I was a big fan of the earlier games like Civ, Civ2 and RT2 (don't think I ever played the original RT). My overall impression of the game is mixed. At least that's my impression, especially going by the last situation where laying a new track segment over an existing track segment will get the train to move again (and by the way you can delete any track segment but the system can get a little finicky so you have to be very precise). So if you make tracks in multiple segments it might cause some problems and for that reason I'd much rather have a specific button for making crossovers and switches rather than using the track button for everything. The problem with routing is that I think the routing intelligence works only on the same track segments only and not globally. With A just sitting there after B passed by. You might have a track layout like this (not necessarily the best design) with trains A and B heading towards each otherĮven worse you might have a layout like this I agree that the game is much more interesting in Hard Routing mode but I won't say it is necessarily intelligent.
While this game has some huge simplification issues, a little incident like that illustrates that it's not all bad - I'm liking it. I then immediately started a new auction for a slaughterhouse in Birmingham - the AI had used up all its cash so I got a profitable industry for myself with no bidding war whatsoever! (The AI never made a cent off the industry I let it have, since I never sent cattle up there!). The AI jumped at the bait and took the slaughterhouse (I should add that it was in Manchester, surrounded by mountains, and only serviced by my trains). I could still supply it if I really wanted to. I initiated an auction for the "off to the side" place - if I ended up winning it, it would 1. So I tried a trick: I found two slaughterhouses, one in a central "hub" city, another off to the side. I quickly realized something: if the AI doesn't have cash, how can it bid on the industry I want? When I first started playing, I was irritated but appreciated the competition when the AI tried to score a lucrative industry that I wanted for myself. *Stay off of 'hard' routing until it's fixed.Īn early tip I was proud to stumble upon: fool the AI into bidding on useless auctions! *If there's a good not being used, when you have the money, creating a completely new industry chain can be lots of fun. I ended up laying new tracks to make better routes for those trains so they could each supply another city. *When playing, be careful how many goods are sent to one city (you'll just have to watch the cities.) In my last game I flooded Munich, which was only a city, with beer (2 trains with 8 cars a trip for 5 years and no other goods) and they stopped demanding it. *When laying the track there are 2 important things: the grade keys (-,+) to reduce the grade of the track (Reignking, this is what will create your tunnels) and holding the mouse buttom down instead of just clicking, as this will let you determine the approach angle the tracks will take up to that point. Sometimes its just more beneficial for you to never have two tracks cross paths.
You can scrap track and get some resources back if you mess up, so keep trying. I'm finding Sid's R!'s track laying system to be much more indepth. *Remember when you double track that you need to click on single track and create a cross over rails. *As Shylock stated, every senario can be played in 'Train Table Mode', even the none adjective ones. *On the train routing pop-up it tells you exactly what path the train is taking, I found this immensly helpful in modifying tracks so they took the path I wanted. Overall though, I like this installment just as much as RT2, even though a few things have changed. With no pause in mutliplayer, then it would take the player away from their tracks and planning. I used to spend a lot of time playing and toying with it in RT2. Looking at it that way, I understand why the stockmarket was simplified, because as someone stated it is a game in and all of itself. As I see it, this game was built for multiplayer, much more than the RT series.
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