Telegraph Station Upgrades

[KochCast]

The Manual seems to suggest that telegraph stations can be upgraded. I cannot seem to do it. Anyone have insight on this. Thanks.

[A_P_Hill]

You cannot upgrade telegraph stations as a player, it's a policy driven upgrade. (don't ask me which one but I would suspect industrialization.)

[Wonko]

I'm not real clear on what a L2 telegraph station does anyway - the telegrams won't show up faster, you can't send them faster, there's limitations imposed by physics here.

[A_P_Hill]

Maybe more terminals ... or operators? I don't know either.

[HenryPigLatin]

This is an old thread (and it's possible I missed a more recent one on this), but I thought I'd post an observation. I think the difference between telegraph 1 and 2 is, for lack of better terminology, core or base vs hub or field use.

Here's why I think it's something like this: I built a few telegraphs with an engineer corps to fill some gaps. I waited a day (just to make sure things synced), and toggled the telegraph button to show connections. Specifically, I'll use Chattanooga as an example (Montgomery capitol). To get to Nashville/Louisville, the lines go: Mont>Mobile>NO> BR>Vicks>Corinth>Nash. Going east, they go Mon>>Atl>Macon>Columbia then up.

I was expecting them to form connections between the existing lines at Chat, basically Atl>Chat>Nash. Should be in range. No connection. Moreover, the corps shows a link to Decatur for tele, not the newly built stations.

Thus, it looks like it doesn't effect the telegraph network, but must, instead, basically just serve as a function to reduce delay. It does work, for sure. Reduced delay in Chat, but also extended the "in connection with telegraph" indicator on the army up around Knoxville, which wasn't in connection before.

So acts like a node placed off the main line of a fiber line? I haven't tested it to see if they can be used to extend telegraph for additional telegraphs. I might test that somewhere out west. I'm guessing not. Which would mean it's basically there to fill in gaps.