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Ticket to Ride Classic Edition: Cut Content

Ticket to Ride Classic Edition was deleted in the autumn 2023. Last DLC for this game - France - was released in late 2018. But there was one unreleased DLC - Polska. I think it was supposed to release in 2021. There was even page in steam:

https://preview.redd.it/4qjqjr1tyv9h1.png?width=1512&format=png&auto=webp&s=9662e6d922ce7d5820d12624d2e75f2b6b06c6c1

But DLC was cancelled after few days. We can't play on Polska map in Classic Edition. Or... We can?
If we go to the game's directory, we can find four folders, dll files, exe files, and some other files:

https://preview.redd.it/a56cz0jlzv9h1.png?width=1132&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6ae233bddda1cc459c3607a043c984283c379c2

We don't need exe and dll files. Also in "bin", "include" and "lib" we can't find anything interesting. But there is also folder "Resources"

https://preview.redd.it/5g0klyv20w9h1.png?width=1121&format=png&auto=webp&s=2e45c75e376109db91582ed8a16ed9b8fb539819

In this folder we can find music, sound effects, UIConfig files for all maps, and six folders. tt_conductor_notes has "what's new?" html files (windows with rules and what's new - something like in-game browser). In translation folder there are txt files with achievements and other strings. "Fonts" is a lie, there is only one font. Credits has images for credits and html. ccbi is harder - in this folder there are .ccbi files. They need to draw buttons, images, show text. But the most interesting folder is images. There... Two folders: 1 and 2. idk where is the difference but 2 have a little more images so let's go
There are about 3900 files. There are all: from achievements icons to all of the tickets.

Conductor level 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

legendary asia tickets (_as = asia). There are also different backs of the tickets!

But why I mentioned Polska? Because this:

https://preview.redd.it/gn6jtgtd5w9h1.png?width=664&format=png&auto=webp&s=659fad714018c777f9b82bfee756a068297d701d

There are Polska character! It's very interesting. But character isn't something cool. But what about this?

https://preview.redd.it/jybactnp5w9h1.png?width=1376&format=png&auto=webp&s=d49472ef3e4de86f9cbface3a2645c5604f14c26

Yes, country bonus cards from Polska map! And this isn't all:

https://preview.redd.it/aprx79dv5w9h1.png?width=137&format=png&auto=webp&s=351be601461206ab6413636d6fb6daffcbae917b

https://preview.redd.it/1tmzeqnx5w9h1.png?width=408&format=png&auto=webp&s=6d71db4e333082dcaa05c550df443d5296bd3d08

https://preview.redd.it/u4vimw906w9h1.png?width=564&format=png&auto=webp&s=c8323325c578765cd3dd954c9a706b287470c36c

Final version of the game have a LOT of cutted content from Polska DLC. And not images! But firstly I want to show you how images look in the game:

https://reddit.com/link/1uhfc57/video/712sc5337w9h1/player

Yes I changed textures, without changing tickets or trains. It's because idk how to do this. But I changed music! Now you can hear Germany music, I think it's cool song. But there are problems. When I play, I can place trains but Polska map is a lie. I changed textures from France map to Polska textures. When I click "Play", I play France map with Polska map, routes are placed in places where them were on the France map. I only changed UIConfig files, because there are were UIConfig files for Polska map! And there is one interesting thing

https://preview.redd.it/1fff9jtt8w9h1.png?width=1579&format=png&auto=webp&s=1a0ec33224481356eaf3212c7f85456c8288aa6b

If we tap on button with cards near our score, we can find text: $NoCountriesConnectionYet. It means, if we somehow change routes to Polska routes and connect countries, we can get country cards i think. And also I think we will see this cards.

So we can say, Polska DLC was finished.There aren't achievements or music, but it's the last step. Polska may be playable if we try to understand how works the game. And I think it will be cool.

Also I want to add bonus. Polska can't be last DLC that planned. The Heart of Africa, Nederland, Old West were also not released. And images have interesting things

https://preview.redd.it/zkdwzyh0bw9h1.png?width=525&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6b08d5ab10e5129a0942fd0be97669a0020e2f7

Wait what? OldWest? But old west was never announced!

https://preview.redd.it/y34qsfmdbw9h1.png?width=538&format=png&auto=webp&s=3aa003aa809f6b35a3b4a5561beaef5ed81d4535

Also we can find ow- images. ow is Old West. But there aren't old west map: there are UK tickets and map!🤣 Very funny - Old West in UK! So this is placeholders

And the most unexpected thing

https://preview.redd.it/czpjm3j2cw9h1.png?width=576&format=png&auto=webp&s=7502abe79236e6288714fc6d92cef7599f3f0960

Yes, terrain cards. From Africa map. The Heart of Africa could have be planned a very long time ago or after Old West. I think, Old West could be released after Polska map and The Heart of Africa - after Old West. And after this maps, maybe Nederland or Command Asia (this two maps are not mentioned in the images, I'm just thinking)

And it's all. I will try to found and make things to make Polska map playable. I was surprised that Ticket to Ride: Classic Edition hasn't page on TCRF. This game has interesting cut content. And it's not all what I wanted to say.

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