Some Strategies i learned from other online players

[coaster3000]

a few tips that i can remember from other great players online game of railroads is to do these 3 or 4 things first...

1. Find at least 2 or 3 places with passengers and mail
2. Use the passengers and mail first to help you get the money you need first
3. then go for industries.

Or so i think they said

[Burlington_Northern_3140]

That sounds good to me. Before you try building trains try getting at least one stock in another player in the beginning of the game. In my most recent game my mistake was selling those stocks I had to fast. try to keep one of your own too. To get trains try building as much of their routes as you can in the begining. When, you run out of money to build routes, buy the trains. You will be in debt but then you have more trains at that point of the game then anybody else and can have a better selection of engines. those seem to help alot. also, try to have small curves at about 10 mph and a long straight the train will make up for its 10 mph curve on the straight. When building a train, always use 8 cars. Empty cars don't weigh anything and you don't have to spend money later to get another two cars on to the train. Thats all I know about the trains.

[coaster3000]

That sounds good to me. Before you try building trains try getting at least one stock in another player in the beginning of the game. In my most recent game my mistake was selling those stocks I had to fast. try to keep one of your own too. To get trains try building as much of their routes as you can in the begining. When, you run out of money to build routes, buy the trains. You will be in debt but then you have more trains at that point of the game then anybody else and can have a better selection of engines. those seem to help alot. also, try to have small curves at about 10 mph and a long straight the train will make up for its 10 mph curve on the straight. When building a train, always use 8 cars. Empty cars don't weigh anything and you don't have to spend money later to get another two cars on to the train. Thats all I know about the trains.

cool that is a good stratagy too it seems thanks

[Burlington_Northern_3140]

I learned some of these from Bob the Lunatic in multiplayer.

[snoopy55]

When building a train, always use 8 cars. Empty cars don't weigh anything and you don't have to spend money later to get another two cars on to the train.

BN, cars have no cost in the game. They should, as cars do cost in the real world, but they don't here. It would be nice if cars cost you each time you added them to any train, but once you had bought say, 10 Grain Cars, you didn't have to pay for any more until you had more than 10 on your map at one time. It was probably to confusing for them to write the code.

[Burlington_Northern_3140]

When building a train, always use 8 cars. Empty cars don't weigh anything and you don't have to spend money later to get another two cars on to the train.

BN, cars have no cost in the game. They should, as cars do cost in the real world, but they don't here. It would be nice if cars cost you each time you added them to any train, but once you had bought say, 10 Grain Cars, you didn't have to pay for any more until you had more than 10 on your map at one time. It was probably to confusing for them to write the code.

I know it doesn't cost money to buy a car but I have noticed it does cost money to change anything about a trains job. Thats why you should get eight cars on first.

[coaster3000]

Hay maybe a mod could rename this topic to Newbie Tips for first time multiplayers or something

and we can post tips and helpfull things that help us with the games like how to manage stock to earn more money and to find out how to avoid being boughtout

and other stuff

[snoopy55]

Have you gone into the Wiki and read " Advanced Information and Strategies"? Might be some useful info there, and a good place to add more.

[coaster3000]

Have you gone into the Wiki and read " Advanced Information and Strategies"? Might be some useful info there, and a good place to add more.

ohh i forgot about that place well i do not have a wiki account for some reason or do i have to sign up for it.

well it does not show a register icon on any of the pages except for login/register but when i click it it only shows Login form

well i could add some of my stuff too it. (When i make some LOL)

i will be making tons of new maps when i get this whole thing figured out correctly i already had to delete 5 of my test maps that i made LOL they every now and then crashed the game because of wrong info.

i should try Trial and Error method if i am going to make one LOL

Remember my favorite phrase is LOL

[snoopy55]

You only have to register, and if you want to edit or add something you just log in with the same name and password you use here.

[coaster3000]

You only have to register, and if you want to edit or add something you just log in with the same name and password you use here.

Does THIS make a difference LOL

Login error:You have not specified a valid user name.

My username is not on it

[darthdroid]

That sounds good to me. Before you try building trains try getting at least one stock in another player in the beginning of the game. In my most recent game my mistake was selling those stocks I had to fast. try to keep one of your own too. To get trains try building as much of their routes as you can in the begining. When, you run out of money to build routes, buy the trains. You will be in debt but then you have more trains at that point of the game then anybody else and can have a better selection of engines. those seem to help alot. also, try to have small curves at about 10 mph and a long straight the train will make up for its 10 mph curve on the straight. When building a train, always use 8 cars. Empty cars don't weigh anything and you don't have to spend money later to get another two cars on to the train. Thats all I know about the trains.

I'm betting that you see the flaws in this now BN as you've come a loooooong way in your skill level since this post. At least in tracklaying, I'm not sure about stock.

But I would disagree with your points about stock here. I would say first we should talk about level. Example: On investor level, you really shouldn't have to sell more than one stock, or you're wasting money. With one stock sold, you should have around 700k, that's plenty of capital to start up with, certainly enough to create enough money to be self sufficient.

However, on Tycoon or Robber, there is no question you better sell all 3 stocks 90% of the time or again you're being wasteful. The issue is always one of cost benefit analysis. In the case of these two harder levels, you do indeed need that money almost always and it shouldn't be parked in the garage defensively. It's a very dangerous move unless your opponent doesn't know how to play very well.

Also, the LAST thing you should do is buy a stock in another player at the beginning. I love when players buy one of my stocks at the beginning because ya maybe they own a stock of mine, but ultimately all they did was give me an additional 50-100k when I then sell the stocks I own in my own company. Hope that is clear.
If you buy my stock before I've sold all of my stock, you just raised the value of each stock including the one I own, ie you just handed me $50,000 or more for free... and I'm the wrong guy to give an edge to.

I would additionally argue that even if I've already sold all 3 stocks (tycoon/robber) you STILL should not buy one of my stocks early on. I don't even think about buying stock until mid-game, usually late game. Even if the opponent has bought up 4 of mine, and 4 of his/her own, I still do not buy stock. You buy stock once you are ahead. That's not a 100% guaranteed rule but it is a 90% rule for sure. Buying stock when you are behind is suicide. When I say behind I mean in annual profits as thats what the game boils down to. So if I buy stock when I'm behind, I'm taking my capital and sticking it in a 401K or a low level interest bank account, etc. When I should be spending every dime I have to generate revenue to get ahead and THEN buy stock. And if I'm very behind (like say they own 4-8) of my stocks, then I not only need to at least double their profits, I also need to invade as much as possible. If I invade and cut their profit down to a crawl.... it makes it nearly impossible for them to gather up the cash to buy the last pieces of my company, meanwhile I'm furiously buying up theirs. Believe me, it works.

[Burlington_Northern_3140]

I do see some flaws now. I see some more things I could say but they are either your tactics which have probably been mentioned before, or they are very common sense which may be confused after reading both of our posts.