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Community Update #1 (version 1.8) has been released on public beta branch!



Tycoons!
The free Community Update #1 (version 1.8) will add many community-requested features, including new buildings and functionalities to the game.
More details as follows:

New Railway Buildings:
  • Terminal station (4 tracks)
  • Terminal station (4 tracks) with signaling control
  • Train station (2 tracks) with signaling control
  • Warehouse (2 tracks)
  • Warehouse (2 tracks) with signaling control
  • Maintenance station (4 tracks) with signaling control.


New Hotkeys:
  • Confirm with “Enter”- Button, while in track construction or accepting a dialogue.
  • “Delete”- Button can be used for deleting the selected train (confirmation required), or planning (no confirmation required).
  • “Backspace” - Button will cancel different actions.


Advanced settings for ‘Free Mode’ have been added:
Those include:
  • Difficulty for Tasks. Three difficulty settings
    • Regular
    • Professional
    • Trainiac
  • Increasing option for costs for tracks / bridges / tunnels. Three different settings
    • 100%
    • 150%
    • 200%
  • Increasing construction costs. Three different settings
    • Off
    • 100% … 200%
    • 100% … 300%
  • Income from transports. Three different settings
    • Regular
    • 200%
    • 300%
  • Innovation points. Three different settings
    • Regular
    • 75%
    • 50%
  • Service costs. Three different settings
    • Regular
    • 200%
    • 300%
  • Enabling/Disabling of stealing staff.
  • Enabling/Disabling of Mergers


Other Features:
  • Task list now shows, if tasks have been completed in half of the time.
  • The minimap now shows, if a new building can be constructed in a city and if more than one Tycoon has a train station in a city.
  • Tracks may be deleted, even if a train is currently using it. Affected trains are set back to their origin city.
  • Maximum allowed number of warehouses and parallel tracks have been raised.
  • Setting the amount of wagons to max or min can now be done with one click.


Note for DLC - Owners:
  • Combined European tech tree:
    All engines from “Mexico”, “Crossing the Andes”, “Great Britain & Ireland”, “Germany” and “France” are playable on the European maps, if the appropriate DLCs are selected.



Feel free to share feedback in the exclusive public beta community hub on Steam:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/503940/discussions/7/