Train Tycoon: Railroad Empire

A CIRCULAR FROM THE RAILWAY BOARD Tycoons! This one is repairs, end to end: we ran an audit of the whole railway — from the cash desk to the job board — and closed everything we found. • The books for your absence are kept properly. Costs for all the missed days used to be taken at once, before the first ruble of takings — a sound railway could return to an empty treasury and a scattered staff. Now takings first, then the bills, day by day, just as when you are here • The treasury never goes below zero — not when you decline a job, not when you pay off a loan. The gifted train No. 444 can no longer be sold for four million • The mechanic leaves the crew with the man, rather than servicing the train from beyond the grave. Hiring counts three required places and adds a mechanic when it can, and a full crew in a city with a depot has an "Add a mechanic" button • Honest building. The menu and the build itself finally agree on one price: the first building of a kind in a city needs no materials, each next one costs a tenth more, and the depot costs the advertised three hundred thousand. A demolished station can be built again — a city used to be left without one for good • Electricians work on site: no bus carries them, and no "not getting to work" alert is raised over them • The diamond mine: unpaid, it stands until you pay; fix the city's troubles and it starts at once • The job board no longer freezes: untaken offers expire, and a "three-day" deadline lasts exactly three days. The bank grows to level five, as do its rates — the "Upgrade the bank" job is doable again. At the market a lot can be bought in parts, as long as you can afford a single unit • Words now match deeds: leisure houses bring 7,200 per level, which is what it says; an empty cinema raises an alert; an unpowered building says "unpowered"; the workshop descriptions quote the real norms • The clock. The notification shade and the app switcher no longer count your seconds twice, and turning the system clock forward no longer gifts a month of mining • Small things: a leaderboard name with an underscore is no longer reported as taken; the tutorial can be restarted right from the map; the store opens over any window; a bus with a dry tank draws its lines gray Steam is up. Your move, tycoon.