It's needlessly restrictive when it doesn't need to be, especially with the freedom that the rest of the business offers you. The one problem the game has is that you can't actually build supply-side businesses, even if you happen to have demolished the previous supply business. From buying plots of land or currently established businesses ranging from supply-side (wheat fields, mines) to mid-stream (steelworks, linen factory) and then end-product businesses (clothes factory, weapons manufacturer). Here you have a lot of control over the side-businesses should you want to. In particular, you want to look at the corporation part of the name. Which is a shame because there are some genuine high points to Railroad Corporation. If you get your first line up and running, bringing in some quick early cash, you may as well crown yourself god of all things rail. On rare occasions, it seems to get a decent start, but that is rare. The AI also makes the opposition company too little of a challenge. As I said, too often will the trains outright refuse to take a track that is clear to them, every train just wants to crowd on one line all of the time, even if there are three and they're all interconnected through some painstaking work. You know, I could have been fine with the very-restrictive track building if the AI was better, but it isn't. Related Story Chris Wray Wccftech’s Most Anticipated Strategy and Simulation Games of 2022 Grid me up because this just isn't working now. Is this all due to the removal of grids? If so, bring them back. I'm genuinely perplexed with how the simulation genre could have advanced as far as it has, bringing some outstanding titles, but the railway segment of it has regressed decades. So what am I saying? Give me some bloody signals. Other times, using the same angle, it wants to create a corner that slows your train down to the speed of a quadriplegic, geriatric sloth. Sometimes the track will create a nice, smooth, fast angle joining onto another track. Also, as handy as placing it in increments is, it's still a little too fiddly and I genuinely don't think it even follows it's own rules. You can place it in increments, but the game tends to not detect all of my mouse clicks in longer sessions (methinks there's a bit of an issue here - in one prolonged session the game was using 6GB of RAM). It doesn't help that the laying of the tracks can be finicky as all hell. At one point, I had five trains all stationary across three lines because one simply refused to use a bypass. What this means is that if another train happens to be on the same track and there's a bypass, they'd rather have a standoff to equal that in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I can't say this as a certainty, but I genuinely think the computer picks the shortest possible route and won't deviate once it's started. Here in Railroad Corporation, all too often I've created multiple routes, branching tracks and more to let my ever-growing fleet of trains get around each other with as fewer delays as possible, to be let down by the idiotic AI.
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You know, the more I think about this, the worse my opinion gets of railroad tycoon and simulator games in general. Other games have a mixture of these things and Railroad Corporation has. I don't know what it is with railroad sims lately, but it's incredibly annoying that the only one that seems to get crossings, line management and the AI right now is Train Valley of all things.
Step away from the yellow line and don't fall on the tracks!Īctually, stepping onto the tracks may be the right thing to do here, if only to show your displeasure towards them. If that gives away my general feeling towards Railroad Corporation, don't fret - it's the long, meandering, scenic route that makes the journey worthwhile.
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