`` Railway empire '' play review to run a railway company and develop the pioneering era with steam locomotives
' Railway Empire ' is a game about running an American railway company from the 1830s to about 100 years. When you hear 'railway management simulator', the theme is 'railroad' itself, like creating a
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https://ubisoft.co.jp/railway/
The stage of the Railway Empire is from 1830 to 1930 in the United States. In the modern era, the United States has the impression that it is a country of the automotive industry, but the locomotive was responsible for the early development of the United States. When locomotives were first introduced to the United States, transportation was by horse-drawn carriages on poorly equipped toll roads or by steamships that only traveled slowly.
The steam locomotive, which began operation in 1830, continued to expand its routes until after 1900, and at one time boasted a prosperity that was said to 'occupy 90% of the United States' domestic transportation share.' In this era in the United States, running a railway company is this game. The main character connects the routes from city to city, strengthens the distribution of people and goods, and develops each city, and thus the United States itself.
Players can run railway companies in different parts of the United States and at different times. The 'scenario' mode, where you can play on the stage based on real history, also has a setting to 'transport resources that support the automobile industry that has risen on the east coast of the United States around 1900.'
Scenario 2 of the Campaign, which also serves as the tutorial mode described here, is set in the US East Coast in 1830. Although Washington and New York are the largest cities in the United States today, the map shows that the population was not so large at that time. The actual game screen looks like this, and you play from a bird's-eye perspective like looking down on the ground from the sky. In addition, this time I am playing the Nintendo Switch version.
In the Switch version, the menu screen is displayed with the ZR button. The menu options are displayed on the ring, the inner ring is `` building construction '' to build facilities, `` new train '' to purchase locomotives and manage routes, `` track construction '' to build tracks, clear You can select commands such as 'task' to display conditions and bonus acquisition conditions.
Press the X button to switch to the outer ring options. The outer ring is a command for management such as 'research' to develop new technologies and new vehicles and 'employee' to hire employees.
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the talent as a railway operator and develop this east coast. For that purpose, it is necessary to connect cities and cities, and cities and resources. This time we will connect Washington and New York by rail. As a first step, we built stations in Washington and New York and halfway between Baltimore.
Next, draw a railway line from New York to Baltimore to Washington. For track construction, simply select the start point and end point and the 'construction plan' will be displayed automatically. If you think that it is a good alignment, press the decision button and the planned route will be constructed immediately. It seems that a huge number of workers have been rushed out.
There was no problem because the distance between Baltimore and Washington was short, but when trying to run the track between New York and Baltimore, a route was proposed that would cut through the existing livestock farms and mountains. In the image below, the location of the livestock farm, indicated by the milk icon, is shown in red, indicating that 'tracks cannot be constructed'. The red frame in the upper right is green, but we are planning to build a tunnel through the mountains.
Even today, it is difficult to cut through the mountains, and it is hard to imagine how much effort was needed in 1830. It is possible to build a tunnel in this work, but it takes a huge amount. The route this time costs about 937,000 dollars for 169 miles (about 272 km). In addition, since $ 1 in 1830
'Everything is too expensive!' So we decided to take a route around the mountain. If you place the cursor on a part of the track and press and hold the enter button, you can bend the track under construction. Looking at the following movie, if you take a route that bends the railway track and bypasses the mountain, the construction cost displayed on the upper right eliminates $ 616,000 for the tunnel and drops significantly, and eventually it is about 37 You can see that it is less than half the original price of $ 90,000 (about 1 billion yen at modern price).
When laying tracks on terrain with elevation differences, the speed of the locomotive slows down, or running becomes impossible depending on the output of the locomotive, so it is important to lay the tracks while avoiding elevation differences as much as possible. Drawing tracks wisely can save you money. In addition, the kind design that the funds are fully returned if the track and the building are demolished.
It is not just the cities that connect the tracks. It is also important to connect cities with 'resources' that represent local specialties such as cows and milk. When you build a station near a resource, the resource is automatically transported to the station.
After laying a railway network to connect stations and resources, purchase a locomotive ...
If you set a 'stop station', the subsequent train operation will be performed automatically. This work does not require the construction of diagrams, etc., and can lay and operate a fairly crisp railway.
The transportation of resources and passengers takes place between stations connected by rail, so cities and facilities that produce resources gradually develop.
