Train Tycoon: Railroad Empire

Gentlemen tycoons! This time we did not rebuild the road — we went after everything on it that creaked. • A guide for newcomers: it walks you from your first station to your first contract, notices what you have done by itself, and never stands in your way • Hiring is finally a decision. A worker's experience always showed in his price but did nothing for output — now it does. A master produces more and asks four times as much: cheap hands pay off at the mines, masters earn their keep in the workshops • Trains now wear by time on the line, not by number of trips. A fast engine on a short run used to eat itself in repairs and operate at a loss; now every machine returns the same share of its price on any route, and a dearer train is honestly the stronger one • Fleet upkeep more than halved • The power station works. Its electrician had nowhere to travel to — no route could be laid to the station, yet the journey was still required of him. City capacity therefore always read as zero, ratings could never climb past half, and the diamond mine would not open however hard you tried. Now it does • Workshops and factory now balance exactly: a day's output from the shops is a day's work for the factory. A first-level factory used to produce a third of what it should, leaving stock piling up dead • Coming back after a long absence no longer hangs • The game no longer closes itself if a save fails Your move, tycoon.