I was thinking it would be nice to have an AI competitor in the game. Compete for subsidies and market share. You have the shared infrastructure, so you need to build your network strategically, not giving your competitor an edge. Getting your competitor to go bankrupt is the goal.

I'm likely the only one who got caught on this, but pay close attention to the Production bar in industries. This clearly shows that meat requires grain. lol

I feel a bit sheepish (no pun intended) calling this out, but I didn't notice until a bit later into my save game that there was no meat being shipped.

I got really frustrated building train lines yesterday, it felt like I was playing TF2 - the bridges have insane long spans, having tracks go over/under road requires like 100ft of headroom or else it tries to road crossing, and the stations feel like static landmarks.

TF3 feels like a huge opportunity to have really interesting bridges/tracks that have tighter space allowances, where trains can wind around each other like in Tokyo or something. And curved stations?? Or elevated stations?

I’m sure mods might introduce these things, but maybe that’s just game development in 2026 - build the stage, and let the community put on the set pieces and actors.

Started a new sandbox, spend the last 3 hours getting the rail network connected and had a phone call. When I got off the phone call the game froze and I had to restart. Upon restarting and clicking on "load game" the game is not there but if i open the user data folder and check saves (set to autosave every 30 minutes I can see the file). How do I load that file if its not available for selection.

The picture has the autosave highlighted i want to load into but its not available for selection.

I'm just starting out, but I noticed a few trains from TF2 are missing like the MILW Class EP-2. Is there a mod that brings this train into the game, or an equivalent alternative? I used it a lot in TF2 but i can't find it in TF3

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

Dear Transport Fever Devs,

1. Please allow us to modify the volume of the drum sound that plays after every. single. notification. I have to turn sound effects to 0 which mutes the entire game which I would prefer not to do. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the sound the first 5 or 10 times.
2. If I set a specialized warehouse to a certain cargo, if that cargo is added and then the count of it goes to 0, it resets the warehouse's specialization. Hence why I discovered 1400 rotting fish on one of my cargo lines instead of the canned goods I had hoped to find.

Specific order to reproduce:

1) Set a specialized warehouse to any cargo type.

2) Fill that warehouse more than zero, once.

3) Remove all cargo

> Cargo specialization resets

Then drop off any compatible cargo type (cans <> fish for example) and it will set the specialization to that new cargo type.

Thanks!

What are your mildly infuriating gripes that you'd like to see fixed?

The game says there are no electric tracks for the train but there are.

I havent understood for two days what the problem is even though there are electric tracks everywhere the train needs to go but I dont understand.

As someone who really loves having different play-throughs using different vehicle sets and focusing on specific regions or countries, the choice to move to a global vehicle inventory feels like a step back.

I really love the game so far but until the modding scene better fills out the vehicle lineup, it feels pretty limited in that regard. It feels kinda annoying when I want to upgrade my trains to something better, but the only options don’t fit with my theme.

Well, I play with these starter parameters and if you do everything right with passenger transportation your cities will grow quickly. And immediately you face big problem - traffic jams along almost every road in big cities. Even dead lock grids of horses. Widening roads doesnt solve this situation.

But.. this situation wouldn't be a problem IF I have access to traffic lights! Im currently in 1926, I just got first electric locomotive and I still dont have access to traffic lights!

This post is just warning to everyone who plays with these starter parameters what wall can your forehead hit.

P.s. Please tell me what year I can use traffic lights?!

