Hi, this tutorial is intended to guide you right through from Beginner to Advanced and might even have some tips for the Pro's too! It took 4 attempts to record this and I spent the whole day trying to make it 5am to 2am the next day!!! So I really hope it helps. Any advice, correction or ideas you might have are welcome, so please share your thoughts in the comments 🙏
I recently found out I'm autistic, and, I have to tell you that this tutorial makes me want to actually scratch that itch. I've got the ADHD also, so the train engines were always too intense for me to pick up, but I've always loved the containers. I'm gonna build a container house for my dream home one day. Anyway, thank you for the details.
Excellently done on the city management; terrible on the rail company front. This is mainly due to 3 factors so don't take it too harshly. 1) Rail lines 2) Personnel 3) Strengths/Weaknesses 1: A standard rule of thumb is to have 1.5 trains to 1 rail line (on extremely long double routes you can comfortably put 2 to 1 until better trains come along). So when you are putting 8 trains on two lines all you've successfully done is make the congestion much worse. When you upgrade to warehouses you effectively put yourself in a position that requires almost double the traffic thus requiring more platforms if one wants to have seamless traffic since you can load and operate multiple trains at once. That would have been a severe improvement to your income despite your perpetually low amounts of cash. 2: The Entrepreneur, Gangster, and even secretly the Engineer are all Personnel kingpins in their own way. It must be stated that if optimized correctly any particular section of personnel will have consistent bonuses that may have domino effects later on. A cash bonus for example is a flat 10% boost for a small amount of time and thus not very worth it in the long run. Why pay 4000$ for a one month bonus of 10% when you can pay a constant wage of 3000-3500$ with a constant 15%? [] --The Entrepreneur is all about service bonuses if one grabs the first two side techs (upholstery/whistle) then you would gain a permanent +25-30% passengers on trains. If one has a workable passenger/mail route then it would be remiss to not equip the central train station with a restaurant and a mall for a total of +35% passenger income. We then get spicy since all personnel under her has an extra +5% income to passenger inherently we could pay better training/wages/etc to get our staff to produce an extra +15% (20% in total) of passenger income. Thus every train, from an extremely early part of the game has +25-30% more passengers and +55% income per passenger. Express lines give +65% income now. [] --The Gangster is all about poaching the staff out from the other companies to give them constant money drains (via recruitment), extra sabotage actions via better paid sabotuers, and of course give himself some slight boosts to everything in turn. Really he is all about having better paid personnel than everyone and through blackmail have enough cash on hand to buy any tech bonuses that his opponents cannot afford. This is to make up for his horrible start up costs. [] --The Engineer is all about the transportation of goods as quickly and efficiently as possible. He is perfect for your warehouse mania as he can rather cheaply extend, build, remove, and build again every railway in your empire. Now why is he secretly good when he clearly is rude enough that many people don't like riding his trains (at least compared to the charming Entrepreneur)? Because he makes all maintenance 10% better and cheaper. If combo'd with better engineers this means a -25% need for maintenance and in combo with good stokers a +15% to all train speeds. As you tech up these good stokers will consistently outperform all other competition, maintain express line status empire wide (thus more income), and consistently deliver at least 1 or 2 more loads of goods before needing repairs (thus more income). 3: As you have said you have tried this 4 times already and thus were trying to make the perfect demonstration, but via impulsiveness or overthinking you kept ending up tripping yourself at various times (again not judging). It would probably be better for you to either write a simple outline to keep your thoughts on track or alternatively just fill the blanks in your thoughts with hilarious trivia or game tips while passing the time. The 1st makes you professional and the 2nd makes you human so go with whatever works for your style. As for any frustration with viewership......maybe some marketing or a flashy intro? Do something the other 10 million people arent doing and everyone will know you. Thankfully, you have done well and kept your head this whole game despite how tired you are. While the lessons on city buildings were less than i liked you actually explained those mechanics and also trade mechanics far more in depth than most youtubers so congratz!!
I have found so many times that the people doing the walkthrough really DONT KNOW THE GAME and learn while they make the video. I find this very frustrating. I have the first game and love it. Your video was well done and you actually knew at least enough to be informative. I applaud you because I feel the other guys are paid by the game devs to do a review on a game they know nothing about, but say it's a "great" game ( whether it is or not... it's what they get paid for 🙄). Much of what you described is similar to the strategies needed in the first game. But is also very useful for someone who has never played this series before. But 2 has changed some things on how the system works. You described this rather well. Thank you and job well done!! 👍
An excellent tutorial. Having watched it from beginning to end I feel far more confident now to buy the game and having at least half a clue what I'm supposed to be doing! Thanks.
Mike, that was really fun content. You're enjoyable to listen to, and I'm just getting into this game. Way back I loved Railroad Tycoon series, and this game caught my eye. I've seen many streams of gameplay and tutorials, but none came close to being as captivating and educational as yours. I kept wanting to see you connect up the corn needed. I watched the entire stream, I kept pausing as I was interrupted at the house here, but like a good movie, I had to come back and finish it to the end. Excellent demonstration of a challenging game to understand. I liked how you started with one track going - I kept building 2 and really spent out money too quickly when 1 track (didn't know 1 track handled back and forth and multiple trains) so big learning on that simple concept. Thanks for your effort and time spent! You should be one of the streams getting 100k + views!
As I dude who last played a game like this when Locomotion (2005?) came out, thank you! I'm thoroughly intimidated by the complexity of this game and firmly lost trying to figure it out. Tremendous help!
