Train Tycoon: Railroad Empire

A CIRCULAR FROM THE RAILWAY BOARD Gentlemen tycoons! This issue is repairs from end to end: one fault was pointed out by a player, three more turned up while we were tracing it. • The railway works again while you are away. Returning after a long absence, you could find your stores untouched: no raw material at all, though wages and upkeep had been charged for every day. The order of business was to blame — the buses spent their whole range before the office counted who had come to work, and by those dry machines it appeared that nobody had. Now the shift is counted before the buses set out, and the workshops are credited with exactly the time the buses could cover • The power station is now within a city's means. Last issue we made power compulsory and misjudged the measure: a station fed one building per level, while a city holds a dozen and a half. Where stations stood without an electrician, the city stopped altogether. Now one station feeds five buildings per level, and in older games the capacity is recalculated by itself • The ghosts are gone. In long-running games, places at your buildings were held by people long departed: the office could not find the building's record and never freed the place. Those ghosts counted towards city power, police and medical coverage and the takings of your leisure houses — in your favour, but untrue. Places are now recounted against the living when you enter the game • Retirement no longer takes you unawares. A shift hired all at once used to retire all at once, and a city would crumble in a couple of days without a word of warning. Now notice comes a week ahead, and the city panel holds a line reading «Retiring soon» until you hire a replacement The engines are under steam. Your move, tycoon.