Railway Empire News

• 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.

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Take the high road in the mountainous new DLC expansion for Railway Empire

You’ve already taken your Railway Empire far and wide, and now it’s time to go high and low! Kalypso Media is excited to announce that the next exciting adventure for Railway Empire is available now: Crossing the Andes. In this latest DLC expansion, you’ll take on new journeys in the depths of South America in the early 20th century, where a hoard of exotic new resources are ripe for the picking and plans for crossing the Andes by train are drawing attention from investors. Unforgiving mountains and relentless jungle terrains will make this challenge a tough one for even the most experienced tycoons.

New features in Crossing the Andes include a trio of new scenarios covering the early history of railway pioneers in the Andes, a brand-new ‘South America’ map for in Free Game and Sandbox modes, more than 10 new goods including llama wool and guano, 34 new cities to discover and two new engines to power you expanding network – the Kitson-Meyer (0-8-6-0) and the Garratt (2-6-0-0-6-2).
Check out all the new features in action in the brand-new trailer below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y_I4X5tkTo

Crossing the Andes is available now worldwide on PC, PlayStation®4 and Xbox One!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/884140/Railway_Empire__Crossing_the_Andes/
Disclaimer: Full game of Railway Empire required to play the Crossing the Andes DLC.

Tycoons,
we have released the latest update 1.6!

• New feature: Character traits Before: Every character had one specific bonus.
  With update 1.6: With this expansion all characters will receive up to 5 positive and negative traits which creates more depth and variety of gameplay.

2 new staff members added:
The auctioneer can start an auction of competitors’ businesses.
The promoter helps a city to experience faster growth.
The staff screen now features a new button which allows for automatic employment of all available train personnel.

• [The Great Lakes] Fixed a mission block that could occur when reaching the 8 million company value goal immediately.