Railway Empire 2 Review (steve)
So many bugs and missed opportunities with this game. It has some potentials but its not there yet. Don't bother buying it, maybe the next version I'll try. It's so close, just work out the track issues and create better views for the businesses, so we can see how we are doing with the businesses we bought outside of the station.
First off, it has some cool features. I'm comparing it to Railroad Tycoon latest version. In this game the businesses you buy in the city are pretty cool, they are full of bugs but I like the idea. You can expand them which is cool however this feature doesn't work well because for no good reason they just shut down and you are left with piles of raw goods.
When you are starting and have a small railroad everything seems fine. Then you spend hours building out things, connecting your raw goods to businesses you bought to max out your income. That's when everything starts crashing, and not the game crashing although that happens a lot, its mostly the tracks and trains seem to reach a limit where they just stop working well. Many of them will just stop saying waiting for track to open up, but you look and it's clear. You'll see that all the trains only use one or two tracks even if you build out all 8. Then when one train stops everything behind and in front of it is stopped. Think about using a hub and having this happen, it kills your profit and you end up losing money because those business you build start losing tons of money. I think its a problem with the gridirons, i've played around with them and found that sometimes 4 will work other times all 8 will work, but anything over 4 tracks things start getting wonky.
I have tried very combination as possible, changing number of tracks, changing to different gridirons sizes, using the auto signaling and the manual version. In the manual version I've tried every combination of signals to help get the trains moving, nothing works for long. It is puzzling why they didn't test this.
If they would have just played this game a bit they would have seen these huge bugs. I wish I could play the working version.