Railway Empire News

Tycoons!
Today we’re releasing free Community Update #2 (version 1.9) for PC.
The new update adds loads of community-requested features, such as DLC scenarios being mod-able, as well as comfort-functions and some more general tweaks, like list sorting to make the daily business of an up-and-coming Tycoon easier.

Changes:

• DLC scenarios are now mod-able.
  
• Increased the maximum number of trains and stations.
  
• Hotkey "p" added to skip the currently played music track.
  
• The train list now shows any problems that employees currently have.
  
• Added tooltips to train list sorting.
  
• New option to disable all newspapers, except historic newspapers.
  
• New options to filter train lists.
  
• New list for stations.
  
• New list for factories, farms and mines.
  
• New icon added to mark trains delivering goods to warehouses. They do not show a negative balance/values.
  
• Freight and express research topics are marked in tech-tree.
  
• Added a German newspaper logo.
  
• During build mode: Areas, which are reserved by an industry for later expansions, are now highlighted in red color
  
• After company merge, assigned employees are no longer marked as “new”
  
• The speed of trains with missing supplies, such as water, has been reduced.
  
• Maintenance of the trains is now more important as break-down delays have been increased if the engine is in a bad condition.
  

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug that occurred when a new rail was connected to the wrong track in track building mode.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused rail ends to appear on the track.
  
• Fixed: Issue with showing costs for inactive territories in the interface.
  
• Filter / Sort buttons now only appear if a list has at least two entries.
  
• Fixed: The signal part of the tutorial does not block anymore, if sections of the track are deleted.
  
• Fixed: Stations can be rotated in any case.
  
• Fixed: "I made it, eh"- trophy is now awarded, when taking over a competitor.
  
• Fixed: No more auctions will take place, when all competitors are out of the game.
  
• Fixed: University title and description in town dialog.
  
• Fixed: Some routing issues caused by signal-controlled stations.
  
• Fixed: Train showing permanent "Being serviced" state.
  
• Achievement fix for “Just in beaver” - triggers for factories that were bought or built
  
• Achievement fix for “The Customs and the Seven Young Rail Spikes” - this can now only be unlocked within the Germany scenario
  
• Train is no longer marked as unloading if it has no load.
  
• Fixed: In the scenario "Dominion Day" (The Great Lakes - DLC), the 8th and 9th tasks cannot be completed as "gold"
  

Additionally, the new 'France DLC' has been released on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/884142/Railway_Empire__France/

Tycoons!
We have updated the public beta branch to the newest version.
Please find all details below:

• DLC scenarios are now modable.
  
• Increased the maximum number of trains and stations.
  
• Added the hotkey "p" to skip the currently played music track.
  
• The train list now shows any problems that employees currently have.

• Fixed a bug that occurred when a new rail was connected to the wrong track in track building mode.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused rail ends to appear on the track.
  
• Costs for unlockable territories are now displayed correctly.
  
• Filter / Sort buttons now only appear if a list has at least two entries.
  
• Added tooltips to train list sorting.

Tycoons!
We have updated the public beta branch to the newest version.
Please find all details below:

• Added: New option to disable all newspapers, except historic newspapers.
  
• Added: New options to filter train lists.
  
• Added: New list for stations.
  
• Added: New list for factories, farms and mines.
  
• Added: New icon to mark trains delivering goods to warehouses. They do not show a negative balance/values.
  
• Added: Freight and express research topics are marked in tech-tree.
  
• Added: Employees have European names in France, Germany and Great Britain now.

• Fixed: The signal part of the tutorial does not block anymore, if sections of the track are deleted.
  
• Fixed: Stations can be rotated in any case.
  
• Fixed: "I made it, eh"- trophy is now awarded, when taking over a competitor.
  
• Fixed: No more auctions will take place, when all competitors are out of the game.
  
• Fixed: University title and description in town dialog.
  
• Fixed: Some routing issues caused by signal-controlled stations.