First of all this gentleman's video is spot on. He named the video prefect. With out your video I would have walked away from an amazing game. Thank you so much for this after watching your video I totally understand the game now the tutorial the game provides isn't nothing compared to yours. Everything you spoke on covered the game spot on. Thank you again for the wonderful video 👍
Hey that's brilliant news, thanks so much for your comment. I'm learning new things everytime thatI play; so will try and update my findings in the future
I almost skipped this because of how long it is. I’m SO glad I watched it. So helpful. It answered so many questions I had. I really enjoy your presentation as well. Laid back and calm. I subbed.
Awesome content. I dont know yet personally but I’m sure this is going to help me tremendously as I’ve restarted about 5 games due to driving my company into the ground from lack of knowledge how the game works. Later tonight I will start a new game fresh and put your tutorial to work. I am absolutely NOT the kind of person that ever goes out of my way to comment on videos in such detail but I feel this video will help me a lot and just having watched it, I have already learned a lot that I plan to put to use. Thanks for the great tutorial.
I was very skeptical at the title, but after watching it I very much appreciate what you showed us, thank you for taking the time to make a video that explains pretty much everything.
Very nice and consistent commentary. Good video. Thank you. Incidentally you can run a two line long rail to a eight line station with an eight line gridiron. This allows more trains to get into the station and unload/load without the need to run so many parallel lines.
Thank you so very much for taking the time to post this well thought out tutorial. You're a lifesaver. I haven't made it through the whole thing yet but from what I've seen its aces. Keep doing what you're doing. You've got a new subscriber from Pennsylvania.
This video was absolutely brilliant and honestly the company should empty you to make their tutorials in future! Been playing on and off for a couple of weeks and realise now how clueless I've been. Great work man, keep it up 😊
You're more than welcome, you helped me a lot in RE1 and I hope you don't misinterpret my comments; I certainly meant no offense. I would love to hear any thoughts, recommendations or improvements you might have :-)
Great tutorial! I think it is the best way for these kind of games, OK i have played RE1, but still, where one just plays and makes things in his way. I got many tips and tricks just by looking 10mins. Railway empire campaing has same problem that first one did, if you dont design everything good from beginning, one will suffer from that to very end, if not just demolish stuff. I might be even too "purist" while restarting the game over and over again. But yeah thanks. And btw, with this tutorial you got me subscribed. Keep it coming!
I am about an hour into this and love the ideas you bring. The biggest issue (not really an issue at all) is that you're playing this save as the campaign, but the campaign NYC has the AI in it already. Also some of the demands and requests do not line up. I understand this is not a campaign tutorial though. For new people coming in they make think it is and try to apply your methods, which won't exactly work. Quite brilliant video, I've learned several new things (first track free) which have me adjusting my way of thinking. Thanks!!!
Yes you're spot on, it isn't the campaign....if you watch my first campaign playthrough you would see why lol I was terrible & still learning every time I play.
When you stagnated waiting for money to upgrade the grain and rejig the lines near Albany you could of spent your research sooner. Could of got some decent perks to earn more, speed up the trains, lower maintenance etc etc. Overall great vid, learnt a few decent tips. Thank you!
Hi, I'm really enjoying watching this video, I'm about an hour in and didn't realise the game was so in depth, although your explanations are really good, I haven't bought the game yet, but it feels like I'm already playing it, thanks
FYI, Express refers to what cargo the train will load (Passengers and Mail). Freight = goods. Automatic means it will load all cargo types awaiting transport at the station.
Not quite. Express actually means it is the quickest way to get from a to b....regardless of what it is carrying. If a faster train beats you from a to b, you will lose the tag Express and will only regain it once you claim the fastest route again.
Started playing this on Xbox a few days ago and am starting to get a grasp of things but the in-game tutorial was pretty awful in explaining things. I'm only about a quarter of the way through the video at the moment but can already tell this is a far far better tutorial which explains everything much better and makes things a lot clearer.
Great video and now I have to buy the game :D I have been playing TT , TTDLX and OpenTTD since they came out respectively and never really got in any other rail tycoon games but RE2 looks very nice for some relaxed gaming. Got RE1 on Epic for free but it never really managed to draw me in and also Railroad Tycoon series didn't do much for me. P.S. I don't know for everybody else but those seaguls and waves are sometimes bit loud for me. Maybe little less volume on environmental FX but great video and tutorial in general. Thank you.
Can't quite believe, I've just finished watching all 2 hrs 54 min of the video, thoroughly enjoyable, as I said after an hour, just need to buy the game now and try myself 😁 Next stop New York to 100,000 👍 many thanks, I can see myself returning to the video when it all goes wrong 😂😂
Having watched almost an hour when I realised you wasn't doing the 1st campaign.. some useful ideas however when you start moving inland ie albeny and buffalo, it makes it impossible to keep with the idea of an express line all the way round.. but some useful tips none the less. Thanks
Regarding all the times you mentioned "It would be cool if this would be an option" I got to say: Kalypso isn't a half bad studio, they CAN be kind of competent with the things they do but they're not the most, let's say ... industrious guys and gals. They've shown, with pretty much EVERYTHING they released, that they will take the shortcut and avoid as much additional work as possible. Don't know if this will change after Koch Media was bought by Embracer (and therefor Kalypso changing to Embracer too) but I honestly doubt it. Kalypso is all about the quick casual games, not about the complex, in depth core gaming experience therfor streamlining >>> giving users actual options
@@SimUKReviews Not ment to slam them at all, it's a viable way to operate as a company in this industry, just came to my mind that 'hopes' for more complex gameplay are pretty much void in regards of Kalypso *gg*
Cheers Paul, the challenge is still real; as you will hopefully see in this tut. IF they add optional manual signalling and zoom out commands, I think it will feel almost identical; with some really good additional components and build tools. Not sure if weapons were in the first game????
