Railway Empire 2 Fundamentals - Episode 2 - Track Layout 101 - Beginner's Guide
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- In this fundamentals video we cover some very basic elements of the game: placing city stations, effectively and consistently building working track, dealing with curves near stations, placing stations on uneven ground, dealing with rough terrain and merging with existing track.
For dealing with contours, in order to minimize tunnels and bridges outside of stations, get the track as parallel as possible with the contour lines.
Good point.
This video is more than essential, it is indispensable. 1_I didn't realize by myself that the outermost track cost more! I saw the absurd cost but I did not understand why. 2_Thanks also for pointing out the pointer with the maximum speed indication, which I hadn't noticed. 3_I liked placing the signals by myself, however now it's faster. 4_The single crossing for the exchanges can still be done alone but it is really convenient to be automated. 5_In the RE1 game settings I had set the game speed to 75%, it helped me to win the challenges of the scenarios. I didn't find this option in RE2
The drive on the right/left thing makes my brain work so much better. I never thought to organise it like that, or maybe I did last time, but forgot. When there are so many one way tracks I was getting so lost.
Hey! I watched all of your stuff on the original game. Was very HAPPY to see you pop up this morning and learn that there was a new game. You do a great job with these videos man. Steam is downloading the game now and can't wait to play along with ya! Tim
Enjoy. So far I love RE2.
Adekyn another incredible tip on track 101. I have followed you thru Railway Empire and am well pleased that you have another guide on Railway Empire 2. Thank you for your continued wonderful and instructive videos.
Many thanks!
Coming from transport fever 2 I must say RE2 is so much better holy sh*t. You're videos are exactly what I was looking for.
Glad I could help!
Just installed the game a couple days ago. Was liking it but with the help of your tutorials I am really enjoying it. Thank you!
Glad to hear it! Enjoy.
Couple of things worth noting. The parallel tracking 'hint' that auto completes a parallel line, only appears when tracking directly from station platform to station platform, it will not show up when connecting to a junction or 'wild' track node.
Secondly. Gridirons are amazing, and free. But the more tracks you want to cover the longer the stretch of uninterrupted space you'll need and it MUST be parallel track for the iron to read it. If you didn't have the parallel track symbol next to that piece of track when you built it the gridiron will ignore it.
You can run multiple grid irons into a station, but each can only touch a track once per that side of the station. I tried to create a 6 lane system with 3, '2 track' Gridirons to save space, where the Gridirons were staggered from the outside track moving in, but as soon as one is placed on a track it will delete any other gridiron that's on that track, even if there was plenty of space to not overlap them.
Also Gridirons are final, yes you can demolish them, but once placed the earliest you can junction tracks into them is at the beginning (raised walkway with lights). You will not be able to slide a cheeky junction into the side of a gridiron.
Excellent comments. Thanks for contributing.
Спасибо, за то что Вы продолжаете нас учить! Даже если Вы повторяете что-то несколько раз, это интересно и полезно! И очень хорошо, что Вы не просто записываете свою игру, а рассматриваете все её тонкости.
I was almost about to rage quit and go back to the old game. I didnt cause this explanation helped me a lot and now i have fun with the game.
Glad to have been of service.
Lots of helpful info tips as usual, i have been helped out of alot of trouble and conjestion spots playing for a month....good show...you are liked and subscribed...thanks👍
Glad to help!
You should also mention that you can have up to 5 track planned now, look at the arrows in the track planning window.
I'm aware. Haven't found I needed it, but I guess I could look at an option, realized I can't afford it and move somewhere else on plan 2, build and come back to 1. Will try to work this into mission 3, assuming I remember.
Great info! The platform costs and the gridiron distance are great!
Glad to have been of service.
One thing I've noticed is that on cities like Toledo (the northernmost end) where the inner city (green area) isn't in the middle of the outer city (red area) you can end up having the station platforms end outside of the city boundaries and have issues with connecting them to lines later. Not sure it happens every time, but I had it happen to me yesterday, so maybe something to keep in mind.
