Any way to play the game in 1850?

[Vaggie's most favorite player]

No matter what i try,industry or travel, there is no way i can make any profit.

[Lt Rainbow Slash]

Start small. A passenger Train between 3 cities and back works well. As long as you have road loops in the towns to bring the passengers to the station.

You can also run passengers on the roads between towns, but that usually needs *A LOT* of horses.

[Vaggie's most favorite player]

Ok, what you mean with road loops, i have about 3-4 stage coaches in each city, to drive them to the train station.

[Lt Rainbow Slash]

You want a clockwise and counter clockwise loop to bring people to the station. That way people can take the fastest route. If you only have a one way loop, when the coaches get to the last stop before the station, they're full, and those people have to wait. 2-6 coaches on each loop is good, depending on the size of the town.

[Vaggie's most favorite player]

Hm ok i try that

[Zhardoz]

Originally posted by Lt Rainbow Slash:

Start small. A passenger Train between 3 cities and back works well. As long as you have road loops in the towns to bring the passengers to the station.

You can also run passengers on the roads between towns, but that usually needs *A LOT* of horses.

dude i did that my first game and ended up with -2m in the year 1870 with debit over 6 m

[missiloon]

Katherina just did an amazing tutorial on this, this helped me out a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKJ8r2dl654&t

[KIKUT]

There are some basic rules:
- Make youself a picture: Try to locate good stating positions.
-Do not overbuild: Empty Cars, trains etc. don't make money. Anything you build has maintenance costs.
-Start at zero: Money on the bank doesn't work. Spend it! If you can't spend it usefully, use it, to pay back loans.
-Use your infrastructure: Use the public roads. try to double use your track as much as possible. Don't doubletrack your network from the start. Just Use a couple of nwaiting lines.
-Try to avoid emptr drives. ERly vehicles have low profitablity marginds. An empty drive, can eat all you prefits.
-Be cheap: Avoid Bridges and tunnels. Cling youself to the terrain. Do not bulldoze anything, if possible. There is no point, in building an expensive speedy line, as long, as your trains only do 40 km/h, you can always rebuild your lines later, when you have a higher income.

[Vaggie's most favorite player]

Originally posted by The Relentless:

Originally posted by Lt Rainbow Slash:

Start small. A passenger Train between 3 cities and back works well. As long as you have road loops in the towns to bring the passengers to the station.

You can also run passengers on the roads between towns, but that usually needs *A LOT* of horses.

dude i did that my first game and ended up with -2m in the year 1870 with debit over 6 m

inr

[The Betamax Bandit]

I find getting maxed out loan . Pausing and spending the lot on ptp on each town , starting at your biggest . Try make it a hub for all the Ptp’s. Don’t go crazy on coaches. 4 each will do nicely. That will help the ball rolling and you can assess what routes need more or less capacity a few years in.

As for industry. Look for the simple ones at first 2 chain or 3 and concentrate on supplying the bigger towns with their needs.

The PTPs (road) need very little input and turn profit within the decade. If it’s not pulling money right away don’t be to hasty. It may be supporting another line covering the shortfall and then some.

I always start at 1850 and I like to be 10M in the black , Loan free by the turn of the century. This way is a good 9/10 successful on my first goal.

[Pinstar]

Katherine's ship strat is good but requires a high water map. Here is my take starting with rails and trucks. https://youtu.be/lUiXsPiMBuQ

[.dréäns]

All my Transport line is making a profit, but my infrastructure cost too much, so sad.

Are large truck station have higer maintenance cost to? Damn

[DEATHLORD]

For first time play i followed this on the mega exp map and it all worked well.

Originally posted by missiloon:

Katherina just did an amazing tutorial on this, this helped me out a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKJ8r2dl654&t

[GameOverRIP]

Originally posted by Deus Kun:

No matter what i try,industry or travel, there is no way i can make any profit.

I'm easily making money with a food route via train in 1850. on medium