Smr Simple!

What Roro said.

It's pretty easy if you just make that your #1 priority (establish a profitable railroad first, of course).

If you want to deliver to intermediate cities, build parallel tracks and make sure the trains are on those tracks.

Beyond being annoying, I can't see how this could work. Annoying, yes, but since the game is pretty flexible with bridge-building, it seems wasteful on the other players' part.

I generally buy up all of the publicly-held shares, then worry about takeovers. (I can leverage my stock holdings, selling them to raise the cash for the takeover, if I need to.) I generally try to hold 20% more of my own stock than my competitors hold. Usually makes their takeover attempts difficul...

Kenster wrote:13. Prorate trains when up grading. (give back a little $)

Already gives a trade-in value for existing trains.

Bridges.

roro wrote:This does not make much sense. If I own 70% of my own company nobody should be able to buy me against my will.

Agreed, but the whole point is to eliminate your competitors. Hard to do that without stock purchases. (Making competitors lose money is very, very hard to do.)

I only upgrade to certain trains. A lot of the trains are marginal improvements, but some (1-Do-Do-1, Medoc, Mikado) are vast improvements in speed.

Sometimes I'll upgrade if the train is unprofitable, but usually there's a bigger problem than maintenance costs.

The points you get for completing objectives are crap, IMHO. When you're scoring 200+ for net worth, the rinky-disk scenario points are annoyingly worthless.

Wish they were worth more, though there's always the moral victory.