

It is best to survey the areas in the region of the world you have chosen to play in. You can get more cash by selling 500,000 dollar bonds at various interest rates (depending on the current economic condition). You are given one million dollars in seed money with which to start your railroad. Your selections determine the overall difficulty of the game. You then decide how you want train dispatching handled, whether you have a simple or complex economy and how friendly your competition is. At the highest skill level, however, the AI is unforgiving to all but the most experienced players.

At the easier levels your opponents have an advancement handicap, and market conditions are more lenient toward syou. The various skill levels, "Investor", "Financier", and so on determine advantage you have over the competition. Like all MicroProse sims, the difficulty settings you select will have a noticable impact on the game. From these humble beginnings you must build your empire, battling competing railroads, playing the stock market - even buying the competition, siphoning cash from it, and taking over its routes. From there you're on your own, with only a map of the area in which you choose to play (Eastern U.S., Western U.S., England, or Europe), geographically accurate and ripe with resources. The game casts you in the role of a hopeful entrepreneur with one million dollars in capital to invest in a new railroad. The markets they create for passenger and mail transport further increase the wealth of your railroad monopoly. You also have to foster new industries, carefully planning and positioning track to take advantage of a factory's goods.Īttracted by such industrial opportunity, settlers will flock toward the stations you build along your railroads. You compete with other railroads, racing to lay track into the growing cities in your area. Railroad Tycoon simulates nearly every aspect of the rail business: You must survey land to find the best route for a new line studying the resources of an area, linking supply and demand. Thanks to thoughtful program design and documentation that's entertaining and informative, MicroProse' s Railroad Tycoon achieves an impressive level of reality without sacrificing playability. Yet to its great credit, Railroad Tycoon never becomes bogged down by its considerable detail. The game is thorough and constructs a world so involving that it is easy to lose track of time and go into marathon mode. It re-creates the rise of railroading as it became perhaps the most powerful single industry in the world. Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon is a simulation of rare complexity. All I ask is minimal assistance from you during the troubleshooting process. In the extremely rare event I cannot get this title to work on your system I will take it back for a full refund. Rapid response technical support for three years is always an e-mail or phone call away. Want the game off your computer? Click Uninstall. One step: Insert my CD and the game will automatically work on your computer. I will also provide a compatibility CD that will allow the game to run under ALL VERSIONS of Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP, both 32 and 64 bit. The box is pictured for reference and is not included. An on-screen printable manual is also included. This listing includes the original game CD. This is my unconditional guarantee for three years. My games are genuine, install in one step, look, sound and play in Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP like they did in the old days, or your money back.
