I recently started the Campaign fresh with the setting at Hard. Running with the 1.06 patch. Does this affect some aspects of the game in the campaign scenarios. I got to the Germantown scenario, where it is to expand the train system in the midwest. I was able to get a silver but gold was not possible, at least with the start that I made.
2 observations. First, the AI companies were extremely successful. Never seen them do so well. Of the 4 competitors was only able to take over one of them. For a second company, had bought into 51+ percent of the stock but was unable to raise enough cash to force the merger. Short description of 2 of the companies. One started as Lansing-to-Saginaw in Michigan. Expanded to other other Michigan cities including Detroit. I headed from South Bend to Detroit at this point to try to contain him. He jumped to Toledo then later to Columbus, Indianopolis and others. Another started in Madison and other cities in the Wisconsin area. Connected to my company in Milwaukee. My initial starting point was Chicago-Milwaukee. He never expanded to very many cities just 4 or 5. He got to Dubuque (spelling?) but never crossed the Mississippi. Both of these companies made money like they were printing it!! They never went into a loss mode. The first company stayed almost even with me on cash. I looked at their rail traffic, and they were running a lot of trains to the same few cities but the profits never dropped and the volume was huge. To me, they were cheating. Big time.
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Second issue. Could not add hotel, restaurant, tavern or post office to the area of my stations. Not available on the list.
Did the 1.06 changes affect this? Do I need to go back to the 1.05 version to play the campaign maps? I see from discussion where some of you keep more than one installation in different folders or drives to have more than one version available.