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I don’t agree at all with this “exploit” reason. Accidental delete maybe but hardly. See, i’m playing the game and i want to call the shots. I want to be able to delete all the roads if i want to and the rebuild them as i please. Since your simulation slows my trucks and buses to a walking speeds on the corners, upgrading the roads with current main connection issue is impossible. Most of the time there is no space and when you have it, results are all but smooth.
In ideal world this feature is on settings menu where you can turn it on and off as you please. If i choose to turn it off i accept the possibility that i may accidentally delete something “vital”. If you are so worried about that accidental delete, then maybe have a pop up message saying similar thing like for the un connected station?
And please please please, make that build tool to show us why there is no space to do what we want.
Hi Mikael.
Warm thank you for you message. Could i ask bit more specific info please? How it will be fixed and will it remain as a mandatory rule for all or will it be difficulty level dependant? Or just plain on / off function?
Best regards,
Pasi
I’m interested as well for testing. To anyone who needs a tester. I got 253 hours in game time and would love to get something new to try out. Anything to help to make this game better and shall we say more finished 😉
Coujou that’s exactly what i had in mind originally. If i have a track going in east -west direction, i would like that my customers can walk to the station from both sides of the track reaching southern platforms from the north side and vice versa. This would automatically give an underpass for the pedestrians and would reduce the need for local bus and tram transport even further. I don’t use them much now either, if any, but this way it would be a bit more realistic and i could have if so desired, bus station on both sides of the track for the connections to the relevan areas speeding up the travel times.
Why it is always brought up that cutting off the roads is cheating? Against who? This isn’t a game where it matters in any level and if people want to play their game that way, they should be allowed to do so. Least that should be done is to have this feature optional so you can turn it on or off as you please.
Trains only doesn’t have other limitations like no more loan etc. so it was pretty easy, especially if you do it on easy or medium difficulty level.
1) Find a nice location where you can connect 4-5 cities for passenger traffic. 3-4 in one line, and branch line to 1 city giving you a hub city with links to 3 other cities.
2) Single track with passing loop in half way between each city
3) 2 trains with 7-8 coaches on each per each connection between cities. So you branch line has 2 trains and main line 6 or 8 trains (3 or 4 cities). Remember to make stations as a passing loops too.
3-4 years in and you are raking over a million each year in profit making rest of the game dead easy. Cities don’t need local transportation, people will walk to the station. You can help the growth by buildin roads on both sides of the station and giving shortest possible walking routes from each area.
That will do it, works even on hard difficulty, but you will need loan to do it so it is not suitable way to get the hard achievement which doesn’t allow any loan. On that you need to start with horses and after Mack buses upgrade to trains.
And in any case, ignore the goods.
I don’t need to play games to know how real life signalling works 😉
You have to remember that there are “hidden” signals in the game and you don’t need to place every single one needed. On double track you can easily, following a real life scenario, make it directional and be done with it. Should there ever be a reason for a temporary bi-directional use, that can be easily changed.
Game is full of problems desperately needing a fix, but signalling isn’t one of them at the moment. It could be better, but it works perfectly fine when you understand it. That Steel Talons example is realistic yes, but in real life every single train has it’s pre allocated path which would take it to that siding as per timetable. We can’t adjust the time aspect for the trains, but paths we have.
Which again points to the fact that you need to forget the other games and learn to work on this one with more realistic approaches on designs. i’ve never encountered the issues you are on about, so for me this system works perfectly fine. Took a while to understand how the automatic signals work on the game and how i need to improve it with the signals but once i got that, it’s been smooth running.
I’ve been playing more or less like that all the time recently.
Also modified my costs so that track was 1000, high speed 2500 and overhead wires 2000. Switches 250k, tunnels 2.5mil +250k per metre and bridges were a round million to begin with. Also changed all the station prices by adding at least 1 zero onto them. Depot was 1.5 mil to build.
Lots of fun and made me really think how to build the lines and where. Much more focusing on planning and preparations.
I think if you can’t make it work with the current system, you don’t understand railways and signaling well enough in the first place. Deadlocks only result on bad designs and dynamic path selection would cause even more of them.
My advice is that you think first, then act and keep an eye on the line colour to see how the path is created to spot any issues with it. If you need to have 2 trains from the same line at the same station at the same time, it’s wrong anyways.
Is there another train trying to come out from the depot? Or is there a short bit of overhead wires missing just before the depot?
I use those passing loops / siding so that they are built slightly closer to one town and the train arriving first is taken to the loop / siding. This allwos the lattter arrival to go through in full speed. Just like in real life.
You really don’t need to cheat on a game like this, nor it shouldn’t matter if someone does. Everything costs so little, that even having 500 mil in your account on game is enough to be able to do pretty much anything you want. I totally lost my interest on medium difficulty game in a large map when i got 4.5 bil in cash and more was coming 80-90 mil per year. No cheats, just realistic networks with trains only on long distance and buses in couple of the cities.
I hope that the main connection protetcion will be turned off or made optional so that people, OP included, can upgrade their networks without having to fight against the protection.
