railroad Empire Midwest 1910

[calmmyst]

Has anyone completed this scenario with the presidential Medal for 2023 game play? I cant get the yellow check for 30 steal to worry about 50 Gas. Not even going to buy the second game till Ive won this one, I mean whats the point to add another game Im sure the developers have to cheat to win it, LOL

[chaney]

Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=railway+empire+midwest+scenario
You'll find some videos doing this ... assuming that 2022 is really good enough. (Did something change since then that matters?)

[Stryderunknown]

Recently did it, It can be a bit tight (took a few goes for the RNG for businesses to align properly).

Initially I connected from Chicago (using stations with signal towers) to all the cities that didn't have available business slots such as Rockford, Madison and some of the cities to the West. (dual direction lines, with about 8 trains each set to automatic. I used those cities to save the business spaces so I would have time to put what I want where I wanted it rather than deal with the random business spawn.)

That gave me a way to get the cash up and purchase a Steel business in Rochester before I connected it to my network. (You could connect a station and let the world spawn a business in, but it might not be steel, so you could save scum if you don't want to buy the business.)

I then set up a two station loop to connect to Rochester with the Ore/Coal and Wood north of Rochester and manually assigned trains to it as Freight:
(in order of stops)

• 0-4 cars for ore
  
• 0-6 cars for coal
  
• 0-8 cars for wood

It was to balance the delivery ratios of 1 coal and 2 ore, while if nothing was available it would fill the train with wood (unless there was no wood available)

That gained the tick for the iron, at which point it was then time to focus on the gas while continuing to expand the rail network out to other cities.

Hopefully that helps you.

I would go blow by blow for the rest of the map, but part of the game is is overcoming the challenge yourself ;)

[chaney]

You can manipulate what factories get built where to some extent.

We never got it well characterized, but the computer builds the lower goods factories first, until there is one of each, working up to higher tiers, then goes back to bulk up the numbers for the lower tier factories. I don't know if anyone ever figured out anything precise, but that approximately works.

To get the thing you want where you want it, you can manipulate which City grows large enough to get a new industry slot.

[calmmyst]

Thank you so very much

[calmmyst]

This really sucks, I got everything in yellow check marks and all I could get for midwest 1910 was office manager all before July 1st 1916. No way am I gonna get the second game, for 6 months I played this scenario, Over and Over, to win, just to see I lost.

[start214]

I reached the president rating on october 1916 with a rating of 31. And i had not all yellow signs. I am talking about a year ago, i think.

[The_10th_Man]

Originally posted by calmmyst:

This really sucks, I got everything in yellow check marks and all I could get for midwest 1910 was office manager all before July 1st 1916. No way am I gonna get the second game, for 6 months I played this scenario, Over and Over, to win, just to see I lost.

If your goal is to complete scenarios with the president rating, you need to consider changing up the settings in the opening dialogue box when you commence the scenario so that you will have multipliers on your final rating. This principle is the same across all scenarios.

Gold ticks certainly help your base rating, but if you don't have at least one setting bumped up in the opening dialogue box, you will normally end up short of the president rating.

For Midwest 1910, making your competitor's setting hard or (better still) very hard should be enough, but if you really want to make maximise your final rating, you should also consider playing in trainiac mode.

[chaney]

Those multipliers will make a big difference.

I have not found that competitor rating made much difference, but the pause mode matters a lot to me, so I avoid that, but of course some players don't mind Trainiac.

[calmmyst]

I will try that thank you

[calmmyst]

Almost 7 months of play on this 1 scenario midwest 1910, I just won the presidency medal. Thank you all for help on this one. I didnt know 1 had to play some games on Very Hard to actually win. 3 times I got all Yellow checks and couldnt get it won LOL

[start214]

Originally posted by calmmyst:

Almost 7 months of play on this 1 scenario midwest 1910, I just won the presidency medal. Thank you all for help on this one. I didnt know 1 had to play some games on Very Hard to actually win. 3 times I got all Yellow checks and couldnt get it won LOL

Congrats Calmmyst.

[chaney]

Coolness :) Glad you got it!