Railway Empire Fundamentals - Rapid Expansion Strategy
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- In this video we take an in-depth look at the rapid expansion strategy including how to use it to establish your economic foundation and stifle your AI competitors.
We go through the 4 stages of the Rapid Expansion Strategy: 1) Early Expansion, 2) Cattle and Wheat, 3) Pass-through Warehouse, and finally 4) Maintenance.
This is a versatile overall strategy that can be applied in whole or in part to many campaign missions and scenarios.
Noticed you click eight times to set the minimum amount of carloads on your raw goods runs to eight. You can accomplish the same thing with one click by clicking the minus(-) button one time.
Also noticed that you check city stats by map jumping/opening/closing each city individually. You can use the arrows at the top of the city stats page to scroll through them all, and it groups cities you "own" together so you don't have to arrow through cities which you do not. Valuable time-saving methods, thanks for all your tutorials! :)
Dude three years later and your still helping me.
Good deal.
Still the best railway empire youtuber. Great job.
Thanks. I appreciate it.
Another ramble thru complex variables in a clear concise manner. Taught me loads from watching your vids. Xbox version so we lagging behind with some features. Keepem komen
Thanks for the nice comments. Glad the videos are helping you.
I don't know if it's a new(er) feature, because this video is already a year old, but I noticed a thing:
(nowadays) the numbers on the 'minimum/maximum wagon amount' wrap. I've seen in many of the videos that you're setting the 'minimum wagons' to 8 by clicking the '+' sign 7 times... but you can (at least now) simply click the 'minus' sign once when it's at 1 wagon, to put it straight to 8. Saves some clicking :)
I only just picked up Railway Empire and your videos are a great help! They're clear, well set up and to the point! Great job!
Thanks. Glad you find the videos helpful. Enjoy RE. It's an excellent game. The "wrap" on the minimum wagons came in a later version. If you watch enough videos you will eventually see me using it.
Discovered this game some months ago and never tried it. Hooked up to these tutorials since yesterday. Excellent work! Tons of useful info
Welcome aboard!
I actually watched this video for the second time now. :) So much good information and great tips! Thanks a bunch!
Glad you found it helpful.
I learned a lot. Best railway empire channel. Thanks!
Good. Thank you.
Enjoy the game.
These videos are an enormous help. Thanks!
Glad you find them helpful.
Best Railway Empire UA-camr still in 2020.
Thanks.
First off, this video was EXTREMELY valuable to me, so thanks!! Anyway, I'm playing vs competitors for the first time, and I was just wondering: do they also collect innovation points? Or do they rely on me to ignore some things/creating an auction for them? ie. If I use my points to buy EVERY new train, could they be stuck using the original slow train throughout the entire game? 😂 🤣
Glad it helped. Your competitors do research above and beyond what comes up for auction. You can tell because they will sometimes be running faster trains than you which makes getting express status on a line more difficult. You can also tell by the fact that your spies will come back with technologies stolen from your competitors. The best way to ensure you are running the fastest train is to buy out all your competition.
@@Adekyn100 Wow well that's good to know. Thanks! btw I'm playing the France map; at first I tried doing the option where you have to buy each territory, but it was SO HARD! By the time I'd get enough money to expand into a new territory, my goals would've already expired long ago.
Fantastic tutorial I’ve just learnt loads with warehouse use thanks
Thanks. Glad it is useful.
Check out his 30 minute video just on the pass through warehouse. Makes so much more sense than the way I was doing it.
Really helpful video, thank you for posting.
Thanks. I'm glad you found it helpful.
Still looking for help & tips in May 2021, thanks. 😎
I picked up the collection during a Steam sale.
Same here ... I just bought this game and these "training" videos are invaluable.
finally thank you for this video. very informative
Yes and it helped immensely. Had won all the parts except number of cars per month and Toledo reaching 200,000. Beatrice bought me out before I bought her out. So I lost.
Excellent video, this should help me win for once!
Glad you liked it. You will win. I have faith. Take your time, build an economy, watch your tasks and adjust if you must but above all build profitable lines and keep expanding your economy.
Have learned a lot from your videos. Thank you.
Glad to hear it.
You do great railroad work. Have learned much from several of your vids. Love the fact that you use spreadsheets to run the rails (nice to know others do as I once did). One request in relation to this vid and perhaps others. The tracking of warehouses is still a mystery to me. You might consider inserting some simple line track charts into your presentations for warehouses so a slow guy like me can understand all the "ins and outs of warehouse layouts." One more question, how does one find your website mentioned in one of your vids? Thanks again for your informative vids.
Thanks. Glad you find the videos helpful. Have you watched the warehouse series? It covers warehouses in depth. If you have and the tracks are still giving you trouble reply to this and I will create a diagram for you.