@@SimUKReviews Thanks for the reply, what I personally like is laying tracks and watching the trains and doing ride alongs, I enjoy linking up the farms, etc but the city building is secondary to me. Any chance of a video showing just different trains travelling a route? Good Luck with you channel, you deserve a bigger audience.
Thank you so much for showcasing this game. Now that it has been few months. What do you think about the game? Is it a true spiritual successor to the classic games? I'm an old gamer who remembers and still plays classic games like Railroad Tycoon 2 and Railroad Tycoon 3 which were released by Pop Top Software back in 1998 and 2003. Those games were classic railway business simulation games with a complex economy, stock market, train management, AI competitors and more. After 20 odd years, I feel we have a true successor to those games, but I would love to know your thoughts. The fact that you have AI competitors is fantastic. The graphics are incredible. Looks like you have terrains that change with seasons as we see snow covered lands in winter months. You have regular financial reports and a complex economy that is dynamic as play the game. The only thing missing a complex stock market system, which were present in the old games - Railroad Tycoon 2 and Railroad Tycoon 3. The developer also released a roadmap on features that would be added. So all in all, us Train business management game fans have a next gen game at last!
Hi, welcome 🙏 I'd say yes. Especially once we get back the manual signalling. Staff management seems to be a pointless exercise, but otherwise I'd say this has hours and hours of complex management style track creation....it is extremely morish and once the bugs are ironed out it will be an absolute pleasure to play. Hope that alleviates your concerns. PS: there is a semi-detailed stock market, but with just opponents stocks and four others.
Something that really bugs me about this game: as someone who lives in Albany, NY... we dont pronounce it like a guy named Al, we pronounce it like the word "all." Well, quite a few of us pronounce it "awb'ny" anyway. Fun fact: the train station in albany irl is actually across the hudson river in another city, Rensselaer.
Thank you, glad it helped. There are many advantages to having a faster train, more profit in less time being the primary one....but also lower repair and maintenance costs.
Are you telling me you can or asking me IF you can? I don't think you can no, but you Could build a second WH (like an expansion) and hold more goods that way?
Thanks for the video. I did not play RE 1 so it is all new to me but, but I am getting there. The main problem I am having at the moment, for some reason with my warehouses not taking the goods in to pass on to other warehouses, but working on it. On another subject one thing that I do not understand though is, and I hope it is not to daft a question. It seemed that you and other streamers do some new routes in one direction and other new routes in both directions. Such as, on one route from A to B, or A to B and C. But another routes it would be A to B then B back to A. Or A to B then to C, then back to B and A. So I am wondering what the difference is for? I can understand the reasoning when going just from an industry such as a farm to a city, but not from a city to another city.
Thanks Len. I'm working on adding more chapters to help people find answers to questions I this video, but I spent a while explaining precisely why some goods don't reach their location and how to resolve it. As for routes, it is often instinctive, but shoukd be led in part by the needs outlined in the city info panel....so how many people want to go where and how much of that business you currently get. When it comes to goods and freight, the idea is to ensure a) you're producing enough and b) you have enough locomotives and also that they are not waiting too long for a platform anywhere along the route....sometimes you want goods taken from B to reach both A and C, so you would double back to B to pick up more goods. Hope that helps?
Those other UA-camrs (in my opinion) aren't really explaining things well for new beginnings. I hardly know anything what's going on lol. I'm hoping you. This game is like RIGHT up my alley but I have no idea wtf I'm doing lmao.
I also listened to others and always came away with as many questions as I had going in. That might not have been the same questions, but with every answer it brought more questions. With this tutorial the pace and thorough explanations I have learned so much that I actually feel like I will be successful.
I love this game, but being from the east coast, I’m so angry they didn’t even include Rhode Island! From Boston it skips right on thru to NY! My Grandpa worked on the railroad his whole life in RI. Ah well, anyways…
Hey bud, im about halfway through the video, im really enjoying the perspective and ideas you have. If i could make just 1 constructive criticism, the balance of your volume to game volume is just a little game heavy, a little hard to hear you at times. Other than that, fantastic content of the video
Depends on your finances and expected number of connections. I'm learning everytime I play and my thoughts on this change depending on needs. First track is free, so over time you can add more, it is dependant really on how many connections will be required.
I bought this game a couple of years ago, Railway Empire I bought the complete scenario set, It was just a waste of money and time, I couldn't even connect the trains in different citys, I would much rather play Sweet Transit it's easy and user friendly.
Your production or supply does not meet the restriction you have placed on the train.....so if you say don't leave until all wagons are full, and there is no demand it will never fill.