I haven't hit that problem yet, but can see how it could happen.
hey, new to the game and just playing through the campaign and struggling to get lines to match and set routes, also how to connect more lines to others that are already down. this was an awsome tutorial thank you
Glad you found the video useful. Enjoy the game.
You can build inside the red of the city, as long as your tracks start and finish inside of the red and are connected to your existing tracks. By connected, even on the side and not actually connected works so you can continue the track out of the city without actually connecting to the tracks, giving a great bypass lane that works really well
Great tips thanks!
If I am understanding you correctly parallel tracks not having an actual switch connecting them can go inside the red area of a city? That’s huge if true!
😅I don't get it
I will try to demonstrate this in an upcoming video, assuming I remember.
Oh! ADVANCED TIP: Since the AI places all signals and you can't place them now, you should be careful when you DO make track merges to see where the signals are. In your example near the end, you made a perfect merge concerning where the existing signals are, since the is no 'short' signal that can cause a block.
Good point.
When making tracks merge, as in two different lines, do it by where you've got the switches for the sidetracks? Is that right?
@@thatoneguychad420 I originally thought that when merging lines that you should look at the auto-signals the game had already placed and merge to those points.
BUT, Adekyn's one problem was at a supply tower where a train was blocking crossing--and that's not solvable simply by a merge at a signal. Rather you have to know how many trains could be waiting once ONE trains needs supply, and then merge way back behind that point. (In a given direction.)
So do NOT merge too closely to things that cause a train to stop!
Which also goes back to RE1 and the 'Jan Jansen' where on a rural station return line, you would manually jam in a bunch of signals, so the empty engine could fit in. Now with auto-signals, EACH engine is going to take a full train block, so you have to be VERY careful not to make a rural station return line too short. Or else to be VERY sure you are never putting more than 3 (I'd say) trains on it--because the last one could get hung out on the main line blocking it.
No Jan Jansen’s 😱 - I feel we need a collective protest to Kalypso 😂
Great videos on Railway Empire 2 so far! Warehouse in every station near goods or a few 3 station warehouse hubs, I have not decided yet. maybe the campaign maps will decide for me. liked and subbed, keep dropping the great content!
Glad you enjoy the videos. Welcome aboard. I suggest you make a point of reading the video comments. Lots of great stuff from our little community.
6:40 about needing two points. While you seem to start from track or station, you definitely can end the track anywhere you want. Just RMB and press build.
I use it quite often if accidently connected complex track to a wrong platform. Just add random peace near the part you want to redo and game now allows you to destroy only small part instead of all track.
You are correct. You can stub out track that doesn't connect on one end. We do that in the video. I wasn't clear enough. You need two points to make a line. You can't run a train line from one point to nothing.
A tip for a future episode: On the Personnel screens, if you set Training to 200% and the one (not sure of the name) one up from the bottom for an extra 10%, then you get the full 150% bonus for those people. (Be sure to do it on all the screens!)
It's kinda like you found in the Japan DLC and the way you just always chose the one thing for the passengers since it overwhelmed everything else--the small cost for the personnel now is just set them like this and forget 'em.
Yes. I was thinking about spending a lot on staff to maximize the bonus. Is that combo of training and whatever the most cost effective combo for reaching 150%? I will add that to campaign mission 2 part two.
@@Adekyn100 Not sure if it's the most cost effective,. just that it's easy to remember and do.
EDIT additional comment: I am NOT playing RE2, I saw someone else in a vid or stream tweak those settings and come up with that and it gave the max bonus; not real sure which person it was to give credit to if it turns out to be the most cost effective and useful! (As I've watched a bunch of different things to get a real sense if this is a game for me.)
You're still my go-to to know the inner workings!
I don't know what is most cost effective overall yet, but it seems 200% training and 120% Employee Welfare will get you to 125% for marginally cheaper than 200% training and 110% wages.
I use the single track, RE1 style rural stations quite a lot. The 50.000 less money is a lot, and I can always expand to two tracks later. The only downside to doing this is that we can't do the very small signal distances of RE1 - the Jan Janssens I think you called them - so we must have enough space for any waiting trains
Yep. I miss the Jan Jansens, not so much for the functionality, but for the nostalgia.
