Ok one of my peaves is that coal is a requirement for railroads regardless of whether you have advanced beyond steam power technologically.
The way the rules file is set up now, it looks like the way you would have to do this is add another worker job for railroads with combustion as the required technology and iron and oil listed as the required resources. The worker should make the same railroads though. Does anyone know what it would take to add a worker job like this?
Another idea is to just change coal to oil as the railroad requirement. This might be closer to reality anyway, since even the old steam locos required lots of grease and oil for lubrication, and the more powerful later steam locos ran on oil anyway.
Perhaps another idea, if it's possible, would be to have two kinds of railroads with different movement properties. The coal and iron railroads wouldn't have unlimited movement; limit them to be like a road but with a movement of 6. Then railroads made after the discovery of oil and combustion could be the "regular" railroads. Another rational for the slower older railroads is that advances are made in track design, etc, allowing trains to go faster on more modern track. Does anyone kow how this could be done?
The way the rules file is set up now, it looks like the way you would have to do this is add another worker job for railroads with combustion as the required technology and iron and oil listed as the required resources. The worker should make the same railroads though. Does anyone know what it would take to add a worker job like this?
Another idea is to just change coal to oil as the railroad requirement. This might be closer to reality anyway, since even the old steam locos required lots of grease and oil for lubrication, and the more powerful later steam locos ran on oil anyway.
Perhaps another idea, if it's possible, would be to have two kinds of railroads with different movement properties. The coal and iron railroads wouldn't have unlimited movement; limit them to be like a road but with a movement of 6. Then railroads made after the discovery of oil and combustion could be the "regular" railroads. Another rational for the slower older railroads is that advances are made in track design, etc, allowing trains to go faster on more modern track. Does anyone kow how this could be done?
