How I manage to play the game without feeling I'm not earning money fast enough.

[Aidan]

If you're finding that the game doesn't go along fast enough, that you sit watching your trains go by (or if in the beta and going match speed you're watching a grey screen and your money tick up), I'd like to offer an alternative playstyle.

Treat it like an Idle game.

I play this game as an idle game with beta. As a university student I find doing like 30-60 minutes of work, and then checking up on my railways to see how it going really relaxing a good way to take breaks. Each hour I've been tabbing back into Nimby rails and found that a month or so has passed, and with that I have more cash to operate with and I'm able to make upgrades, create new branches, new networks and expand capacity on my existing networks.

If you treat this game as an idle game, you'll find pretty quickly that you actually accumulate wealth fast. After spending my initial 100 million on 5 tram networks and a trainline. connecting them in an urban part of South England (Southampton if interested), I left the game running as I made a coffee and did some work. After tabbing back in I'd found that I had earned 130 million in the two months that had passed. For an hour break 130 million meant I could spend about 10-15 minutes planning out a moderately sized tram route and prepare to connect my trainline to this next town.

I've found overtime the amount of money I make in breaks is (quite obviously) going up. I'm able to do more after less time, and after about half a year in game I've been able to get my earnings to £230 Million (aprox) a month.

I think another thing most people have caught onto reading through some forums, but I'm sure a lot haven't yet, is that trams are so crucial. They're incredibly cheap to build, in part because they don't require overpasses saving a lot of money. Of course, their drawback is the price of each tram being exorbinate and them in general being slow. That said, my most profitable tramline (my Portsmouth and City Line) is earning me £1.4Million a day. To put that into perspective, my trainline which I thought would be carrying my earnings is pulling in £1.8Million a day. I haven't really played around with fares so at the moment it's just £1 per km, let me know if there's a meta.

I understand a lot of people won't want to play the game as an idle game, but in the current build, until there's a mod or something that increases the amount you're earning by like a factor of 10, I think it's the best way to play the game. I reccomend for now, turning the beta on, picking a relatively urban area, building a series of tram networks that interconnect and then leave the game running whilst you do something work, be it another game or work or whatever.

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On a sidenote, thanks to the developer for working on this game, I've only been playing it two days but already I've found the game incredibly fun to play. As a fan of the Transport Fever series it was nice to be able to buy this as a more real world game. One feature I've thought about as a nice idea is different types of stations with more expensive stations (perhaps they have waiting rooms and amenities or car parks) having larger catchment areas, or perhaps stations with more platforms getting larger catchment areas. For small towns, only one train station often serves them and I've found the catchment area is often slightly too small. Maybe as well the tram stations should have smaller catchment areas to slightly nerf them.

[cola98765]

I like the expensive infrastructure and realistic earnings, and I offset slow spots with speed hack x5 in Cheat Engine... Also beta branch apparently have super speed mode so there is that.

[Aidan]

Originally posted by cola98765:

I like the expensive infrastructure and realistic earnings, and I offset slow spots with speed hack x5 in Cheat Engine... Also beta branch apparently have super speed mode so there is that.

Yeah I appreciate the high costs too. I've been using the super speed mode myself and I gotta say without it I'd find it takes way too long so I recommend you try out the beta!

[Sleeper C]

I play NIMBY with unlimited money, so obviously not much into what earnings is possible or not. My railroad runs from Columbus to North Platte in Nebraska, US. Serving the cities along the existing freight network. Cities 'great' and small get what they don't have in real life. Passenger service.

I play it at 1 to 1 speed. On other monitors I have traincams from Virtual Railfan and Railstream from the region. Management trainspotting at just the right speed. And of course enjoying what the amazing flat landscape looks like on "Big G".

[Zam!]

I think the game needs some more non-building gameplay in it to offset the long build up of cash.

[poohbag]

Most of the games I tend to play, I play in 'idle' mode. Works best for my lifestyle

[General of Rome]

I am just here to paste a post from the Dev from the Beta Branch discussion:

1.1.21 ---
- Max speed mode in SP: set sim speed to 10000x, hide the UI, and let the game throttle down to what the CPU is capable of.


So when this gets added this might make it a little bit less of an idle game. It is however to be said that i agree with OP, the current speed is fine if you can just let the game run all day long in the background. But since this isn't an option for everyone, the fact that the dev is going to add a faster speed option definitely is a good development.

[Aidan]

Originally posted by General of Rome:

I am just here to paste a post from the Dev from the Beta Branch discussion:

1.1.21 ---
- Max speed mode in SP: set sim speed to 10000x, hide the UI, and let the game throttle down to what the CPU is capable of.


So when this gets added this might make it a little bit less of an idle game. It is however to be said that i agree with OP, the current speed is fine if you can just let the game run all day long in the background. But since this isn't an option for everyone, the fact that the dev is going to add a faster speed option definitely is a good development.

Yeah I'm currently using the beta and it's really fab! I still find it takes a bit too long and I'm still sort of forced to play an idle gamestyle, which honestly I kind of enjoy and it fits in with the way I work.

[Swisspike]

Originally posted by Cliffgod:

Originally posted by General of Rome:

I am just here to paste a post from the Dev from the Beta Branch discussion:

1.1.21 ---
- Max speed mode in SP: set sim speed to 10000x, hide the UI, and let the game throttle down to what the CPU is capable of.


So when this gets added this might make it a little bit less of an idle game. It is however to be said that i agree with OP, the current speed is fine if you can just let the game run all day long in the background. But since this isn't an option for everyone, the fact that the dev is going to add a faster speed option definitely is a good development.

Yeah I'm currently using the beta and it's really fab! I still find it takes a bit too long and I'm still sort of forced to play an idle gamestyle, which honestly I kind of enjoy and it fits in with the way I work.

I am using the beta model as well, but not for the speed.

I use it for the improvement in refund and compensations.

[Swisspike]

Day 13 of my little railroad empire, and I am generating about 70 million a day in profit. This is almost enough, per game day, to add another tram line to my city (Tokyo).

The period of down time between building spurts is less and less. Within another two weeks of game time, I will likely be about to build close to non stop.

Like many games of this nature, it is an accelerating process. Take your time, accept the slow start, and do it RIGHT.

[Zam!]

Originally posted by General of Rome:

1.1.21 ---
- Max speed mode in SP: set sim speed to 10000x, hide the UI, and let the game throttle down to what the CPU is capable of.

Sooo... are You telling me I need a new CPU to play this game? :D