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I really liked it... until I refreshed. Progress of a day gone. No save... at least when reloading while rebuilding. Yay me.
What version of the game was it? I´d also like to know OS + browser. The game is suposed to save but it seems to fail for some users. How I try to get a workaround that irons out some of the possible reasons for the problem.
You should not loose your save while rebuilding. It saves just before that menu opens. So you would have your old train and all stats as you open the game again.
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The incredible slow progress, and lack of offline progression make me wonder how this has a 3.2 rating. It's an interesting concept, but it is WAY too slow to be fun.
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On rebuild you are allowed to spend more tokens than you actually own. You will then start with negative gold, but not much.
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The one thing I hope for in any idle game is a save function. Sadly, coming back a day later and expecting there to be some progress has put me off.
Ok you are the second one now. It has ofc autosave however it seems like it does not work for everyone. Sadly I do n´t know why. I did putt in an error handler yesterday it should send a message to text box on top of the screen if writing or reading fails. Did anything show up there?
Also please send me a PM with OS and Browser you use. Also please consider trying another browser. That helps me to diagnose the problem.
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I love when you see Bricks are selling for 6 gold, so you buy bricks and 30 seconds later, you're at 3 gold. And it never goes back to 6.
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Here is a winning formula: The Grinder loco (14xp) + 5xp coal tender, max em out to grind levels alone. Earning gold and slower levelling - same loco combo, one passenger cart and as many coffee carts you can muster before rebuilding. You will make your passenger neurotic, addicted and you'll need to hire a toilet attendant, but it'll be worth it. Coffee adds the least drag and weight. 6 carts and 5000 gold = +11 steam thingies. Rebuild often to build up your steam cap.
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I did not know I could upgrade the engine because it said click the wagons to upgrade them and I read that to mean only wagons get upgraded, oops.
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If your train stops moving at all please send me a PM with the following info: Wagons, Locomotive, Tender and the max speed displayed on the top left.
From the train stat panel id like to know the powe, drag and weight.
I´ll make a quick work around right now. Should be up soon
No it´s not. But I heard that before. DO you know what combo of Locomotive/Tender and wagons you have?
Id also like to know what your max speed is and the Drag/weight and power value from the train stats. Would be nice if you could send it as a PM
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Maybe some chilling background music so it wasent so "empty" and/or sound effects when the train starts n stops and when you pick up coins or other stuff
Music is something I wanted to have in it at the start, however, that might take time since I have just other priorities right now. Like fixing what´s there and make more content.
I suggest you pick your own track on Youtube for now.
I do have some sound effects around from former games, I guess I could putt them in this week. I avoided it at first because of performance reasons but it seems to run pretty smooth so far so I reconsider that.
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So just bought a car and now my train is stuck, guess the load is too heavy and no rebuild button atm, need a way to avoid this from happening please
Ok that seems to be a thing now. I dive into it. please telle my your combo of Wagons/Tender and locommotive as PM. Also I´d like to now what "max speed" it shows.
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Game is amazing but sadly so few upgrades for 1st locomotive.If i upgrade 1st locomotive i have feeling i did all and it seems kinda pointless to wait any longer.I wish you continue to add new features.PLs dont leave this game.It has amazing potential.YOu can add new trains maybe.Something like train tycoon.I wish there was no limit on lvls ;.;, or maybe more lvls for things.When you get to lvl 10 game becomes fun and it feels like it ends in same way.XD
Keep good work
There will be more stuff soon. I just want to get rid of bugs first and Improve what´s there so far.
I will continue to add wagons and stuff soon. I plan to add Slots to wagons that can carry additional modifications. That allows to tune single attributes from the wagons. That´s one of the reasons why the level caps are rather low. But as mentioned in another comment, I also plan to add global upgrades some of them allow to raise the level cap for some wagon types.
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Since it's too slow at the benigging and can be quite annoying, make a few tries by placing a /2 multiplier to all costs.
Place a clickable button somewere that can be spam-clicked to give some boost to the train, this will add something to do other than waiting.
Rework the yellow bar thing, it is not intuitive. Add the reward when you reach the station and make the freight spawn on the ground where the locomotive can auto-pick up.
Don't make the upgrade window full-screen unless you need to.
It´s really just that slow at the beginning. As soon as you have a few steam tokens things get faster.
There will be more to do later on. Since I plan to implement some wagons that provide mini-games. The yellow bar fills after 100m and triggers several things like filling up freight and selling goods in Shop wagons.
The window needs that size for content that´s not live yet.
I really don´t get my head around that one so far. Did you try another browser? Is there any software that might prevent the game from writing to your disk? I will implement a check in the next update. So when it fails to write it should diaplzy something in the Text field at the top.
The idea sounds good. I´ll putt this on the list. I plan to make upgrades for stations and the world/scene in general. However, there will be a separate currency for those. But there are still many things I want to implement before.
Rigth now you get more passengers from wagon upgrades. I did not explain that in the game but you get more passengers in average if you upgrade the passenger wagons. Every time you visit a station you get a random amount of passengers between 1+Wagonlevel -> max passengers.
I guess it´s time to work on those information windows.
Well, you see the thing is you are kinda nowhere, always.
At least right until you aproach a station. It just get´s a random name in that very moment.
How ever, I plan to make sort of a real world later on. With different landscapes and so on.
That´s a lot of artwork and that´s we it stands on the long bench for now.
