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If my train is goin around 70 km/h, I arrive at the station before the train stopped and i have to wait for a couple of seconds for the rain to brake down to zero
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Actually it would be cool if you could launch some kind of a company and when you have finished the missions you'll get new missions and if necessary you can sell the old wagons or store them in your garage and buy new wagons for the other missions.
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Do passengers no longer buy coffee? What's the point of buying the coffee car if that's the case? The reduction in drag isn't worth it.
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I like the idea of this game very much, but there is a lot of room for improvement.While the core of creating a train with some decent strategy behind it feels like an improvement when compared to many other idle games where you just stupidly upgrade stuff, the game still is way too empty. Missions are really bad. They are boring and I didn't even notice if there is any reward at all. There is also all that kind of information that doesn't really influence the game, like the type of fuel you are using. It's also disappointing that you don't get any progress while being offline. You should include some kind of 'bonus tick' system with which you can accelerate the game after coming back online.
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I really enjoy this one so far. I would really think the early game would benefit from some more ways to gain resources. Maybe the shooting stars could be collected? Perhaps clicking on ore and fossils and other things i.e. (worms from "Tremors" films ?!?) as I have found getting started is somewhat slow. :D
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Still a lovely concept.
engines, carts stats all need rebalancing
cargo weighs nothing (!)
mission rewards are worthless
reward for unused tokens(starting gold) is worthless.
-currently, it is best not to use most carts at all
-players need more info+feedback from the game
to experiment and optimize.
Thats what idle games are about.
-> need to show gold/min stat
-> need to show xp/min stat
-> need to be able to sell/buy carts during run
-> need info on carts abilities (what benefit at what upgrade levels)
-> need info on next token reward stage (cash on hand/miles traveled during run)
-> need *rebuild* info/option right away
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Sorry for the messy posts. comments didn't let me format.
yes, real life is a b.... thank you for the time i spent away from it thx to your game. So far, this game is still more a *proof of concept". Needs a lot of work, but would be worth it. Let's hope.
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Summary
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It is not profitable to run more than
1 or 2 carts, depending on engine power.
they slow you down too much, biting into your
earings/min.
bricks and wood are the most profitable-
many upgrade levels, low weight
and the cargo magically turns weightless once loaded.
best strat atm:
buy best engine+tender combo,
max them, let them run for several hours
add 1 or 2 carts (brix/wood),
depending on your engine
when you reach your reset goal (save cash)
buy the rest of your wagons and reset.
increase max token, repeat process.
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*Fat Berta stats
ugrade time (upgrading only engine 1st)
ca. 15 min
total upgrade cost: 3674
lvl 13
power 528
drag 0.4725
weight 10
g /b/s 7/14
xp /b/s 8/14
top speed with lvl 1 pellet tender:
193,7 km/h
Pellet tender max stats
11,936 gold
lvl 16
weight 1
drag 0.12
power mult 1.8
(earns extra gold)
*Berta+PelletTender
392 gold/min
263 xp/min
225 km/h
Berta+PelletTender+Bricks
still 225 max
697 g/min
245 xp/min
*max berta, pt, brix, wood
max speed down to 163.8
770 g/m
227 xp/m
(slightly higer g/m,
but takes 2h just to
earn back investment cost)
*max blain max pt
548g/m
398xp/m
*max blain,pt,brix
ca 700 gpm
*max blain pt brix lumber
max speed down to 187.9 kmh
800g/m
*max berta, pt, brix, wood, 3rd, burgers
225 g/m
127.1kmh
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individual stats
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max blaine+pt0
lvl 15
cost 5638
power 787
drag 0,2625
weight 23
p /b/s 9/18
xp /s/s 10/20
176.2 km/h
again, maxes out at 225 at PT6
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max brick cart
total price 20,624
lvl 20
weight 11
drag 0.26
max bricks 65
u/b 4.6
max wood
total price 10,144
lvl15
weight8
max lumber 35
u/b 3.8
max pass 3rd
lvl0
weight 4
drag 0.54
max psg 25
income 1 per p
max total cost
3.990
lvl 10
drag 0.41
max psg 30
max burger
max lvl 15
upgrade cost 13.420
drag 0.2
15x0.2 // @3 min sales@
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Responding to dev: You have in-game time and in-game speed yet all distances are "translated" to product of real time and in-game speed. Why? What would be so strange in having also in-game distance? Mixing in-game and real world parameters without explanation or reason is just strange. Seeing that your train travels 20 km/h and seeing that next station is 30 km away you can easily understand how long it will take by looking at in-game time and how fast it goes. Right now it's impossible as it suddenly mixes things up and is rather pointless.
Now one got me...
I expected that question since the day I made those wheels.
So here is my well-crafted explanation for those strange wheels :
Because reasons!
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There's one thing that bothers me: above yellow bar there is a total distance covered (?) and speed. In top right corner there is in-game time. The thing is, numbers don't add up at all - after whole in-game day with steady 20 km/h + on average I have 11 km of total distance travelled.
But otherwise - looks very promising, we will watch your career with great interest
Yeas that does not really add up. But how could it? In game time is much faster than RL time.
If the train speed would be synced to the same time I bet it woudl look kinda "funny".
However, the train speed should kinda much RL time. At least to a degree.
I had to make some compromises there since it is a game at the end of the day.