@@SimUKReviews This is not about restrictions. I've already come up with it. If the city doesn't need a commodity for example coal then there is such a message :) But thanks :)
I just started playing rail way empire 2 and was extremely confused on everything it was a over load of information and when it kept saying “incomplete station” I was angry and stopped playing (wrote this before watching) I hope this helps me
@@SimUKReviews 1. Be consistent laying tracks. Lay track, add gridirons if needed, set directions if needed, add supply tower/s, set up rail line. This way you will not forget important things 2. Do not set rail lines carrying just freight to Mixed as you pay to have a conductor on the train/s when you do not need one. 3. Spaming (+4) more trains when the route is already too congested. Try adding +2 first. 4. Do not be afraid to get into debt. Debt is your friend if you use it wisely. 5. You do not always have to use Gridirons. Two tracks can go to one platform especially at a rural station. 6. You do not have to use double tracks all the way. You can have a stretch of single, then a stretch of double track with a supply tower halfway between stations to allow trains to pass and get supplies then a final stretch of single track to the destination. Keeps expenses down at the start of a game. 7. Good try but I am sure you could do better. Thanks for making the video and bringing the game to the attention of more players.
One very important point. At 2:07 you add Clay to the Syracuse warehouse and say that as long as we can pick it up me might as well store it. This is fundamentally wrong. This is not how the warehouses work now. For goods to be taken to a warehouse they must have a destination city requiring the goods. You will notice that whenever a train is carrying freight, you can mouse over each of the 8 wagons and can see which city each individual wagon is destined for. This could be a city 3 steps down the warehouse chain. The train could be carrying goods destined for 4 or more different cities. Your statement was very misleading.
Thank you for your detailed recommendations. I feel I need to bring you up to speed on some of these points though; quick question before I do.....You say I added clay at Syracus in the first 2 mins....guess that is a typo? If you could point t me at it I can explain the logic.
Different countries use commas and periods to distinguish number groupings differently. However, for a game set to English, it seems it would use the standard UK/US notation, so probably a bug.
Pleasant style and informative, but, please, do some editing before you publish. Watching one or two changes to heights or trying different approaches is ok, but it becomes time wasting.
Except for warehouses now being able to be built in an actual city train station instead of being stand alone and the LACK of actual control over signals, I see NOTHING different about this version of the game from the original. Even the graphics aren't that much better. Might as well save some money and keep playing the old one.
Of course..! Suggest playing on a smaller map with less industries etc or try sandbox mode. The only thing with sandbox is that you don’t get a proper feel for the budgeting aspect. Helps you though get used to other things. IMO. I agree though I’m same as you not the only ones, also transport fever 2 is decent if you don’t already have it
If you are going to do a tutorial, maybe drop the sound effects and music. I managed 20 minutes then gave up. Its very distracting, and your voice isn't exactly the most powerful!
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Hi, this tutorial is intended to guide you right through from Beginner to Advanced and might even have some tips for the Pro's too!
It took 4 attempts to record this and I spent the whole day trying to make it 5am to 2am the next day!!!
So I really hope it helps.
Any advice, correction or ideas you might have are welcome, so please share your thoughts in the comments 🙏
I recently found out I'm autistic, and, I have to tell you that this tutorial makes me want to actually scratch that itch. I've got the ADHD also, so the train engines were always too intense for me to pick up, but I've always loved the containers. I'm gonna build a container house for my dream home one day. Anyway, thank you for the details.
Thank you Myron, my daughter is also Autistic, I hope it helps you moving forwards :-)
*Игра слишком багована. А глупый ИИ слишком глупый.Но за видео спасибо*
Excellently done on the city management; terrible on the rail company front. This is mainly due to 3 factors so don't take it too harshly.
1) Rail lines
2) Personnel
3) Strengths/Weaknesses
1: A standard rule of thumb is to have 1.5 trains to 1 rail line (on extremely long double routes you can comfortably put 2 to 1 until better trains come along). So when you are putting 8 trains on two lines all you've successfully done is make the congestion much worse. When you upgrade to warehouses you effectively put yourself in a position that requires almost double the traffic thus requiring more platforms if one wants to have seamless traffic since you can load and operate multiple trains at once. That would have been a severe improvement to your income despite your perpetually low amounts of cash.
2: The Entrepreneur, Gangster, and even secretly the Engineer are all Personnel kingpins in their own way. It must be stated that if optimized correctly any particular section of personnel will have consistent bonuses that may have domino effects later on. A cash bonus for example is a flat 10% boost for a small amount of time and thus not very worth it in the long run. Why pay 4000$ for a one month bonus of 10% when you can pay a constant wage of 3000-3500$ with a constant 15%?
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--The Entrepreneur is all about service bonuses if one grabs the first two side techs (upholstery/whistle) then you would gain a permanent +25-30% passengers on trains. If one has a workable passenger/mail route then it would be remiss to not equip the central train station with a restaurant and a mall for a total of +35% passenger income. We then get spicy since all personnel under her has an extra +5% income to passenger inherently we could pay better training/wages/etc to get our staff to produce an extra +15% (20% in total) of passenger income.
Thus every train, from an extremely early part of the game has +25-30% more passengers and +55% income per passenger. Express lines give +65% income now.
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--The Gangster is all about poaching the staff out from the other companies to give them constant money drains (via recruitment), extra sabotage actions via better paid sabotuers, and of course give himself some slight boosts to everything in turn. Really he is all about having better paid personnel than everyone and through blackmail have enough cash on hand to buy any tech bonuses that his opponents cannot afford. This is to make up for his horrible start up costs.
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--The Engineer is all about the transportation of goods as quickly and efficiently as possible. He is perfect for your warehouse mania as he can rather cheaply extend, build, remove, and build again every railway in your empire. Now why is he secretly good when he clearly is rude enough that many people don't like riding his trains (at least compared to the charming Entrepreneur)? Because he makes all maintenance 10% better and cheaper. If combo'd with better engineers this means a -25% need for maintenance and in combo with good stokers a +15% to all train speeds. As you tech up these good stokers will consistently outperform all other competition, maintain express line status empire wide (thus more income), and consistently deliver at least 1 or 2 more loads of goods before needing repairs (thus more income).