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When I got a new train I started with no coins and when I finally managed to add a cart the train didn't move at all. Is this a bug? I can't find any way to get it to move...
That really sounds like a but. What wagon did you add? And do you remember the locomotive and tender you choose?
Also, send me a pm if the problem stays. I´ll find a way to make you unstuck.
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It's the year 11805 and we're still burning wood for fuel. Or using steam whatever the train runs on. Two way I see it: 1) Recycling DOES make a difference help save the trees. 2) We have enough trees to burn 10k years later!
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Wonder if steam tokens will be used for upgrading the level cap or other attributes of the carts maybe? Just level 10 (Or 12 in a few cases) seems quite low.
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Is it meant that excess above your cap gets lost as opposed to being spendable at increasing your cap? In essence it means you get a good run then if you want to improve your cap, you have to accept a cruddy train for a couple of runs.
Yeah, it´s a bit off a bitter pill. I´m not really happy with the current solution neighter. I guess I´l make a nicer formula soon. So you get a better pool and keep some tokens in reserve.
U guess I could put this between somehow today. I can´t promise anything right now. But perhaps I can deliver something with today's update. That will be up in a few hours.
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I find it kind of annoying that whatever kind of freight car you buy, the value of the freight you are hauling drops to near nothing over time.
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Would love an option to sell a wagon or start over once you realize you've made a purchase mistake - or even just to scrap lower end wagons to make room for new ones.
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I think it would be nice if levels added to steam token cap. Maybe 1-2 per 10 levels. They system of increasing steam token cap leaves something to be desired. Also many things don't have clear explanations of what they do before you buy them, and sometimes not even after. You may want to go through and add some more explanations here and there, including what leveling up is actually doing, and what are limits. Thanks and thanks for the game.
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About ten minutes it I apparently upgraded the carts in such an order to cause a random bug. After clicking the buy upgrade all the text on the screen started vanishing. I clicked the next buy and even more text vanished. I'm now staring at a screen with absolutely no text. All the buttons and other functions still work.
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118-05, maybe the Trainseries 118 Type 05 as extra :D For this, game need world/permanent steam token upgrade Railway electrification system
There is a "big reset" planned around Lvl 10k and more currencies for global upgrades.
Electric trains are sadly not planned. All just good old steam. Frankly, I have no idea what this 118-05 means. Google said something about a Turbine powered train.
What I did plan at first thought was a power system with a generator cart that makes electricity for some other wagons. But I discarded that concept at least for now.
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If the train considers weight, drag, etc, then I really feel like you should be able to sell parts that you no longer want or accidentally buy. After unlocking passengers, I decided I wanted a passenger train but had a few freights bringing in little and weighing it down
That´s why you can re-build the train already after you bought a few wagons. You lose just your gold and you can already get a better locomotive or tender.
And I guess after a few tries you figure out what wagon combos to chose for your play style.
Also, wagon upgrades reduce at least the drag.
In my opinion, it makes anyway sense to just rebuild quickly a few times in the beginning in order to get your steam token cap up a bit.
But perhaps I should have explained that in the game better.
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seems alright to me. Different from the other idles which makes me want to play it. Is the date supposed to be the year 11805 though :)
I´m surprise it took so long until one asks about the year.
There is a reason for the strange number.
I prefer to wait a bit for bringing light in the dark there.
Since I wonder if someone in the comments figures it out.
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An information of actual progress of steam tokens would be nice. So how do I get them (transport wares, passengers, reach certain kilometers or money)?
Yeah, i did not really explain how you obtain the tokens so far. Main reason is that there might be some changes. One source is the amount of wagons your train has (one token per wagon) Another is your amount of Gold, first extra token was for 10k iirc. You get another token after getting many bars/ kilometers. I´m don´t remember how many right now. I will putt in an info panel soon.
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Progress was not slow. Get from Lv 0 to Lv 92 in only 1 day. Its an Idle game, this must be slow and run in background. So, don't make game faster. Best earnings are passengers + coffee at beginning
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Thanks for playing and rating so far guys.
How does the progress feel after the start? Like after 2-3 re-builds. Is it still to slow? If so What´s the main issue? Gold/XP/Steam Tokens?
I work right now on a new locomotive that brings a bit better xp/gold boni.
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Interesting idea. A bit too slow, I'd say. Car upgrades could coincide with visual improvements. There could also be purchaseable upgrades with benefits for the background objects and possibly the UI. People love upgrades.
I can´t give a warranty for visual upgrades right now though it is planned for later. Thing like upgrades that have an influence on background objects and so on will come later. I did not think of GUI things so far but it sounds like a good idea so that goes on the list. Generally, there will be more upgrade later on like global upgrades that influence all wagons of the same type and so on.
It´s still more or less a prototype and with just basic functionality. I work on more wagons right now and the balancing of the what is there. More will follow.
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Nice idea in general. But its very very slow and I bet you could also make it look nicer. It takes too long to get into and it does not catch a big audience. Thats the resason why yo should make it look nicer, so you get a bigger playerbase. I really like the idea with the night sky btw.
I know it´s pretty ugly. However, it´s basicly an alpha state. I will work on the graphics later on at least as far as I´m capable of since I´m a bad drawer. But there will be more background objects and stuff. I also plan to have like levels with different themes. The progress will be a bit faster later on. It´s slow at the beginning in order to introduce new stuff slowly so the player can figure out what the different wagons do. I plan as well to make special wagons with mini games and so on.