The game has been out eleven days, and I have 110 hours in. Do you think I might like it? Heh heh heh.

I've been playing railroad sims, on the PC, since the original Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon. You cannot name one rail sim game that I haven't played. Well...A-Train, but the reviews sucked.

The original Railroad Tycoon game had a hard limit of 32 trains. I would just be getting going, and pretty much be done.

In this game, which I have named "National", I started in Boston, and haven't yet made it out of Massachusetts...heading southwest, towards New York City.

I have 468 individual trains, across 48 separate lines. One main line, and four spur lines running fast trains, and 43 tram feeders, in to the main lines.

Prices are set per trip, or per kilometer (sorry, no miles here..but a KM is 0.61 miles, deal with it) or a combination of the two.

Save up money, spend it wisely, expand, rinse, repeat.

The world is your gameplay area, down to street level. Yep. I guarantee you that you can zoom into the street where you live. I did..and it's a relatively new community, and it has my street, right on the lake. I build a tram system for my city, and turned a nice profit!

Anyway, I will finish my rail line to New York City, then head southwest to Philly, then to Baltimore, then to DC, then somewhere west.

I fully expect to have several thousand trains running, in one MASSIVE coast to coast rail operation.

The problem I have had, over the last 100 or so hours, is that I am learning the game, and figuring out more efficient and cool way of doing things. Not that the learning curve is high..it isn't.

There is some complexity in how you determine route spacing...the distance between individual trains on your line. Too close, and the second runs empty. Not enough trains, and passengers get angry at waiting. They also get angry if you try to rip them off...and the price you charge is very critical.

I have a ton of suggestions and tips in the discussion board, as do many other players. The developer Carlos is a one man band, and is very active in the discussions. Kudos to him, he is a damned fine programmer.

How do I know this? My 468 train, 48 line railroad empire runs perfectly. No stuttering, no glitches, no graphics tearing, NOTHING. At 60x speed. Yep. I can turn on turbo mode, and watch the money role in, and no issues at all.

I do expect at some point that my humongously massive vastly overbuilt empire (at some point!!) might run a little slower on my computer, and that would be fine as well. I wouldn't expect ten thousand trains, with EACH passenger modeled would run like butta, in any event.

Just go buy the damned game. It's the best sim out there. How good is it? I bought Dyson Sphere Generator the same day, and haven't hardly played it, and IT'S an excellent game.

The game has been out eleven days, and I have 110 hours in. Do you think I might like it? Heh heh heh. I've been playing railroad sims, on the PC, since the original Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon. You cannot name one rail sim game that I haven't played. Well...A-Train, but the reviews sucked. The original Railroad Tycoon game had a hard limit of 32 trains. I would just be getting going, and pretty much be done. In this game, which I have named "National", I started in Boston, and haven't yet made it out of Massachusetts...heading southwest, towards New York City. I have 468 individual trains, across 48 separate lines. One main line, and four spur lines running fast trains, and 43 tram feeders, in to the main lines. Prices are set per trip, or per kilometer (sorry, no miles here..but a KM is 0.61 miles, deal with it) or a combination of the two. Save up money, spend it wisely, expand, rinse, repeat. The world is your gameplay area, down to street level. Yep. I guarantee you that you can zoom into the street where you live. I did..and it's a relatively new community, and it has my street, right on the lake. I build a tram system for my city, and turned a nice profit! Anyway, I will finish my rail line to New York City, then head southwest to Philly, then to Baltimore, then to DC, then somewhere west. I fully expect to have several thousand trains running, in one MASSIVE coast to coast rail operation. The problem I have had, over the last 100 or so hours, is that I am learning the game, and figuring out more efficient and cool way of doing things. Not that the learning curve is high..it isn't. There is some complexity in how you determine route spacing...the distance between individual trains on your line. Too close, and the second runs empty. Not enough trains, and passengers get angry at waiting. They also get angry if you try to rip them off...and the price you charge is very critical. I have a ton of suggestions and tips in the discussion board, as do many other players. The developer Carlos is a one man band, and is very active in the discussions. Kudos to him, he is a damned fine programmer. How do I know this? My 468 train, 48 line railroad empire runs perfectly. No stuttering, no glitches, no graphics tearing, NOTHING. At 60x speed. Yep. I can turn on turbo mode, and watch the money role in, and no issues at all. I do expect at some point that my humongously massive vastly overbuilt empire (at some point!!) might run a little slower on my computer, and that would be fine as well. I wouldn't expect ten thousand trains, with EACH passenger modeled would run like butta, in any event. Just go buy the damned game. It's the best sim out there. How good is it? I bought Dyson Sphere Generator the same day, and haven't hardly played it, and IT'S an excellent game.