Fantastic guide!
Thanks. Glad you found it useful.
Sometimes I use the topography to have a train go downhill when fully loaded from a rural station as when it returns empty the uphill part does not impact the train speed that much
Good idea.
@@Adekyn100 Oh, and by the way. I have received a response back from the developers that the waypoints are not working as intended as of 26/06/2023. They are going to fix them in an upcoming patch.
You can daisy chain stations together to move them out of the city core.
Funny you should say that, I was just wondering if that would work. Will give it a try, maybe part three of the second mission.
@@Adekyn100 it is fairly annoying/time consuming to do. But I’ve had some success doing it as part of my effort to keep my raw goods warehouse network separate from my point-to-point finished goods and passenger network on the full USA map. Though given that it can be done one wonders why the developers don’t just allow stations to be placeable within the whole city limits while keeping the “no through tracks within city limits” rule (despite how ahistorical this is)
In understand this is a video on the fundamentals. I have an idea you should test for the not-so-obivious trips-n-tricks video you mentioned. In RE1, there was a great game mechanic where you could build stations up as high as practical on a hill. Engines with no cars attached, did not slow down when climbing a steep 20% grade but did accelerate faster when going back down the slope with a full load of cars. So, stations built at rural resources could benefit from being placed up high on the side of a hill. A full freight train would fly out of the station placed on a slope. Can you test if empty/full train mechanic still applies in RE2?
The loaded / unloaded speed of trains is definitely there.
Excellent video. I got so used to the automation that it didnt even occur to me to stub out lines to min/max the use of signal stations @14:50 - 16:30 learning more and more about the subtitle changes that encourage more of the design management rather then settling for set it and forget it (which is an option but you could lose out on better long term effects).
Thanks. Glad you liked it. It's Railway Empire, but it's not.
@@Adekyn100 Indeed. Reminds me of the Star Wars quote from Yoda "You must unlearn what you have learned" Which is adding to the enjoyment of RE2 for me at least
Nice vid. I'd suggest you chapter your videos for players looking for other tips but already know a bunch of the basics. Also personal preference but instead of having to press H for contours you can change the game settings to turn contours on by default when laying tracks.
Good suggestion about the chapters. I've considered defaulting to contours; kind of on the fence right now, but will probably change at some point.
I think it is worth noting that Grid iron and assigning specific tracks doesn't play well together. It's like the RE1 autostations. I believe you assigned specific tracks at one point in the first campaign mission. The trains seem to priorities based on the assignment, but will use other tracks if the assigned track is not available. So if you want to feed multiple cities from a rural station using multiple lines, the manual intersection with one or more sidetracks is stil possible, even though you cannot shorten the distance between stop lights.
Yes, took me a while to realize that track assignments don't mean a thing when combined with the gridiron, which is basically making an auto-signal station like in Railway Empire.
Great video love how you laid that track dude bro
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Listening to you is like listening to a calm Stone Cold Steve Austin teach me about railway empires 2
I've heard the Steve Austin voice comparison a few times.
Great video, as usual. @17:40 I would definitely use the bottom pair of the 4 lanes for that connection out of Toledo, the way you used the top 2, you have basically blocked the other 2 platforms from that side. If you use the bottom 2, later on, if you wanted you could come out the top.
Does it really matter whether the building of a station faces inwards or outwards? Not really for me. As long as the direction of the tracks point to the correct cardinal points where you want to take the railway lines. But that's how I play it. Adekyn is really a top player.
@@AraRoodbuik It matters if you do NOT use all 8 tracks immediately. As you or the AI may place a building in the town that stops you from using any unused-tracks later on.
@@pterrok5495 No building or industry can ever be built in front of your station's tracks. They are automatically kept free. The only obstacle to placing a station is the nuisance of the existing buildings or industries in a city. It makes no difference whether the building of a station faces inwards or outwards. The total width of the station remains the same. I speak for myself. I never had any problems with it in Railway Empire 1.
