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Revision as of 00:45, 5 January 2018
Game Manual
- Basics
Installation
Game Settings
In-game interface
Controls
Getting Started
Gameplay
Multiplayer
- Game content
- Infrastructure
- Vehicles
New game
Legend
| Setting | Description | Possible Values |
|---|---|---|
| Terrain | Not in the game yet | |
| Map | Size of the map | 128x128, 256x256, 512x512 |
| Hills | Density of hills on the generated map | Low density, medium density, high density |
| Forests | Density of forests (decorative, don't produce Logs) on the generated map | Low density, medium density, high density |
| Industry | Density of industry on the generated map | Low density, medium density, high density |
| Towns | Density of towns on the generated map | Low density, medium density, high density |
| Lakes | Density of Lakes on the generated map | Low density, medium density, high density |
The button "Recommended for your first game!" will set all the options above to the values, which is best to start to play with.
Advanced
The advanced settings page let's the player customize their gaming experience even more by changing the amount of starting money, the available loan, interest rate and lot's of train behaviours that make the game harder or easier. At the moment some of the options are not editable and are not used by the game.
| Setting | Description | Possible Values |
|---|---|---|
| Difficulty | Selecting on of those three presets will adjust the other advanced options to make the game easy, medium or hard difficulty. Changing on setting manually will set this to custom | Easy, Medium, Hard |
| Tutorial | Enables the tutorial at the start of the game | Enabled, Disabled |
| Random quests | Generates random quests instead of the game's story mode (era progression quests are unaffected) | Enabled, Disabled |
| Era progression method | Determines how the game proceeds to the next era - either by the player paying tokens, reaching a specific date, or either | Pay, Date, Pay or Date |
| Starting loan | Loan amount at the start of a game | 500, 1000, 2000, 5000 |
| Additional loan | Maximum amount above the starting loan a player can borrow | 0, 1000, 5000, 10000 |
| Loan interest | The amount is paid yearly for every 100 money tokens borrowed. | 1, 2, 5, 10 |
| Fuel cost | Multiplier for cost of fuel. A higher multiplier makes the operating cost of each train more expensive. | Lower (Not changeable at the moment) |
| Build cost | Multiplier for cost of infrastructure. A higher multiplier makes building infrastructure more expensive. | 0.5x (Not changeable at the moment) |
| Terraform cost | Multiplier for cost of terraforming. A higher multiplier makes terraforming terain more expensive. | 1x (Not changeable at the moment) |
| Auto depot connection | If enabled, automatically builds an connected railway to the depot. | Enabled, Disabled (Not changeable at the moment) |
| Reverse at stop signals | If enabled, the train will automatically reverse at stop signals, when there is a red light and the waiting time is too long. | Enabled, Disabled (Not changeable at the moment) |
| Reverse at stations | If enabled, the train will automatically reverse at the end of stations, when there is a better way to travel into the destination station. | Enabled, Disabled (Not changeable at the moment) |
| Reverse when hill too steep | If enabled, the train will automatically reverse when the hill is too steep and the train hasn't got enough power to climb it. If disabled, the train only slows down and continue. | Enabled, Disabled (Not changeable at the moment) |
| Stop trains if no money | If enabled, the trains will automatically stop when there is no money to maintenance them. If disabled, the train only slows down. | Enabled, Disabled (Not changeable at the moment) |
| Trains reverse at the end of line | If enabled, the trains will be automatically reversed at the end o line. If disabled, the trains will start to go backwards with the speed and acceleration limitations. | Enabled, Disabled |
| Only one depot | If enabled, the game will contain only one depot for the whole map. If disabled, you can use as many depots as you wish. | Enabled, Disabled (Not changeable at the moment) |
