Coast to Coast
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:42 pm
The following text is a compilation of what was salvaged from the old Gathering Forum. It contains postings from several different people.
Thanks goes out to Wolverine for putting this all together.
Hawk
Coast to Coast - Added in the Coast to Coast Expansion
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I just downloaded and installed the expansion this morning and gave it a quick run through. The first scenario I played was Coast to Coast and I got a gold with the difficulty set to expert in a little over 2 hours. In my opinion, there was not a whole lot of strategy involved with this one. Mostly just connect cities and buy a few industries to get the CBV goals. I sure hope the other maps are a little more challenging. Mobius, you sure have spoiled me with your fantastic work on Great Northern and Prince of Steel.
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I think none of the betatesters got Gold in Alternate USA on Expert. You might want to try that one.
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I don't know if anyone was able to get gold on Pacific NW either.
But challenging maps were Mexico, and Poland too.
Southern Pacific took a number of starts too. I made a bunch of logos that would go along with this map. In editor you can go in and assign logos at the start for the AI by jumping around owners then save.
Might make it more interesting.
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The new maps were deliberately made with varying difficulty levels, I found Ireland very easy & Mexico very hard.
Don't forget there are 3 routes to try on Coast to Coast, I think you'll find the Northern route a bit tougher than the other 2
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Really? The coast to coast map is easy? Maybe I am not a very good player. I find it quite hard to get a good start in that map. Have to pay a lot of attention selecting and looking for industries to buy. I haven't finished it yet, but I think I'll get gold after my third start. Hee hee...
I do think Poptop did a great job with this "major" update!
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Thanks for the advice on different maps and routes, I plan on playing them all as soon as I have the time. I just happened to play Coast to Coast first. I tried Mexico this morning, and it was indeed pretty challenging! I had to restart a couple of times because of some bad industry selection I was still able to finish with Gold on Expert in about 3 hours thanks to a couple of cattle ranches up near the Texas border.
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I just got gold on Alternate USA. - Unfortunately it was in 1952. I looked at the coding on the scenario and there is no way to complete it without getting the gold. They goofed and used the variable start year instead of current year for the silver bronze and fail. I KNOW I could get golf before 1950 if I redid it. I had excellent in all except Roosevelt, and I could have had that if I had connected a little sooner.
Keys to helping w/ Alternate:
Issue stock at every turn.
take the fertilizer
buy all the corn and grain farms you can, esp the ones that pop up at the beggining of the year after you connect to your neighbors
Try to have all you imported milk/corn/grain/livestock input to a single city with moderate demand. Then connect many other cities in the demanding country to this city. Have trains w/ custom consist go between the input city and the other cities. This custom consist should contain a few of your imported good and the rest with "any" freight/express. This setup will enable you to move alot of the good around in the country racking up hauls.
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I tried the southern route about 6 times and didn't come close -- at medium difficulty.
Switched to the middle route (Raleigh to Kansas to San Francisco) and got gold a moment ago -- at medium difficulty.
If someone's done the southern route I'd love to hear about it -- and how you did it.
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Try at expert difficulty. I noticed that when starting at medium there are much less resources available at the start.
You should have plenty of cotton near Tampa or St Augustine at the start. I start by building a textile mill at St Augustine. As soon as possible I upgrade it. Only after that I start to build track to Tampa and Talahassee.
Key is to build as much industry as possible. Issue stock every year to get money. Also take the option on getting grants for industry, this will make it 20% cheaper.
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Thanks for the tip. I tend not to build my own industries, for some reason. Mostly never think of it. But the textile mill makes a lot of sense.
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I've gotten gold on the Northern Route... I don't know what people mean by a "couple" of industries, I easily had over 100 industries, and probably 50 upgraded production industries.
Thanks goes out to Wolverine for putting this all together.
Hawk
Coast to Coast - Added in the Coast to Coast Expansion
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I just downloaded and installed the expansion this morning and gave it a quick run through. The first scenario I played was Coast to Coast and I got a gold with the difficulty set to expert in a little over 2 hours. In my opinion, there was not a whole lot of strategy involved with this one. Mostly just connect cities and buy a few industries to get the CBV goals. I sure hope the other maps are a little more challenging. Mobius, you sure have spoiled me with your fantastic work on Great Northern and Prince of Steel.
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I think none of the betatesters got Gold in Alternate USA on Expert. You might want to try that one.
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I don't know if anyone was able to get gold on Pacific NW either.
But challenging maps were Mexico, and Poland too.
Southern Pacific took a number of starts too. I made a bunch of logos that would go along with this map. In editor you can go in and assign logos at the start for the AI by jumping around owners then save.
Might make it more interesting.
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The new maps were deliberately made with varying difficulty levels, I found Ireland very easy & Mexico very hard.
Don't forget there are 3 routes to try on Coast to Coast, I think you'll find the Northern route a bit tougher than the other 2
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Really? The coast to coast map is easy? Maybe I am not a very good player. I find it quite hard to get a good start in that map. Have to pay a lot of attention selecting and looking for industries to buy. I haven't finished it yet, but I think I'll get gold after my third start. Hee hee...
I do think Poptop did a great job with this "major" update!
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Thanks for the advice on different maps and routes, I plan on playing them all as soon as I have the time. I just happened to play Coast to Coast first. I tried Mexico this morning, and it was indeed pretty challenging! I had to restart a couple of times because of some bad industry selection I was still able to finish with Gold on Expert in about 3 hours thanks to a couple of cattle ranches up near the Texas border.
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I just got gold on Alternate USA. - Unfortunately it was in 1952. I looked at the coding on the scenario and there is no way to complete it without getting the gold. They goofed and used the variable start year instead of current year for the silver bronze and fail. I KNOW I could get golf before 1950 if I redid it. I had excellent in all except Roosevelt, and I could have had that if I had connected a little sooner.
Keys to helping w/ Alternate:
Issue stock at every turn.
take the fertilizer
buy all the corn and grain farms you can, esp the ones that pop up at the beggining of the year after you connect to your neighbors
Try to have all you imported milk/corn/grain/livestock input to a single city with moderate demand. Then connect many other cities in the demanding country to this city. Have trains w/ custom consist go between the input city and the other cities. This custom consist should contain a few of your imported good and the rest with "any" freight/express. This setup will enable you to move alot of the good around in the country racking up hauls.
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I tried the southern route about 6 times and didn't come close -- at medium difficulty.
Switched to the middle route (Raleigh to Kansas to San Francisco) and got gold a moment ago -- at medium difficulty.
If someone's done the southern route I'd love to hear about it -- and how you did it.
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Try at expert difficulty. I noticed that when starting at medium there are much less resources available at the start.
You should have plenty of cotton near Tampa or St Augustine at the start. I start by building a textile mill at St Augustine. As soon as possible I upgrade it. Only after that I start to build track to Tampa and Talahassee.
Key is to build as much industry as possible. Issue stock every year to get money. Also take the option on getting grants for industry, this will make it 20% cheaper.
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Thanks for the tip. I tend not to build my own industries, for some reason. Mostly never think of it. But the textile mill makes a lot of sense.
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I've gotten gold on the Northern Route... I don't know what people mean by a "couple" of industries, I easily had over 100 industries, and probably 50 upgraded production industries.