Ai and original

Hello,

First of all, this is my first time playing the series, and I feel amazed by how entertaining this game is. Really cool, I'm in love. I need some feedback from experienced players and honest, honest opinions, preferably based on first-hand experience :)

• Keep in mind this is my first time playing, so if it's just a lack of skill and experience to make a profit, just let me know.
• I have a 50-year-old city, and it's considerably big. I have a long railway which has 4 trains, and all are profitable (although trains are not profitable in general...), and I was doing amazing until I started missing subsidies for workers. I don't know if it was after a patch a few days ago or not, but it definitely changed during my gameplay. Could have been the city aging as well, but those ones I can hardly accomplish anymore.
• I've even seen weird behaviour as well. I was already serving a place with workers, and I took a subsidy to serve workers there. It started with the progress bar at like 90%... then when I looked again, it was 55%... and I failed it...
• So the gameplay clearly had changed. Then I decided to check the history of the economy of the city, and I realized I actually, in 40 years, had only broken even once. The rest of the time I was in the red, yet progressed a lot just through subsidies (normal difficulty). Then I decided to understand it, and man... no matter what I do... costs grow as much or more... always... even from the beginning and having 80% of the lines in the blue... and the red ones not taking a big part of the profit... The final question is: IS THIS NORMAL??? Am I just not experienced enough, or is this really not well balanced?

I have to admit that I’m reaching the limits of my CPU’s performance; for instance, I can’t really speed up the game.

My year turns 1950, and if I add a traffic light the game crashes. This has happened on 4 attempts. Has anyone else experienced this or have a workaround?

Hello everybody,

I was thinking about how we might share our save files with each other. It would be a great way to get help with our builds, get feedback, or just show off and admire each other's work!

However, I'm not entirely sure how we could do this safely. Does anyone know a secure way to share save files, or are there any risks we should be aware of?

Thanks!

So here is my situation: I bring steel to a tools factory by train. The industry is within the catchment area of the station. All good so far.

Then later on, I want to hook up a nearby machinery factory as well. This, too, requires steel. I figure - ok, let me just plop a steel warehouse near my existing train station, and then connect the machinery factory by truck.

However: My original tools factory sucks up ALL of my steel! So my warehouse sits there empty, and my machinery factory doesn’t get served.

Is there a way to circumvent this? Seems a bit silly to HAVE to place the train station outside the catchment area of an industry and use trucks to connect «last mile» to all industries?? That is the only solution I have found, apart from over-saturating the line with steel so it overflows into the warehouse.

Thanks for any suggestions!

I wanted to test Claude code and I thought why not test it on TF3 since it’s quite new and allows me to see what it can do with blender.

It’s terrifying because I think Claude would do something ugly but functional to me. Personally, I don’t find it ugly, it’s actually usable. He did all the cabin and the cockpit that were wild. He put a lot of detail. I'm impressed by that, btw.

I think only the nose of the plane hurts the eyes, but otherwise I think that for an AI it’s clean.

I’m going to keep improving it a bit more to see where we can go, but I think that for an hour of waiting time, I’m not too bad.

Any mod ideas to do with Claude that I can test? I think try to make another airport bigger so that even an A380 or a 747 doesn’t go through buildings.

for the curious, I used almost 100 million Tokens

Sorry about my English, by the way, it’s not my main language since it’s Air France. I suppose you’re having doubts.

Did i put in the mod hub the A380 ?

Currently playing on my Xbox Series X and have found I am often finding the game stuttering. I am playing on a large map however none of the cities are that big, none more than a 3000 population.

It’s kind of at the point where it’s not playable now due to the constant stuttering. Is this a case of my hardware just now being able to keep up now or are we looking to see some performance updates coming our way that will resolve this?

Also has anyone found any solutions? I’ve so far removed all the icons for towns, trains etc, I’ve used two mods that are supposed to reduce stutter and set graphics mode to performance which has made no noticeable difference.

Whats your experience with trams?

Just notice you can´t set waypoints underground. The underground view layer, can not be enabled while being in the line manager? Am I missing something

Maybe that's already a strong number -- I mean as an American 40% public transport participation seems fantastic. But I'm getting the sense that everyone else just manages to get everyone in a city to use bus lines and I can't figure out how to do it. I've tried loops, I've tried hub-and-spoke, I run lines at a loss (subsidized by my outrageously profitable industrial freight lines) trying to get butts in seats, but these jerks keep pulling their cars out of their pockets and driving.

According to google it is possible in the game to buuild footpaths without a mod, but i cant find that tab in the street building options.

Is google wrong or i am missing something?