Railway Empire

I saw this and it looks great, but the price and lack of multiplayer essentially mean it's a no-go from me. If it were £15 or £30 and had multiplayer I would be far more likely to pick it up.
 
Looks good. Ive played TTD and then openTTD since they came out. Never played the railroad tycoon games tho. Might have to try this once its sub £15.
 
Robzere31 said:
May look into this one as I spent many a happy hour playing Railroad Tycoon on the Amiga back in the mid 90s.
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AI is far superior to RRT2 & 3. They just don't build between few stations waiting for money to roll in. They expand buying factories etc (especially those you are using but haven't bought out).
On Hard difficulty they will try to run your cities and screw you up. Haven't tried very hard, but seems from others, if you aren't good enough, they buy you out before long....

The only "cheating" per se the AI does it to build on non-realistic track mode. While by default the human player is set on to realistic mode. (can change it).
Otherwise get ready to have your company bought out, fair and square without cheating.

(FYI the makers of the game are working on the AI building realistic tracks if the setting is such for the players, but is more difficult than it seems).
 
Enjoying it so far, but it's a bit lacking in atmosphere. I know it's a strange thing to say about a strategy game, but the game map feels a bit flat. However, I am at the very early stages. Later on it might get a bit more lively. I cant wait to start building tracks through the mountains :)

I can see me spending a lot of hours on it now. These are the only type of games I use my PC for now. Cant beat PC for a strategy game. Dont know how it will control on console with a gamepad!
 
robfosters said:
Enjoying it so far, but it's a bit lacking in atmosphere. I know it's a strange thing to say about a strategy game, but the game map feels a bit flat. However, I am at the very early stages. Later on it might get a bit more lively. I cant wait to start building tracks through the mountains :)

I can see me spending a lot of hours on it now. These are the only type of games I use my PC for now. Cant beat PC for a strategy game. Dont know how it will control on console with a gamepad!
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Spent 8 hours straight today on the America map. Must say when you have 20 trains running having a line that is using overpasses to cross is amazing on first person view.
 
robfosters said:
Sounds like a nightmare to organise with side tracks and signals though.
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Actually not.

Is very easy if you invest from the start and build a loop, connecting all town stations, and those rural with high traffic on it having a loop also.

It can maintain a lot of trains, as long as you use the auto signal placement, directional signaling, couple of loop breakers and set the train station lines accordingly to trains.
Also waypoints help if you have to double track the loops.

You can use directional dual track straight lines on stations where you wont have a lot of traffic.

Something like this. See Pittsburgh - Indianapolis - Toledo.

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Update 1.3 went live few minutes ago. Here are the changes

Changelog Railway Empire Update 1.3
New Features:

Community-requested feature
  • Random Map Generator
    We are happy to introduce the community-requested Random Map Generator. Therefore when selecting Free Game or Sandbox Game you will find a new map: "Random"
    The “Random”-map will be available in Free Game and Sandbox Game modes. With this map, you can generate a random map with various parameters.

Additional new feature:
  • New difficulty options for Free Game mode
    Player can now choose whether they want easier or harder tasks in Free Mode.
    In general, tasks will now consider the number of towns available on the map.


Adjustments
Additions
  • We have added steel and stone bridges. These will be shown when tracks reach a specific height.
  • We have added a counter to the towns in route editing mode.
  • The icon for an available factory slot is now shown more often.
  • We have added some AI route optimization tweaks.
  • We have added more details to the train list.
  • It is now possible to align the camera to the north with hotkey “n”
  • Random maps have also been added to the editor
  • We have added a town list.
  • New GUI elements and icons for construction mode and train status window have been added.
  • We have added a new action menu layout.
  • We have added transparent goods images when the train is loading in a station.
  • We have added new GUI elements in "Bulldozer" mode.
  • Delete button in editor has been added.

Fixes
  • [LINUX] Rendering of contour lines and tunnels has been fixed.
  • A bug in the town generation, which caused cities to vanish has been fixed.
  • We have fixed a random crash, which occurred in large game worlds.
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Update 1.4 is on Steam Beta. It incorporates quite a few AI changes.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/503940/announcements/detail/1653262146453253359
Features:
  • The AI opponents are now able to use the complex track system.
    The AI can now make use of signals and multi-track, when the player selects complex track building mode in the game settings.
    In complex mode, the AI usually builds two parallel tracks, one for each direction. They also use signals and crossings.
    Players can select the track-system for the AI in the game settings.
  • Players and AI can build x-crossings.
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Can you shut the AI opponents up totally yet?

This got removed as soon as the idiotic voiceover and popups appeared.....
Felt like it was aimed at teenagers, not a serious strategy game.
 
leezer3 said:
Can you shut the AI opponents up totally yet?

This got removed as soon as the idiotic voiceover and popups appeared.....
Felt like it was aimed at teenagers, not a serious strategy game.
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Not on the campaign but on Free mode for example yes.

If you want more serious simulator, there is Transport & Train Fever.
 
Might try free mode, but there's never quite the same challenge in that...
Multiplayer might be interesting too, but I'll admit the AI style has totally put me off this.

RRT2 is one of the all-time classics.
One of the few games I've totally 100% platinumed.
RRT3 wasn't bad, but meh in comparison.

The most recent Railroads, yuck too :p

(Serious simulator wise, I'm actually the maintainer/ main dev for openBVE, although that's another kettle of fish entirely!)
 
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