4. ago. I'm doing the 'Gone With The Headwind' scenario (ie, trying to woo Scarlett). Originally posted by Empty1958: Like Totemych said 1st you have to select the resource in the warehouse setup. The-Other-Dude. Take it on LINE XYZ to. #11. It is not critical to serve every good demanded, but more goods available does improve City growth. The advantage to owning them is control of there production rate. . Then when you look at individual Stations (left click on them ) while still in the setup a Route window, you can set individual cargoes at the Station as Priority, i. I am stuck. Then set up warehouse to warehouse trains that can ONLY pick up what that warehouse is stocking (in the train route options, ban it from picking up items that are getting delivered to the other 2 warehouses) Those warehouse to warehouse trains will pick up excess resources (the ones set to 60 limit) and spread them to all 3 cities as demanded. #14. All these Warehousing options. Train will usually. If you leave the loading/unloading as AUTOMATIC or FREIGHT then the system doesn't seem to do well with multi-stop deliveries. The city storage for the industry is empty. RAILWAY EMPIRE 2:Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses. Because of this - the local farms cannot send cows to those cities as the 'need' is already filled by the warehouse. Sometimes it's just easier to send a direct freight across 2 or 3 other cities to get the resource. Deliver 8 Loads of Corn to Boston. Train 1 departs westward: as soon as platform is clear, train 4 moves in, keeping the earlier arrivals 2 and 3. Both ends have 2x2 gridiron and direction set. I restarted the campaign making sure to line the tracks up the same coming and going from each station and can now run from station to station of my whole line, as I’d wanted to do. If you need express lines or want to maximize the efficiency of your systems dedicated passenger lines may work best. Destination city just does not want the freight allocated to the train. The sound design is immersive and functional. Freight has the same flat rate, $2k per car. There are many production centers in the area, which provide resources that are transported to the warehouse (blue arrows). Also, please consider changing it so Warehouses actually operate like warehouses, and can. max 2 grain, max 2 corn, max 2 cotton, and fill up whatever space you have left with sugar (so, max 8). Civil War Tips Railway Empire – Chapter 5 – Sierra Nevada Tips Railway Empire 2 PC Keyboard. If you want them to pass the supply station when they don't need to be supplied, use waypoints. Can't haul goods needed to turn a settlement into a city from a warehouse where that good is available. If necessary add by pass freight tracks around each city for Freight Trains not stopping at that City. This Route will NOT be picking up Manufactured Goods at the 3 Cities, so it can run. yes Austin demands tools, makes steel, Houston makes tools and asks steel, so i thought i makes a freight only train from Austin. Railway Empire 2: Gameplay. Warehouses and goods flow. If that warehouse is also connected to a city, you get best of both worlds; wheat in that warehouse will be used by the city when needed, and excess wheat is available for your trains to pick up and take to a different city. Railway Empire 2. And need down the line, that really don't seem to calculate out correctly. We have to give her candy, then jewellery. I rarely had only one station in RE1 - here I can get away with 1 station most of the time as I prefer to build less stations. I had a cotton farm that I connected to my city, but when I placed a train there and set the route, it did not pick up any cotton at all just kept running back and forth. (6 x trains), I have Sugar and Vegetables set for High Priority pick up. If you leave it alone, it'll only send cattle. I ran a test on the west coast map in sandbox mode using 1830-1850. All of these things are not required, but contribute to achieving it. The only complicating factors I could think of are. Setup the route like normal then click on the pad and pen icon for the first stop. 2) Blocking factories from building in the space you will need for a. Next you edit your railroad to make it better for the two trains go through, after all of that you change the route of the first train to the normal one. None of it ends up in warehouse. Unable to unload cargo, the problem of automatic. In the "Changing Trains" tutorial, you have to build a line to a town and supply it with logs. All aboard the express train to riches and fame in Railway Empire 2! Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors as you connect cities and. Showing 1 - 7 of 7 comments. But at the same time, the passenger cars are tiny, and scale with the years to add visual cohesion with smaller locomotives. This is the best you can do if you really want all 4 to get picked up (or potentially picked up) by the same train. today. 3. So Most Freight Train Routes should only be 2 or 3 Stops, with possibly a 3rd or 4th Stop for a. Got a direct line with Birmingham which has a level 3 distilleren so its making the stuff London needs. Showing 1 - 8 of 8 comments. #1. New York CNN —. Freight on the other hand seems overly complicated. They tend to be a little slow raising there production rate compared to need. In Railway Empire 2 you simply tell the game which direction the entire track should go. X037 May 19, 2021 @ 4:43am. So if you really want to move something maybe try making that certain good a priority in the direction you want it to flow through the connected warehouses. As Empty said, a train will just sit and wait if there are no goods for it to collect. Hello My train/transport system is getting nuts, if have a number of warehouses and for example one warehouse is connected to cattle, while the city next to it produces meat. Continent-spanning maps: the map of Europe or the map of North America result in a total in more than 13 million square kilometers for your Railway Empire *A third reason is that you have more flexibility. All these Warehousing options. < >So once more: Select train >>> Set up rail line >>> Edit station >>> Select track. Hope this helps. Even when I am running three stations to handle resources from north, south and east-west I still end up not being able to get goods to flow to certain cities because they are not on the right route. Farms per Station. – Express lines are for cash flow and freight lines are for city growth. It is faster and more assured to send freight directly to where it's going; but if there is sufficient supply, excess supply will go to distant locations that have to stop in more than one. Adventrax • 3 mo. Freight on the other hand seems overly complicated. Though moving freight City to City. 2. Remember, also: despite what a lot of people say, in Railway Empire 2, you can send freight to locations that are multiple warehouses along a route. My "Strategy" is do not bother using Warehouses, they are not very useful and often do not do much for you. The problem was, my trains from Columbia to StL and Lou were not picking up cows for some reason. But the Boston train did not pick [or have reserved for it] one item in 6 months. Passengers by default (without bonuses from technology) will wait for 2 weeks for a train to pick them up. Kansas, one mid map west side of map, and one of the southern cities at the coast (do not recall the names). As production of these seemed slow I wanted to keep all I made to give to her - but my general freight was shipping them to other cities in the mean time. If it picked up and delivered Manufactured Goods to a City, then if that City is reasonably large with 2 or 3 Industries, then it can pick up a load of Manufactured Goods to take back to the starting City, i. Dray Prescot May 29 @ 10:00am. It will be re. Then it will show the amount that is at the resource site (same as in a city). -very fast trains. Then also make sure you actually have the number of trains higher than 1 Train picks up because demand exists at the target location, train goes to target location and then train turns around and goes to origination without anything being unloaded. The trains can then collect it from the warehouse. -faster development of towns (dont know if it will break game mechanics) -no oil ,water or sand usage. This keyed me into fact the warehouse station i was trying to send goods to hadn't been assigned goods. In Railway Empire 2, you primarily work with two types of trains: Freight trains and Express trains. Add enough capacity to the train lines to get your lumber to Paris . 3. And need down the line, that really don't seem to calculate out correctly. I would have much rather had a freight system where I can control it, like: Pick up GOOD A, at Station 001. I would have much rather had a freight system where I can control it, like: Pick up GOOD A, at Station 001. )Hi everyone. Use the manage train icon, then pick the station and select the platform. If that means the shortest route is through the supply station, it'll use those tracks. Problem: wool is. Now your train will pick up a max of 4 corn at the corn or furthest stop, and fill it up to 8 of wheat at the wheat stop. #2. #1. Still me, still new. 2. The extra buildings in a station besides warehouse and maintenance are not REQUIRED