Railroader News

In response to your feedback we've made further adjustments to the contract system. We aren't done tinkering with it - this is part of what Early Access is about - so we look forward to hearing your impressions!

• Contract tiers can only be raised after 3 days of performance data. Raising more than one tier requires 5 days.
  
• A penalty is assessed when downgrading a contract. $250 per tier downgrade, plus an additional penalty depending on how new the contract was. (The longer running a contract, the less the penalty.)
  
• If performance averages below 50% for three consecutive days, the tier will be lowered by two and penalty withdrawn.
  

Also:

• Customer performance is now updated at midnight. Payments for captive service are now received before paying shop crew wages. Fixed -1 shop crew. (RR-197)
  
• Connelly and Walker no longer share storage between the camps. This change will cause existing saves to start with 0 logs/pulpwood in storage in these camps, but going forward they will maintain a higher - ahem - backlog of logs. (RR-208)
  
• Fixed map icons with incorrect scale. (RR-207)
  
• Fixed reputation not updating due to unexpected data. (RR-201)
  
• Fixed MU logic not using correct locomotive as its target. (RR-209)
  
• Lean Left/Right bindings are now used by the overhead camera rotation, and their orientation has been fixed. (RR-204, RR-205)
  

• 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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