History VideoGame / Locomotion

* HollywoodHistory: The range of eras the game allows you to play through includes TheEdwardianEra, GenteelInterbellumSetting, TheFifties, TheSixties, TheSeventies, TheEighties, TheNineties and TurnOfTheMillennium. Period-appropriate music is included for each era, with Creator/ScottJoplin ragtime in 1900-20, jazz in 1920-50 and various forms of rock and pop from 1950 onwards.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Scenario names that aren't of the "Region name - Starting Year" variety make use of this. At least one prominent feature of the map is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin usually covered]].

* HollywoodHistory: The range of eras the game allows you to play through includes TheEdwardianEra, GenteelInterbellumSetting, TheFifties, TheSixties, TheSeventies, TheEighties, TheNineties and TurnOfTheMillennium. Period-appropriate music is included for each era, with Scott Joplin ragtime in 1900-20, jazz in 1920-50 and various forms of rock and pop from 1950 onwards.

Made by Chris Sawyer of ''VideoGame/RollerCoasterTycoon'' fame, Chris Sawyer's Locomotion is the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Videogame/TransportTycoon''. The player is cast as a transportation manager in various locations. Via road, rail, sea, and/or air, the player is given the objective to build a transportation empire that spans the map. Provide the supply, meet the demand, make money, and prove yourself a transportation tycoon.

As this is the SpiritualSuccessor to''Videogame/TransportTycoon'' a lot of the tropes that apply to that also apply to this.

* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: It's not just ''Locomotion'', it's '''''Chris Saywer's''''' ''Locomotion''! Just to drive the point home, the box also advertises that it's from "the creator of ''RollerCoasterTycoon''".

* AcceptableBreakFromReality: The events of events such as TheGreatDepression, WorldWarII or the 1970's oil crisis are not simulated by the game.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: The AI tends to inexplicably hog all the resources to themselves on a competing line
** Their station going to a farm may have hundreds of units of grain waiting for pick-up, while your station right next to theirs is empty.
** This can happen even if you're the one supplying the resources to an industry that needs them; if your train is running that grain to a food plant and you have a second train there to pick up the food and transport it, the AI can build a train running to the plant and leach off your hard work.
** Even if their vehicles aren't transporting the cargo to a place that needs them, their stations will hog it. This can lead to your train with boxcars for food leaving the food plant empty, while the AI's ''bus station'' nearby has 200 units of food sitting there. At this point it's obvious the system is just built to sabotage you even if it doesn't benefit AI players.
* GuideDangIt: Any given piece of industry can never supply more than roughly 3/4 of its production to a single loading spot (preferring to lose the rest), but will start supplying 100% when serviced by two (i.e. two 2-tracks railway stations will net more goods for transportation that one 4-tracks station). Even more "obvious", only off "100%-mode" does a consistent job of hauling the goods become an incentive for non-random production increase in raw industries.
* HollywoodHistory: The range of eras the game allows you to play through includes TheEdwardianEra, GenteelInterbellumSetting, TheFifties, TheSixties, TheSeventies, TheEighties, TheNineties and TurnOfTheMillennium.

** You can sabotage the cheating AI's road networks by building a tram or train track across the road their cars are using, dump an engine or tram on the crossroads, and let it sit there blocking their trucks. You can also build a road for their trucks to use, then demolish that road and watch their trucks crash. Sadly, those are about the only underhanded tactics you can use in ''Locomotion'', a far cry from what you could do in ''VideoGame/TransportTycoon''.

** When two vehicles or convoys collide (except in a road/train collision -- in that case, unlike in ''VideoGame/TransportTycoon'', the road vehicle will escape unscathed), the vehicles will explode into a fireball. This occurs even if the vehicles aren't carrying flammables of any type, such as an electric passenger train.

Not to be confused with the ''VideoGame/RailroadTycoon'' series; despite the "Tycoon" suffix being common between them, the only connection is the company that produced them. Sid Meier did the ''Railroad Tycoon'' series, while Chris Sawyer did ''Transport Tycoon'' and ''Locomotion''.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Used in names of scenario maps for new games, vast majority of those that don't use "Region name - Starting Year" template. At least one prominent feature of the map is usually covered.
** "Oil Oasis" for a map with landscape styled after a desert, with oil wells representing big share of industries, and oil transpotation being the map objective.
** "Race to Read" for a map with objective to deliver certain tonnage of paper to printing works industries in time.
** "Vapid Volcano" is a map with landscape forming a crater-like shape in the center making use of ashen tiles.
** "Vache and Vineyards" is a map with unusually large number of livestock farms ("Vache" is French for "cows") and grape farms industries.
** "Boulder Breakers" is a beginner's level map, a single small island in the center of large water body, with less than ten cities and industries combined. Not like more could fit on such a small patch of land.
** On "Bottleneck Blues" a high ridge runs through big plain, the "bottleneck" referring to small section of no elevation in the ridge, kind of a pass through the mountains.
** "Clifftop Climb" is split by very large abrupt elevation of one half of the map over the other.

** AI rivals and town councils, have the propensity for adding senseless elevations and choosing bad bridge types for curved tracks on more or less uneven terrain. Both hurt advanced vehicles by capping their speed while not saving much money during construction.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The earliest planes available can only carry a very small amount of cargo. Go ahead and transport those 8 people across the map in an instant, You won't make any money, but it's cool to do!

* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: Chris Sawyer from the full name is at the very least a guy whose name coincides with that of the main guy behind the game development. Googling just "Locomotion" is likely to produce results on non-game meaning of the word first.

** You can expand a station's service radius by building adjacent stops. You can do this repeatedly, allowing a single stop to service an entire town.
*** However you can only do this to a certain extent, after that you will not be able to expand the station any further, due to it being to spread out.
** You have full reign to turn the cheating back on AI opponents by building a tram or train track across the road their cars are using, dump an engine or tram on the crossroads, and let it sit their blocking their trucks. You can also build a road for their trucks to use, then demolish that road and watch their trucks crash.

** When two vehicles or convoys collide (except the train in a road/train collision), the vehicles will explode into a fireball. This occurs even if the vehicles aren't carrying flammables of any type, such as an electric passenger train.

** AI enemies have the propensity for adding senseless elevations and choosing bad bridge types for curved tracks on more or less uneven terrain. Both hurt advanced vehicles by capping their travelling speed while not saving much money during construction.
** Boats tend to have trouble finding a route between ports, even if it's a straight line.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The earliest planes available can only carry tiny cargoes. Go ahead, transport those 8 people across the map in an instant! It won't make you any money, but it's cool to do!

** The same happens if a truck, bus or anything else goes off road or if you sell the track or road under a train or road vehicle, unless its broken down.

Made by Chris Sawyer of RollerCoasterTycoon fame, Chris Sawyer's Locomotion is the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Videogame/TransportTycoon''. The player is cast as a transportation manager in various locations. Via road, rail, sea, and/or air, the player is given the objective to build a transportation empire that spans the map. Provide the supply, meet the demand, make money, and prove yourself a transportation tycoon.

Made by Chris Sawyer of RollerCoasterTycoon fame, Chris Sawyer's Locomotion is the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Videogame/TransportTycoon''. The player is cast as a transportation manager in variable locations. Via road, rail, sea, or air, the player is given the objective to build a transportation empire that spans the map. Provide the supply, meet the demand, make money, and prove yourself a transportation tycoon.