a variety of shapes, powerbeam tracks, colorful terrain, exotic vegetation... It's not the Earth! It is a complete different planet!
Pak64 is the main and a base set for Simutrans developed along with Simutrans executable. It always contains the most recent features. It is neatly painted pixel by pixel with motherly care. On the other hand it might look too tiny on high resolution displays. Many artists contributed to this pak set, from the 8 bit age on.
Developed to give a British theme to Simutrans, this pakset features a wide range of vehicles with emphasis on rail vehicles, highly detailed stations, more accurate looking track for junctions, and a more subdued graphical appearance than the brightly coloured Pak128 from which it was originally derived.
When Simutrans could only support 64px size graphics, pak128 already started. First pak to feature a complex economy and have a very wide variety of objects. It contains roughly 7 time more graphics data than pak64 and thus requires by far the largest amounth of RAM and processing power of all Simutrans sets.
The Japanese community has always built many great objects for Simutrans. However, it was felt, that the scale of pak64 did not meet the desired level of detail. Thus pak128.Japan was designed. Trains, specially, are enhanced compared to the standard size and the graphic consistence make this pak an work of art.
Brings the German transportation system embedded in typical German towns and industries according to the respective topographic region (coasts, the Alpes etc.). Trains and lorries are taller than they are in standard pak128. Every building and factory has four views and each type of factory have different aspects.
A pak inspired by pak32.comic. Its clean, colorful and simple style reminds people of model railroading. Its graphical development tries to achieve an animated cartoon look. The gameplay focus is on continuous playing, with no waiting for profit to come but always giving the time for the player to appreciate its look.
This is dedicated to all friends who like to play the "model train" style. The trains and tracks are a little bit bigger, allowing more detailed design. Don't care for money or city growth. Switch the game to public player and build everything for yourself. Combine the objects as you would do it on a modell train in your living room.
Pak64.Classic gives the appearance of the long term stable 84.xx versions, which are still around in some distributions. Its appearance is similar to pak64, since historically it shares many buildings. However, certain aspects still tell the 8 bit heritage. Gaming is more simple, no airplanes, no stops not enabling certain goods and so on.
A minimalistic pakset that focuses on massive passenger networks and urban planning. Default maintenance costs are low, and construction costs high. The player should not feel financially constrained to create creative rail solutions, but should take on the challenge of transporting large passenger flows with efficiency.