3: As you have said you have tried this 4 times already and thus were trying to make the perfect demonstration, but via impulsiveness or overthinking you kept ending up tripping yourself at various times (again not judging). It would probably be better for you to either write a simple outline to keep your thoughts on track or alternatively just fill the blanks in your thoughts with hilarious trivia or game tips while passing the time. The 1st makes you professional and the 2nd makes you human so go with whatever works for your style. As for any frustration with viewership......maybe some marketing or a flashy intro? Do something the other 10 million people arent doing and everyone will know you.
Thankfully, you have done well and kept your head this whole game despite how tired you are. While the lessons on city buildings were less than i liked you actually explained those mechanics and also trade mechanics far more in depth than most youtubers so congratz!!
Fantastic comment ❤
Lots to read through and process, but already picked out some great advice 👍
Many thanks 😊
Thanks a lot for your advice!
I have found so many times that the people doing the walkthrough really DONT KNOW THE GAME and learn while they make the video. I find this very frustrating.
I have the first game and love it. Your video was well done and you actually knew at least enough to be informative. I applaud you because I feel the other guys are paid by the game devs to do a review on a game they know nothing about, but say it's a "great" game ( whether it is or not... it's what they get paid for 🙄). Much of what you described is similar to the strategies needed in the first game. But is also very useful for someone who has never played this series before. But 2 has changed some things on how the system works. You described this rather well. Thank you and job well done!! 👍
Many thanks indeed Raymond.
An excellent tutorial. Having watched it from beginning to end I feel far more confident now to buy the game and having at least half a clue what I'm supposed to be doing! Thanks.
So glad you found it helpful.
Thank you for your comment.
Mike, that was really fun content. You're enjoyable to listen to, and I'm just getting into this game. Way back I loved Railroad Tycoon series, and this game caught my eye. I've seen many streams of gameplay and tutorials, but none came close to being as captivating and educational as yours. I kept wanting to see you connect up the corn needed. I watched the entire stream, I kept pausing as I was interrupted at the house here, but like a good movie, I had to come back and finish it to the end. Excellent demonstration of a challenging game to understand. I liked how you started with one track going - I kept building 2 and really spent out money too quickly when 1 track (didn't know 1 track handled back and forth and multiple trains) so big learning on that simple concept. Thanks for your effort and time spent! You should be one of the streams getting 100k + views!
Thanks Joe, just glad it is helping people out 😃
Thanks, very helpful in plain English too 👍
You're most welcome, so glad it helped :-)
As I dude who last played a game like this when Locomotion (2005?) came out, thank you! I'm thoroughly intimidated by the complexity of this game and firmly lost trying to figure it out. Tremendous help!
Brilliant, so glad it has helped. 😃
First of all this gentleman's video is spot on. He named the video prefect. With out your video I would have walked away from an amazing game. Thank you so much for this after watching your video I totally understand the game now the tutorial the game provides isn't nothing compared to yours. Everything you spoke on covered the game spot on. Thank you again for the wonderful video 👍
Hey that's brilliant news, thanks so much for your comment.
I'm learning new things everytime thatI play; so will try and update my findings in the future
@@SimUKReviews I can't wait for the update part of your video.Thank you again
I almost skipped this because of how long it is. I’m SO glad I watched it. So helpful. It answered so many questions I had. I really enjoy your presentation as well. Laid back and calm. I subbed.
Thank you so much, I worked hard on this tutorial.
Welcome 🙏
@@SimUKReviews It was clear that you did, and it’s appreciated. 💞
Awesome content. I dont know yet personally but I’m sure this is going to help me tremendously as I’ve restarted about 5 games due to driving my company into the ground from lack of knowledge how the game works. Later tonight I will start a new game fresh and put your tutorial to work. I am absolutely NOT the kind of person that ever goes out of my way to comment on videos in such detail but I feel this video will help me a lot and just having watched it, I have already learned a lot that I plan to put to use. Thanks for the great tutorial.
Thank you so much for your kind comment, I am glad you found it helpful.
Best of luck with your playthrough.
I was very skeptical at the title, but after watching it I very much appreciate what you showed us, thank you for taking the time to make a video that explains pretty much everything.
Thanks Kenneth!
There is much more to learn, I learn EVERYTIME I play...so hopefully one day I can improve on this a bit more. 😃
Время час 20, а толком ничего полезного...
Very nice and consistent commentary. Good video. Thank you. Incidentally you can run a two line long rail to a eight line station with an eight line gridiron. This allows more trains to get into the station and unload/load without the need to run so many parallel lines.
Thank you.
Yes, I did put something like that together towards the end of the video, but I noticed it has some issues in certain situations.
Thank you so very much for taking the time to post this well thought out tutorial. You're a lifesaver. I haven't made it through the whole thing yet but from what I've seen its aces. Keep doing what you're doing. You've got a new subscriber from Pennsylvania.
Hi Jason, thank you and welcome 🙏
I hope you find it helpful.
By far the best warehousing tutorial I have seen! Thanks!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks
Bit late but just picked up the game on Xbox 100% going to send this to my friends amazing help I hella enjoyed the longer style tutorial/guide
Fantastic, really hope it is useful and helpful.
This video was absolutely brilliant and honestly the company should empty you to make their tutorials in future!
Been playing on and off for a couple of weeks and realise now how clueless I've been.