unless a goal in a scenario makes you. You just haul you dont direct the freight. The city storage for the industry is empty. You just haul you dont direct the freight. If people can take the coach and be faster than your train they won't take the train. it’s time to pick your starting point for the new track. The music is great, but could be a little more diverse. There is no/little "through" demand. Dray Prescot Aug 28 @ 6:46am. No dice. You will need it when your cities start to demand pottery. The train carries beer, and the warehouse is set up to accept grain, beer, and meat. only 2 Stops on the round trip. 3. Apologies for trying to do the ASCII text to show the rail setup. Railway Empire II: No matter what I do, wood won't load at that station in the first campaign. Thus, the train departs from city A with three wagons of beer. The beer does make it to Boston however the corn and wheat are just sitting in Albany and is not. 4. After building the warehouse, players can choose what materials they will hold so trains can pick them up for transport. A level 1 Clothing Industry will have only (0. The objective is to build large rail networks that allow for the flow of goods and people between cities in order to make a profit, in order complete objectives. Freight though i'm not sure but it seems to me the farther away it is the less the AI wants to pick it up - like its lower in the auto priority queue. -disables competitors by getting all their start up money. Deliver 8 Loads of Corn to Boston. – Use separate stations for express and freight to maximise express bonuses. Thanks for reaching out to us. 000. The City will suck up what it needs, leaving any excess, which can then be picked up by another train for delivery to another destination. Long double lines for almost all traffic is not realistic. 2 trains, but set minimum cars to 4 and disable any freight. You can also use your large station to supply Fayetteville. 6 Cloth and produces 1. 2) I set the train to prioritize Fabric and forbid Beer. Of course you are limited to only 6 Resources/Goods in the. Start Your Empire Machine: Once your track system is complete, set your first freight train in motion. So I specifically say take 4 from first stop and 4 from second stop. 1. – Use separate stations for express and freight to maximise express bonuses. In such a scenario, you would place a waypoint on the chosen track. All Discussions. If you draw a straight line between Nashville and Atlanta you will run into some mountains. Note that unlike RE1, warehouses in RE2 do not supply cities, they just hold goods. screenshot 1. 000 and I have a train which deliver. My problem is sometimes and only sometimes, and I cannot figure out why, the game will not recognize any of the tracks beyond 1/2. I am using the public beta branch. I had a cotton farm that I connected to my city, but when I placed a train there and set the route, it did not pick up any cotton at all just kept running back and forth. Make sure to move (click and drag) the waypoints before/after stations. You can check this by clicking the industry and checking its potential customers. Per page: 15 30 50. 1) The game doesn't do "auto-pathing". hello, i am new to this game and have issue to understand how am I supposed to play. 3 Tycoons! Today we are delivering Railway Empire 2’s first big update for Steam, Xbox Game Pass for console and PC Game Pass for PC, Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4|5, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles (supported through Smart Delivery): Aboard the freight train there are over 100 fixes,. If you have extra cash you can always pay for the settlement boom. Co-op with up to 4 players * * This does not include the Switch version of Railway Empire 2. . Now the trains ONLY transport cattle from this warehouse to the city, on the way back they go empty. A Screenshot of Railway Empire 2. Even Manufactured Good Freight Routes should be short, at 3 or 4, at most 6, Cities, since the trains are only 8 cars long, you can only carry 2 to 4 goods with multiple carloads of. Freight on the other hand seems overly complicated. only Corn until Corn is full. Jul 1 @ 1:44am Irrespective of distance! IRL different divisions of a big company will make money out of charging for services to other. Take it on LINE XYZ to. Beware of deadlocks when you have one rural station supplying multiple cities. Then it acts as if the warehouse is empty and picks up nothing. Check. So us guys who get thier. It gets interesting further down the line, where each city has 2 or 3 factories and demands many more different goods. All of it destined for Boston. Set the minimum load