First of all, this game is good. I would say in the category
of rail road games Train Fever is one of the best if not the top one. This game
guide is basically the stuffs I had understood from playing the game Train Fever.
This game is basically about building and running a rail road empire
successfully.
So here are my tips..
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Build your Cities
Cities are the basic pillars of having more passengers. The more
the number of people living in a city, the more the passengers that city can
provide. So your sole aim should be to grow your cities. The first thing to do
is connect the city with another city using a rail road. You could also connect
cities using bus and tram routes but I would say that wouldn’t be much fun. If the
towns are too close you might opt for running buses between them. The buses
have good speed lately in the game. Another way to build your city is to supply
goods to the city. There are four kinds of goods available in the game. They are
Oil, Timber, Coal and Iron. Coal and Iron are both required to produce steel. Make
sure that each city gets at least one kind of goods.
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Run Trains in Both Directions
In other words, run trains up and down rather than assigning
a single train for a route. Assign multiple trains to a route that connects 4
or 5 cities up and down. Make sure two tracks are used for this route and at
the last station on each end, create a link between those two tracks so that trains
can switch tracks when changing directions from the last station. Running trains
in this way can hugely increase your profit as these trains will work
tirelessly in a group to bring down the frequency of travel duration. Anything
in the range of 3 or 4 minutes of frequency is all you need.
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Place the Railway Station in the Heart of City
This thing is very important as more than half of passengers
reach the station by walking. So you don’t to increase their travel time by
placing the railway station far away. I would place the station connected to a
road near the green zone where more residents are there. Make sure both side of
station have road network. Before you place the track connect a road to the
other side of station as the game progresses, it will be difficult to place
roads there. Also the area near railway station gets developed fast.
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Create Feeding Lines to Trains
Create a feeding line to the railway station. This can be
either a tram route or a bus route. Connect the brightest spots of residents,
commercial center and leisure center to the railway station using road network.
These feeding lines make profit during the early stages of game but as the game
progresses you might need to readjust the stops in these routes as cities
develops.
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Reduce Goods Delivery Time
At first the goods delivery time can be around 15 minutes or
so but as the game progresses, you need to bring it down under 10 minutes. If the
goods delivery time is more, the industry chain will cease to produce goods. This
works in the case of passengers as well.
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Destroy the Roads Between Cities
This of course is a cheat. By destroying the roads between
cities, people are forced to use your travel network. But this does not have
much effect on the passenger numbers.
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Late Game Issues
After 1950 Train Fever is a different game. You will start
to notice a decline in the number of passengers even in the most economic
routes. This presents a new scenario to the players. You will have to choose
between speed of trains and their running costs. Trains become costlier as time
progresses. At this stage it would be better to run trains between cities that
are spaced much distance apart. Cities that lie close doesn’t provide much
passengers because most of the people have cars and they would use their private
vehicles if your travel network is not fast. So you might want to bring down
the frequency to 3 minutes or less. This can be done by running more trains in
a route. You also want your cities to be
developed before 2000. I usually have around 700 people average in most of the
cities by the year 1950. This is done by connecting all the cities with at
least one train route by the year 1900. My most profitable lines generates a
profit of 10 million. The travel time in that route is 4 minutes and I have 5
trains running in that route up and down connecting 5 cities. The passenger
number in any single train will always be more than hundred.
