The only thing which you may or may not miss is that there are no AI competitors in the TF/TpF series. I see this series as very much the spiritual successor to the TTD games, whereas Railway Empire is very much in the Sid Meiers Railroads vein (hell it looks/plays so damn close that if SMR were still a thing there would probably be legal issues). Don't really want to invest in a game that's not going to be updated, since it's superseded by the sequel now. TL DR I estimate at least 4 years of waiting until it's anywhere near TTD in terms of features and content.
To make a basic engine for a future game is not equals to making the WHOLE game. Again, as a dev I think people are way over-hyping and assuming things to come that might end up being too difficult for devs to implement, they give up or just change direction. Everybody hyped the hell out of it, but in reality it's in a tech-demo state. Don't want to invest my time until the game is ready content-wise. As a dev myself I can see there might be a problem with this setup down the road. Is this the TTD successor I've been waiting for my whole life or I'm better of buying something else? I don't really want to waste my time on incomplete games. Now there's a lot of options right now in terms of transport-management games, but most of them are early access. basically do the game design work yourself) Coherent economic balance of the game as you progress through decades (in OTTD you have to use mods like town cargo factor, plane speed factor, early houses etc.
A bit more realism (I always play TTD with realistic acceleration, increased train weight etc.) but I don't want the complexity of a full realistic simulation Graphics (not a graphics nerd, but something a bit more modern than 1994 isometric would be nice) Playing the same game starting in 19 century and all the way to 21 century Playing a slower-paced game (I'm using day length patch with a day factor of 2) Building smooth as butter cargo lines that can be easily scaled up or down depending on the load
Hauling huge amounts of cargo over long distances Combining all 4 types of transport to move stuff around Connecting the whole map in a huge passenger transport network
I really love playing OpenTTD occasionally.
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