by adjusting the slider or inputting a number. Originally posted by EMAPhil: You need to tell the train which platform to use or they will will queue to the one on the shortest route. If you make any changes to the Route Manifest, Tracks, Gridirons, and possibly other things, that a Freight Train is using ANYWHERE on it's. Changing Trains Railway Empire 2: Choosing Freight and Setting Minimum Loads Railway Empire 2: City Growth & Industrial Development Railway. Railway Empire 2 > Discussions > Topic Details. As noted earlier, as the game moves into the 20th century, players can pick up new forms of tech through the. Maiskolben, I hope this comment is taken as more detail, your advice was correct. If you can place an open signal for one of the trains. So no lost time unloading to Warehouses just to reload. Yeah I've found this as well. Apply the same for any # of stops, starting with the furthest stop. Then it started to not load the trains . Warehouses are not effective when a good is transported away from its destination and then returned to it in a V-shaped line. Trains can't move freight from a station if the station is connected to a city and the freight is not produced by the city. Remember about industrial buildings. Medium Level Hints and Tips. -large stations have all map coverage when picking up freight. Industries distribute cargo to stations, based on demand. 1. It starts around 500k but gets cheaper the closer it gets to 10,000 pop. 3) Clothing per week that can be shipped to other other Cities. Oakshield Aug 28 @ 2:48am. In this video we explain how to select goods to be transported from one station to another in Railway Empire 2!I had a cotton farm that I connected to my city, but when I placed a train there and set the route, it did not pick up any cotton at all just kept running back and forth. There is plenty of passengers to pickup in either city (other trains work just fine. Freight on the other hand seems overly complicated. As production of these seemed slow I wanted. Any freight carried by the train will invalidate it as an Express line. City. Are they best just as a 'temporary' train to build new connections to more cities early on, until I take the time (and money) to set up 2 stations + dedicated express & freight tracks (and adjustment of the. This issue keeps popping up for me, things go grand for a few years, then the freight trains start running around full of deliverable goods. Even well optimised freight lines are never as profitable as average express lines. I've watched my trains unload way more than 8 loads of corn in Boston. #1. Railway Empire was first released on Steam on January. None of it ends up in warehouse. 6. Your cities may meet demand too fast resulting in trains waiting at the depot. It wont take other goods at all! ecxeption: If I use priority, it will take the right goods, but nothing else. Will only work if the train to the settlement originates straight from the farm/rural station. The spacing is messed up. #14. Rural goods are required by the city industry. I tried demolishing the station and building one so it only served the lumber yard. automatically: trains will pick up the cargo with the most value i beliefe. If there is no demand they wont load it, same with how much mail or people is decided with how big a town is. In other words you dont need to ship from the resource directly to the factory. With improvements such as allowing challenges to be won by a percentage of goals, a more balanced character selection, and a better AI system, the. Destination city just does not want the freight allocated to the train. This runs well and feels sturdy. Got the game on game pass and am going through the tutorial. CREATE DEDICATED LANES FOR TRAINS DROPPING OFF GOODS INTO YOUR HUB--TRAINS PICKING UP GOODS FROM THE HUB TO GO TO CITIES SHOULD NOT USE THE SAME LANES. 4. Errors in the tutorials. In each city a wagon should be unloaded. Short version: Adding more freight trains seemed to fix the problem. Trains proceeding at one another on the. Note that unlike RE1, warehouses in RE2 do not supply cities, they just hold goods. 