3. Killroy [42ndPA] May 20, 2021 @ 11:59am. Like for 4 stops, you might want to set cars at first 2, then 4, then 6, then 8, so you'll get 2 cars of each. C. As the number of citizens grows, so does the demand for goods. PS: don't build warehouses in Cities. Start with 4 or even 5 tracks going to your home town or any other that requires oil. The warehouse will allow you to pick that product up from the rural business. Currently, there are three settings: A normal setting, a setting with an image of a green arrow (like a preferable setting) and an image with a circle-backslash symbol (a do not take setting). 2. As Vilandesch says. Ta-da! Dress problem solved! Only my trains won't take the g-d Fabric to Baltimore! 1) I set the train to prioritize Fabric. By troublmaker. Pathing issue/trains skipping stations and waypoints. #1. City. 5 = 0. Stop 3 (City A) - Unload 4 cars, leave 8 cars empty. :: Railway Empire 2 Discussions. The game supports doing passenger trains that go from A to B to C whereby passengers can get on A to go to C. Arrange the Manual Settings as follows: Stop 1 (Warehouse) - Load train with 8 cars of grain. One possibility is you put a warehouse there and not assigned wheat as a storage item. None of it ends up in warehouse. So for a 50k population City producing Clothing. middle station has 2 tracks with gridiron on each side. Your trains will not load any goods that is not requested anywhere they can deliver (directly and indirectly through warehouses). Maiskolben, I hope this comment is taken as more detail, your advice was correct. Grain to a Beer Industry, not Corn for a Beer industry. I would have much rather had a freight system where I can control it, like: Pick up GOOD A, at Station 001. In Route Manager, click on the pad of paper and pencil icon for the particular stop and you get the Station Manager dialog box. The simple setup is good for scenarios where you start with low population cities. One station is mail express only and has the post office and dispatch station. I have both wheat and corn go into Albany. Add To Cart. Perhaps a middle ground. The city produces 3 items, so that's 3 more items for you to pick up. I had a cotton farm that I connected to my city, but when I placed a train there and set the route, it did not pick up any cotton at all just kept running back and forth. It started off fine. Railway Empire 2 on Steam - work fine when connected directly to a farm, UNLESS you set the train to manual and tell it exactly what you want it to pick up. If you have the fastest train with the shortest level route, then you're going to be an express line. Also make sure freight line is using. Between the major railroads that operate in Canada, the United States and Mexico and smaller railroads in between, railroad tracks span the continent. Nothing more annoying than trying to place a switch between two supposedly parallel tracks, getting the red highlight, and having to rebuild. This is a common cause for most problems of this nature, i. So in this case when stopping at C going right only goods headed for D or E will be picked up and when going to the left only goods going to A or B will be picked up. 99. #11. If necessary add by pass freight tracks around each city for Freight Trains not stopping at that City. Freight on the other hand seems overly complicated. One possibility is you put a warehouse there and not assigned wheat as a storage item. There is a warehouse in Houston and I want to move corn there. 6 Cloth and produces 1. Continent-spanning maps: the map of Europe or the map of North America result in a total in more than 13 million square kilometers for your Railway Empire. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your. Usually it's because the city (or industry) stockpile is full or the rural business level is too low. The other Freight double tracks link with 2 track Gridirons to outer 2 tracks of the Station on either side of the center 2 tracks. After building the warehouse, players can choose what materials they will hold so trains can pick them up for transport. Select "Manual" from the loading options. This allows them to handle rough terrain and reach remote factories and mines. 2) I set the train to prioritize Fabric and forbid Beer. Ok, so it seems that it's pointless to merge the rail lines into the 2 tracks because the AI takes the shortest path no matter what happens at the occupied station track. This causes cities to stop receiving high demand goods, and get stuck with 0% demand fulfilled, even when there's tons of available goods one stop away. picking goods out of the warehouse: the automatic only takes the goods at the first place. I ran a test on the west coast map in sandbox mode using 1830-1850. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. Every time it tells me to make a new line I do but the train gets stuck on waiting for deployment. A level 2 Clothing Industry consumes 1. 5. 1. I run 2 tracks for fright on 5 &6 and 2 tracks for express on 3 and 4. The extra buildings in a station besides warehouse and maintenance are not REQUIRED unless a goal in a scenario makes you. Turns out in my case it was because the train was Freight only but I must have been slow to set the load type when it was first created. The bulk of Railway Empire 2 takes place in the campaign, where you’ll get to experience the rise of the locomotive across the world. g. If you make any changes to the Route Manifest, Tracks, Gridirons, and possibly other things, that a Freight Train is using ANYWHERE on it's. So Most Freight Train Routes should only be 2 or 3 Stops, with possibly a 3rd or 4th Stop for a. A freight train that has a route WH-A-B-C (then back to WH) does not really work. You can FORCE a train to wait until full. Them, off to the left of that, put a station with a warehouse out in an empty field. Either wait for the AI to upgrade the business or purchase it yourself and. 19 of those trains will behave normally and stop where they should and so on. We have to give her candy, then jewellery. Originally posted by Dray Prescot:But if you store the wheat in a warehouse, you can have another train pick it up and deliver it further. If there are express and freight trains on the same route, you will quickly see that this is not entirely effective. mrwibble May 28 @ 6:20am. This is why cargo trains are usually slower railway engines with a lot more power. Now your train will pick up a max of 4 corn at the corn or furthest stop, and fill it up to 8 of wheat at the wheat stop. If this one is empty it will not take other goods. I seperate my freight and express trains. It only looks for the shortest route. Railway Empire > General Discussions > Topic Details. So, in your example, the train would take (only) the corn LA requires. All these Warehousing options. If you use a loop to visit all 3 stations in a signle trip, picking up some of each resource, the single trip takes 4R+8L+8U. All these Warehousing options. It will then load up anything B has and move on to C, where it will again unload everything. 2. Railway Empire 2 features bigger, more detailed and lively maps than ever before, focusing on iconic regions of the USA and Europe. It's always Maintenance and a warehouse for freight and nothing else because the vast majority of cities have at least one resource line coming in that must have maintenance, and you must use a warehouse. Supply wont show up at the warehouse until there is a train that is able to deliver the goods to New York. -faster development of towns (dont know if it will break game mechanics) -no oil ,water or sand usage. Last edited by Saint Landwalker ; Nov 20, 2016 @ 10:11am. Cargo Transport Problem. Note that for different lines, express and freight, W1-4 has to be different. Let’s walk through how to set these up. Are they best just as a 'temporary' train to build new connections to more cities early on, until I take the time (and money) to set up 2 stations + dedicated express & freight tracks (and adjustment of the. Would be cool to upload a save file that someone else can load up and check. Welcome to Sim UK Ultimate Realism the Birthplace of REALISTIC Simulation. #1. New Trains from the. 4. In other words you dont need to ship from the resource directly to the factory. One goal is to send 8 loads to New York City. So I specifically say take 4 from first stop and 4 from second stop. A Warehouse near the City allows a stockpile of up to 99 carloads to be delivered to the Warehouse to serve as a buffer for high demand Cities. Express revenue is variable depending on distance, express status for passengers, passenger opinion of the engine etc. #4. g. • 3 yr. 1. Yes and no. -Reach across terrain so you don't have to build expensive Bridges/Tunnels or jam a Station into a crowded area. Then set up warehouse to warehouse trains that can ONLY pick up what that warehouse is stocking (in the train route options, ban it from picking up items that are getting delivered to the other 2 warehouses) Those warehouse to warehouse trains will pick up excess resources (the ones set to 60 limit) and spread them to all 3 cities as demanded. if you edit the line, click the station to pick up prioritized freight from, then you will see the stock available. Railway Empire 2. Baxx Nov 6 @ 5:15pm. I had it set to automatic pickup, then tried Freight only, but the train never picked up the cotton!!!A really good feature though. Put up service buildings. In such a scenario, you would place a waypoint on the chosen track. Trains can't move freight from a station if the station is connected to a city and the freight is not produced by the city. All aboard the express train to riches and fame in Railway Empire 2! Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. #8. Unable to unload cargo, the problem of automatic turning of the train. #2. You will notice that once again, you are forced to take Roger Smythe, the freight bonus guy. Darthclimo May 28 @ 6:22am. Go to the route list for the train and click on the station you don't want to accept the goods. what my mod does. Somewhere you will find a slowdown and all your 55 lumber. This is my first time using the "new" warehouses. Cargo Priorities can be used in any Mode: Automatic, Expess. If you wanna know the exact times try the search. The coach is not an actual object in the game, but the game will calculate how long a coach takes to travel between cities in a straight line and use that as a reference. The game's tutorial doesn't quite explain a lot of things that will make this game 100% easier for those that haven't spent a hundred hours on it. Then the other train will drop off beer and pick up meat and whatever the farm produces. Managing freight in Railway Empire 2 requires skill. 6 Clothing per week. Rural Business is full, city needs the goods or has a warehouse collecting them and the train refuses to load that item even when its set as priority. Freight trains between cities will run empty or underloaded for several reasons. 3. Broadcasts Guides. New York CNN —. If there is no demand they wont load it, same with how much mail or people is decided with how big a town is. The one freight train is for between the cities for what the cities produce [cloth/meat and beer (as I changed Boston from meat to beer) and it is sandbox mode. All Discussions. You can prioritise 1 by clicking till you see a green arrow. Determine which Station (on the left) is where you want the cargo controlled, and click 'Edit Station' in that Station's window. today. I had a cotton farm that I connected to my city, but when I placed a train there and set the route, it did not pick up any cotton at all just kept running back and forth. Express in this version seems overly simplified, and no fail. Set up two parallel double tracks, rather than 2 tracks in one direction next to 2 tracks in the other direction (which is what I think you mean): i. The first train will take meat and drop it off and then pick up beer and whatever the farm produces. 2) if A, B, and C (corn farm, city, city) are in a "V" shape it could be that the goods won't travel because going A>B>C is more than twice the walking distance from A to C. You can still pass through other stops as the train will load for any goods needed on entire route, not just next stop. I have 2 trains. But you can't just stop at B. Railway Empire 2 gameplay with Orbital Potato! Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your stea. Take it on LINE XYZ to. Destination city just does not want the freight allocated to the train. -Click a Train, info comes up on the Right. In this case meat. Try to even up the useage. . Long double lines for almost all traffic is not realistic. Once I did that it fixed problem. * *This does not include the Switch version of Railway Empire 2. I had it set to automatic pickup, then tried Freight only, but the train never picked up the cotton!!! Am I missing something?Dray Prescot Jun 14 @ 1:15pm. It will also sit and wait if those goods are not at the moment demanded at its destination (because the stocks are full). Manually go and click any trains leaving the producing city and change the cargo so it has the red no pick up circle. Showing 1 - 2 of 2 comments. Change the automatic setting to passenger if you want to transport people. Demand based warehouses are simply broken after early game. Of course you are limited to only 6 Resources/Goods in the. Klacky pod nohy vám však bude házet prohnaná. When I do, the train won't load wood at all. I've tried everything to get the warehouse to share with the city even thought the pricey game manual says " in practice" the warehouses shares goods with other warehouses located in the same city. In New York in the line for Corn, what is the number of them "in transit". You can also circumvent the city council approval. . Per page: 15 30 50. – Use separate stations for express and freight to maximise express bonuses. A level 3 Clothing Industry consumes 3. Each city should be picking up sugar and the other’s production. The population in the city is more than 70. 000. Once you know the resources this building needs. 