Great work man, keep it up 😊
Hey thanks!
Glad you found it useful, happy playing!
Thanks for the shout out.
You're more than welcome, you helped me a lot in RE1 and I hope you don't misinterpret my comments; I certainly meant no offense.
I would love to hear any thoughts, recommendations or improvements you might have :-)
Great tutorial, can't believe i sat and watched it all....picked up some great tips thanks *****
I can't belive you watched it all 😆
Glad it helped.
Great vid! Was stuck on Campaign 4 till I watched. Never thought of using single tracks on RE1.
Generally a nice tutorial, you have informed me a bit and now I will be a master :D
Thanks, best of luck!
Great tutorial! I think it is the best way for these kind of games, OK i have played RE1, but still, where one just plays and makes things in his way. I got many tips and tricks just by looking 10mins. Railway empire campaing has same problem that first one did, if you dont design everything good from beginning, one will suffer from that to very end, if not just demolish stuff. I might be even too "purist" while restarting the game over and over again. But yeah thanks. And btw, with this tutorial you got me subscribed. Keep it coming!
Many thanks and welcome :-)
I am about an hour into this and love the ideas you bring. The biggest issue (not really an issue at all) is that you're playing this save as the campaign, but the campaign NYC has the AI in it already. Also some of the demands and requests do not line up. I understand this is not a campaign tutorial though. For new people coming in they make think it is and try to apply your methods, which won't exactly work.
Quite brilliant video, I've learned several new things (first track free) which have me adjusting my way of thinking. Thanks!!!
Yes you're spot on, it isn't the campaign....if you watch my first campaign playthrough you would see why lol I was terrible & still learning every time I play.
When you stagnated waiting for money to upgrade the grain and rejig the lines near Albany you could of spent your research sooner. Could of got some decent perks to earn more, speed up the trains, lower maintenance etc etc. Overall great vid, learnt a few decent tips. Thank you!
You are absolutely right!
If I have ANY excuse, it is tiredness...this was my 4th recording attempt in the same day :-)
Thank you for your kind words
Hi, I'm really enjoying watching this video, I'm about an hour in and didn't realise the game was so in depth, although your explanations are really good, I haven't bought the game yet, but it feels like I'm already playing it, thanks
Thanks Michael, a really good game if you like puzzle solving and management :-)
FYI, Express refers to what cargo the train will load (Passengers and Mail). Freight = goods. Automatic means it will load all cargo types awaiting transport at the station.
Not quite. Express actually means it is the quickest way to get from a to b....regardless of what it is carrying.
If a faster train beats you from a to b, you will lose the tag Express and will only regain it once you claim the fastest route again.
Started playing this on Xbox a few days ago and am starting to get a grasp of things but the in-game tutorial was pretty awful in explaining things. I'm only about a quarter of the way through the video at the moment but can already tell this is a far far better tutorial which explains everything much better and makes things a lot clearer.
Great news! Glad it is helping.
Great video and now I have to buy the game :D I have been playing TT , TTDLX and OpenTTD since they came out respectively and never really got in any other rail tycoon games but RE2 looks very nice for some relaxed gaming. Got RE1 on Epic for free but it never really managed to draw me in and also Railroad Tycoon series didn't do much for me.
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I don't know for everybody else but those seaguls and waves are sometimes bit loud for me. Maybe little less volume on environmental FX but great video and tutorial in general. Thank you.
Thanks, I hope you enjoy it as much as me.
As for the audio, yes they are a bug, you cannot seem to turn them down.
Excellent tutorial, and entertaining to boot. Thank you for all the great and applicable ideas!
Thank you so much :-)
Can't quite believe, I've just finished watching all 2 hrs 54 min of the video, thoroughly enjoyable, as I said after an hour, just need to buy the game now and try myself 😁 Next stop New York to 100,000 👍 many thanks, I can see myself returning to the video when it all goes wrong 😂😂
Best of luck Michael, and thank you 🙏
Great video, so detailed 🎉🎉
Thanks! Hope it helps you enjoy the game more.
The BEST indeed. Just thought I was a moron before I watched this, now. I'm a fucking genius. What a ripper cheers!
WOW I have super powers :-)
Having watched almost an hour when I realised you wasn't doing the 1st campaign.. some useful ideas however when you start moving inland ie albeny and buffalo, it makes it impossible to keep with the idea of an express line all the way round.. but some useful tips none the less. Thanks
Cheers.
Excellent tutorial and gameplay!
Thank you!
Regarding all the times you mentioned "It would be cool if this would be an option" I got to say: Kalypso isn't a half bad studio, they CAN be kind of competent with the things they do but they're not the most, let's say ... industrious guys and gals.
They've shown, with pretty much EVERYTHING they released, that they will take the shortcut and avoid as much additional work as possible. Don't know if this will change after Koch Media was bought by Embracer (and therefor Kalypso changing to Embracer too) but I honestly doubt it. Kalypso is all about the quick casual games, not about the complex, in depth core gaming experience therfor streamlining >>> giving users actual options
Thank you for your comment, in their defence...they have reintroduced the manual signalling system after player feedback :-)
@@SimUKReviews Not ment to slam them at all, it's a viable way to operate as a company in this industry, just came to my mind that 'hopes' for more complex gameplay are pretty much void in regards of Kalypso *gg*
Ahhh I understand. You are on point I think.
Thanks for posting. I am going to have to watch it in chunks as I have work to do. I am an RE1 fan but still not sure about this game for the cost.