@@AraRoodbuik Ah! What if you were to build on the edge of the circle with the tracks pointing inward? The AI could still build in the way of your unlaid outgoing tracks? (Just not the lines on your station.)
So station is going EW, and the expansion to the S for your 8 tracks is locked to you. BUT, if you want to later lay tracks to the W, could future AI building block you? Which would be why you want to get IN to the circle instead of being on the edge.
@@AraRoodbuik absolutely not true. You can absolutely build a station that only has room to build 1 track when there are businesses or city buildings in the city. IF you make sure there are room for the 8 tracks when you build the station. AND IF no one puts another station OR City Building OR Business in the way of those yet Tobe built tracks.
Adekyn had to knock down a station in the 'Let's Learn Together' series because the game bulit a business where he could not expand tracks and rebuild the station. It can easily happen, I've had it happen more than once in the 3 campaigns I am playing. I have purposely blocked opponents so they can't expand as well.
Hi Adekyn. In one of your videos, have you explained how you can use tunnels or bridges to cross other tracks? I think I saw it mentioned in one of them but cannot find it. Maybe the subject of a new fundamentals video.
When I get a minute, Track Layout 201 is on the horizon.
Love your Railway Empire series, but I would like if you could please decrease the in-game volume or improve the sound quality. Thanks for your content anyways :)
Glad you enjoy the videos. The sound is very difficult to get right for this game. I'm still working on getting decent levels without having to edit the system sounds for every second of every video. Work in progress.
@@Adekyn100 you can move your mic closer to your mouth to reduce the room noise
rocky mountains not possible to completely avoid the mountains for example to get from salt lake city to grand junction you need to go up in elevation quite a bit and you may need to slowly go down the mountain even if it adds a few miles to the journey if you want to avoid tunnels and bridges anyways
Yep.
Thank you so much for all of this, it is helped me a lot getting used to the console version.
I do have one question. A lot of times when I'm trying to set up a rail line it won't let me pick my second City because it says that my stations are not connected.
However, they are connected I just don't know why the game was thinking they are not. Or I don't know what I'm missing
Usually in that case you are missing switches (gridiron) and/or signals.
@@Adekyn100 thank you for responding. It's definitely something to do with the signals and the directions the tracks are going, I just can't figure out exactly what it is.
I'll keep messing with it. Thank you again for the videos.
How do you set track direction on a single track? I am in the tutorial; I have placed stations where they said to, built single tracks for each station, and built supply towers. I created a separate freight train to go to each station. The tutorial will not unpause. I have even made a double track and set the opposite directions; the tutorial remains paused. I want to learn how to run this game, but I have spent more time on this tutorial than expected.
As you say it's a tutorial, so as best you can, do exactly what the tutorial tells you to do exactly when it tells you to do it and do nothing else. Resist the temptation to deviate or see how this would work or that would work. The tutorial is scripted and expects the user to follow along rather precisely. If this doesn't help, send me a friend request on Steam and I will watch you play and help you work through this.
@@Adekyn100 I am trying to do precisely as it is asking. The previous page had me build a single track to lumber and grain. I created the stations and built the track the way they said to. This page wanted me to add a train route. I did so and added the supply tower. It states that I need to check the train direction, and once the goods get to Sacramento, it will continue. I have done everything it asked for, and it is still paused, so because of that, nothing is being delivered, so it can't move on. I play on an Xbox Series X. Does that matter?
Sorry, forgot to reply again. I don't think you can screen share through Steam if you are on Xbox. It 's been a few days, did you get your issues worked out?
Very helpful thx 👍
Glad it helped
In the first game, you have to hold CNTRL and click on the line to put signals all the way along the track to space apart your trains. Is that gone now, or did you forget? Also, do you think it's better to buy the game from GOG or Steam?
RE2 has automatic signals. You set the direction for the track by clicking on it and the game sets the signals.
Why double track from Baker Terminal to Toledo though? Wouldn't a small setup like that just require a single track? Or should all lines have a double track?
