Bernd
06/18/2021 (Fri) 13:45:37
No.44048
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06/18/2021 (Fri) 13:45:37
No.44048
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>>44047
The objective is to have some railroady fun without building expensive landscape tables and buying expensive model trains.
The game itself has two modes, campaign and scenarios. Campaigns are chain of scenarios. Each scenario has a map (usually some real landscape, from all over the globe) where rail networks have to be built. The goal of each scenario is different. It can be connecting two cities and move X cargo between them, or get a personal net worth of Y amount, or build a railroad empire of Z amount of stock worth. There are some "exotic" objectives as well, liek "you are Bismarck, you have to unify the German states, by connecting all with railroads", and such.
It's a management game where you do something to get money to invest it into doin more of that something more. Liek Simcity where you build a city run it successfully to build it further up.
There are several levels of complexity. If you just wanna lay tracks and watch trains running about turn on "Sandbox" mode, and do whatever doesn't matter. No income, no demands, no supplies.
But it is more fun to satisfy the demands of settlements, and watch them grow. You transport passengers between them and mail. Then you look for building that produces food, you bring in suitable raw material, then transport the food produced from that to cities. Then do that with goods. Then whatever they need, like as time goes they need automobiles, those are produced in factories which need steel and tires. Steel is made in steel mill, from iron and coal, so you look for mines and bring resources there. Rubber is produced on rubber farms, and used in tire factories. This way supply chains are built. In sandbox this is ignored.
In the game you make money so all this can be done, the transportation network could be built. That stuff with the stocks and shit is just another layer of complexity which can be turned on or off. It can be fun to pretend to be some fat industrialist buying up the stock of the competing companies, then merge them with your company, and use their railroads (to make more money).
The objective is to have some railroady fun without building expensive landscape tables and buying expensive model trains.
The game itself has two modes, campaign and scenarios. Campaigns are chain of scenarios. Each scenario has a map (usually some real landscape, from all over the globe) where rail networks have to be built. The goal of each scenario is different. It can be connecting two cities and move X cargo between them, or get a personal net worth of Y amount, or build a railroad empire of Z amount of stock worth. There are some "exotic" objectives as well, liek "you are Bismarck, you have to unify the German states, by connecting all with railroads", and such.
It's a management game where you do something to get money to invest it into doin more of that something more. Liek Simcity where you build a city run it successfully to build it further up.
There are several levels of complexity. If you just wanna lay tracks and watch trains running about turn on "Sandbox" mode, and do whatever doesn't matter. No income, no demands, no supplies.
But it is more fun to satisfy the demands of settlements, and watch them grow. You transport passengers between them and mail. Then you look for building that produces food, you bring in suitable raw material, then transport the food produced from that to cities. Then do that with goods. Then whatever they need, like as time goes they need automobiles, those are produced in factories which need steel and tires. Steel is made in steel mill, from iron and coal, so you look for mines and bring resources there. Rubber is produced on rubber farms, and used in tire factories. This way supply chains are built. In sandbox this is ignored.
In the game you make money so all this can be done, the transportation network could be built. That stuff with the stocks and shit is just another layer of complexity which can be turned on or off. It can be fun to pretend to be some fat industrialist buying up the stock of the competing companies, then merge them with your company, and use their railroads (to make more money).