2) if A, B, and C (corn farm, city, city) are in a "V" shape it could be that the goods won't travel because going A>B>C is more than twice the walking distance from A to C. 5. Selecting the B city's station is telling the train to drop off passengers. So if you're going between two cities, it should look like: City A>Waypoint 1> City B> Waypoint 2. No warehouse. On the cattle drive scenario I had a level 5 meat factory and it barely consumed the input of 12 trains loads of cattle. The Bachmann will have to sit for a while!Description. Express revenue is variable depending on distance, express status for passengers, passenger opinion of the engine etc. The containers are filled. One possibility is you put a warehouse there and not assigned wheat as a storage item. destroyalldreamers 1 hour ago. Secondly, you need to set the train to carry only passengers and mail. In the town next door I have a warehouse with 32 grain in. In this case meat. You can put a fourth stop at B so that the train will attempt to backhaul from C to B. Somewhere you will find a slowdown and all your 55 lumber. Railway Empire. Maintenance depot should not take up a station slot. Iron Ore unlocks in 1850; which is beyond the timeframe of the first campaign. If you need sugar to be prioritized, you can edit the route and make sugar a higher priority, but then other freight types will suffer the same fate. 1 Table of Contents: Lat the tracks properly Remember about industrial buildings Regularly check the demand for goods Set priorities for goods Separate. Why dont the freight cars do the same?Description. #2. -Click the station you want to manage. Where it lists the stations on the left, mouse over the Cheyenne and click Edit Station; it'll bring up a window where you can control cargo and track preferences. The wood arrives from a rural station to city 2. Railway Empire 2 > Discussions > Topic Details. . KodeMonkey Jun 1 @ 3:04pm. Loading problem. Al Capwned Jul 21 @ 8:08am. One possibility is you put a warehouse there and not assigned wheat as a storage item. To get the same 8 of each type net would require 3 trips and a little micro-managment, for a. Warehouses close to cities or rural businesses then exchange goods with each other. Railway Empire 2. You can make the waypoints afterwards and shift them up and down to the right places. I tried delivering it manually and setting a priority for steel on the automatic trains, but for whatever reason my trains would not pick up the steel from Toledo. The other Freight double tracks link with 2 track Gridirons to outer 2 tracks of the Station on either side of the center 2 tracks. I have 16/16 Wheat, 8/8 Meat, but only 23/24 Wood. And need down the line, that really don't seem to calculate out correctly. Sounds like you've set your train to not transport freight. I watched train after train go to the local farms, pick up nothing, go to the meat producing cities -which showed LOTS of meat scheduled to arrive - and a broken. -Reach across terrain so you don't have to build expensive Bridges/Tunnels or jam a Station into a crowded area. Choose from sprawling maps across E. Direct line. Unable to unload cargo, the problem of automatic turning of the train. OK, I know this is a minor thing, but can still be annoying -- when planning a route, we should have the option to completely ignore the goods on a station. The business screen showed 100% going somewhere by wagon although the nearesrt cities had no stock. A to B lines work best. In the first scenario you eventually get the task to Deliver 8 Loads of Corn to Boston. Goods simply will not be delivered to new to settle towns. City B's line would pick up wheat and meat and return with beer. If no freight is required/available, the automatic process will allocate whatever number of passengers/mail onto carriages. A Beginner’s Guide to Supply Management in Railway Empire 2 How to Make Money in Railway Empire 2 Railway Empire 2 – Controlling Your Train’s Pathfinding Railway Empire 2: Banking and Share Market Railway Empire 2: Choosing Freight and Setting Minimum Loads Railway Empire 2: City Growth & Industrial Development. Doesn't matter where the train waits to be full, waiting for water works just as well as sitting on a platform. Perhaps a middle ground. However, it is possible to manually assign carriages for a train. So leave them at 0 until you get a feel for it. Or not hauling if you click till theres a red circle. I had it set to automatic pickup, then tried Freight only, but the train never picked up the cotton!!! Am I missing something?If you don't find any . 4 trains only carrying 1 car of passengers may very well be optimal for passenger flow, but likely not for cashflow. "Allows for a lot of railway design creativity" is the primary reason people pick OpenTTD over the competition. -very powerfull trains. 00:00 Intro Railway Empire 2 Let's PLAY 02:30 Gameplay🙏 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗠𝗲 𝗢𝗻 ?. Also make sure freight line is using freight loading type. As an example; I have a route with 40 stops and 20 trains. Warehouse in Topeka for logs and grain and cloth and meat and corn. If this one is empty it will not take other goods. . Not a big fan of signal controlled ones due to space they eat up. That was my first major confusion with this game too ;) You can buy a farm/business. automatically: trains will pick up the cargo with the most value i beliefe. And I've reached a level of frustration I will leave this game until things are fixed. then if wood is going to a different city the main route will pick up the wood and move it to the destination. Changing Trains Railway Empire 2: Choosing Freight and Setting Minimum Loads Railway Empire 2: City Growth & Industrial Development Railway Empire 2: Guide to Personnel. Goods simply will not be delivered to new to settle towns. Recruit screenwriters, pick story concepts, hire the best actors, build sets and manage precious broadcast time slots. Two freight trains run in the short stretch between the warehouse and the city. Upgrade the factory, upgrade the farm, add more freight shipments to the factory. If demand is very low, 1 train might serve 2 Cities for a while, or 1 train might serve 2 low demand goods to 1 City. 5 = 0. Edit: Stations don't pick up cargo. I have 2 trains. You can put the Station Expansion Slot to better use in the future, and they are certainly not worth $ 140k. Period. Showing 1 - 2 of 2 comments. Put up service buildings. The resource site will not keep adding it to the warehouse until it is full. Franky Jan 29, 2018 @ 9:45pm. I'm new to the RE game. No warehouse. . After having played the England campaign for a few hours I felt like flattening. One station is passenger express only and has the restaurant and market. I own a level 5 corn farm. Click on it, then on the $ in the top right, then confirm. So, in your example, the train would take (only) the corn LA requires. As such it should not take 1 out of only 2 slots available. Expand city and/or factory there. Has. Baxx Nov 6 @ 5:15pm. 1. 5. In the early stages [a few days in]. RAILWAY EMPIRE 2: Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the. And need down the line, that really don't seem to calculate out correctly. If there are express and freight trains on the same route, you will quickly see that this is not entirely effective. Railway Empire 2 on Steam - work fine when connected directly to a farm, UNLESS you set the train to manual and tell it exactly what you want it to pick up. I am stuck. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your. The benefits of using twin stations early in the game are: 1) Blocking competitors from building stations in your city. 3. I can recommend the Warehouse Series by Adekyn. I had a cotton farm that I connected to my city, but when I placed a train there and set the route, it did not pick up any cotton at all just kept running back and forth. I don't get any credit towards completing this task. 5 = 0. Railway Empire 2 gameplay with Orbital Potato! Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your stea. Klacky pod nohy vám však bude házet prohnaná. All Discussions. 2. Freight on the other hand seems overly complicated. I would have much rather had a freight system where I can control it, like: Pick up GOOD A, at Station 001. There is a requirement for the manufactured goods on the map. The first train will take meat and drop it off and then pick up beer and whatever the farm produces. There is much less of random breakdowns and they are. I came across your post after encountering issue 1. A Warehouse near the City allows a stockpile of up to 99 carloads to be delivered to the Warehouse to serve as a buffer for high demand Cities. 2. The large 4 Track version is a difference between $200,000 and $300,000 for. 3] Go "middle cheap" on 2 freight engines, 6 express, and 3 maintenance depots (MDs); and let the system run . Now you need to specify each of the 8 cars with what to load by clicking on the icons in the Offered Goods section. Increase supply of raw material and/or expand factory. On longer runs, they may get 2. The fact that a freight railroad strike didn’t start on Friday is a huge win for the US economy and its still struggling supply chain. #3. if the Route takes a nominal 20 days to complete, the 2nd train will leave the starting station when it is about 10 days behind the 1st train. The Digital Deluxe Edition includes the full Railway Empire 2 game, the original soundtrack, exclusive skins for each of the three sizes of your railway stations, an exclusive skin for your company HQ, and an exclusive skin for two locomotives. Train 4: WH-C. The first three tasks should be relatively straightforward, but reaching 25,000 citizens in Boston may require some additional effort. All these Warehousing options. 3. After 186 hours in this game I'm not convinced that this is a bug.