I tend to double-track everything, but in RE2 especially some line can work as single track. However, we can't set our own signals and there is no such thing as non-directional signals, so a single track line needs to come into a dedicated platform at the city and tends to defeat the money-saving purpose of not double tracking.
We can see the arrow pointer just fine. No need to spin it in circles around whatever object you're talking about.
Thanks for the feedback.
I’m new to trains but kinda pro to this type of games… is my mid-endgame map supposed to be a bunch of tracks looping OR a big Web/Roots of tracks?
There is no "supposed to" answer. You are free to make the lines what you want. There are lots of very effective designs including city to city with warehouses in the cities, rural warehouses with routes to various cities, goods taken directly from a raw material source to multiple cities, dedicated passenger lines or not, and on and on. Each of these options will result in different looking track layouts but each could work effectively.
Im struggling to get my freight trains on their designated track. I cant get them from attaching them to my passenger track. Any help allocating to different tracks ?
way points. I'm making a fundamentals video right now. I will included some way points on it.
@@Adekyn100 il make sure to check it out. It's been bugging me for a bit haha
Ryan, I made a fundamentals video specific to this issue. Thanks for the inspiration.
ua-cam.com/video/sUDzlVgn968/v-deo.html
If there are multiple stations in a city, can goods move between them, or if not, can it be made to happen by putting a warehouse with the same goods in the other station(s)?
I intend to do a second warehouse fundamentals video showing transfer of goods within the city to allow trains from multiple stations to take the goods on down the line.
I had some issue with the grid iron on the corner so i built it manually and it seemed to work fine also.
Did you retain access to all the platforms? (Trying to figure out if the gridiron has the logic for platform use or the station does.)
@Adekyn I hadn't thought of that. I ran a little test and no the trains automatically selecting a free platform is not present. It would have to be set up that way through the station preference in the rail line interface.
The grid iron it's self must be what does that which makes sense I suppose.
Glad you said something. Thanks
Hmmm. Actually this is useful information. I may well be able to use this to my advantage, so I can control platform usage, something I prefer over "take any available platform".
For sure. Can do the point to point with 2 resources and one set of tracks.
Glad your making videos for this game. For some reason the only videos of another person playing I can watch is Adekyn with railway empire.
What about level crossings, can you still build them in RE2..?
Yes, you can. Forgot to show them. They will come up along the line somewhere in a video, not sure when right now.
@@Adekyn100 Great! In RE you couldn’t build a parallel level crossing without slightly offsetting one of the tracks. Has this been improved in RE2 and does it work with more than two parallel tracks?
Does anybody happen to know the meaning behind "quality" and "efficiency" for employees? I haven't done any testing on this yet and would rather avoid doing tests if somebody already knows. Apologies if this is in the video; I commented before I had a chance to watch.
I was wondering the same thing. Anybody?
@@Adekyn100 After playing around with it a bit, I think Efficiency is the thing that really matters for the effect employees give you and Quality is just a factor that goes into Efficiency. Quality effects Efficiency in a more straightforward way than I expected. If Quality is over 100%, then you can take the amount you are over 100% and cut it in half; that will give you the change to Efficiency. This works the same way with Quality below 100% reducing Efficiency. Efficiency seems to range from 75% to 125% so Quality will not push it above or below this.
Here's what I observe by looking at the values that come up when I play around with the numbers. This is not always exact due to the game rounding the bonus/penalty values. It seems like the game will usually round down for the number it displays. I'm not sure if it uses the rounded value or the calculated value behind the scenes though. The bonuses are always twice the penalty, so you are rewarded more for high efficiency than you are punished for low efficiency.
Efficiency change due to Quality = (Quality - 100%)/2
For Engineers:
If Efficiency > 100%:
Maintenance bonus = (Efficiency - 100%) * 2
If Efficiency < 100%
Maintenance penalty = Efficiency - 100%
For Stokers:
If Efficiency > 100%:
Speed bonus = (Efficiency - 100%) / 2
If Efficiency < 100%:
Speed penalty = (Efficiency - 100%) / 4
For Train Personnel:
If Efficiency > 100%:
Ticket price increase = (Efficiency - 100%) / 2.5
If Efficiency < 100%:
Ticket price decrease = (Efficiency - 100%) / 5
For Security Guards:
If Efficiency > 100%:
Revenue increase for freight and mail = (Efficiency - 100%) / 2.5
If Efficiency < 100%:
Revenue decrease for freight and mail = (Efficiency - 100) / 5
Thank you
My pleasure.
