Any tips for the shinkansen stage?

[Jitsu]

My god this stage is driving me crazy... no matter what i do i can't get the train to make profits to me, the maintanance costs are just too high.

Granted, i learned a LOT during this stage, figured how to finally make a two way train work correctly without them constantly blocking each other, by just making the line go back and forth and use a different terminal in each station for each trip, so i only need one intersection in the first and last station and then it works perfectly... but even with all that, i cannot get profits.

Now i guess my mistake might have been that i made other stations besides the Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka ones that the game asked me for, i mean, the other towns were on the way, so i made stations for all of them, i guessed that would bring more money since i would be moving more people... but no =/ not at all, or at least it dosn't seem to.

So... yeah i deleted those stations and only left those 3, i have 4 trains working without issue, and i still can't get profits... and im stuck in red numbers so i can't try adding more trains for more frequency (which is the objective i have now, to reduce station crowding and bring frequency up) So yeah... no idea what to do anymore, any tips??

[Jitsu]

Alright i managed to do it. Gonna leave it here in case anyone runs into the same problem.

Basically, i sold all my trains and paid up all my loans. Then with the leftover money i bought more trucks to get more profit out of my truck routes that i made for the other objectives of the stage and were turning out a profit. Then i just waited, left the game running while i did other stuff, and money piled up, slowly i bought 2 trains and carefully made it so the second one started running when the first one was arriving at the last stop. Those 2 started making a profit out of the line, and then i just waited till money piled up and bought like 9 trains at once and sent them into the line, the game instantly took it as i have cutted the wait times enough and i beat the stage... it's by far the harder stage of the game so far, so good luck if you are struggling with it.

[chrisasnyder]

Just wondering if you setup bus/tram routes for each city to increase passenger counts at the stations?

[gilles.savouret]

Indeed, passenger must have the possibility to go to the Shinkansen station... Generally speaking, I create à Tram line going from the center of the city to the Shinkansen station. Also, Shinkansen line are dedicated, only high speed train.

[Jitsu]

Originally posted by chrisasnyder:

Just wondering if you setup bus/tram routes for each city to increase passenger counts at the stations?

Originally posted by gilles.savouret:

Indeed, passenger must have the possibility to go to the Shinkansen station... Generally speaking, I create à Tram line going from the center of the city to the Shinkansen station. Also, Shinkansen line are dedicated, only high speed train.

Yeah, it's pretty much the first thing i do every match =/ set a bus line on every town that ends in the train station or airport. I even fine tune how many buses are coming and going so it stays profitable.

[Tsubame ⭐]

You can be profitable even with the middle stations of Hamamatsu and Maibara, I even had implemented two Shinkansen lines, local and express, as it is in real life.

Like in other maps in general, supplying the train route with bus feeder routes is essential. Bus routes can even lose some money, as long as they can bring the passengers faster to the train.

Well, no financial breakdowns in the screenshot below, but passengers did use both of them, overall earnings are positive, and I did complete the mission in one go:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2485597219

[Jitsu]

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

You can be profitable even with the middle stations of Hamamatsu and Maibara, I even had implemented two lines to do that, as it was in real life.

Like in other maps in general, supplying the train route with bus feeder routes is essential. Bus routes can even lose some money, as long as they can bring the passengers faster to the train.

Well, no financial breakdowns in the screenshot below, but passengers did use both of them, overall earnings are positive, and I did complete the mission in one go:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2485597219

Yeah i did it like that too =/ it was weird that it kept losing money. But after selling everything and remaking it and making the trains slooowly start going at a regular interval (i waited till the first train was at the end of the line to send the second), i found a sweet spot that with 3 trains i got good profits! But more than that started to generate loses, so it became a headache to fulfill the criteria... i believe it got bugged, because i had like 8 trains going at the shortest intervals possible and stations didn't had more than like 10 people at the time and it still said it was crowded =/ i ended up loading a save and buying 9 trains in a row and sent them all at the same time and that finally cleared the stage x_x

[Didz]

I find when doing the Missions its not really necessary to worry about profit and not really useful to deviate from the script. If you want to get all three Gold Medals and complete the Session just do what your told to do and nothing more.

But, i have completed that particular Mission with all three medals and the one thing i did notice is that the mission requires you to increase the maintenance on the high speed trains in order to complete one task and also demand a high frequency that requires you to buy more trains that you really need.

This did result in the train line running at a loss, and I'm sure that all the extra stops you added to the line didn't help. All I did to solve the problem was reduce the maintenance back to Normal as soon as I'd passed the mission task. I don't think I even bothered selling the extra trains although I could have done.

What I did do was add ring road bus services to all three of the train stops to help get more passengers to the station. Clockwise and Anti-Clockwise