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So what happens after you build the railroads? There is no warfare and such to destroy them in order to continue gameplay....so what do you do for end game content

[aKamikazePug]

Based on the beta, doesn't seem to be an endgame per se as each game can literally last forever. The game for the campaign will end from theoretically connecting the east coast and west coast.

[Skybreaker]

Hi everbody,
as for any other tycoon-/ and/or simulation-game, there is no real endgame you can reach and that will finish the game.
So each and every game-mode, even campaign can be played endlessly and therefore offers more variety and also ability to experiment and setting your own goals, rather than aiming for a specific goal, set by the game to reach to come to an end.
-cheers

[Mansen]

Warfare? Destroy?

I think you've got the wrong game here buddy. This is about building railroads as a company, not invading Prussia. Every map has a set of goals, which you can attempt to achieve.

As for competition you buy them up and either break down their old rail, or incorporate it into your own network.

[Drake]

Originally posted by Unerde:

Hi everbody,
as for any other tycoon-/ and/or simulation-game, there is no real endgame you can reach and that will finish the game.
So each and every game-mode, even campaign can be played endlessly and therefore offers more variety and also ability to experiment and setting your own goals, rather than aiming for a specific goal, set by the game to reach to come to an end.
-cheers

But after 20 years, you can not move onto the new era, research new technologies. You can play for 1000 years, but will always be stuck in that small, tiny limited map and the 20 years of era you had selected.

Doesn't seem to offer much variety, or an ability to experiment, at all.

[Skybreaker]

Have you actually played all game-modes, regions, eras and have tried to fill the whole regions once?
So there is quite a lot of variety and even though just segments of america, still huge maps, that will not be easily filled in few minutes :)

But feel free to have a look yourself

-cheers

[Drake]

Originally posted by Unerde:

Have you actually played all game-modes, regions, eras and have tried to fill the whole regions once?
So there is quite a lot of variety and even though just segments of america, still huge maps, that will not be easily filled in few minutes :)

But feel free to have a look yourself :rulez:

-cheers

But that's my point. Rather than spending 20+ hours building a railroad empire to span a continent, over a hundred years of development through highs and lows, with industry, town growth etc.... I play a scenario of 20 years, then advancement stops, and the maps are quite small.

Why would I want to simply play a small scenario, after scenario, after scenario? Where's the sense of building and owning a railroad empire, developping technology, improving, and adapting to new developments as the ages pass by, new factories open, and cities grow.

Being stuck in the 20 year "era", isn't very entertaining, and more of a two hour thrill than an actual deep experience deserved of a PC strategy game.

[Skybreaker]

Have you actually played the game so far?
Those twenty years will make a lot of sense, as you will not run through them in a few minutes. ;)
Additionally those eras are all balanced in themselves. So it would take a lot of time and effort to break that open.
Nevertheless this does not mean we are ignoring the wish for an open tech-tree/game.
We will even most probably discuss something like this or similar after release.
But this is no promise at all and we are focusing on the release right now.

I can just recommend having a look into the already available reviews, checking out some streams, or YouTube-videos already available and showing lots of gameplay, or simply having a look on your own how the game plays and feels like by playing the beta or even the fully released game later that day

-cheers

[genemead]

This is not Transport Fever. There is no "huge" map spanning coast-to-coast. You can't play continually through all the eras. Neither game ever says "You Won!" at some point, nor does either have an "end". Instead you're presented with (like most games out there), a situation, a set of rules, now go out and try to do the best you can with what you've been given.

You asked "So what happens after you build the railroads?"
Do it again, but this time do it better! ("Your way" probably isn't the "best" way.) You're given a "rank" at the end of each senerio- improve it!

[Geraldo del Rivero]

Originally posted by geneomead:

This is not Transport Fever. There is no "huge" map spanning coast-to-coast. You can't play continually through all the eras. Neither game ever says "You Won!" at some point, nor does either have an "end". Instead you're presented with (like most games out there), a situation, a set of rules, now go out and try to do the best you can with what you've been given.

You asked "So what happens after you build the railroads?"
Do it again, but this time do it better! ("Your way" probably isn't the "best" way.) You're given a "rank" at the end of each senerio- improve it!

This!
I mean, why do ppl always want one game being like another? It is already there so I don't need two identical games, but actually two games goin their own way

[genemead]

I hear ya, Geraldo.
What's funny to me is that there's post after post of people wanting it to be more like RRT or TTD.
Course, if that happened, those same people would post that RE is not worth getting because it's nothing but a clone and it will never be as good as the originals.

i spent hundreds (if not thousands) of hours playing both RRT and TTD. If I wanted to play those decades-old games, I still could. In fact, I have both RRT2 and OTTD installed on my computer right now. But I don't want to play them. They were really, really good..... way back when. But been there, done that. I want a different, newer game now.

[Drake]

Originally posted by geneomead:

I hear ya, Geraldo.
What's funny to me is that there's post after post of people wanting it to be more like RRT or TTD.
Course, if that happened, those same people would post that RE is not worth getting because it's nothing but a clone and it will never be as good as the originals.

i spent hundreds (if not thousands) of hours playing both RRT and TTD. If I wanted to play those decades-old games, I still could. In fact, I have both RRT2 and OTTD installed on my computer right now. But I don't want to play them. They were really, really good..... way back when. But been there, done that. I want a different, newer game now.

How about the more recent game, being released almost a decade after the last fantastic game in the same genre, being better than that last game, by building and improving on options and gameplay of that game? Does that make sense?

[Geraldo del Rivero]

Makes no sense. Just hearin sb who most likely never played Railway Empire and trying to bash it.
As proven by all your posts in so many other threads

[Drake]

Originally posted by Geraldo del Rivero:

Makes no sense. Just hearin sb who most likely never played Railway Empire and trying to bash it.
As proven by all your posts in so many other threads

Ah, so being limited to 20 years per era, can't progress through eras on one map, small maps, fast pace, and being able to beat most maps within 1-2 hours, is progress?

Do tell, which game has RE built and improved upon? Or, are there games in the same category, that were released years ago, and did it better.

[Skybreaker]

Hello Drake,
which maps do you mean in specific thht can be easily handled in 1-2 hours? Are you talking about campaign?

Railway Empire is Railway Empire, a game of its own. For sure might have similarities and or got inspired by other games, but also following its own way.

-cheers