Sid meiers railroads free code upgrade#

I was HUGELY disappointed to not be able to borrow money anymore (issuing bonds), but the game seems to let you build trains and stations(?) (but not track) even when you run out of cash, so that partially compensates for that. The 'auctions' for patents and industries are a cool new twist which compensate for castrated stock market part of the game. There are some nice new twists - in the old game you'd get a bonus to be first to connect to a city - now you have to connect AND deliver a certain type of cargo to get your bonus, adding more nuance. How you ultimately feel about SMR will depend on how much you 'miss' the things that were stripped out vs.

While this may ultimately be a good move - I can imagine many people get turned off by the complications of the earlier stock market simulations - the thing is, the old stock market simulations were basically an entire game within the game!

Sid meiers railroads free code upgrade#

If anything, there's much more variety on the diesel side - which IIRC kinda topped out at like 2 for the US scenarios in RRT.Ī nice switch is you get money back when you scrap track/trains and when you upgrade engines, you apparently only pay the difference.Ī huge disappointment is the HUGE simplification in the stock market - rather than pay out dividends (RRT2/RRT3) or have stock splits (all previous games), in this game there's only 10 units of stock per company - worth 10% of the company each. Click to expand.The variety of trains is actually pretty similar to original RRT - a few names have changed, a few trains have been added/deleted - but the classics are there: