– All running cost are divided by 10 for trains and 5 for bus/trucks/trams

– All building costs are doubled for roads, 10 times for tracks & bridges and 20 times for tunnels.

(some tuning is still needed.) It’s so much more fun! Yes basically any line you build makes a profit, but then even the most basic of lines costs you upwards of 5 mil.

Don’t know ’bout you guys but this is what I expected from the game and it makes it so much more enjoyable in my opinion. Also due to the now punishing cost of tunnels and bridges no more just lazily tunneling my way through half the map (which is possible in vanilla.) And also no more stress waiting for three years while your line makes huge losses before it starts to turn a profit.

I generally had the impression on reading about trains in the 19th century that it was very much a high-investment but enormous returns affair, and this game setup gives exactly that feel.

Just thought I’d share since it drastically improved my game experience and rekindled my interest in it and ask about your opinions on the matter.

Steam\SteamApps\common\Train Fever\res\models\model\vehicle\<type>\*.mdl

You have a line near the end that goes like

Running costs = whatever

And for the track/bridges/roads the files are:

Steam\SteamApps\common\Train Fever\res\config\costs.lua

Steam\SteamApps\common\Train Fever\res\config\street\<street type>.lua

All are simple text files

EDIT:

There is very probably a smarter way to do this, just didn’t have the energy to try and find out. If I get round to it I might even write a script to do these changes automatically

But be careful, if you raise the costruction costs, there has to be some planning tool for the whole track before you build it, because nothing would be more frustrating than to build an expensive tunnel, which wouldn’t fit in the track eventually.

But I must say now that I kinda got the hang of it I am almost not frustrated at track building anymore, and as you mention the realistic curvature/slope makes track building a challenge, but so rewarding in the end

I guess the maintenance costs are way too high for the trains, i could hardly get money ‘cos most income went to maintenance. The game is about trains, right?And they are the are the most expensive to purchase and operate.

I guess they should rebalance prices for difficulty levels or just generally.

I hope developers will balance it later.

I am playing a medium map now, medium difficulty, around 2000 I have 400+ mill. True, I avoided trains almost totally so train costs are somewhat off as it is.