1/17/2024 0 Comments Iphone mini metro![]() Here you have a more complex barrier in the form of the river Seine, which has islands in it, meaning your deployment of tunnels must be well thought out as more are required than simply crossing the Thames. If you managed to successfully move at least 100 passengers in London, you unlock the next city map – Paris. If you don’t sort your passengers out in time, then the station is closed and it’s game over! When a station becomes overcrowded with waiting passengers, their tempers begin to fray, the station symbol beings to pulse and a countdown begins. Eventually, however, your passengers will revolt. ![]() Do you need more, shorter lines, or fewer longer lines with more capacity in locomotives and carriages?Īs the game continues adding more and more stations over time, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with passenger demand and you will find yourself deploying locomotives and carriages more tactically and rerouting lines as you begin to see where your choke points are. You start with three lines available and after a while, the end of week options include the use of additional lines, but again, you must weigh extra lines against the number of locomotives you have. More tunnels means you can perhaps serve both sides of the river more effectively. A carriage attached to a locomotive means each trip can carry more passengers, but an extra locomotive means you can service more stations more quickly. You will need to choose wisely depending on your network’s needs. These can include an extra carriage, more tunnels, or sometimes a further locomotive. The game week runs from Monday to Sunday and when the clock reaches the end of Sunday you are offered an additional locomotive and then a choice of additional assets. At any time you can move a locomotive to another line and also reroute your lines as the layout of stations grows ever more complex.Ī non-real-time clock ticks away game time in hours and days. You also have a limited supply of locomotives, so you could use fewer lines and place multiple locomotives on any line, or use as many lines as possible with one locomotive each. As necessary, you must use tunnels from a limited supply to cross the Thames. Where and how many times lines meet is an important strategy in your network.Ī clock ticks over hours and days during which passengers continually appear and every so often a new station will wink into existence, meaning you must decide which line will service it. It may be the line on which they board does not have that shape station, in which case you’ll need to ensure your lines are linked through at least one station so they can change lines to reach their destination. ![]() Once you place a line on the map, simply by dragging between stations, a locomotive appears and begins to traverse the line back and forth, picking up passengers and delivering them to their destinations.Įach station has a simple geometric shape – a circle, square, or triangle, for example – and you can see which shape of station each passenger is destined for as they are represented by a symbol in that shape. The city view is, like the famous map, very much symbolic, so you don’t get much of sense of place except that the familiar snaking path of the Thames river crosses the map from left to right. The game starts you off in London and begins with three stations which you are free to connect with up to three separate train lines. You can also get a version for your Mac as well as Windows, Linux, Android, and even in your browser. ![]() That is the premise of the game Mini Metro which is now available on iOS. What if it was simpler? What if you could start from scratch and build it up slowly? That could be kind of therapeutic, I think, don’t you? And wouldn’t it be cool if, while you were drawing the map, you could see little trains run along the lines? And see people getting on and off. When I was in London in 1999 I bought a t-shirt with the map on it and I have had my sister, who lives in the UK near London, send me new versions of this several times over the subsequent years as I wear them out.īut you could argue the map is a little too cluttered. It should come as no surprise, then, that the famous London Underground map ( ), designed by Harry Beck in 1931, tickles my fancy. There’s just something about oodles of white space, simple, bold colours, and crisp lines that appeals to my brain. One of the reasons I like Apple products is because I like clean, simple design. Hello Allison and NosillaCastaways, Allister here from New Zealand again with another review.
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