Lots of great info. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful.
That's a lovely relaxing mantra. Beer...meat....beer...meat...beer....meat...
:)
Im about to test it but im pretty sure, instead of spacing out the signals for passenger lines, you could just make it so the trains dont leave until they have over 7 loads of shipment
Hey, your vids have helped me a lot, thanks for that. I only have 1 request, can you have the minimap showing on your vids? It would help to keep a global prespective of things. Cheers.
Hi Nelson, I turned it off because it just took up space and I never used it. But I have turned it back on in your honor.
Great vid, lots of cool tricks
Glad you liked it.
Great video! Can you post the formula for deciding how many freight trains to run to a city?
Hey mate thanks for the tips, I did this little mission last night. But with no AI, and with 3m starting money... easy mode.
How do you find buying industries? Cause I literally had enough money to connect from south to north, and buy all the beer/meat factories, and then borrowed some money to buy wheat/cattle farms too. $$$$$$ straight away
25:20 Good thing that now you can just click the "-" button on the left once and set the number of wagons to 8 instantly.
Looks good, the only question I have is when you change express train lines to passenger & mail only, how are you getting meat and beer between them?
The freight line going through the pass-through warehouse carries all the goods produced by the two cities. A train will go to Des Moines full, unload, then load any exportable goods in Des Moines that are needed in KC. It will then go to the warehouse and complete its load with raw materials from the warehouse. Then it will go to KC and unload everything (manufactured goods from Des Moines and raw materials from the warehouse). Then it loads manufactured goods in KC that are needed in Des Moines, goes to the warehouse to top off with raw materials and repeats the process.
Thanks for the quick reply. Makes perfect sense.
Just one more question: if I buy say 25% of Don Lorenzo's company, does that mean I'll start getting 25% of his profits every day as well?
Warehouse @ 32:00
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Can you post the formula or a link to where in a video you describe the formula for deciding how many trains are needed for freight based on distance and demand? I know you have mentioned it in several videos but am having a hard time finding it. Thx!
Route Time * Weekly Demand / 7 / Train Length (from ColonelSandersLite)
New to the game here. Have the new signalled buildings, especially signalled warehouses, or the maintenance depot changed your strategy at all?
The short answer is no. Same strategies, slightly different applications. The signaled warehouses are handy for handling a lot of traffic. The maintenance depot didn't seem to help at all. The auto-signaling stations are nice but you sacrifice some control over your lines.
Good
Thanks
If you ever apply for a job doing anything - just show them this video.
Thanks. I will add the link to my resume.
28:20 How did you do to automatically insert the divisions of the track by clicking on the same place?
(PC) Shift - Ctrl - Left Click. Spin the mouse wheel to change direction of the signals.
@@Adekyn100 Thanks for the answer, I had already discovered it simply by reading the instructions on the screen, but that bad habit of not reading everything . Now I am watching the videos of chapter 3 because I was surprised how quickly Toledo grew, I have tried several times and I can do everything except that the city grows on time and you achieved it very quickly
Is it worth it to buy the farms, mines and industries along the cities and routes that you're feeding?
It totally depends upon the circumstances and what you are trying to accomplish.
I'd imagine, with rapid expansion, so many stations, and pretty much no trains touching the same two stations... you'd have to put a maint. shed at every station $$$$$$
Yes. Many times when you spend your money is more important than how much you spend. The strategy is designed to minimize spending at the beginning when money is tight and add the maintenance later when you are making money faster than you can spend it.
Are the meat and beer going between KC and Des Moines since you made those trains passenger only?
Yes. I'm assuming you are referring to when I switched the original KC - Des Moines line to passenger only and added the pass-through warehouse. Someone had a similar question earlier. Here's my reply to him.
The freight line going through the pass-through warehouse carries all the goods produced by the two cities. A train will go to Des Moines full, unload, then load any exportable goods in Des Moines that are needed in KC. It will then go to the warehouse and complete its load with raw materials from the warehouse. Then it will go to KC and unload everything (manufactured goods from Des Moines and raw materials from the warehouse). Then it loads manufactured goods in KC that are needed in Des Moines, goes to the warehouse to top off with raw materials and repeats the process.
That's for reply! I'm new to the game and your videos have been really helpful.
I'm wondering why you put the supply towers in the middle and not just outside of your station? I've learned from Railroad Tycoon that the trains will slow down to stop at the tower then they have to build up speed again, and it's the same here too. So why not at the station where the train is already slowing down? Wouldn't that make them run just a little faster?