I'm finding the game runs pretty bad around laid track...what's up with that?
Occasionally there are disconnected tracks when you use busy, tight intersections. Is that what you mean? I've had basically zero issues with performance except for the High Voltage DLC which does have some lag issues; not game killers, but annoying nonetheless.
@@Adekyn100 No, I believe I found the issue. When I attempt to lay track, specifically track that I cannot afford, the UI breaks, and the performance drops through the floor. The track laying UI won't let me adjust the track, and when I delete the design I cannot lay track again. The lag spike happens _only_ where I placed track I couldn't afford.
@@commodorejones8044 Are you on a console?
@@Adekyn100 PC
I think the lag is specific to when I place _long_ sections of track I cannot afford. From one point to another.
Anyone knows what is that Track Planning 1/5 thing is for??
Do you have a timestamp of where that shows up in the video?
@@Adekyn100 @4:57 is the first time you open the Track Construction tool in this video.
To plan multiple track route at once. But the route is no longer visible once you switch so its useless
@@GODVxXxV I've used it when I'm short on money - say I've laid 300k worth of track and instead of waiting for 300k I can continue making smaller connections (with option 2/5) that would net a quicker return until I get to build that 1/5. But yeah, overall it's not the most useful functionallity 😄
@@GODVxXxV really don’t get how the devs flubbed this feature so bad. Seems pretty obvious the plans should be able to build on each other/use the geometry of prior planned stages.
They didn’t include Detroit and Ann Arbor in Michigan?😢😢😢
There's no Huntington in WV either; absolutely shameful.
eugh dithering.. kids, when making tutorial videos have a notepad beside you with your plan set out. follow your plan line by line.
Thanks for the feedback.
I am such a noob I didn't even know there was an option to have infinite money.
Sandbox mode.
@@Adekyn100 thanks! you're the man!
I really wanted to know the rules when and when not trains can turn around. Because that's confusing AF.
I think that one is simple. The can turn around when they stop at a station and need to go back out the way they came in. Otherwise, they can't turn around and will work their way to a station to turn around if need be. If you have some message about the train is going to such and such a station solely to turn around that usually means you need to make sure you have all your switches (junctions) in place and have directions set all along the line.
@@Adekyn100 I ended up making dead-end stations that are all connected to a larger "superhighway". Not terribly bad but definitely a little wasteful.
I'm 100 percent convinced this game is bugged out. I have a huge railway line making tons of money. Started a new game and couldn't connect any station to littaraly anything. Very very upsetting
I've encountered almost zero bugs, but maybe I've been lucky.
@@Adekyn100 I guess I'm just really jot understandanding gridlines and station setup.... I'm just not getting the concept of having many that work perfectly but adding another station and product makes it say there is an issue
Topography view
What about it?
nice vid. get better mic mate. :)
I have a great mic. I had issues with some of the earlier Railway Empire 2 videos including this one. Somehow the mic got turned backward, believe it or not. Since corrected.
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Train good.
Great job explaining the basics! Keep it up please!
Glad you found the video helpful.
First game it use to be 2 stations per city. So, if you didn't want the competitors going into the city. Cause they had a nasty habit of putting their station, so it blocks yours. I used to put 2 stations in every city to prevent them from moving in. After I had the network established across the US I used the second station for freight to keep the express trains running at full speed. Haven't done that in the second game.
I really like RE2, but if it has a tragic flaw it is that the AI competitors don't do anything. In RE, if you didn't plan for blocking out competitors by building 2 stations on many of the scenarios the competitors would expand and make your life miserable. In RE2, nothing.
Thanks for this!
My pleasure.
Big help
Thnx mate
My pleasure.