New Germany DLC adds new map, engines and tradable goods

Kalypso Media’s hit rail management simulator, Railway Empire, is laying down tracks into Deutschland with the new Germany DLC pack, available now for Steam-PC.

The Germany DLC introduces the historic country to the game with 59 new cities and reworked city buildings to add to players’ extensive rail networks. Conductors will play through the new Patchwork scenario (1850-1870) and the new concession feature, where players buy concessions to access new building grounds. There’s also access to ten historical engines including the Adler and the Rhein to power the trains across the German countryside. Also available are twelve new tradeable goods, including canned kraut and cuckoo clocks, to increase revenue and eight music tracks to make the journeys across the German countryside all the more enjoyable. A new gameplay trailer is available showing the new German DLC in action.

In addition to the new DLC, Free Content Update 1.8 is also live now for all platforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvc88fY4ajA


Information Title: Railway Empire: Germany Platform(s): Windows PC, PlayStation®4, Xbox One, Linux Developer: Gaming Minds Studios Genre: Simulation, management Release: Out now Hashtag(s): #RailwayEmpire Code requests: Keymailer

https://store.steampowered.com/app/884143/Railway_Empire__Germany/

Tycoons!
Today we will release the free Community Update #1 (version 1.8) on all platforms.
The new update adds many community-requested features, including new buildings and functionalities to the game.

More details:

• 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
  

• Confirm with “Enter” key while in track construction or accepting a dialogue.
  
• “Delete” key can now be used for deleting the selected train (confirmation required), or planning (no confirmation required).
  
• “Backspace” key will cancel various actions.
  

• Difficulty for tasks
  
  • Regular
    
  • Professional
    
  • Trainiac
    
• Increasing option for costs for tracks / bridges / tunnels
  
  • 100%
    
  • 150%
    
  • 200%
    
• Increasing construction costs (This option lets you decide if the construction of railroad stations and businesses should become increasingly expensive over time)
  • Off
    
  • 100% … 200%
    
  • 100% … 300%
    
• Income from transports (With this option, the income for freight, passengers and mail can be reduced)
  • Regular
    
  • 200%
    
  • 300%
    
• Innovation points (This option enables the reduction of monthly innovation points)
  • Regular
    
  • 75%
    
  • 50%
    
• Service costs
  
  • Regular
    
  • 200%
    
  • 300%
    
• Stealing staff
  
  • On/Off
    
• Mergers
  
  • On/Off
    

• Main menu theme can now be changed in the graphic options.
  
• The task list now shows if tasks have been completed in half 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.
  
• The maximum number of warehouses and parallel tracks allowed has been raised.
  
• Setting the amount of wagons to maximum or minimum can now be done with one click.
  
• If a station is deleted and a new station is placed at the position of the old station, trains that went to the old station will also travel to the new station. But only, if the new station was built 3-12 months after the old station was deleted depending on the duration of the game.
  

Fixes:

• Fixed: Q and E keys had no function, when a non-rotatable building was selected.
  
• Fixed: Show name of good in tooltip at freight station.
  
• Fixed: Duplicate money type letter in localization, when player buys 100 % share of competitor.
  
• Fixed: Set employees to state noticed, if hired with bulk hiring. Because of this, no star appeared in the train dialog at a personnel button, if there are no unnoticed personnel.
  
• Fixed: Description was not updated, when train route was changed, while loading wares.
  
• Fixed: Bug that occurred, when cloning trains, which had names ending with a number.
  
• Fixed: Sometimes highlighting was broken when factories were deleted.
  
• Fixed: Town and farm icons were sometimes displayed during ride-along camera.
  
• Fixed: Controller Pad navigation in train list has been reworked.
  

• Combined European tech tree:

All engines from “Mexico”, “Crossing the Andes”, “Great Britain & Ireland”, “Germany” and “France” are playable on European maps, if the appropriate DLCs are selected.


Additionally, we have updated our development roadmap accordingly: