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by johnb10000
Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:33 pm
Forum: Chat
Topic: somewhere I read you can vandalize your opponents tracks
Replies: 16
Views: 14453

I am not sure how to vandalize the opponent but you can cut them off or block them in. When starting a new game with an opponent close by you can place track close to there track and all the way around it. This will box the opponent in so they can't build any track. Placing track close to the oppene...
by johnb10000
Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:33 am
Forum: Chat
Topic: What would improve Railroads! ?
Replies: 108
Views: 103958

Building bridges, tunnels and though cities too easy

Building though cities, building bridges and tunnels is too easy. The cost of building bridges and tunnels is way too low even on the hard level. In previous railroad games I would avoid building bridges and tunnels at the beginning of the game because they were too expensive and the amount of start...
by johnb10000
Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:09 pm
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Goods routing when a city produces and consumes the same
Replies: 5
Views: 8590

Yep, in your first example: coal---------cityA(makes steal)--------------cityB(makes steal,uses steal) Ship coal to A, remove half of the coal cars, add steel cars Ship steel and some coal to B, remove all steel cars. Go back to coal. I would ship all the coal to city A and take 8 loads of steel to...
by johnb10000
Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:02 am
Forum: Technical Issues
Topic: Dual Core CPU problems
Replies: 22
Views: 32379

Re: Dual Core CPU problems

I gave this a try and it does reduce the number of crashes. I can now play a of couple of hours before the game crashes instead of a crash every fifteen minutes. There are also video driver problems where bridges show weird colors that keep changing. The game is most likely to crash when layiing lon...