3. On the other hand, it limits the number of railcars with goods that the train will be pulling, and this translates to lower returns. Secondly, you need to set the train to carry only passengers and mail. Railway Empire 2 - Digital Deluxe EditionFeature List History in the making: In 1830 at the dawn of the age of railways, build a grand railway empire from scratch and choose from 60 detailed, historic locomotives that you can customize with your preferred colors and company initials. RE2 Trains are stuck on waiting for deployment during tutorial. So you get two cities, one for each good, hook them up and start exchanging goods. However once a good is produced by the city, it's often best to have that moved directly to another city via the train stations. It provides an extensive tutorial where you’re given a ton. A place to discuss all things about the game series Railway Empire, including the original Railway Empire and Railway Empire 2. It seems like a mid-game bug. Determine which Station (on the left) is where you want the cargo controlled, and click 'Edit Station' in that Station's window. In the latter case, make sure that the city-to-warehouse journeys are not picking up goods that you want delivered elsewhere. VladK02 Jul 24, 2018 @ 4:22pm. Corn and salt seemed to be my issue goods. I was doing something similar, but gave up on it, and completely separated passenger and freight traffic to different stations. The reason is to minmax money for express goods. Industries distribute cargo to stations, based on demand. I set most of my rural trains to run full so I see this 'waiting for goods' message all the time. Can't haul goods needed to turn a settlement into a city from a warehouse where that good is available. $59. It will also sit and wait if those goods are not at the moment demanded at its destination (because the stocks are full). The trains will not move until the other one. 1] Link up 3 cities,K. Direct separate lines with separate platforms work best. One station is passenger express only and has the restaurant and market. We have to give her candy, then jewellery. Last edited by Frost ; Jun 3 @ 8:02pm. Understanding a basic freight route. All three of them has the Standard Oil building in building slot #4. I've tried everything to get the warehouse to share with the city even thought the pricey game manual says " in practice" the warehouses shares goods with other warehouses located in the same city. Increase supply of raw material and/or expand factory. Period. I had it set to automatic pickup, then tried Freight only, but the train never picked up the cotton!!!Railway Empire 2. Just an extra $40k station will do it. Its happened both in Coop and single player, scenarios and campaign. As the game already count goods that are in transit to be fulfilled and will not let trains pick goods. So if you're going between two cities, it should look like: City A>Waypoint 1> City B> Waypoint 2. Suppose you have a train that is going from cities A, B, C, stopping at stations with warehouses, 6 items each. At the beginning of each mission, you will not feel the impact of. Make sure you have freight trains going to the destination with that X good marked as a priority. Hey guys, first time playing and loving the game so far. The large 4 Track version is a difference between $200,000 and $300,000 for. If you buy a new train it should have 100% health status. Express is more profitable than the first game. It automatically chooses but keeps it on the same track. You need to have trains supplying most the goods rather than wagons. Use the manage train icon, then pick the station and select the platform. 2 Clothing per week. Warehouses are ONLY used to drop off Goods that have ALREADY been ordered by a City in a. RAILWAY EMPIRE 2:Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses. Co-op with up to 4 players. And need down the line, that really don't seem to calculate out correctly. My "Strategy" is do not bother using Warehouses, they are not very useful and often do not do much for you. However, it is possible to manually assign carriages for a train. Ive done this a few times myself. #1. Unable to unload cargo, the problem of automatic turning of the train. 