Each city has its own factories, each of which processes the material into the next level. For example, a weaving mill in Pittsburgh turns cotton into cloth, and a tailor in Baltimore turns cloth into clothes. In other words, carry the cotton to Pittsburgh to process it into a cloth, then carry the cloth to Baltimore to complete the clothes. That you can make a great deal.
However, understanding 'demand' is important in order to actually make a profit. Carrying a lot of resources is meaningless without demand. On the data screen of each city, `` City storage capacity '', `` Weekly demand '', `` Weekly production '', `` Weekly demand (all cities) '', `` Weekly production (all businesses) '' are written as follows, and Switch For the version, you can check the details using the cursor by pressing and holding ZL. In this case, if goods are transported to the city so as to satisfy the 'weekly demand', the company can make a profit and the city can develop and establish a win-win relationship with each other.
There is also the concept of 'technological development'. The steam locomotives that appeared in 1830 were still prototypes, were slow, and had many failures. However, this work reflects that speed and stability have improved over time. In this work, new technologies can be developed in the following tree format. 'Innovation points', which can be given at regular intervals, can be used to open
Locomotives such as '
You can also get on a locomotive deployed on your own route and enjoy the railway network you have built from a subjective point of view.
It is also possible to hire trainers who can raise the locomotive's ability such as `` engineers '' and `` engineers '' that increase the maximum speed of locomotives, and clerks who support management such as `` accountants '' who lower the purchase price of locomotives Possible.
Not only does each employee have a concept of a level, but also the compatibility of the employees. If employees who get on the same vehicle get along badly, man-made disasters may cause the running vehicle to stop.
Competitors also appeared during the game. Not only do you run a railroad company like a player, and you get in the way of business, but sometimes you spy on them and get in the way.
Players can hire operatives to hinder them, but they can also take over the opponents with management techniques, such as acquiring shares of a powerful opponent and receiving a dividend, or acquiring the company itself.
The management element is quite enriched, such as obtaining funds by investing and checking the company's operating profit by quarterly settlement.
Unlike the 'Let's go with the A train' series, where you can customize how the train operates, this work does not allow you to set a diagram. For this reason, it is possible to operate multiple vehicles on a single track by making full use of side lines and traffic lights, but basically it is more efficient to operate with one train per track.
Even if you adjust the number of tracks and trains so that one train per train, multiple trains are set to run on the same track, and the trains may stop at a match. In such a case, a list of stations where the locomotive stops at the line (Y button) is displayed, so select the station you want to switch tracks and press the right of the direction key, and `` Line 1 '' `` Line 2 ”.
If you set the 'railroad network' setting to 'simple' when loading the map, trains will not collide with each other. When you get on a vehicle with this setting turned on, you can see the mysterious phenomenon of vehicles slipping through each other.
This is what happens when you set the vehicles so that they do not hit each other with `` Railway Empire ''-YouTube
However, even though you can leave the operation of the train, there are many points that players need to pay attention to, and it is a game that feels quite busy. The reason for this is that the in-game time constantly elapses. In some cases, such as the track construction mode, the passage of time may stop, but it is basically not possible to play while carefully reading explanations, etc. like other management simulations. Regardless of whether you are thinking about railroad operation or whether you are wondering what research to acquire, time is constantly evolving, competitors flourish, your company suffers from trouble due to aging of the vehicle, and customer traffic is far away.
One of the busy factors is that the game is over after a certain period of time without completing the required tasks (clearing conditions). Goals are set to produce certain products or raise the population of a particular city to a certain number. The production of products requires transporting raw materials to cities with corresponding factories, and increasing the population of cities requires meeting the demands of the cities.
However, understanding the game over time will allow you to play more efficiently, so you can grow your city and achieve more and more tasks. Thinking about how to accomplish a task efficiently is more like feeling as you are solving a puzzle. On the other hand, as the railway network develops, the transportation of goods and people becomes active, and the pioneering era of the United States becomes rich. The pleasure of developing the city was a simulation game itself.
'Railway Empire' was 5280 yen including tax for the Nintendo Switch version, 7260 yen including tax for PlayStation 4, and 5448 yen including tax for the Japanese compatible PC version sold on Steam.
Nintendo Switch | Download Purchase | Railway Empire Nintendo Switch Edition
https://ec.nintendo.com/JP/ja/titles/70010000021008
Railway Empire | Official PlayStationStore Japan
https://store.playstation.com/ja-jp/product/JP0001-CUSA10166_00-RAILWAYEMPIREGMS
Steam: Railway Empire
https://store.steampowered.com/app/503940/Railway_Empire/
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