Railroad Tycoon 2: Platinum screenshots: Nine years before the avalanche of business simulations with the word 'Tycoon' in the title (ranging from (A)irline to (Z)oo), legendary game designer Sid Meier introduced gamers to the rigors of running a railroad company in Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon, inspiring a sequel and add-on pack. May 26, 2017 So played this game years ago back on my old pentium and since on sale went for it again since it wont install off the disk. Maybe i'm not looking hard enough but there were two scenarios i enjoyed playing that don't seem to be with the game. European map, a geothermal plant had exploded and you needed to ship concrete to the station next to the hole, the med.
Screenshot from Railroad Tycoon II.Railroad Tycoon II is a that covers the entire history of railroads from inception to the present day and beyond. The player chooses a map and assumes the role of chairman of a. The player tries to make profits for investors and completes various other objectives while being hindered by rivals, random events such as train breakdowns, economic swings, and scripted events particular to the scenario.Most of the gameplay consists of building tracks, stations and trains, which are used for hauling passengers and freight from one station to another. Delivery revenue can vary by time, distance, demand, cargo type, economic state, station improvements and difficulty level. Companies can connect to and use each other's tracks and stations, so revenue can be split.
Expenses include the fuel, track and engine maintenance and management fee. The fuel cost depends on the cargo weight and the distance each engine runs. Engine maintenance depends on engine age and the engine's type (some locomotives cost more to maintain than others). The elder engines cost more to keep them on the line. The track maintenance is solely calculated from track.The player determines what kind of cargo(es) to put on/off at each station that the player adds to its routing. Way-points may also be inserted to override default track selection where multiple paths are possible.There are many industries in the game, and each can produce and/or convert specific cargoes.
For example, coal mines produce coal, iron mines produce iron, and, in the advanced game, a can convert 1 load of plus 1 load of into 2 loads of. The players are encouraged to find a chain of production to make new cargo by hauling the right type of cargo to each step of the industries. By doing this right, the player can haul raw materials one way, 'create' manufactured return cargo, and make even more money hauling finished products back the other way.Locomotives and industry One of the key elements of gameplay relates to the player purchasing and operating a variety of locomotives, each of which possesses different attributes relating to speed, fuel type, preferred cargo, and the ability to traverse hills and steep track grades. In general, the player should balance the cost of operating a train and the time required to transport cargo, with the balance being that the profit from cargo delivery outweighs train operating costs.
The player also may purchase various industrial plants to earn extra money based on the amount of cargo received and delivered. Basic industry, such as, and, earns less profit than advanced factories such as, steel mills and plants, although the latter require multiple goods delivered to produce one final product.
Furthermore, idle industries which do not produce goods will generate a negative profit, thus increasing overall operating costs and.The following locomotives are available for gameplay. Locomotives are only seen in specific time periods and scenarios.
In addition to the attributes described above, locomotives are subject to 'mechanical reliability', which is a randomly generated factor influencing how often a locomotive will break down. All locomotives begin their operational lives with a set chance of mechanical failure, with some types more prone to breakdowns than others. Breakdown percentage chance increases the older a locomotive becomes. A train may also suffer a, which completely destroys the locomotive and all hauled cargo. Awards Railroad Tycoon II won 's and 's 1998 'Strategy Game of the Year' awards; the former magazine's editors wrote that it 'captured almost all of the things gamers had come to love about the original.' It also received 's 'Best Soundtrack' award.The game was a finalist for 's 1998 'Best Strategy', 's 'Strategy Game of the Year', IGN's 'Best Strategy Game of the Year' and 's 'The Best Real-Time Strategy Game' awards, all of which ultimately went to. Computer Gaming World 's editors lauded Railroad Tycoon II as 'a brilliant update of a gaming classic', and the staff of PC Gamer US wrote that the game 'did a terrific job of immersing the player in a richly detailed world of empire-building, commerce and micro-management.'
Legacy Railroad Tycoon II became the first game published by to sell 1 million copies, and of declared it one of the publisher's few 'certified hits.' In the United States, the publisher's combined lifetime sales reached 1.3 million copies by October 2001, including the sales of Railroad Tycoon II. Gathering of Developers president Mike Wilson believed that the game put his company on the map, at a time when others in the computer game industry doubted that an independent publisher could succeed.It was featured in G4 Icons' episode 12 Sid Meier as part of Sid's history with games and computers.References. Gentry, Perry (October 30, 1998). Archived from on August 17, 2000.
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Probably the most successful title in my career was Railroad Tycoon 2. We released it in Fall of 1998, then an expansion pack and a ‘gold edition’ in 1999. We were surprised that the game continued to sell well for months, then years, and I was particularly surprised in 2001 when the publisher (and by that time, owner of PopTop), Take Two, asked for another compendium. So we took everything that we had related to Railroad Tycoon 2, added 50 new maps, and put out RT2 – Platinum Edition that summer.But we made one (small) mistake when we assembled RT2 – Platinum. Somehow, in assembling the 50 new maps (there were 126 maps total), one file was accidentally copied over another, and so the Alaska map we were supposed to include was displaced by a second version of a fantasy map called “Tanagore Island”.I’m pretty sure we posted the fixed version of the Alaska map on our web site shortly thereafter, but I can’t find it now. We may have fixed the problem in a later re-mastering of the disk, but at least one old/early version I checked out had the incorrect ’50th map’.However, that map was one of a handful that we licensed from the RT2 mapmaking community that had sprung up.
It was made by Steve Lorenz, and there’s still a copy of it floating around the various RT2 websites, including, as well as a on this site.Anyways, just in case anyone picked up an old copy of RT2 Platinum and saw the “50 new maps” on the cover and was disappointed to find only 49, or saw “over 125 scenarios” on the back (because of the Alaska omission, there were exactly 125, not “over” 125), download the Alaska map. It’s a nicely done scenario 🙂Also, if you’re still playing RT2 after all this time, there’s a patch we made in 2003 2017 EDIT – I had a link here to the 1.56 patch on a site called Fileshack that is no longer valid as of 2017 – it seems Fileshack as a whole is gone that adjusts screen scrolling speed for today’s fast computers.