/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4850502
>That's the North American Track Set. Different track types have different maximum speed and maintainence costs.
In my current game I'm also using a trackset that has those features (Japanese, with twelve railtypes) but the rails don't display that many colors on the map. I guess this trackset just doesn't define all different map colors like the American one does. That kind of makes me want to go in and edit some bytes though.

>by hand
Ah yeah, figures. It looks great though. I wish the terrain generator could make better maps on its own, but I guess that's hard. I still occasionally look for external terrain generators that can output heightmaps suitable for importing, but even if I found something perfect that would still leave a lot of work in manually placing cities and rivers.

Continuing to balance routes and add capacity where needed to address bottlenecks in the distribution model. For now most of the routes are local lines stopping at every city along a line or else traveling only between two adjacent towns. Several of these are labeled as express service but the only true express route right now is the Tokaido line running from Tokyo-Nagoya-Kyoto, which carries the bulk of the East-West traffic on my fastest steam engines. In 30 years when the Shinkansen is invented, the balance will tip in favor of express service between all the major cities, but for now most of the traffic is local and traveling from one end of the country to the other would be an ordeal involving many transfers.

This map also shows the current state of electrification. For now it is confined mainly to eastern Japan, but within a decade it will stretch to the key cities in the central and western regions. Historically this process was interrupted by WWII, but that won't be a problem this time.