Cheers Paul, the challenge is still real; as you will hopefully see in this tut.
IF they add optional manual signalling and zoom out commands, I think it will feel almost identical; with some really good additional components and build tools.
Not sure if weapons were in the first game????
@@SimUKReviews Thanks for the reply, what I personally like is laying tracks and watching the trains and doing ride alongs, I enjoy linking up the farms, etc but the city building is secondary to me. Any chance of a video showing just different trains travelling a route? Good Luck with you channel, you deserve a bigger audience.
@@paulmorris5166 I'd not thought of making such a video...let me see what I can produce.
"Sugar in the Warehouse" sounds like the title of a Motown song...
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And when you have an abundance you can “Pour some sugar on me!”
Thanks
What! Thank you Paul, very kind 🙏
Thank you so much for showcasing this game. Now that it has been few months. What do you think about the game? Is it a true spiritual successor to the classic games?
I'm an old gamer who remembers and still plays classic games like Railroad Tycoon 2 and Railroad Tycoon 3 which were released by Pop Top Software back in 1998 and 2003. Those games were classic railway business simulation games with a complex economy, stock market, train management, AI competitors and more.
After 20 odd years, I feel we have a true successor to those games, but I would love to know your thoughts. The fact that you have AI competitors is fantastic. The graphics are incredible. Looks like you have terrains that change with seasons as we see snow covered lands in winter months. You have regular financial reports and a complex economy that is dynamic as play the game.
The only thing missing a complex stock market system, which were present in the old games - Railroad Tycoon 2 and Railroad Tycoon 3.
The developer also released a roadmap on features that would be added.
So all in all, us Train business management game fans have a next gen game at last!
Hi, welcome 🙏
I'd say yes. Especially once we get back the manual signalling.
Staff management seems to be a pointless exercise, but otherwise I'd say this has hours and hours of complex management style track creation....it is extremely morish and once the bugs are ironed out it will be an absolute pleasure to play.
Hope that alleviates your concerns.
PS: there is a semi-detailed stock market, but with just opponents stocks and four others.
Great tutorial.
Thank you! So glad it helped
Great video, awesome guide ty
Thank You!
So glad you enjoyed!
Something that really bugs me about this game: as someone who lives in Albany, NY... we dont pronounce it like a guy named Al, we pronounce it like the word "all." Well, quite a few of us pronounce it "awb'ny" anyway. Fun fact: the train station in albany irl is actually across the hudson river in another city, Rensselaer.
I promise to try and remember that.
Very Helpful thanks for the time you put into this
Hope it helped.
Jesus. this helped me so god dam mutch. THANK YOU. srry for my bad grammar
Hey you're welcome! So glad it helped you :-)
Thank you. Learned quite a bit. Question, is there an advantage to upgrading the train engines to get the goods delivered quicker?
Thank you, glad it helped.
There are many advantages to having a faster train, more profit in less time being the primary one....but also lower repair and maintenance costs.
Great tutorial learnt a lot but can you expand warehouse space at stations to hold and send more goods
Are you telling me you can or asking me IF you can?
I don't think you can no, but you Could build a second WH (like an expansion) and hold more goods that way?
Use the fastest trains you have before adding more to reduce usage and increase speed on tracks
Thats a good one, thanks!
Thanks for the video. I did not play RE 1 so it is all new to me but, but I am getting there. The main problem I am having at the moment, for some reason with my warehouses not taking the goods in to pass on to other warehouses, but working on it.
On another subject one thing that I do not understand though is, and I hope it is not to daft a question. It seemed that you and other streamers do some new routes in one direction and other new routes in both directions. Such as, on one route from A to B, or A to B and C. But another routes it would be A to B then B back to A. Or A to B then to C, then back to B and A. So I am wondering what the difference is for? I can understand the reasoning when going just from an industry such as a farm to a city, but not from a city to another city.
Thanks Len.
I'm working on adding more chapters to help people find answers to questions I this video, but I spent a while explaining precisely why some goods don't reach their location and how to resolve it.
As for routes, it is often instinctive, but shoukd be led in part by the needs outlined in the city info panel....so how many people want to go where and how much of that business you currently get.
When it comes to goods and freight, the idea is to ensure a) you're producing enough and b) you have enough locomotives and also that they are not waiting too long for a platform anywhere along the route....sometimes you want goods taken from B to reach both A and C, so you would double back to B to pick up more goods.
Hope that helps?
@@SimUKReviews Thanks very much for the prompt reply, and I am looking forward to your future videos.
34:52 how the hell do you do this on Xbox? Anyone know? How to move over to the left hand side and edit that bit.
It's X 🤣🤣
Nice find :-)
nice job..
TY
Those other UA-camrs (in my opinion) aren't really explaining things well for new beginnings. I hardly know anything what's going on lol.
I'm hoping you.
This game is like RIGHT up my alley but I have no idea wtf I'm doing lmao.
Did this tutorial help you at all?
I also listened to others and always came away with as many questions as I had going in. That might not have been the same questions, but with every answer it brought more questions. With this tutorial the pace and thorough explanations I have learned so much that I actually feel like I will be successful.
I love this game, but being from the east coast, I’m so angry they didn’t even include Rhode Island! From Boston it skips right on thru to NY! My Grandpa worked on the railroad his whole life in RI. Ah well, anyways…
Hey bud, im about halfway through the video, im really enjoying the perspective and ideas you have. If i could make just 1 constructive criticism, the balance of your volume to game volume is just a little game heavy, a little hard to hear you at times. Other than that, fantastic content of the video
Thanks for the feedback, yes audio is tricky as each gane is different.
