Railroader News

• Contracts have been reworked: (RR-144)
  
  
  
  • Contracts no longer expire or have a term.
    
  • Contracts may be changed each day (change takes effect at midnight).
    
  • Performance at each tier is calculated only after delivery at that tier.
    
• Added customizable key bindings for most keyboard input. In game, open: Preferences, Input, Customize Bindings.
  
• Locations panel enhancements/fixes: (RR-174)
  
  
  
  • Customers now display correct percentage for loads in storage.
    
  • Cleaned up display of output rates.
    
  • Formulaic industries such as Whittier Saw Mill, paper mills, etc. now display a warning when they are not able to produce due to lack of input loads or full output storage.
    
• Yard mode AI will now stop upon coupling with a cut. (RR-29)
  
• Enabled disconnecting gladhands when not coupled. (RR-51)
  
• Extended length of Bryson Bridge and Fontana Bridge sites. (RR-189)
  
• Removed condition that interchange track contain only freight in order to add ordered cars to it. (RR-173)
  
• Fixed Bryson W interlocking block tripping up AI trains. (RR-178)
  
• Fixed error parsing autosave filenames with "- Copy" appended to filename. (RR-166)
  

Thank you for your incredible feedback on and support of Railroader! We're continuing to work on bug fixes and stability, as well as making plans to put together a public roadmap - stay tuned for that!

• Finance panel: Added $5,000 +/- loan buttons.
  
• Fixed water tower only clickable from 20 meters away (now 50). (RR-112)
  
• Fixed error when purchasing new engine that would have been "101" when another car has road number "X101". (RR-119)
  
• Fixed anglecocks still being slightly open when the tooltip says "Closed". (RR-137)
  
• Fixed P-18 wheelslip due to incorrect characteristics. (RR-108)
  
• Fixed progression locations showing up in sandbox mode. (RR-107)
  
• Fixed cars in switch list showing Hemingway as the location when they are within the Bryson radius. (RR-136)
  
• Fixed typos in AI Engineer guide, Andrews locations. (RR-120, RR-121, RR-127)
  

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A few more bugfixes for today:

• Fixed issue that could cause terrain tiles to not load, which appears to have been contributing to a memory leak. (RR-92)
  
• Fixed Copy to Coupled affecting cars not owned by your railroad. (RR-109)
  
• Fixed Automatic Waybill Cycle button not clearing when both are Not Set.
  
• Fixed interchange-spawned cars with a reporting mark that matches yours getting marked as owned by your railroad, preventing them from being despawned when the interchange is served. To fix existing saves, switch to sandbox mode temporarily and delete the cars. (RR-111)