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I played idle train 1 - your skills have improved *dramatically* I look forward to future updates and to see what you accomplish in the coming years. I'd like to see more numbers. I like watching numbers get BIGGER. I need MORE, BIGGER NUMBERS! ;)
Yeah, Idle train 1 was kinda let´s say not that good. Sadly updates will by rare for now since RL takes more time.
And in a few months, I plan to start a new project. It takes some of the mechanics from Idle train 2 in a space setting. Instead of a train, you build a Fleet with different spaces ships.
But that will rather be released on Kartridge (kongs upcoming download platform) since I always struggle with the bloody web-gl.
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up to cap 65. progression through the game seems a bit odd. it seems there's no way i can earn more than 13 tokens per run. 3 for miles, 3 for cash and 7 for number of trains. fastest way to progress seems to be running the best combo of engine and tender without carts (max 1 ore after all upgrades are in) to get the distance max. continue to earn with 1 or max two wagons to get the gold - more wagons earns slower. once there is enough cash and money/distace is maxed (3) buy the remaining 5-6 carts, reset with 13. buy the next best combo, repeat until you're ready for the next cap upgrade, start over from top, perhaps with a better starting combo. Thing is, I'm not really using any of the carts, playing with the passenger thingy or making use of missions. just running naked train+tender 90% of the time.
Yeah, the thing is, I´m way behind my time plan. By now the game was supposed to have way more content. The bloody save game issue took a lot of time. Beside more /better locomotives+ tenders and wagons there should already be several new systems that are planned but yet not programmed. Like a shop for global upgrades that brings more gold + XP and accelerates progression. And also a "socket system" that allows putting 3 tuning orbs in wagons. Same goes for wagons that allows playing mini-games and so on.
Yet the game is still not saving for some and now I have way less time to work on it since RL is more time consuming now. And that will last for several months.
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The amount of passengers you receive Is not consistent with the reply in the top comments. "Every time you visit a station you get a random amount of passengers between 1+Wagonlevel -> max passengers." I have 2 passenger wagons 3rd class(lv8) and 2nd class(lv7) And the text box told me 0 passengers entered one of the wagons, and 2 entered the other. This implies that its totally random from 0 -> max
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Any Fix for the Station Range? Again, Run over night, and get Range from 4 deliveris 1.8km, 1.84km, 1.79km, 1.82km. Close Browser and Open Browser and Game (completly without rebuild), Range is set back to 1.2km, 1.18km, 1.22km, 1.24km. Another point, when reaching 1 Million Gold, it display 10 Mio and give only 1 Steamcoins at rebuild, pay for waggons to get under 1 Million give 3 Steamcoins.
I see, I missed to save a value there. And I never testet that high money values since I never came that far. But I see my misstake now as you mention it. I´ll fix it later today. Thanks for the report.
Edit: The money thing will be fixed by today. The distance Issue will stay for now.
I don´t like to do changes to the save game right now since I don´t have much time at hand.
Right now they bring just some gold and exp.
It´s displayed as you reach the station.
In the future, they will bring more interesting reward.
Right now I´m still busy with bugs and the never-ending save game story.
It´s also the one that allows rebuilding the train. After you do that a few times it will be faster.
Because you get better locomitives and fuel carts.
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there are several missions for same items at same time, selling items affects all missions, There are missions for vagons what not unlocked yet
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wowed by the fast response. I like the concept a lot, as do many. looking forward to updates, content an some balancing. somehow, my unused tokens keep disappearing (are they really all lost for a few dozen starting gold ?!?). progress at the 50 token cap is becoming near impossible. ty. and again, great idea.
I know there is still not that much content. The save issue eats a lot of my time. Also as mentioned before I have now way less time because RL is eating the most of it.
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I'm several upgrades in, bought some med carts, but never saw them make any money. not in the station summary and not in real terms on the cash display. furthermore, dancers seem to have stopped producing money as well, though they clearly did earlier and the earnngs used to show up on the station summary.
That´s odd. I´ll check this. And thanks for telling
Edit: Did you have any other wagons on the train that did work?
If they do earn money it certainly should display it.
Edit : Found it. It will be fixed in the next build. It will be online tomorow.
Thanks for the report.
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No save, and the message says I should tell dev..? Um. No idea why this is happening. I tried reloading a couple of times, all settings are appropriate and allow cookies, but there's this error.. Any idea what I should do?
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Game still doesn't save for me.
Might be that someone's cookies are off, but I'm unsure since I've never turned mine off. Still, I don't mindstarting over, but its a lot to do all the same.
I still work on a manual save function. Why it refuses to save for some people...
Well, I have really no idea. There are even two save systems already. If the game can´t find the save in the playerprefs it will try to load the backup save in the indexedDB.
I´m sorry for the troubles there and I try to fix it as soon as I can. Sadly I have limited time right now because of a busy RL.
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oh saw the mission reward now. thats not even enought to justify buying the wagon you need for the mission. at least give tokens as reward for missions.
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Travelling for days at a rough estimate of 24 km/h, and have still only traveled a little over 30 km in total??? Perhaps have a look at your formulas here? Not that I'm expecting realism, but, you know...
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The passenger cars right now are such a bad value that it really needs balancing. The penalty for buying each new car is so high that the coffee/burger carts can't pull their weight either. And I don't think the burger cart works with the 2nd class passenger cart at all.
You should at least be able to sell cars, since once you discover that a cart is bad, you're stuck with it until you earn enough to rebuild.
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But when refreshing the site without rebuild the train, the distance shouldn't be reset (time variable of actual session should be saved and only reset when rebuild).