Transport Fever Strategy & Tactics #1: 1850's Hard Mode (Penny Pincher) 

1. you don't need to "send a memo", put two city trucks to "fully load" with unlimited wait time - it will save you running costs as it's cheaper to stay parked up. You only need 1 truck and a line to the city to tell the system there is demand 2. Same for the truck going to the refinery - put it on wait until full and unlimited time until production kicks in 3. Once things are running smoothly, you can remove the unlimited time etc as and when. 4. Once you have all the lines set up, the oil place will take 1 full month before it goes to "line usage" - so always a good idea to set up the full line towards the end of the month where possible - e.g. when you set up on 5th Jan - the factory won't use the line until the 1st of MARCH - e.g. FEB is the 1 full month - so set the line up on 30th Jan and it will still be 1st of march. Other than that, great little tutorial for anyone new to the game, or those that say it's "buggy/broken" because they don't understand supply / demand mechanics!

You can use a simple Bus Stop for the Trucking the goods in the city instead of the big Truck station!

There's a few features in this game that the developers didn't exactly document as well,so plenty of room for experimentation. Like the ability to use bus stops as cargo drop-off points when using trucks. Passenger train stations can accept cargo and transfer it to a nearby cargo station or truck terminal, but not store it or load it onto a train.

For what it's worth... This game was played prior to several system updates. The seed shown will NOT generate the exact same map as in the video but it is very similar. The Line Replace tool is now better and there is a replace now button that will prepay for all vehicles on a line and then replace as they arrive at their next stations. Replacing on a line by line basis rather than waiting for things to age out will be more efficient as fewer fast vehicles will get stuck behind slow ones.

Despite money is tight in Hard mode, it's often worth building a bit of road to shorten routes. e.g. at 8:40 right from the Oil field to the 2nd intersection. It doesn't seem like much, but every bit matters, and it would have cost maybe 20k only and save some travel time (and this, maintenance cost). At 23:05 the truck leaves at 1 Sep and arrives at the first intersection 20 days later. That's roughly the time we would have saved for each truck each time, with minimal investment

I always get a kick out of when you speed up your footage. And really nice to see your treatment of this game.

This may not be seen but it would be better to put the stations asfar away from the spot for collection as possible whilst still being in the catchment area, the goods will still transfer and it will shorten the distance of delivery and you can use bus stations as drop off points for goods just not pickup points

Hi Pinstar - thanks to your tips - I got my Hard (Penny Pincher) achievement. also got the Transport Tycoon (in Hard Mode) - 2 years before reaching year 2000 for Penny Pincher.

woo new series!

I easily make money, on hard 1850 start, with passenger trains. Bonus is your connected cities are growing from the start

Placing road depots to have it ejec the new vehicles in the right direction is one of the most confusing things if the new vehicles turn left or right. It seems it is easier to control if you place depot on a road segment the line actually pass and then place the deopt on the correct side. It will usually go in the direction the line is going right at its door step not the direction it is going on the lane on the other side of the road. When it becomes uncontrollable is when depot is on a road segment whe the line is not and even worse if the new cars reach an intersection before it actually reach the line. Then they can go either way. ¨¨ To be able to scale up to a higher maximum traffic later then use many small truck stops in a way there none of the lines cross each other. The goods magically flows to these stop without colliding with the cars they use the sidewalk. Only one vehicle at a time can enter the teminal through the throat and it is therefore meaningless to have large stops. Same with tram stations. They just cause a jam. So always make sure lines do not cross but stop close to each other so goods can walk over to the other stop. And when you have many small truck stops you want to use one road depot for all these lines/end stops. Using the rule above it now it get really complex to make the depot eject the new vehicles in the right direction for all these end stops and not start running empty to the furthest stop.

This is really great. Thanks so much.

Your first trucks out of the depot should have been set to Wait Till Full so they dont waste a trip with no cargo.

haha tram depot really got ya....

good start thx for the tipps

THANKS FOR THE HELP !!!

Why not start with a train line, they are the real money maker. Road vehicle are barely making any money at the beginning of the game, and basically should be only use to feed your train station, which will bring you the big bucks. 1.2M should be enough to build your first basic train line and anyway borrowing is pretty cheap, most of the time you will make way more money from your investment versus the cost of the loan.

I would have loved to see the combining of stations like in transport tycoon.

I rage quit on second campaign mission. I hope you can learn me the ways!

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I've been playing this over 30 hrs and I'm able to set up lines making money but I'm stuck after moving fuel and food such 2-step freight and moslty I done them by trucks. Hope I know waht to know after the whole series.

Be careful how .many road vehicles you build. I went over 100 and my game crashed. Went back to a save with 90. Paid off my debt in 1858 wondering, "well, now what?" Waiting for vehicle replacement phase?

On hard level you earn too little using horses. One just plays with horses to keep afloat till a decent train engine comes like the General. You earn more with trains. Only timber/plank trains are good cause the same wagon can be used in both directions. And the train need to get up to speed and beat the horse transports so the distance have to be long. Therefore a big loan is needed. Try make tracks climb gradually. Either end of this line have to be close to a machine factory which can produce tools with only planks supplied. You add plastics to this it makes machines too. So that is why a timber train is maximum efficient. Now why are the other trains not good? Farm trains are hard to balance. The Farm produces what it likes. So hard to get 100% full. You want to run as long trains as possible on flat surface with as few engines as possible. Animals require box cars and grain gondolas. But only box cars can carry food so there is the balancing problem. The farms usually produce 1/3 cattle and 2/3 grain. The food factory consumes grain first and faster. Grain production is also what scales up faster if the farm decide to increase production. Since farm trains run 1/3 cattle 2/3 grain only 1/3 of the produced food can be carried back. So at the food factory 1/3 is carried back by the train, the other 2/3 need to be pulled by horses to nearby cities. Same kinds problem with building material trains and steel production. Gondolas are needed for raw material and the end product goes by stake car or box car so trains involved in that will not be 100% full all the time. And it is therefore timber trains rock. Full load both ways and soon you be making millions and that single train will finance all your future activities. So to keep yourself afloat till you dare start a train try produce some fuel and plastics for the machine factory. Later connect steel too and that machine factory will be the center of your empire. NOW ..... if that timber line worked ... then ... why not start 5 more like that before you start building any other types of services :)

THE WAGONS WERE SENT... FROM THE OIL MAKER TO THE TOWN, I SHOULD BE FROM THE REFINERY TO THE TOWN ARGGG!!!!!

WHY DID YOU SEND WAGONS TO THE TOWNS WITH NOTHING OR JUST OIL?

Your lines 2 and 3 need to go from the refinery to the cities, not from the well to the cities.

pinstar for a future transport fever play thought how about never vechiel retirement and play with both american and euro vechiels sets. and modded longer station then in game

Passengers are LITERALLY the best way to make money early on. Not sure if this game was just too new for you to know what you're talking about when this video came out, or..... Also, caddy corner, not kitty corner.

17:40 always happens 2 me 2 =))

If donald trump can make his way with a small loan of a million dollars, so can we! xD

18:00 NooB move... Hahahaha FFS....