You can add a fuel car, but can't improve the base. You can make a fuel car from the same parts as the engine it supports.
Got a question if anyone happens to know... If I have 2 completely unconnected lines - do jobs only appear for stations that can be reached by that station, or do all jobs appear, like in Pocket Planes?? If it's the former, I was going to set up an unrelated network in each continent (eventually) - just for my own interest; but if that isn't the case, it'll just be awful.
But you could buy the transatlantic tunnel, start a North American system, then sell the tunnel.... But yes... Jobs going to Europe would still appear in American stations.
Yeah, but once I've set up the network, I can then delete that track and end up with completely isolated networks. I just wondered if at that point, you didn't get jobs for the other isolated networks you might have?
I've had to clear up a few posts. If anyone talks about 'hacking' or getting round IAP's then they will be put in a lengthy time-out or possibly banned outright. I'm not a huge fan of IAP's so i simply 'vote' by not downloading the app or buying any IAP's for particular games. 'Hacking' the game to cheat is totally wrong and not fair on people who are buying IAP's or playing games fairly. Please report any 'hacking' talk as i'll then start checking accounts/posts Thanks
When you scrap track you actually receive money back, but it's nothing near what you paid for it, not to mention the money spent if you claimed the track for a line. I believe you get 20% back. So you'd only be losing money if you then bought the track again later. If there's any chance of using the line again, I wouldn't scrap it, if we're talking about something huge like Lisbon-NY.
Looks like we lost upwards of 50 comments in the thread. That should make it much easier for newcomers. Thanks.
Whoo Hooo! Choo Choo I just made level 10. I have 5 lines running: Purple - Bluebell Steamer with fuel car Red - Bluebell Steamer Orange - Cherry Steamer with fuel car Yellow - Carbon Steamer Cyan - Bluebell Steamer I made the mistake early on of changing out an engine by putting a new one on the line . In the end, shuffled trains by claiming tracks to give the Carbon Steamer the long line. Thinking of moving the engine on the red line to service Paris > Milan > Rome, and adding Munich > Budapest > Istanbul to the yellow line. Thoughts? I currently have 752 BUX and 15,107 coins - not bad considering I opened Reykjavik this morning. Quickly made back most of that investment with better paying jobs. My priority for picking up jobs: 1. BUX - since these can be exchanged for coins, I feel they are more valuable. I'll pick up and drop in a neighboring station to save them until I can deliver to their final destination. 2. Crates - been picking up and acquiring crates as I go, opened just what I needed to get Carbon Steamer up and running. 3. High paying jobs along the line (helps to alleviate layovers), unless...there is a really juicy job that comes up, then it goes 4. Fill the train with jobs for the next station - this way, I stop, and see if there's anything else there to pick up. This is definitely a more micro-managed method. Since I'm constantly picking up BUX, I do refuel frequently and still gain BUX. Paris is the main hub, with Milan, Munich, Berlin and Madrid acting as feeder or transitioning hubs. I do struggle with figuring out how to handle BUX coming out of the feeder cities that belong on that same line. For example, if the orange train hits Munich and there's a 10 BUX job for Istanbul, it needs to be on the red line...how to get it there? If I drop it in Milan, I've made the mistake of taking it back to Munich. I need to figure out a system to transfer these without running them back and forth...LOL. Maybe pencil and paper. Open to suggestions for improving the set up or switching out engines. In the Parts Yard I have crates for: Carbon Steamer 4/4 Cherry Steamer 3/3 Emerald Steamer 8/3 Vanilla Steamer 9/3 National Express 5/6 Metro Express 6/6 Mallard 2/12 In the train yard - one Vanilla Steamer Engine Unopened Crates: 4 Special 116 Standard - think I have enough for a bit
I had a set of 5 cars from Seoul to Los Angeles that was $1132 each. My coin collection strategy at the moment is as follows: I have a railroad between Beijing/Shenyang/Seoul that collects high-value jobs and drops them off in Beijing. I also have a loop between San Francisco/Vancouver/Calgary/Denver/Phoenix/Los Angeles that also collects high-value jobs and drops them off in Denver and/or SFO. I then have three long distance lines (San Francisco-New York, New York-Lisbon, Vologograd-Beijing) plus my European network to move between Lisbon and Volgograd (usually in two hops: Lisbon to Munich and Munich to Volgograd). This works well, but is bottlenecked right now because I don't have any trains with a capacity higher than 12, and my hubs are limited to max 30-40 items. My conundrum with bux collecting is whether to spend them on hub upgrades, or opening crates (looking for Standard parts) because I need both!
My daily event screens shows that today's event is in c% . I did some searching around and eventually found it in Moscow. Today's exchange rate is rubbish too! 184
I know I'm pretty late on replying to this, but my apologizes for the false accusation anyway. I just found it pretty odd how you had so many powerful trains yet you only had 6 lines and jumped to conclusions too quickly after seeing how there have been a handful of players here who are overflowing with powerful Freighters and "rare" trains. Again, I'm sorry for misjudging you.
It's struck me that your strategy should be linked to available playing time. Bux and crates are fixed at 1 crate and 1,2,3 or 4 bux per job (a big difference from PP), regardless of how far they are traveling... Coin jobs just increase with distance; and without the bonuses for a full train, means there's no benefit for having longer distances. It's actually just as good to have a 4 coin job going from Paris to London, as it is having one go from Honolulu to Anadyr, IF you have the available playing time to keep checking in to set it on its way again. Therefore - if you have a lot of playing time, you should have a more congested, smaller network in terms of distance... If you don't have much playing time, then longer distances would be the way to go to set off and leave them running.
Incorrect. I had a 48-bux job (4 cars, 12 bux each) from East Asia to North America. (Beijing to San Francisco? I don't remember the route, but I remember the 48 bux jackpot! )
