I got a 'tip' on the game that trains need to be repaired. It was unclear how to actually do that when the train was in the station though. Anyone know how to get that done?
What do you guys think is the optimum number of cities per train? Also, does anyone know what the exclamation mark on some of my cities mean?
I've just seen where to tell how much more fuel will be needed for your trains. If you click the little train icon in the top-right corner of your screen, a list appears with all your current trains. For any trains parked in a station (and not in transit), it shows the fuel level. You can see the total fuel capacity, and how far it needs to fill. There's no remaining time shown on this screen. This also doesn't answer the question of how much fuel is needed to get from one station to another... but at least when you try to depart, you get the pop-up saying "You'll need ___ more minutes for fueling to reach this destination, or you can use bux."
Has anyone else noticed that two trains in the same city will see different jobs? How does that make sense?
4-5 cities per line seems to be ok. And event in progress. Also, bigger city dots mean there are layover in that city.
I've noticed that every 5 seconds = 1 fuel spent (10 seconds in a station refuels 1 fuel level). Therefore if you know the approximate travel time to the station, you can guesstimate how much fuel you'll spend. Most of these early city to city routes are 4 or 5 minutes, so you're looking at around 48-60 fuel per city.
Has anyone purchased a new license yet? I was curious on where people are heading to next and also curious what the "Oceania" license entails.. Will I need it to link Europe and America? Can you start a rail in America without it being linked to Europe?
Same city, different train lines arriving at different platforms... so different jobs. That's how I see it. It's not like an airport with one or two runways or whatever and once in the air it can fly any direction.
I really hope we'll eventually be able to go in two directions between the same cities. Maybe this can be accomplished with two separate lines between the same cities? I won't know until I can save enough to try it out. If so, I wonder how many lines can go between two cities. Also, the fuel timers are just another obstacle. Hope their next game doesn't throw in oil timers, wheel timers, etc. I haven't had to repair a train, but is that another timer?!
So basically, if you have a route taking x minutes, starting it and then turning the game off for 3x minutes should get you there and refueled.
How does the cargo transfer work then? I thought I understood this game but now I'm really confused... Are you saying that layovers only work for cargo, but not passenger cars?
Say you have 2 trains in Munich: train 1 goes from Budapest to Paris, train 2 from Berlin to Milan. Each one sees its own jobs. So if train 1 (that goes to Paris) see a job for Berlin, train 2 can't see it. But both see the layovers in the station.
True. But real trains can also travel on the same track in the same direction and don't break after a few uses. I was just throwing out what I was thinking for how this more simple game works. Once a train reaches a station where you want to drop cargo, just go into jobs and de-select those jobs and it'll say "Yard". Once another train that you want to transfer the load to is at the same station then the jobs will show in that train's job list.
When you arrive at a station goods are not bound for, you can tap them to move them to the yard, which can only hold 5 cars at a time to start but is upgradeable.
