Railway Empire News

Attention passengers, your next Railway Empire journey to Germany begins on March 1st 2019 on Steam!

Travellers without a valid ticket for ‘Germany’ will still receive a free content update (Community Update 1.8) on the same day as the DLC launch, adding new buildings and features to the game.

Full steam ahead!

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/

Tycoons,
We have released a new hotfix for Railway Empire version 1.7 and the Great Britain & Ireland DLC.

• Fixed a bug that deleted supply towers when tracks were being deleted.
  
• The mini map now shows both owners of stations in a town.

• Fixed Union Jack in the main menu artwork.
  
• Added ‘Big Ben‘ (today’s Elizabeth Tower) in London.
  
  • A new game needs to be started in order to see this change/addition.
• Now the golden eagle has replaced the white-tailed eagle.
  
• Pound currency will now be shown instead of dollars.
  
  • However, the dollar-sign ($) is still used as symbol for the universal “buy” action.
• Only steel and stone bridges will now be used, instead of wooden bridges.
  
• Increased the probability of bad weather.
  
  • Sometimes it is supposed to rain in the British Isles, right?
• Removed American wooden huts in cities and have replaced them with more British-looking residences.

We are planning further improvements based on community feedback for the Great Britain & Ireland DLC as well as the main game for next year.

In addition, we are sticking to the development roadmap we have recently released.
Console players will receive the changes of this hotfix at a later date, most likely with the next major update.

Hit rail simulation’s Euro tour begins with huge map expansion plus new trains, goods and scenario

After laying down thousands of miles of tracks in North and South America, Kalypso Media is letting tycoons loose across Europe, starting today with the launch of the Great Britain & Ireland DLC for Railway Empire.

In Great Britain & Ireland, players will travel to the home of the first steam engines in an age of unprecedented progress and technological innovation. Industrial city centres are booming and the streets and waters are no longer enough to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of commerce. Locomotives are the future but not everyone sees it that way, and you’ll have build respect and social standing as you battle rival companies to the top.

The new DLC includes the ‘Great Britain & Ireland’ map expansion for Free Game and Sandbox modes, and tasks players with a new scenario. New music tracks and reworked city buildings are accompanied by 10 new historical engines (including the Rocket 0-2-2 and Firefly 0-2-0, 13 new tradeable goods like cider and whisky, and 45 new cities to explore.

Check out the launch trailer for Great Britain & Ireland below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbIz7X-bonQ

The release of Great Britain & Ireland also coincides with the release of the 1.7 ‘Stock Market’ update for Railway Empire on all formats.
Full changelog can be found here:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/503940/announcements/detail/3222787006935439653

The update introduces new platform customizations, with stations and warehouses receiving upgradeable signal stations that give trains the option of which platform to stop at. Trains will automatically choose the platform that is least busy, reducing idle time while other trains are being serviced. The ‘Analyst’ has also been added to the staff, who will cause mayhem on the stock market by placing false reports to manipulate the value of companies! Acquiring a company has also been smoothed over, with players now able to own 100% of a company without having to follow through with a full merger.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/884141/Railway_Empire__Great_Britain__Ireland/

Tycoons,
we have released the latest free update 1.7.

• Dynamic platform choice
  • Large train stations and warehouses can now be upgraded with a signaling control. All trains passing or stopping at such a station will make their own choice of platform.
    Trains will then always choose the platform which is the least busy at that time, which will then reduce idle time at highly frequented stations.
    During the creation of train lines, routing to a specific platform is not available at train stations with a signaling control.
    
  • Another use of train stations with a signaling control is the ability to reduce idle times caused by maintenance of engines. While a locomotive engine is serviced at a station with signaling control, other trains entering the station will choose a different platform automatically.
    For highly frequented lines, an additional warehouse with signaling control and maintenance shed can be constructed.
    Trains that need to be serviced will stop at the warehouse, while other trains will pass the warehouse on a free track.
  
  
  
• New Staff member has been added
  • The Analyst will cause hysteria on the stock market by planting false reports to increase ordecrease the share price of a company.
  
  
  
• Banks / Finance update
  • It is now possible to acquire 100% of a company’s shares without merging with it. In such an event, the player will automatically receive all surplus of the company. It will no longer be able to expand, but will continue to do business as usual. This state can only be change by a merger with that company.

• Some seed values of random scenarios have not been processed correctly during input.
  Awards, which have already been paid out for connecting a city or a business, will not be offered again.
  
• Added a video tooltip and manual entry for the dynamic platform choice station.
  
• Rearranged building menu, such that the supply tower is on the first page.

• [Great Britain & Ireland DLC] Based on community feedback, we have replaced the flat roofs of some buildings with gable roofs.