Hi John. Did you notice that i did not place as many sets of signals between the cities on the city to city lines as I could have? I want to "slow down" the trains so that they spread evenly and come into each city at regular intervals. This gives time for passengers and mail to gather at the station for pickup. If the trains come into each city as fast as they can the amount of passengers and mail available for pickup will not be as great and each train will tend to run with less to carry and thus less income when it unloads at the other end. I do set up multiples blocks (sets of signals) on the freight lines coming directly into the cities and set the supply tower at the end of the line near the city. There is no advantage to slowing down the freight delivery.
Adekyn, I was following all that.... The part I didn't know was your placement of Supply Towers on the freight lines. I've been meaning to ask this question for quite some time, about the placement of Supply Towers. In one of your earlier videos you talk about not sure if the supply Towers should go in the middle or at the end of the line and all of the videos that I've watched so far you placed the supply Towers in the middle of the line. What are you saying about strolling down the trains, I understand completely.
I remember discussing the supply tower placement (middle versus near the city) on other videos. I played around with putting them near the cities so that they could be reused by other lines that would come in parallel to the original double-track line. I haven't done much with the idea. How do you place your supply towers - middle or near the city?
Adekyn, before this discussion I always placed my towers close to the city but you make a lot of sense in the way you plan them out so I've been following that rule. One difference I've noticed in planning supply towers in Railroad Tycoon and Railway Empire is the physics of the speed of the train when they get going again. In Railroad Tycoon the trains were slower to get going and get up to speed but in Railway Empire they are at full speed pretty quickly, so placing the towers in the middle does not seem to be much of a hindrance.
Good point about the acceleration. Railway Empire trains could win drag races
I tried the technique for scenario automobiles. The best I can get is 15 steel. Always fail, not sure what I am doing wrong?
Have you watched the videos I did specific to the automobile scenario?
Have the developers changed the speed that the game runs at? Following along with your video on Version 1.8 and I'm halfway through February by the time I get Kansas City, Des Moines, & Rochester connected while you're only at January 13th.
Also, it seems that someone in development has been watching your videos. The trick you used in placement of the small station in Rochester to block the Doc from building racks westward is no longer possible. There is a small stub of track coming off the western end of the Doc's station that prevents you from placing your station like that now. :/
What pause mode are you using? All my videos on are Normal pause which means time stops while you lay track and place stations.
@@Adekyn100 I'm also using Normal pause and doing everything that I can to keep time from passing, but it seems to fly more in this particular situation than on any of the Campaign chapters. I'm not a lightning-fast youngster anymore, but building a new line only takes a few clicks. Setting up lines for Kansas City - Des Moines and Des Moines - Rochester shouldn't burn through 6 weeks. I may try a restart and see if it happens again.
Did you do any better on your restart? Are you having to wait for funds to create each line?
@@Adekyn100 I just deleted it and went back to the Sierra Nevada Campaign mission.
I'm having a lot more luck there, though I hit a snag connecting Prom Point. If I go to set up the new line, San Fran & Prom Pt are both highlighted green. If I click on San Fran first, Prom Pt loses the highlight and I can't select it. All other cities stay lit. If I select Prom Pt first, everything else goes out. I'm sure I missed something, but it was about midnight when I got to that point, so I just went to bed :/
EDIT: Just took a look at it. Yep, not following your steps. Forgot to build a crossover at Promontory Point end. Once I did that, it all clicked and was just a matter of time. President in 1 year, 10 months.
Thanks for all your hard work in doing the videos and encouraging/hosting this community of players. I would never have even bought the game if I hadn't seen your stuff. The developers need to cut you a royalty check!
Why does the AI get to only use one track? seems unfair.
You can set the AI to use realistic track if you want. Either way the AI can be handled if you enjoy a challenge.
aren't you worried the AI's gonna move into kansas city?
Aren't there two stations in KC? If so, the competition is locked out.
@@Adekyn100 no it looks like theres just one at least in the beginning
lol the passive-aggressive approach i like it (2 years late but whatever)
Waiting for two years to comment. Talk about passive-aggressive.
Haha as ever another satisfied customer, this time on Xbox! Well getting back to my reason for messaging was the you said to stunt growth of a competitor early, well I know you have 3 comps. here but on scenarios with not as many all you have to do is ATTEMPT (that’s the key word as you don’t want to be successful) to but out a NON useful and as detrimental as it could be industry, every time you don’t win they spend, only you want to start the vids, not to win them, you want your comps. to waste money on bad industries not yourself! After you know they have bought said pointless industries then you can hand pick your real industry at the cheap rate! This way of ripping of your competitors is naughty and sometimes doesn’t go the way you want but if it’s done 1st thing you do then you can reload the game and try again quite easily.... if you need more info let me know and I’ll explain in detail!
On a number of videos I use the technique you described to get an opponent to buy one industry and tie up his/her money so I can then immediately bid on the one I really wanted.
Aha I obviously missed those vids as I haven’t had the need to watch every single video! But great stuff all the same
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Thanks.