Now that's odd, even with that layout you should have used 8000 pieces of track! The only difference with my layout, was more through the middle, which would use slightly more track but not significant. By all cities I meant all that MUST be connected (6). I always start from Harwan. I did try setting yearly track to 9,000 pieces but it wouldn't work! I had to set it to 8,000 and let myself use 1000 in the second year to be able to lay it out. I wonder if Win 10 is causing issues?
I have another issue, I added in Status info to show which cities were connected and which weren't. For some really strange reason it said before first year that I had connected to Eibar, when I wasn't. Once I did get connected, the following year (and permanently) it said I was NOT connected - in the status. I'm up to 1889 so far, waiting to see what it says when I hit 1905....
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