Post your Railroad

[Stevenpfo]

I just picked up the game and i'm having lots of fun with it so far. I just played this game and this is the aftermath (thumbnail). I started in Bishop up North and my opponent started in San Diego.

I was down in my stocks by atleast two times he was until I invested into the railway through Las Vegas, Flagstaff and Phoenix. That line with all it's offshoots let my stocks soar past my rivals and I bought him up until I bought him out.

That's why the Southern and central part of the map is weird. Los Angelas has two railway stations which came in handy (because I bought him out). That mess of railways in the South central region is mostly from me messing around. It actually let the 6-8 trains in that area freely roam around one another. But it looked horrible.

 

[Stevenpfo]

(sorry for replying to myself but I didn't know how to edit in a thumbnail).

Here's a better thumbnail. The red line seperates what I originally controlled compared to what the computer controlled. I didn't go East at first because teh tunnels through the mountains were expensive. Then I was left with no choice as I had no where to go.

Edit: The Green square is where I started and the blue one is where my opponent started.

 

[Krupo]

I'm curious - what did you use to generate the thumb? The mini-map?

I wish there was a "world view" zoom option for the main map - or is there one I'm unaware of?

 

[Stevenpfo]

When you click the "Buy Train" option that's the map it shows on the left hand side of the screen.

 

[Stevenpfo]

Well, I decided i'd post another game up in the hopes that someone else would do the same. I'd love to see how other people set up and/or how they play their games.

I was just messing around with some ideas on this one. Trying to get the flow of products and people right. I tried to avoid jam-ups but they'd happen every now and then. I basically just made this and watched the trains react to the tracks.

I started at the red dot. My favorite run would be the passenger one from Madrid to Monaco. Certain spots really turned out well for connectivity.

 

[Reignking]

I would, but I've quit playing. After just a few hours. Yes, it's that bad.

 

[Fluxie]

This might seem a bit offtopic, but how do you create more then three tracks in a city. If I create a fourth railroadtrack through a station, the staion building does not move anymore (it's partly blocking the track) and no train will stop on that track.
I have tried upgrading my station, but that didn't seem to work either.

It looks like that Stevenpfo has much more tracks going through his cities.

Edit: Image added

 

[Falconer]

I don't think you can. If you look at the space the bridge creates when you upgrade your depot, you can see there is room for 3 tracks. That little yellow area on your right-most track is part of the station and trains won't drive through it.

 

[Atomic]

Yeah unfortuantly you cant build more than 3 tracks to a station, and only 1 station to a city. And this is really frustraiting because if you try and allow for more traffic into a city by merging tracks into those 3 that go into the station, the trains have a habit of getting stuck due to the really poor train AI.

 

[Krupo]

Hence,
1. it's good to build stations in cities that the AI is already serving (when you buy them out, you have two stations! Just don't liquidate them!!!!)
2. play on medium routing if you want to go crazy with your trains (otherwise, it WILL break)

This reminds me of something else I don't like about SMR that RRT2/3 had: you could start a new railroad with the money you got when your company was bought out....

 

[Stevenpfo]

Sorry for taking so long to reply. I didn't think anyone was anymore in here. It seems like I have more than 3 per city but I don't. I sometimes have 5-6 tracks coming into one side of a city but they all merge at some point before actually entering the city.

I usually only have up to 6 if some of the trains are coming from far away and I don't expect that much congestion. I end up watching the station for a minute or two to see where the conflicts are and add in a connecting piece here and there to help the trains out.

I never have more than 3 going through a city though. The computer will not use more than three tracks side by side. I get around this if I really need to by making a track or two go around certain cities. You can usually get away with that every now and then.