1. If you leave the loading/unloading as AUTOMATIC or FREIGHT then the system doesn't seem to do well with multi-stop deliveries. All Discussions. Railway Empire. I had a cotton farm that I connected to my city, but when I placed a train there and set the route, it did not pick up any cotton at all just kept running back and forth. If it picked up and delivered Manufactured Goods to a City, then if that City is reasonably large with 2 or 3 Industries, then it can pick up a load of Manufactured Goods to take back to the starting City, i. Train 3 from east waits behind train 2. There was stock in the station. Staff bonus is also specific ( mail bonus/passenger bonus) so most profitable way is to split the trains. The-Other-Dude. A direct freight railline will NOT pick up this grain, just 1 or 2. Make sure you are using cargo stations and not passenger stations. A sprawling landscape: Huge and detailed game world covering the. It makes no difference if you own the factory or not. That last one is probably the answer. Some warehouse help please. There was steel being stored in the city, I was delivering to Chicago, which. To get the same 8 of each type net would require 3 trips and a little micro-managment, for a. I had a cotton farm that I connected to my city, but when I placed a train there and set the route, it did not pick up any cotton at all just kept running back and forth. The city with a warehouse closest to the farm was being supplied with corn 100%, but not by train. I see the new auto signal system and the new gridirons and think sweet. And need down the line, that really don't seem to calculate out correctly. City B's line would pick up wheat and meat and return with beer. Welcome to Sim UK Ultimate Realism the Birthplace of REALISTIC Simulation. Just check out the Bugreport-Subforum and search for exploit. 19 of those trains will behave normally and stop where they should and so on. The stations this train visits will appear on the left. You'll have 3 or 6 slots for goods. Complete Guide to Railway Empire. The "no suitable freight" messages are from the cloth supplies sometimes not being available at the source (set train minimum to 8) and then no freight being available (what is available?) when the train returns from the warehouse back to the city supplying the cloth (try setting maximum railcars to zero). If that means the shortest route is through the supply station, it'll use those tracks. Freight trains are slower, but their speed doesn’t significantly. , Topeka, Wichata, with double track, gridirons, ans signals . No dice. Oklahoma City to Town: Won't accept the last Wood. That's if the offset of running them is not more than the bonus. I'm doing the 'Gone With The Headwind' scenario (ie, trying to woo Scarlett). This is the 2nd column of the goods view. The fact that a freight railroad strike didn’t start on Friday is a huge win for the US economy and its still struggling supply chain. I had it set to automatic pickup, then tried Freight only, but the train never picked up the cotton!!!Railway Empire 2 has an extensive tutorial which is almost a necessity for a complicated title like this. If you're looking to get the Express bonus this line needs to be separated from your freight. Got the game on game pass and am going through the tutorial. Warehouse sharing within a city. Why is there nothing but horses and wagons going around? Or how, when you start the game, all the freight is ungodly big, like full sized boxcars and such. You can also use your large station to supply Fayetteville. A more intuitive solution, but also one that makes the game easier to play. Wood won't load at all. Only where the train follows the 'wrong track': add a waypoint on the track that you want it to use. I use maintenance builds a lot and also maintenance stations, they are crucial in late game to avoid clothing your train route especially at long distances. Got a question though, playing the 2nd campaign mission and Im required ro deliver liquor to London. The trains can then collect it from the warehouse. I know we can just disable all goods, but this means that if the city gets a new industry, that product will appear (and be picked up by the train if there is demand for it later on the line). Created a 4 track from Boston to Albany. This guide is intended to give a full walkthrough of the objective basis of the game and give a breakdown of basic game mechanics. Problem: wool is. Once done, use the RIGHT arrow to move to the next stop. I even set all other goods to "do not ship" and still couldn't get full loads of clothes. Express in this version seems overly simplified, and no fail. It is attached to a small station. After the Bachmann Mainline Pannier I snagged secondhand showed up with a trashed chassis, I opted to try and pick up a Hornby instead. Hello My train/transport system is getting nuts, if have a number of warehouses and for example one warehouse is connected to cattle, while the city next to it produces meat. 6 Clothing per week. Train is set to freight , automatic, manual. Each go from its outer station to the middle station. . Railway Empire 2. Problem distributing stuff. #4. Set priorities for goods. Im guessing you didnt read what I said. This is commonly caused by running multiple trains from