Hope it at least helped?
Would recommend turning down the ambient sound volume before creating a video like this, but otherwise it was very helpful. Thanks !
Cheers, audio is a constant pain in the butt.
so it's better to just build the max amount of platforms right off the bat?
Depends on your finances and expected number of connections.
I'm learning everytime I play and my thoughts on this change depending on needs.
First track is free, so over time you can add more, it is dependant really on how many connections will be required.
Cracking tutorial
Why thank you Sir.
I bought this game a couple of years ago, Railway Empire I bought the complete scenario set, It was just a waste of money and time, I couldn't even connect the trains in different citys, I would much rather play Sweet Transit it's easy and user friendly.
This game came out May of this year, so you weren’t playing it a few years ago, you were playing its predecessor. You might like this one better.
There is a steep learning curve, but it is a LOT of fun once you understand it.
Please do give this tutorial a chance...it should explain EVERYTHING.
Do you know what to do when a train has this message “train waiting to be loaded 4 weeks”?
Your production or supply does not meet the restriction you have placed on the train.....so if you say don't leave until all wagons are full, and there is no demand it will never fill.
@@SimUKReviews This is not about restrictions. I've already come up with it. If the city doesn't need a commodity for example coal then there is such a message :) But thanks :)
Perhaps the route is blocked?
Hi, my name is Ian, and I'm a chronic re-starter.
Welcome Ian, relax you are with friends here; things will get better I promise 🙏
I just started playing rail way empire 2 and was extremely confused on everything it was a over load of information and when it kept saying “incomplete station” I was angry and stopped playing (wrote this before watching) I hope this helps me
I also hope it helps you.....?
How do I get my deluxe trains I have clicked on trains and can't find the skins
Have you researched them?
@@SimUKReviews no, just started the game do u have to research them first and then they appear, so u don't get them straight away
correct.
Your so nice to listen to while I pound flooring together ❤️
I'm so glad! Hope you got it finished?
@Sim UK Reviews yes sir! And with all the knowledge you talked about I beat chapter 3 for campaign.
1h20m man said he'd wrap it up pretty soon PepeLaugh
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So many things wrong with this I do not know where too start. Maybe watch more Adekyn videos for a starter. Train congestion at Albany!!
Well don't keep it a secret, share your wisdom.....
@@SimUKReviews 1. Be consistent laying tracks. Lay track, add gridirons if needed, set directions if needed, add supply tower/s, set up rail line. This way you will not forget important things
2. Do not set rail lines carrying just freight to Mixed as you pay to have a conductor on the train/s when you do not need one.
3. Spaming (+4) more trains when the route is already too congested. Try adding +2 first.
4. Do not be afraid to get into debt. Debt is your friend if you use it wisely.
5. You do not always have to use Gridirons. Two tracks can go to one platform especially at a rural station.
6. You do not have to use double tracks all the way. You can have a stretch of single, then a stretch of double track with a supply tower halfway between stations to allow trains to pass and get supplies then a final stretch of single track to the destination. Keeps expenses down at the start of a game.
7. Good try but I am sure you could do better. Thanks for making the video and bringing the game to the attention of more players.
One very important point. At 2:07 you add Clay to the Syracuse warehouse and say that as long as we can pick it up me might as well store it. This is fundamentally wrong. This is not how the warehouses work now. For goods to be taken to a warehouse they must have a destination city requiring the goods. You will notice that whenever a train is carrying freight, you can mouse over each of the 8 wagons and can see which city each individual wagon is destined for. This could be a city 3 steps down the warehouse chain. The train could be carrying goods destined for 4 or more different cities. Your statement was very misleading.
Thank you for your detailed recommendations.
I feel I need to bring you up to speed on some of these points though; quick question before I do.....You say I added clay at Syracus in the first 2 mins....guess that is a typo? If you could point t me at it I can explain the logic.
@@SimUKReviews 2 hours 7 mins in
why are they using comas instead of periods
A bug I think.
Different countries use commas and periods to distinguish number groupings differently. However, for a game set to English, it seems it would use the standard UK/US notation, so probably a bug.
You build a track directly to farmers, but don't see the track, how it was built ,that's a huge mistake sir
Can you show me where in the video you mean? I might be able to help you?
Y ou could have upgraded all your trains to make them faster.
Yes of course.
Pleasant style and informative, but, please, do some editing before you publish. Watching one or two changes to heights or trying different approaches is ok, but it becomes time wasting.
I play in portuguese. I prefer my own way.
OK?
Except for warehouses now being able to be built in an actual city train station instead of being stand alone and the LACK of actual control over signals, I see NOTHING different about this version of the game from the original. Even the graphics aren't that much better. Might as well save some money and keep playing the old one.
Ive been at this for like 3 days now and i still dont get it 🤣🤣 my brain is just mushed.
Of course..! Suggest playing on a smaller map with less industries etc or try sandbox mode. The only thing with sandbox is that you don’t get a proper feel for the budgeting aspect. Helps you though get used to other things. IMO. I agree though I’m same as you not the only ones, also transport fever 2 is decent if you don’t already have it
@@stayplationgaming thanks I'm still loving the game it's just my sort of thing I love strat games.
It is a fun challenge and each level increases.
If you are going to do a tutorial, maybe drop the sound effects and music. I managed 20 minutes then gave up. Its very distracting, and your voice isn't exactly the most powerful!