WHY ARE THE TRAINS TOO COSTLY TO PURCHASE?

[kandoivinay]

They are really tooooo costly.

[TaiChar]

They aren't too costly. Trains are expensive, its a fact.
If you have a good working line and the income is higher then the costs everything is fine.

[dave]

As a long time player of Train Fever this certainly did make my eyes water when I saw the prices of trains and rolling stock.

However, they quickly haul their price back in and start turning a nice profit quite quickly, even in the early game.

The trick to this, I believe, is not to be afraid to rack up your bank loan (If you are playing for the No loan achievement, move onto the next post ((grins)))

As has been said in other posts. Unlike a lot of other games of this type maxing out your loan does no leave you with crippling repayment systems.

The current game that I have running started out with two cities and just hauling passengers between them with 4 x 8 car trains and a very comprehensive bus system in each town I ended up with about 8 mil in loans, but this was paid off after five years.
I then reloaned to the sum of 7 mil and have just put in a crude/fuel line to both cities, again with road support.
I expect to have that repaid within the next year which will have made it three years total.

Then I will plan my next expansion.

[kandoivinay]

I am in the year 1890, now I want to upgrade a profitable line with 4 trains. Now each new train costs around 3.2 Million to replace. In medium settings, I am earning around 3 million a year. So it would take around 4 years to replace the entire line

[Saint Landwalker]

Originally posted by kandoivinay:

I am in the year 1890, now I want to upgrade a profitable line with 4 trains. Now each new train costs around 3.2 Million to replace. In medium settings, I am earning around 3 million a year. So it would take around 4 years to replace the entire line

It'll take around 0 years to replace the entire line if you just take out some loans, then gradually pay the loans back as your new trains make money.

[kandoivinay]

I already took out 10M already :)

[dave]

Also, remember, so long as your original rolling stock is not too old you will get a decent bit of cash back as they are sold off.

[><Ce|\|T><]

Originally posted by kandoivinay:

I already took out 10M already :)

Me I only upgrade trains that are really worth it.
By example. I've been waiting for the new train in 1914 before changing.

[Saint Landwalker]

Originally posted by ><Ce|\|T><:

Originally posted by kandoivinay:

I already took out 10M already :)

Me I only upgrade trains that are really worth it.
By example. I've been waiting for the new train in 1914 before changing.

Same. I don't mind letting a train run for a while if they're not "high-priority" upgrade trains.

I'm not at home so I have to go from memory, but I think I'm in the 1890s and have thirteen passenger trains, eight freight trains. Mostly Moguls, but I still have a few Consolidations running. No debt left at all. The passenger trains all use 4-5 Clerestory cars, and the freight trains are all crude/fuel tankers hauling (depending on the line) between 50-something and 98-or-so units of cargo. (My busiest single freight line is three Moguls with 98 capacity hauling crude oil between the oil well and the refinery.)

[gGeorg]

Originally posted by kandoivinay:

I am in the year 1890, now I want to upgrade a profitable line with 4 trains. Now each new train costs around 3.2 Million to replace. In medium settings, I am earning around 3 million a year. So it would take around 4 years to replace the entire line

I reccomend easy. This game is realy hard core.Only differnece is amount o f money. As long as you are not familiar with all the tricks, I do not recomend harder diff. It could tear you down. Also reccomend to do all tutorials and missions first. Missions are like, advanced tutorials.

[Lagislazuli]

Originally posted by TaiChar:

They aren't too costly. Trains are expensive, its a fact.

With "fact" you refer to reallife costs?
If so i have to disagree. In Transport Fever a railway station (2 platforms, 160m each) costs around 200k while one simple two axle cargo waggon costs 600-800k.
That is just a ridiculous relation as constructing a real station would cost the same as several hundreds of such waggons.

I could continue this comparison with other ship/train/truck costs that have no relation to real costs.

[gGeorg]

Originally posted by Lagislazuli:

Originally posted by TaiChar:

They aren't too costly. Trains are expensive, its a fact.

With "fact" you refer to reallife costs?
If so i have to disagree. In Transport Fever a railway station (2 platforms, 160m each) costs around 200k while one simple two axle cargo waggon costs 600-800k.
That is just a ridiculous relation as constructing a real station would cost the same as several hundreds of such waggons.

I could continue this comparison with other ship/train/truck costs that have no relation to real costs.

I wish you would help devs to make this game feel right. :-)
Prices are junk here.
Only if buildings have massive maintenance cost. But any depo has zero (yes, the 0 ) maintenance cost.