Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

A workaround would be to set all cargo prices and costs down, then pax would be relatively higher!

Gold on Expert in March 1884. Though... I did modify the "Tunnel Cost" event to fire only once, as I think was intended. As written the event produces a cumulative +200% Tunnel Building Cost and +250% Graded track cost by 1882. I chose the DX Goods over -5% overall track cost, and used it ...

Anybody gone over the area in google maps? Side note: I just realized that google maps is no longer a flat projection!! Very cool zooming in and out now! But Latvia/Estonia are indeed quite flat, boggy even, though the bogs appear to have been drained and converted to farmland. Kolka to this day is ...

But what I'm wanting is another goal that I only start trying for at the end, maybe just pax to Saarema given the previous Kolka event, with a nice newspaper, and maybe even just 5 pax, but triggered by connection to Kolka?

How about adding one more goal? Pax to a territory including Kolka and Saarema, not sure but 50? pax for Gold. And if there's a warehouse slot left a 10 supply/demand pax warehouse in each upon connection.

I will say, as a Beta, it gets a lot right. The 200 track segments is actually perfect. It requires careful attention to demand management. But if the only goals are connection and % iron hauled, make the gold win condition check at end of month, silver/bronze/loss still after 20 years. As such, and...

Okay, finally, with a careful start, made it to Kiruna... and it's all downhill from here! :lol: Made sure not to build track until December if I couldn't reach the next town with 200 pieces. Managed initial hauling carefully to produce stacks of Toys, etc. Paid the PI so I could manage risk better....

Yeah, tried an industry slow start, that 40% tax is just too much. So I'm back to not having a clue, aside from ignoring the PI and hoping the RNG gives me enough time to connect to Kiruna this time...

I'm finding this to be impossible to start... on Expert at least. The only thing I haven't tried is a patient industry start. The Private Eye events are an annoying tax. Slightly better to ignore him, as it should take 50.5 months on average before getting the $1M fraud loss, while paying $250k/yr w...

Tried this today. First try failed to produce profits with a pair of Class 500's burning too much fuel. I think I'm going to need the economy of the P8 on my next try... Exceedingly slow rail start, profits under $200k for the first 3 years, issuing stock and bonds as available to keep expanding the...

You really can't be focused on only the highest returns from industry, or even anywhere near your usual bar for investment. ANY returns add up here, and there's just so much money by 40 years, the ROI doesn't matter. Aside from the casual $100M I tossed into duplicate hotels, I ended the game with $...

First, there's a million logging camps, so lumber mills, but then they started running in the red, until 1880 and furniture and toys. A couple oil refineries, a few steel mills and 3ish t&d's each... heck there was so much cash floating around that one year I took my $120M in the bank and built ...

Starting in 1860, gold on Expert in Jan 1904. A lot of waiting after industry fully developed. I dropped 9 or 10 hotels on every city to boost pax and therefore hotel revenue, hoping that might help things along. I took the voluntary 30% penalty on industry build/buy. But... great map for playing wi...

In the downloads? Sweet! I always wanted to see a playable version of this map! Hmm... where?

Okay, I've looked around, but can't find what you're referring to... expanded weight scale? Double cars?

Ah, right, the free access rights he'd have! In my play the two AI were in England and merging was a distant option, so I had to fork out $3M then $1.5M and $1M I think? A lot, but, as you'd earned 23M in your second year, so in my play even such steep access rights were delays of months only... so ...

Tight!!! !!clap!! !!howdy!! But you gotta give me credit for seeing the potential for a 4 year win! :lol: Of course I knew you could do it! But wow! You've basically given a game-guide walkthrough to destroy this scenario. The 3rd AI slowed you down, too! But cool that you got it without any shares,...

Started with the cheap and cheerful EP2 Bipolar, then VL80T from 1971 when the EP2 became unavailable :-( . Though, I did end up replacing my original EP2's with the nippier VL80T's at some point. Then BR E111's from 1974. Class 103 is awesome but expensive and I didn't need it. Being able to build/...

Spanisch Brotli today, quick game, gold on expert in Oct 1852. Bought a T&D that popped up in Zurich, and made enough profit to issue $10M in bonds at the start of 1847 to make the required connection/pay for access to Baden. Followed the river at first, side tracking the towns, and adding catch...

Gave this one a try, fun if you're looking for a speed run. Gold on Expert at the end of 11 years, sort of. I'd met all the conditions but had to edit the gold event to be check years elapsed "<=30" instead of ">=30" as written... The price reduction on industry is ridiculous, an...