apparently my studying of robber barons paid off

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-06-14 10:44pm

I mauled my family at railroad tycoon. twice.

they play conservative, for the most part. I spend all my money as quickly as possible connecting 2 distant points - mexico city and new york for example, or glasglow and plymouth. I quite cheerfully drive myself 20 million in debt to do so, or more. I then do a quick few runs for cash, and build a faster train. from there, I spend 5 or 6 million to get to a vital city, make another 30 million, and repeat with ease until wealth flows like water.

I consider my most brilliant move in the england map is, during the early game, spending all my savings in an offturn of my railway into scotland, taking the cheapest route to glasgow for myself, and making all other routes twice as expensive, through mountains. with a bit of spare change, I spread out, and isolate the other cities, making scotland even more expensive to spread to.

in the end, I had twice as much money as everyone else put together.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-06-15 01:42am

I always made a shitload by exploiting the trading system.

I'd get a nice company going, slowly buying up all the other shares in it. Then, when it started experiencing financial troubles (all part of the plan), I'd dump ALL of the shares, then establish a new "front" company that was really only existed on paper, using my money to secure votes, I'd buy the company out at a bargain price (because its in economic turmoil) appoint a few new company heads and sit back and watch the company grow under my new leadership (and under a new banner).

Continue ad nauseum. I found I was roughly getting 1.5x my money every time I did it. I think I would have been the worlds first billionaire.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-06-15 11:32pm

I fully expect we're not talking about the same game. since I listed the title, Im prolly talking bout something different.

your idea does sound good though.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-06-15 11:39pm

Enforcer Talen wrote:I fully expect we're not talking about the same game. since I listed the title, Im prolly talking bout something different.

:lol:

your idea does sound good though.

No, no, thats in Railroad Tycoon 2. You just have to have a very significant market share and personal reputation before you can do it.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-06-16 12:20am

quite so. cuz there are no shares in the game Im thinking about, obviously I got the title wrong.

wish I knew what it was

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-06-16 12:47am

Enforcer Talen wrote:quite so. cuz there are no shares in the game Im thinking about, obviously I got the title wrong.

wish I knew what it was :lol:

No shares in RT2? What the hell variant of it are you playing?

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-06-16 03:03am

Is it possible that Talen is playing Railroad Tycoon 1? If that feature was added in RT2 it would explain the difference.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-06-16 03:49am

he is not playing any sort of railroad tycoon at all, but certainly a game with railroad tracks and carting around goods.

no shares tho.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-06-16 04:22am

There is a nice bug in this game...

go ~-64mil back and the cash bufer owerflows and turns into ~64 mil in your bank

Or was it 6.4mil don't member... no matter try it out

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-06-16 12:07pm

SimCity 2000 for DOS and Macintosh had a cheat where you could get something like 1.5 million/year.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-16 03:28pm

phongn wrote:SimCity 2000 for DOS and Macintosh had a cheat where you could get something like 1.5 million/year.

With the expansion pack that wasn't even necessary. Some of the scenario cities started out with so much money, you could burn them down completely and reshape the terrain, and then start your city over with several hundred million left.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-06-16 04:04pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
phongn wrote:SimCity 2000 for DOS and Macintosh had a cheat where you could get something like 1.5 million/year.
With the expansion pack that wasn't even necessary. Some of the scenario cities started out with so much money, you could burn them down completely and reshape the terrain, and then start your city over with several hundred million left.

I didn't have SCURK, alas.