Very disappointed with realism

[firejack007]

I've just started with this game. When I found out by reading the posts here that you can not deliver goods to multiple cities (a-b-c-d), I was actually shocked. I saw that all my goods were being dropped off at the first city and came on here to see what I was doing wrong. Got a lot of good info here. But the key essence of what a railroad was designed for realistically is missing from this game. How could this have been overlooked? When they started building railroads the whole idea was to go from town to town delivering and picking up goods and people and then going on to the next town. Can you imagine the difficulty of building a real railroad and having to build a separate line to each town that needed goods? Where did the makers get the idea that when a train reaches a town that the town takes everything? To me this has ruined the whole game for me. It's like having a flight sim and the makers forcing you to land at each town even though you have fuel enough to go to 10 towns.

I do have one question that I haven't found an answer for yet. Is there a way to modify the game speed? I enjoy more of the building than competition. So I'd like to slow it down. Best I've come up with is pausing to do things.

[Jancsika]

But the key essence of what a railroad was designed for realistically is missing from this game. How could this have been overlooked? When they started building railroads the whole idea was to go from town to town delivering and picking up goods and people and then going on to the next town. Can you imagine the difficulty of building a real railroad and having to build a separate line to each town that needed goods? Where did the makers get the idea that when a train reaches a town that the town takes everything? To me this has ruined the whole game for me. It's like having a flight sim and the makers forcing you to land at each town even though you have fuel enough to go to 10 towns.

There is a gigantic model train layout in Hamburg Germany and Sid got his inspiration from that. That's why this game looks and acts like a model train layout.

I do have one question that I haven't found an answer for yet. Is there a way to modify the game speed? I enjoy more of the building than competition. So I'd like to slow it down. Best I've come up with is pausing to do things.

As for the slowing down: It can be done in the RRT_Scenario_User_MAPNAME.XLM file.
You have to insert a line somewhere in the top of the file (around line 9 or 10)
<iTurnsPerMonth>XX</iTurnsPerMonth>
Place your own number for the XX.
The game's default speed is 16.
As to do it for the whole program, that is in game setup in the “Program Files”, I am not quite sure if should be done. I have never done it, mainly because the original scenarios are sooo feeble that it just makes the game last for ever.
But if you use any of the custom maps, (there are 100-s of them) those maps that are in the C:\Users\User\.......\My Games\Sid Meier's Railroads\UserMaps folder, you can freely add the line, right after the “Map Size” line.
Jancsika

[snoopy55]

For a more complete description of the time settings and some examples by Dr Fragg, go to "Changing the timescale" here:
http://eric.bkbobby.com/media/index.php ... _Interface

As to for the whole game, I've not heard that mentioned before. There is no setting in Settings.ini for that. I do believe it must be done in each map.

Jancsika, do you recall if anyone ever did a detailed workup of the Settings.ini and how to use it? I've seen parts here and there, and there is nothing in the Wiki. Might be a good thing to Wiki-ize

[firejack007]

Thanks, this is some great information.