Scenario question

[Summon3r]

The second century scenario where your rebuilding Austria - any tips on how the heck to achieve gold in this, you've got 20 years to get 30m in personal wealth and 10m in industry revenues. This is the first scenario I've had trouble getting gold, and I can't even come close to getting gold here.

Thx

[SGreenwell]

It looks like someone posted a video solution to this in the past: https://steamcommunity.com/app/7620/discussions/0/3264459260605433353/ - I haven't played that stage though, so I can't really offer specific hints myself.

[Summon3r]

Originally posted by SGreenwell:

It looks like someone posted a video solution to this in the past: https://steamcommunity.com/app/7620/discussions/0/3264459260605433353/ - I haven't played that stage though, so I can't really offer specific hints myself.

Thx i was actually reffering to the Edel weiss express scenario though

[SGreenwell]

Originally posted by Summon3r:

Originally posted by SGreenwell:

It looks like someone posted a video solution to this in the past: https://steamcommunity.com/app/7620/discussions/0/3264459260605433353/ - I haven't played that stage though, so I can't really offer specific hints myself.

Thx i was actually reffering to the Edel weiss express scenario though

Ah, got it. It looks like YouTube might be your best resource, to be honest. I played through the initial scenarios, but not the Second Century ones.

[PaganFears]

Oh, this is a great scenario, one of my favourites. If you want a really hard challenge it's possible to complete it without buying rights to any other countries. Completed it about 5 years early without crossing the Austrian border. Did it on a non-Steam version of the game but I can try to upload a screenshot here if I can load the save file.

Which part do you have a problem with? Personal wealth or industry revenues?

It's been quite some time since I last played RRT2 but for personal wealth you have to do the usual aggressive stock buying in your own company and ofc increase the company value. All the owned industries will also help with that as well as setting up some long routes for passenger trains. Industries will turn a nice profit as long as you supply them and also transport away their output to a station where it's in any level of demand.
You should start out with electrified railways in this scenario and use the GG1 locomotive extensively. It's absolutely OP, the best locomotive in the game in cost vs. performance by far. I used the Ae 8/14 on a few mountainous lines in the Alps and the Class 1020 which is an Austrian loco on a few feeder lines for immersion.
Best start is probably along the (Bratislava)-Wien-Linz-Salzburg line or maybe Wien-Graz depending on industry placement. You can connect to Bratislava without buying rights as it's right on the border.

[Summon3r]

Originally posted by PaganFears:

Oh, this is a great scenario, one of my favourites. If you want a really hard challenge it's possible to complete it without buying rights to any other countries. Completed it about 5 years early without crossing the Austrian border. Did it on a non-Steam version of the game but I can try to upload a screenshot here if I can load the save file.

Which part do you have a problem with? Personal wealth or industry revenues?

It's been quite some time since I last played RRT2 but for personal wealth you have to do the usual aggressive stock buying in your own company and ofc increase the company value. All the owned industries will also help with that as well as setting up some long routes for passenger trains. Industries will turn a nice profit as long as you supply them and also transport away their output to a station where it's in any level of demand.
You should start out with electrified railways in this scenario and use the GG1 locomotive extensively. It's absolutely OP, the best locomotive in the game in cost vs. performance by far. I used the Ae 8/14 on a few mountainous lines in the Alps and the Class 1020 which is an Austrian loco on a few feeder lines for immersion.
Best start is probably along the (Bratislava)-Wien-Linz-Salzburg line or maybe Wien-Graz depending on industry placement. You can connect to Bratislava without buying rights as it's right on the border.

thx yea its def the personal wealth that im having an issue with, 30m is nuts. i do use electrified and hte loco your talking about as yes it is absolutely OP as hell. i just need to get more aggressive with stock buying i gues and rreally jump on the stock splits.

[PaganFears]

I'm sure you know about the usual trick of buying stock right before your first train arrives (and then maybe selling some back afterwards). It also usually makes it easier to get the majority of the stock asap if you can keep the company value down for a bit to avoid too many stock splits. You should try paying the highest allowed dividend after the first few routes are set up and your company is safely profitable. At first most of it will go to waste (to other investors) but it will give you cash to buy stock and also keep the stock prices lower. You could also try buying back some shares with the company, even with money that you got from issuing bonds.

Whenever there is a depression you can go all in and buy as much stock as possible on borrowed money. You could buy even more during a boom but that can be very risky because if you overstretch you could get margin called and lose all of your shares when the economy cools. Anyhow you should really tip-toe that line as the more stock you buy the more dividend will go to you. If it's one of the few campaigns where you can't go into debt to buy shares then apologies for the pointless advice. Then you'll have to rely on a high dividend rate and buying back shares.

Once you own the majority of shares you can switch focus to reinvesting company profits into other profitable routes and industry assets to get the snowball really rolling.

Also for an optimal start you should cycle through several managers in the first year. The initial batch of them is very cheap to hire so you can save quite a lot by hiring the right one for each task and then immediately firing them afterwards. Separate ones for track laying, then station building, then electric loco buying and so on. There are even a few that influence the stock price which you can use to make a bit of personal profit / buy one more batch of shares.

How you start out is very important as it's easiest to buy up most of your company right at the beginning. You should experiment with the stock market as it's a major part of the game and in several scenarios you need to exploit it heavily for the best start.

[Summon3r]

Originally posted by PaganFears:

I'm sure you know about the usual trick of buying stock right before your first train arrives (and then maybe selling some back afterwards). It also usually makes it easier to get the majority of the stock asap if you can keep the company value down for a bit to avoid too many stock splits. You should try paying the highest allowed dividend after the first few routes are set up and your company is safely profitable. At first most of it will go to waste (to other investors) but it will give you cash to buy stock and also keep the stock prices lower. You could also try buying back some shares with the company, even with money that you got from issuing bonds.

Whenever there is a depression you can go all in and buy as much stock as possible on borrowed money. You could buy even more during a boom but that can be very risky because if you overstretch you could get margin called and lose all of your shares when the economy cools. Anyhow you should really tip-toe that line as the more stock you buy the more dividend will go to you. If it's one of the few campaigns where you can't go into debt to buy shares then apologies for the pointless advice. Then you'll have to rely on a high dividend rate and buying back shares.

Once you own the majority of shares you can switch focus to reinvesting company profits into other profitable routes and industry assets to get the snowball really rolling.

Also for an optimal start you should cycle through several managers in the first year. The initial batch of them is very cheap to hire so you can save quite a lot by hiring the right one for each task and then immediately firing them afterwards. Separate ones for track laying, then station building, then electric loco buying and so on. There are even a few that influence the stock price which you can use to make a bit of personal profit / buy one more batch of shares.

How you start out is very important as it's easiest to buy up most of your company right at the beginning. You should experiment with the stock market as it's a major part of the game and in several scenarios you need to exploit it heavily for the best start.

Thx yea I'm def not advanced in the stock market enough, will mess around more with that. Clearly where I'm not gaming the game enough