Smr Simple!

Here are my specs, if the following is what you meant:

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium mobo
Athlon 64 4000+ processor
Kingston ValuRam DDR400 PC3200 RAM (1gb x 2; 512mb x 2)
Seagate 250gb SATA-2 hard drive
EVGA 7800GT graphics card
Lite-On DVD R/RW, and Lite-On DVD ROM
XP Pro, SP2

I'm sure you're right, Dr Frag, which was why I avoided using the word "bug." I was mainly posting to let mrgee know that my problem seemed similar to his, and how I "fixed" it, at least temporarily. Judging from experience, and from the postings in the Technical Issues forum, this game seems to be ...

I too have recently experienced a strange stoppage of all trains (including those of AI opponents) at stations - the trains simply stop in the middle of loading cars, usually after a new track has been laid, and refuse to move again. I am fully patched, have no mods, and have all the latest drivers....

Point taken, Snoopy.

It's a bit embarrassing to see now that the answer you gave me above, relating to my buyout confusion, is one that you've stated more than once in earlier threads.

Thanks, I think I get it now. And you're right, I need to do some more reading here. Or I should say re-reading, since actually I had already read every thread in this Strategy section, but it was before playing the game, and I guess some of the finer points just didn't register at the time. I have ...

While playing Southwest on Tycoon with 3 competitors, my company had a buyout price of over 23 mil, yet I was bought out by a competitor who had less than 15 mil in cash. Don't you have to have the buyout amount in actual cash in order to take the action? What am I missing here? I'm rather new to th...