Although passengers and mail are the bread and butter of the rail network, you have to shift a lot of passengers and mail to make a significant profit, whereas commodities like Gold or Arms are very lucrative, providing an excellent return on your investment. It’s also important to understand which commodities fetch the highest prices, and therefore make the most money. Adapting to movements in the market can prove vital, and relying on a single commodity can prove devastating should prices crash. All commodities fetch different prices which fluctuate as the game progresses, and occasionally an incident will occur that increases or decreases the price of a certain commodity. Have a town that processes fish into food? Then you’ll need to find a fishery to source the fish for it and then transport the food to somewhere that needs it, and hopefully make a tidy profit. Every town or city has commodities which it supplies or demands, and catering to their needs is the essential task of Railroads. Behind the plethora of trains and attention to detail is a game based around the simple principle of supply and demand. This is great if you’re a train fanatic, however, it does take a lot away from the game – if the trains are the stars, then the economic side of the game is the management entourage that keeps them in the spotlight. There’s also a Train Table mode for those who just wish to tinker around with trains and not deal with the economic side of the game. There are three levels of routing difficulty, with Easy and Medium allowing trains to pass through each other should a conflict occur, whilst Hard is as strict as you would expect, with no exceptions made for clumsy track layout. Moreover, you can adjust both the basic difficulty (starting funds, cost of maintenance etc.) and the routing difficulty. There are fifteen scenarios in total, all of which have their own level of difficulty based upon the level of resources and complexity of the terrain. All other considerations, such as the creation of tunnels or bridges, are dealt with automatically allowing the player to focus on all the routing conundrums that are bound to crop up.įurther on the theme of accessibility, Railroads provides plenty of options for scaling the game’s difficulty. Laying down track is just as simple, requiring little more than to click and drag toward your desired location. The tutorial does an excellent job of introducing all the key elements, and information can be accessed with a bare minimum of mouse clicks.
The most obvious changes come in menu navigation, which is far more streamlined and intuitive than in the Tycoon series. It’s tautly designed and, unusually for strategy title, easy to pick-up and play.
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Where as the ‘Tycoon’ series was heavy on stats and high on complexity, Railroads is a deliberate simplification of the formula. In fact, unless you have a pathological hatred for trains or strategy gaming then you will enjoy Railroads. Sure, if you really love trains then this is a game for you, but Railroads has the potential to appeal to more than a niche group. Let me get one obvious misconception out of the way: Sid Meier’s Railroads is not a game exclusively for train fanatics.
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