a farm to a nearby city with a low demand. As noted earlier, as the game moves into the 20th century, players can pick up new forms of tech through the. I watched train after train go to the local farms, pick up nothing, go to the meat producing cities -which showed LOTS of meat scheduled to arrive - and a broken. Nope, thats not the issue. Express in this version seems overly simplified, and no fail. Railway Empire 2. The freight trains making runs from resource sites to cities and to/from city/warehouse seem to all be cost positive (dark blue). Got a question though, playing the 2nd campaign mission and Im required ro deliver liquor to London. I'm working though the Early Days Campaign, and noticed that Katherine of Sky in her playthrough uses a Warehouse positioned between Baltimore and New York to gather the cattle; milk; grain and vegetables from the nearby farms. Understanding this principle is paramount. If you have done it right, the red circle/slash will appear over the good you don't want that city to take off the train. As a workaround, I have to utilize three stations in the cities. Even when I am running three stations to handle resources from north, south and east-west I still end up not being able to get goods to flow to certain cities because they are not on the right route. Railway Empire was first released on Steam on January. Warehouses and goods flow. Train will usually. Trains can't move freight from a station if the station is connected to a city and the freight is not produced by the city. It wont take other goods at all! ecxeption: If I use priority, it will take the right goods, but nothing else. Horrible mechanic. You can put the Station Expansion Slot to better use in the future, and they are certainly not worth $ 140k. As long as you see the green connecting bars either one is connected to rurals and cities. If the user sets up a warehouse close enough to a city or a rural business, a connecting line between the warehouse and the city/business is displayed, as in the case of train stations. The warehouse does not store any excess goods. Everything is connected up via Boston, so what can’t I run direct from Albany to Portland,. Remember to maintain and expand your railway network to unlock new. Changing Trains Railway Empire 2: Choosing Freight and Setting Minimum Loads Railway Empire 2: City Growth & Industrial Development Railway. As an example; I have a route with 40 stops and 20 trains. Freight on the other hand seems overly complicated. The problem is that now I am getting tremendous back ups of Freight trains at Boston and eventually Albany, trying to drop off Resources and Goods at Boston and Albany just so other Trains can pick them up to take them else where, along with trains just trying to pass through Boston and Albany. Low demand at end of run; city may be fully stocked. I've got some rather long tracks where I use 3 tracks in each direction for freight. it’s time to pick your starting point for the new track. At Asia's biggest rail cargo base in Chengdu in south-west China, the cranes are hard at work, swinging containers from trucks onto a freight train. I have 16/16 Wheat, 8/8 Meat, but only 23/24 Wood. Change the automatic setting to passenger if you want to transport people. a City will not demand a certain Resource or Good, because it's population is not large enough. A level 1 Clothing Industry will have only (0. A 5-chapter campaign. To get there: -Click on a track, the trains come up on the Left. Above the Train Control Window (on the right), click 'Set up Rail Line'. What you are describing would involve gridiron type. Beware of deadlocks when you have one rural station supplying multiple cities. go to the rural stations that provide the lumber and look at the trains there. You have to tell the warehouse which goods it can store while a station has no restrictions. In the town next door I have a warehouse with 32 grain in. When a line goes very busy, i double the track from 2 to 4 and if necessary build a 2nd station. I had it set to automatic pickup, then tried Freight only, but the train never picked up the cotton!!! Am I missing something?Railway Empire 2. So leave them at 0 until you get a feel for it. Point to point rail connections keep things simple. YouTube™ Video: Railway Empire Ep 2: Campaign Ch 2 THE EARLY DAYS - Let's Play, Gameplay. This issue keeps popping up for me, things go grand for a few years, then the freight trains start running around full of deliverable goods. 8 - 0. I had a cotton farm that I connected to my city, but when I placed a train there and set the route, it did not pick up any cotton at all just kept running back and forth. 1) The game doesn't do "auto-pathing". In this case meat.